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Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land: COMPLETAGE!

After managing some of the previously impossible goals, I had The Warehouse unlocked, and completed some of the goals in there. That’s all the levels unlocked now, so… Went back to Story Mode. And ripped through all of the rest of it! Bought all the bits for the Warehouse, earned a stack of money, and made the skate video. And won the game! Hurrah!

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

I moved onto the next few levels instead of struggling with the few remaining goals at Vans. The next level was pretty hard too, and there’s no way in hell I can get the COMBO letters, nor any of the higher scores. And I can’t even see the Secret Tape, let alone collect it. There’s another goal where I have to do tricks through some signs. Two of the signs say “GRIND”, so I grind through and get them, no …

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

I can’t understand why I’m crap at this game. I used to be pretty good at Pro Skater on other formats, but I just can’t get high scores in this one. As well my inability to revert-manual, I find you lose momentum on the manuals far too quickly, meaning you can’t string more than a couple of verts together in a combo. Or at least, not one after another. Anyway, I completed a few more goals, but am stuck in …

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

Played a fair bit of Story Mode this evening, and worked my way past the first two levels. It seems a lot easier than Classic Mode so far. Also tried to bump up my rankings a bit, but in the end only managed to lengthen my Lip Trick time (to 31 seconds). Did boost my stats a bit though too, but Air and Ollie are woefully low. I can’t do the “8 grab tricks in one combo” type requirements, as …

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

High score rackage! Almost! I’ve been trying to bump up my scores and stats to improve my standings in my Skate Crew’s scoretables. I’ve only been trying on Hollywood, but I’m now 5th for the Run Score, and 1st for the longest grind of 33 seconds. That even puts me 52nd in the Global Grind Scores for that level too, which is pretty good going.

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

Finished off all the challenges in Hollywood on Classic Mode, and had a bit of a skate around there before moving on to the next level – Broadway. I really can’t get the land-revert-manual controls working reliably, which made the 300,000 point Sick Score on Broadway a bit difficult. I’m sure it’s harder to time than on the console versions of Tony Hawk’s. Anyway, I managed to do all the scores, and the other challenges bar the secret tape (which …

Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land

ONLINETASTIC! Two online DS games in one day. Excelsior! Not that I actually played this online, I just used it to upload scores and stuff, which is pretty worthwhile. I’ve joined the rllmuk “sk8 crew”. Fo’ sho’. Currently, I’m “hangin’” somewhere in the middle of the crew’s rankings. Go me. Played “Classic Mode” mainly, which is as you’d expect – classic Tony Hawk: goals, scores and gaps. And it is excellent. The graphics are all cel shaded, but they look …

Maneater (PS5): COMPLETED!

At first, Maneater is a great fish-chomping game with slightly annoying combat (with crocodiles and barracuda) and a funny faux Deadliest Catch style narration, but it soon starts to become tedious and repetitive. And then, even though the game doesn’t change, it becomes fun again. I’m not sure why. You’re a baby shark, who eats to get bigger and evolve, ultimately to take down Scaly Pete, the fisherman who killed your mother. The waters you swim in are broken down …