All right, welcome to a game called TrickStyle! This came out on the Dreamcast in
1999. It's made by Criterion games. It's actually currently on Steam and Good oOld
Games - there's a remaster. It's just a widescreen patch, and I don't think they
remade it, and the reason I'm playing this is because it is the precursor to a
game called Air Blade. A lot of people have recommended that one -- oh, good start!
A lot of people have recommended that one to me, so I wanted to play it, but I
thought I should do this one first to get a little bit of context. So although
the game calls you a surfer, you are clearly on a hoverboard. I think I would
call this more of skateboarding than surfing, and so I need to at least try it.
So I've been playing this a little bit. I beat a couple of levels. There are -- that's
the only trick you can do. You can Ollie, and then you can Ollie again in the air
and 360. No grabs. There's no, like you know, boost if you do tricks or anything like
that. Which is weird, because some of these characters are classed as like
"stunt" racers. So this guy is a racer, there's a bully and then there's "stunt
people". I forget, it calls them "stunters" or something. They don't have any more
tricks than anybody else. I don't really get the reason why you'd be anyone other
than a racer. I'm not exactly good at this game. So that's the other thing you
can do - you can hit the luge button - that was the wrong time to do that -
hey, I survived! But that will give you a little bit of speed boost, but you can't turn
anymore, and then you can hit Y and that'll
make you turn a little bit faster, and that's about it. So this game actually
came out with some pretty good reviews at the time, surprisingly. It's not
terrible. I mean, it works, but it's really nothing then write home about.
But I have heard that Air Blade is really good, so I'll -- come on, come on come
on -- oh wow! I have to check that time! Let me see
Come on... oh okay. Beat them by a fifth of a second. Felt a
little closer than that. Alright thanks bro. I don't know who this
guy is. UK race number five, let's try it out.
So yeah, I've completed four races in this game and it's always completely
random. The difficulty - it's kind of like Mario Kart in a way, where you're never
really out of it, even if you crash a bunch of times, even if you're way behind.
Sometimes you'll just turn the corner and everyone will be right there. I don't
think the game cheats, or kind of makes it easier for you, or anything like
that. It just seems like, even at top speed, you're not really going that fast.
So it's not a big deal to catch up to everybody, but -- oh come on! What am I supposed
to do about that? But yeah, so it just kind of seems a little bit more random,
like even if you were really good at this game ,you'd only be a little bit
better than someone who sucks at it. The only really thing -- oh come on -- the only thing you
really need to know, like I'm demonstrating right here, is you need to
know how the levels are laid out. A lot of walls, a lot of stuff you can just
crash into, and it can get pretty frustrating. Also these levels all look
the same. So I think level two, I was going through sewers and stuff exactly
like that, so it's kind of hard to keep everything straight if everything looks
the same. Alright so I do know what's going to
happen this time. This happened to me last time. Actually do an air. Last time I came
down on the same side, and then the boosters were pushing me the wrong way
and I just got stuck. Alright. doing pretty good I think. Oh gotta Ollie. See I
couldn't see that little edge there, and being in luge mode, you can't ollie, so I
don't really have any choice. That's going to knock me over as well, but --
first place! Killing it! But yeah, even though when I'm doing well at this
game, I'm never really enjoying it. I would not recommend this one to anybody.
If you're a big Dreamcast collector or something, maybe, but I wouldn't bother
playing this. I don't know if the Steam version -- and it
looks, I mean, I didn't do a ton of research on that version, but it looks
like they just you know, did the HD patch. I don't think they really tweaked
the gameplay or anything, but the fact that it made it there, the fact that
there was enough of a of a draw, enough demand for that really tells me
something. A lot of people must have liked this one, but I feel like that's
more likely because the Dreamcast didn't have a ton of games, and so any kind of
racing game that's different from anything else would get a little bit of
attention. I don't know. But let me -- Okay so did I get the boss fight? I guess
I'll try that and then I'll be done because this is really
not good. "Boss race". I don't know what that means, I'm terrified, but I'm going
to tackle that. I just I reviewed Evolution Skateboarding, and it's the
only skateboarding game with boss fights. But maybe this one deserves a little
recognition too, All right, so you do have that hub world, which is kind of annoying.
I'd rather just pick off a menu, but Stuntsbowl big trick combos, show them
some real stunts. Okay, so I like the idea of that but, the only move that I know you
do is a 360, and it has to be, you have to land straight. There's no fakie in this
game. So I guess I just try to ollie -- oh oh okay, so there's no fakie, but I didn't
bail anyway. So there's no actual moves, like grabs or anything, but I guess you
just have to hit square more than the other guy. Oh, "square". You know what I mean.
Target's 15,000, I'm only at 3,000. That's bad. Oh! Well that still counted.
This was not what I was expecting when it said boss battles, but that's alright.
It's better! So I I went into my, like, super fast turn mode right then. It didn't do me
any good. Okay, alright, alright, 7000. How am I doing? Very unlikely I'm gonna make
it... Oh, every time you do a spin you get a little bit of boost to give a little
more time, so I'm never really sure if I'm gonna make it or not. Oh wait, I can
do 360s on flat. Oh man, what am I thinking. Oh I'm gonna try that one
more time, because I forgot about the flat ground 360s.
I just want to see what happens. "Terrible"? I wasn't that far off, jerk. Alright,
restart. I'll try this one more time. I really wish they had to put some more
tricks in here, because there's literally just the one, but you know, if you took
out the luge, you took out that turning -- I don't know what that's called.
If you took that out for this mode only, you know, like that would just be nothing but
good. I don't know why they didn't do that.
All right, I'm gonna get this for sure. Look at that air! This is crazy. It's funny -- I'm really
enjoying this, but only relative to the rest of the game. I'm gonna bail this.
Oh, but only compared to how bad the rest of the game is. This isn't actually good.
I mean, don't get the wrong impression, here. Did I hit that guy?
Alright, so in the future, I'm going to try to pick out some better games to
play. This one is just because I had to, because I want to review something else,
but I do want to play some smaller games that aren't really worthy of a full review.
Are you--? Come on, come on, come on, oh I
don't really know what I could have done any differently on that one. That was awful.
You know what? I'm done. I don't care. I'm done with this game. I will not be
playing it ever again. So you can look this up if it looked interesting to you.
I know that it didn't, but I guess it is out there anyway. If you have any other
kind of game suggestions for me, something that's not big enough for a
full review, maybe something that only has a little bit of skateboarding in it,
let me know. I have links to my Instagram and my Twitter below. Send me a direct
message on there, or better yet, send me like a clip of the game so I can see
what it's like ,and I will try to do some more of these in the future. But that's
all for this time. Thank you for watching. Here's some more
videos I've done, things that are probably a lot more enjoyable than this
horrible Power Rangers racing game. And I will see you next time. Thank you for
watching.
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