Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
Today we are playing x-bladez inline
skater on the original Playstation. This
one came out back in 2001, and it has a
reputation for being one of the worst
PlayStation games you can get. So I
wanted to try it out.
Being that it's not skateboarding, I'm
not gonna do a full review of it, but I
felt like I really had to give it a try.
So far all I've done in the game is, I
played for a couple of minutes just to
get a feel for the controls, but that is
about it. And I don't have much of a feel
for the controls because they barely
work. So okay, it kind of plays like Tony
Hawk
controls but, circle is actually for
spins, like yeah. Like that one, or back
flips, or that kind of thing. So something
that immediately feels different is
grinds. So in the Tony Hawk games, in most
games in general, if you are on top of a
rail and you're just kind of close to,
you're a few inches off, you'll kind of
snap to it. This game, you don't. So you
actually have to aim it really really
well. The other thing is bad controls.
There's a lot of times where I'm sitting
here, I'm jumping up and down and
nothing's happening. I'm hitting a button
but it just won't do anything. It's kind
of weird. I don't know if there's a limit
to how many times you can do the same
trick. Okay so I needed 14,000 points and
I did not get it, and part of that is
just because half the time I try a trick,
nothing happens. So I'll jump up and down,
you can probably hear me hitting buttons,
and just won't do anything. So I try to
figure out, maybe you can't do the same
trick twice in a row or something like
that. I don't have a manual for this game
and I was not able to find one online, so
I'm kind of flying blind with that kind
of stuff.
I know his best trick is supposedly the
crowd surfer or something like that,
which is up circle, and yet most the time
I hit up circle he does a 720, so I don't
really know.
So those things I'm collecting are for
extra time, but you don't get any point
bonus for having extra time at the end,
so I don't really know why it cares, but
it always complains if I don't grab them. Oh
720 out is pretty sick. Yeah see these, I
can't do a trick here. I don't know if I
have to have a certain amount of height
off the ground or it won't even bother.
I'm not sure. It also kind of seems like
the tricks are sometimes random. All
right, let's try something good. Of
course, so having that 2 times multiplier
and then doing his special trick would
be the only real way to win, because I...
9000 almost, I needed 14. Let's give this
one more try.
So I've gone through the menus and
things like that, and there is no
tutorial, no controls. Thing is, this game was
not popular at all, so there's no one on
gamefaqs making walkthroughs or
strategies or anything like that, so not
really sure. That's a good one.
So it's kind of tough to figure out what
to do. Come on. that's a multiplier. Okay,
yeah, but only lasts for a second, and
probably be over by the time I manage
to get a trick. Yeah so you would think
it might help to kind of just do some
flat ground stuff like that, but it just
will not let me do a trick there. Come on.
I cannot lock into anything. It's driving me
crazy, it shouldn't be that hard to get
that many points, based on, like, his
one crowd-surfer that I have not
been able to do yet
is worth a thousand points. Oh I'm-- Big O?
Come on, that's kind of creepy. Kids
game. Alright, 720. Yeah that's good, but
what about his other trick? Oh 15,000.
Okay, I don't care. I did it. I missed
three monkey tokens, which don't seem to
do anything that I can tell. Now I
believe, okay, so I qualified. Does that
mean that I have to do it again, or
what's the deal here?
Let's find out. Race. Okay.
I believe there's only two players in
this game. I had a choice between two
when I started, although it was a girl, so
I don't know who this kid is. All right,
now it is really tough to clear things.
What is that, like a X game symbol or
something? I don't know what good it'll
do to game that kind of stuff.
But the controls are really awkward, it's
tough - yeah, like, there's no way to
clear all this stuff consistently.
Hopefully when I inevitably lose, I won't
have to redo the qualifier - okay I got
a lightning bolt. It seems like it would
be important. Killing it.
Oh that was close. You think that
those these little banks on the side
would feel like banks, but it's just kind
of like I'm hitting a wall. Okay if I'm
actually winning by a lot, or if he's
two inches behind me. Hey I did it.
I missed two wheel tokens. Oh they're
wheels. Okay. I don't know why they have
little spokes like that. Do inline skates
have spokes? I don't think so. Okay now
this is probably gonna be another trick
one right, or there's a third event. Let's
find out. Moonlight Bay. If I had to guess,
I would say this is probably the same
level, just reversed, and at night. It's
looking kind of like that. Let's see.
