Session: Skate Sim

best skateboarding game ive ever played, takes some time to adjust to controls but its so rewarding when it clicks. would be nice if the devs would fix some of the janky misson requirements. flip out tasks with manual catch on are just unnessesarily frustrating just due to not registering and boarderline soft lock progress.

Absolutely the best skateboarding game I have ever played. Very realistic and fun. Yeah, it's very frustrating at first and the ragdoll physics can get annoying by just BARELY tapping something and you fall over...BUT once you get this gem of a skateboarding game down and start to "get it", it becomes SUPER REWARDING, then you will fall in love very quickly. I HIGHLY recommend.

The controls are really difficult to wrap your head around sometimes, which makes the game incredibly challenging, especially if you up the difficulty of those controls for more realism, but that just makes landing tricks and getting clips that much more satisfying, especially when you manage to get that one perfectly smooth line.

This is a game of extreme highs and incredibly dissapointing lows. On the positive side, the dual stick controls genuinely feel better and more precise than the single stick flick system in the Skate series for example. Because each stick controls a separate foot, it's much harder for your inputs to misregister. It definitely comes with a steep learning curve that some people will struggle with, but it's not too difficult to get used to. Once it clicks, pulling off consistent 360s feels incredibly rewarding in a way that can actually be a struggle to replicate in the Skate games. Unfortunately, the game surrounding those mechanics often feels like bug ridden slop. You will constantly experience random bails for absolutely zero reason, especially when trying to flip out of grinds where the physics just decide to give up and bail you. Even tiny edges that should be easily rolled over will inexplicably bring your board to a dead stop. The off board character movement is absolutely terrible. It looks and feels exactly like stock Unreal Engine placeholder locomotion where your skater just ice skates awkwardly across the pavement. The presentation is equally rough. The menu design is practically nonexistent, relying on the laziest UI imaginable consisting of plain black boxes and bland icons. This also goes for the joke that is the map. It's just terrible with no real good spots. The overall animations and movement feels incredibly stiff and dare I even say robotic. If you want to record your lines, prepare to be disappointed by the completely trash replay editor, which lacks a native export feature completely defeating the purpose of recording a video if you have to rely on external capture software just to share it. Visually, the anti aliasing implementation is absolutely horrible. The game relies heavily on Unreal Engine's TAA, causing constant shimmering and horrible ghosting on your trucks and wheels. While the developers did technically patch in basic FSR 1, it's merely a spatial scaler that does nothing to fix the aliasing, meaning the game is still desperately missing modern upscaling tech like DLSS or FSR 2 that could actually help clean up the image. Furthermore, the trick variety feels incredibly lacking compared to Skate 4, most notably because you still cannot do traditional grabs. The development team struggled to figure out how to implement them without making the body physics look janky, so aside from a few recent flatland additions like caspers and darkslides, standard hand grabs were essentially cut from the game entirely. Ultimately, if you are craving a smooth, realistic physics sandbox, you might be better off playing Skater XL or even revisiting the grounded feel of Skate 2. If you want a much higher fun factor over pure realism you are better off just booting up Skate 4.

Worth the time and practice you will need to put in to it. I don't even skate IRL but it is one of the most satisfying games to play. You can make the game much easier to play anyways if that's what you want. It is extremely customizable, you can adjust things like grind friction, flick speed, scoop speed, push speed, ollie hight etc.

Looking for a mid ground between good and bad Definitely has its positives, music, satisfaction when landing tricks, really good legacy brand selection, world is built for skating, game runs buttery smooth and looks really good Certainly has its negatives: Super tricky at times, no grabs (what?!?!), even touching the environment has your skater diving like they're playing pro soccer, certain animations missing altogether (no run on animation when getting onto board) 6.5-7/10 Solid game all round

Most intuitive skating game out there right now in my opinion. Very satisfying to get decent at, especially if you learn to manual catch and turn off rail assist. Hitting lines is challenging and satisfying, controls feel a lot more natural to actual skating. You're doing simplified versions of actual foot positions, flicks and catches instead of arbitrary button combos. Going back to other games about skating after playing Session a bunch feels like a downgrade even if they have better production value and fewer bugs. Highly recommend to any other skaters out there who want something to scratch the itch when you can't go skate irl. Or to anyone who wants a street skating experience that's actually trying to simulate it instead of turning skating in to fortnite with a board.