The use of bright colors isn’t just for show, though, as the game also uses colors to great effect when marking rails, rideabale walls, and various hazards to great effect while still feeling like organic parts of each level. If the names of “Gnarvana” and “Radlandia” didn’t already tip you off, OlliOlli World is more out there compared to its predecessor, having switched to a vibrant and colorful cel-shaded style designed to appropriately evoke the likes of Jet Set Radio. So now, accompanied by a group of new friends, you set out on a journey to reach Gnarvana, one that involves a lot of grinds across roller coaster-like rails, huge flips across entire pools of sludge and several smashed cat souvenirs, to name a few things. Set in a world known as Radlandia where five Skate Gods each carved out their unique lands in order to create their own skating paradise, the game sees you playing as someone being considered for the role of a Skate Wizard, one who maintains the balance between the gods’ home of Gnarvana and the actual spirit of skateboarding back in Radlandia. And now, seven years after the last OlliOlli game, they’re back with OlliOlli World, an extreme sports experience like no other.Īnd immediately, OlliOlli World lives up to that promise of being a unique experience the moment you begin the game and witness its story.
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But also as mentioned back then, one of the few developers actually willing to take a chance on extreme sports again is Roll7, with their OlliOlli series of 2D skateboarding games. You keep seeing comments on how we should be moving on from pixel art in indie games to PS1-era aesthetics, but outside of boomer shooters and the occasional retro survival horror title, there hasn’t seemed to have been much of a movement towards bringing back actual games and subgenres from that era, extreme sports included.
I’ve brought this up before when checking out games such as Session, but it’s weird that that the indie gaming world hasn’t made any attempt to revive the extreme sports genre.
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