I did not notice how many points I'm
supposed to get, so I just do whatever. Oh
man, with the two times, that would have
been actually good for once. 540. Uh, you
know, sometimes when you hit right circle
you'll either do a 360 or a 540. You have
essentially no control over which one
you do. So if I didn't have enough air
time to do a 540 ,why didn't it just let
me do a 360? So I'm doing another... you
know, you can land fakie or switch.
They call it switch, don't they? You can
land fakie, and you'll just instantly
turn around when you do the next trick.
But you roll fakie for awhile, so I'm
not really sure why doesn't let you
actually do fakie tricks.
It'd be cool. Man I've missed basically
every rail There. That was horrible. Five
thousand points. So the first level was
14,000, is it gonna tell me again what I
needed?
16000. I got 5. This wouldn't be so hard if it
wasn't so inconsistent. Let's try it
again. I want to at least beat a couple
of levels because maybe I'll get used to
it... or probably not. Get the multiplier...
Okay 720 into the grind. Yeah, it's hard to
explain what it feels like trying to do
a grind.
You don't snap to it whatsoever,
and you just overshoot it all the time.
Come on. And you can't do tricks on flat.
Hey it looks like I was gonna win that,
because I did. It also seems like you can
hold your grinds for a second, or your
grabs for a second, but they don't seem
to give you more points if you do. I have
yet to figure out how to do his special
move consistently. I did it a couple of
times when I was learning the game, not
even. Well that was close. I guess
maybe I should try harder to get those
tokens. I really don't think they'd do
anything, but I don't know. So is this
game one of the worst games ever made on
the PlayStation? You know, it's not that
glitchy and buggy and broken. It's not
good.
You know, I'd be really upset if I paid
full price for this back in the day, but
it's not. It's frustrating for sure, but
it's not broken at least. There. I didn't
even do a trick. Grab the monkey, kid.
Grab the monkey. All right,
backside grind. It's so weird that they
use skateboarding terms for stuff that.
Doesn't even, like, how do you determine
frontside and backside when you're just
going straight. I was gonna see if I could
grind that, but I can't. Come on. It's
nothing. 360. Okay, Big O. I need to Big O
the monkey. I'm getting close. That means
that I will probably not land anything
else the whole rest of the course. Do
something good. Do it. Come on. Okay let's
try it one more time. The race was really
easy, and then this mode is really hard. I
don't know if I'm missing something. I'm
sure I am. All right.
Oh okay.
Trying to open up a pause menu to
see if there's some kind of control
explanation or something in there, and
you pause it nothing happens. So that's
cool. And it pretty much breaks my
whole run. Frontside, yeah again.
Come on, oh there is a pause menu, and a
trick button. Come on, why didn't that come
up when I hit it earlier? So up-down
left-right, they all should do something.
But I will tell you right now that they
don't. Rails, okay. Grabs, spins, so that's
up circle, but up circle is also
squiggles. How do I determine between a
spin and a ground trick? Stage-dive, oh
that's what I was going for. Up up circle.
Guitar slide. Okay, I'm gonna restart this
run because I really need to get that
multiplier thing. Okay, so I do have this
full list of games that I am going to
have to play at some point. There's a lot
of obscure arcade games and stuff that --
Hey I did my special grind. Arcade -- oh
come on, I'm gonna kill you. Obscure
arcade games and stuff that are gonna be
hard to track down, but I really want to
play everything that I can. My original
plan for this entire channel, the whole
reason I started, was to play every
skateboarding game ever, and give them a
review as a skateboarder. That was the
plan, and --
Hey!
And I have since expanded into doing all
my trick histories and all kinds of
other stuff. But it's still basically
just an excuse for me to play all this
stuff, and so I'm gonna keep that going
as long as I can. As long as people will
watch it anyway. Hey I did a flatground
trick. Not sure how. And I'm killing it
with the score this time. Only I -- if only
I had found the trick menu earlier.
I'm telling you though, I hit start and
nothing happened. A couple of times. Heel
grab? Doesn't sound very exciting. Wow,
look at that score. I'm probably the best
X-Bladez player ever. Okay, I missed some
monkeys. I'm sure that'll mean something
at the end, like I won't be able to
unlock the last level or something, just
to punish me. But for now, I am doing
pretty good. Now why do I have to qualify
for a race by doing a lot of good tricks,
but doing tricks during a race doesn't
seem to do anything for you? I don't know.
