I recently got my hands on an old copy of this, being an actual old-school skateboarder from way back, and was eager to try this out. I've been having an itch for cutesy/chibi style games lately, (think My Street on PS2), and this fills that itch quite well.
Great customization, several areas in an open-world setting, lots of collectibles, even more unlockables, and hours of fun, even a popping soundtrack to skate too... though, would be great to be able to customize it and/or update it... perhaps have unlockable music like in the Saints Row series.
You can either play with your own custom skater, both male or female, as well as several Disney franchise characters, with even more unlockable skaters, some Disney characters, others based on real-life and/or fictional peoples.
Only real cons I'd give this, is sometimes the challenge difficulties are rather steep for a kids game... I'm all for difficulty and accomplishment, especially as far as skating/thrashing goes... but one for example was when you had to skitch on the UFO to jump out to a second ramp where you first have to jump for either height or distance, and then have to blast the other side for whichever you didn't do the first time (height or distance) -- problem comes into play when success of reaching the second ramp-like area is rather RNG, as you have to release at just the right time, have to hope you don't bounce off in the wrong trajectory because the UFO actually does push you, if you hit the end of the upper-ramp too late you fall straight down, and often times even when you do it seemingly perfect you come just shy of the further second ramp-like area. The UFO skitch honestly took me a good 30+ minutes to actually get done with at least 25-50 retries (when in realistic analysis it should have probably only taken 5 minutes tops with a few retries). Was even more salt in the wounds when all the UFO skitch unlocked was blue shoes... really!? *FACEDESK*
Only other con is the game, honestly, is extremely sexist, but not for the reason most might typically point out. I decided after a day of playing as a male (themed after my male cat), to make a female character (themed after my other female cat). Turns out LOTS of the items that kept saying they were being unlocked, that I was unable to find on my male character, were on the FEMALE side of creation! Tie-dye shirt, Faux-Leopard shirt, a couple different multi-colored hairstyles, etc... even more troubling, there were several of the male options on the female side, while many of the female-only options WEREN'T on the male side. I actually remade my male as a female just to get the tie-dye shirt, long pony-tail hair (which male doesn't have), and some other aspects... even more bizarre, one of the facepaints on female, "Grumpoid", is actually available on the female side, which I was using on male, and used on female, to give my character big eye-brows and a mustache, so it still looks male, just more jazzed out. :P~
Overall though, this is a great game to feel like a kid again, and feel like you're able to make either yourself, or the "old-school reminiscent self", run around a bunch of neighborhoods, and just having fun. There honestly needs to be more games like this. It honestly reminds me of the "reminiscent" styles one tends to experience when playing games like Bully, Animal Crossing, My Street, Adventures of Willy Beamish, and some others! Q:-)
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