Quickly, I’ll eat a couple of moon. However for now, each you and I can eat a single moon as a demo starter for the principle course Skate Story‘ll ollie into our lives when it releases in December. It will should do, washed down with a glass skater making a stone thinker really feel some kind of approach by busting out sick combos.
Developer Sam Eng truly pulled a quick one and launched Skate Story’s Steam Subsequent Fest demo a bit early. It debuted on the tail finish of final week, leaping the large queue of cool issues every Subsequent Fest has grow to be. Regardless of my British sense of etiquette, I will forgive him, as a result of he did no less than pair it with some massive information. Skate Story will launch on December eighth, 2025.
On that day, you’ll absorb 9 chapters of the reply to the next query: ‘What if Tony Hawk’s soul was despatched to a realm of nightmare surrealism, and was additionally a bit peckish?’ On today, you can provide the primary chapter a whirl within the demo, which I’ve simply kickflipped by in about 35 minutes.
So far as I can inform, it is the identical demo Brendan, little doubt utilizing his mysterious skateboarding magicks, managed to get his arms on again in 2024. Curse you, Caldwell, at some point we’ll see your cabinet of evil tips flung open, little doubt to disclose a little bit of paper which reads ‘I simply requested the dev, and so they stated there you go’.
Anyway, I’ve given it a go and it is simply as cool as ol’ Brendo stated. I notably loved dispelling the smiling block’s manhole guffs, and the part which sees your skater glide by area to kickflip at a celestial physique. The soundtrack being extra akin to Disco Elsyium’s chill Sea Energy symphony than the standard pop punk performances blasting in skating video games will take a little bit of getting used to. Should you’re all in favour of discovering out extra in regards to the artist behind it, Blood Cultures, there is a little bit of chat with them within the Steam submit I linked earlier.
“Skate Story is predicated on a real story,” Eng wrote in that very same submit. “Sure, that’s proper people. Positive, it’s barely dramatized for impact, but it surely’s all completely 100% true. After all, names and locations have been altered as nicely, for the privateness of these concerned. For instance, it was not initially a Frog who ran the bagel store, and the Skater truly needed to get a lawyer earlier than signing the Satan’s Contract.”
Cool. Skate Story’s demo’s on its Steam web page, the place it’s also possible to wishlist it forward of that December launch.
