OLLIOLLI 2 MANUALS
OLLIOLLI 2 MANUAL

You’ll unknowingly find yourself playing the same level over and over again simply because it’s an enjoyable experience, not necessarily for any benefits. It instead comes from just being a damn fun game to play. Although it doesn’t sound like much, it actually winds up being plenty because the elation this game gives you doesn’t come from completing levels as such. Five different environments each housing 10 levels (five initially, followed by five unlocked after completing the challenges in each). Your senses are dulled to the outside world yet heightened in the pursuit of achieving at least a completed level in OlliOlli 2.įrom the outset, OlliOlli 2 seems to be a little light on content. As levels start to become more complex, even seemingly impossible, you’ll find yourself almost unintentionally entering a zen-like trance. On both Vita and PlayStation 4, roll7’s latest will demand that your thumbs move quickly enough to achieve every desired goal. If the Thumb Olympics were ever a thing, OlliOlli 2 will be the workout every trainer suggests. After a few attempts at some time with OlliOlli 2 you’ll be manipulating the analogue stick and tapping those buttons to get the perfect combo you need all the time, every time.

OLLIOLLI 2 MANUAL

Going from Boardslide to Nose Manual to Hardflip Late BS Shove-It seems incredibly taxing at first. Their complexity is greater than that of your standard Ollie or Laserflip, and yet they are no more difficult to pull off than pushing a button.

OLLIOLLI 2 MANUALS

Tricks like Manuals and their slightly more confusing cousin Revert Manuals start flying out left, right, and center. It was delicious on its own, but the follow up has more sprinkles and those little silvery ball things that are putting your dentist’s kids through college. OlliOlli 2 doesn’t try to break the mold, it adds a wealth of features onto the original.

It did this using a mechanical formula which luckily hasn’t been tampered with. That game gave PS Vita owners a welcome taste of 2D skateboarding on Sony’s little handheld before bringing its majesty onto almost every other platform in the world today. Well when we say bringing it back to gaming, that’s already been done by developer roll7’s predecessor to OlliOlli 2, OlliOlli. OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood capitalizes on this old fad meets new fad idea, bringing skateboarding back to gaming. Where we were once beholden to our social rulers and their conversations about the skatepark, youths of the world now discuss Call of Duty loadouts. Popping a manual has been replaced with creating a 1:1 replica of the creepy science teacher’s face in Minecraft.

In recent years there’s been something of a paradigm shift in what the popular bunch at high school do. Grinding around on the local park’s rails and generally being cooler than you were. Skateboarding used to the big thing those cool kids at the school were into.

Olliolli 2