This game, it seriously feels like it
should have come out of a cereal box or
something. You know. But I don't know if
this cost, you know, 40 or 50 bucks.
Whatever the ps1 games were at the
time. That would really suck.
So there is no kind of racing controls. I
don't feel... I don't feel like I
accelerate, you know. I don't have a
brake button. Come on. I don't know if I can even
clear those. I don't know if there's, you
know, there's no brake button, there's no
actual racing skill involved. You just
kind of don't hit stuff and you'll be
okay.
Of course, that is hard enough. I guess I
just got a speed powerup. It's the
lightning bolt. Let's see if I can
beat this first try. Now I know how to do
tricks, this really might not be that tough
of a game.
Come on, you're supposed to do any better
than that. I have seen the other guy fall
before though, so at least you don't have
to be perfect. All right, let's see what
the next levl is. I would like to be
somewhere other than on this exact same
location again. Let's see,
Curbside Park. O.ay
18,000 points. No problem, I got this.
One thing to point out as well is, I turn
off the music because you have to for
YouTube copyright purposes, but aside
from that, there's almost no sound. So I
have my headphones in, and I hear them
land and that's about it. There's not
much going on from a sound design
perspective. I can't really expect much. So
the good thing is that your tricks don't
get to be worth less. If I can do this
stage dive
18 times, I will get my full score just
like that. Okay, so this one is a little
bit different. I guess. It's still the same
obstacles. So I want to hear what
your recommendations for other games
like this are. This one is pretty
obscure. I think it's pretty rare. To be
honest with you, I'm playing on an emulator
because I'm pretty sure this one costs
some money to find, and I've recently
gotten rid of almost everything I own to
try to save up for a move, so I'm not
buying a lot of stuff right now. But if
there's anything else like this that I
need to try, let me know. I do have
another list. There's Xtreme Roller,
which I don't think is a direct sequel
to x-bladez, although its name is kind of
similar. I'm gonna have to try that one. I
really want to get top skater, which is
on -- it was an arcade unit. Used to be one
at my skate park, and you would stand on
a skateboard and kind of rock back and
forth. Supposedly uses the same engine as
MTV skateboarding, which I reviewed
before. It's the one with Andy McDonald.
We had the exact same fall animation!
But supposedly, there was maybe like a
Saturn version, but not in America or
something. I'm not entirely sure, but
there is a way to play that without the
arcade unit and I'm gonna try to figure
that out. There are some arcades around here,
but I've never seen top skater. Okay, see
get some wheels. Come on! You know, it
almost seems like it takes less time to
just barrel through it and fall over
rather than try to do all those tight
turns it wants you to do. Seems to be
working out for me. So this game is a
perfect example of the kind of thing I
want to do gameplay footage of, because
this is not worth spending a week doing
a full review on. That's typically what I
would do. You know, play the whole game.
Record all the footage. Write a script.
Edit the whole thing. And it would take
me a week, and no one would watch it
because no one cares about this game. No
one's searching for this one, so it's
fine to just spend a couple minutes
and play it, but this one is really not
worth any more than that. I might check out
the next level, just because I'm beating
this one right now, and then that'll
probably be it. You know, I don't care
what I unlock at the end and all that
kind of stuff, because it's gonna be
nothing. Although I wonder what would
happen if they took this engine and kind
of made almost like a free world or open
world Tony Hawk style type of level
where you could ride around and do
tricks, because there's a decent amount
of tricks. They don't work half the time,
but if they made them work and you had
different kinds of rails and cool
locations and stuff, that would be fine.
Okay, so they just did what they did for
the second level, which was just used the
same location and make it nighttime. So
not much to see here. That's gonna be
about it for now.
I do have a lot of other skateboarding
and other kind of trick-based game
footage that you can check out. I have
game play reviews, or game play videos in
a playlist. I also have full reviews on
another one, so check all those out if
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looking for. Aside from that, I also make
all kinds of other skateboarding culture
things, like trick histories. I teach
tricks on the Shred school, all kinds of
other stuff like that. So subscribe for
all kinds of skateboarding content, and
every now and then that's something kind
of weird like this one. And that will be
it for now. Thank you for watching, and
I'll see you next time.
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