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Tanuki Sundown is an arcade downhill skater sport with a cool ‘80s vibe from the folks over at Rewind Video games. The mix of chilled out tunes and downhill skating wrapped up in that 1980’s really feel is excellent. Did I point out you get to play as a raccoon?

Yep, the primary character in Tanuki Sundown is a raccoon with aspirations of creating it to the entrance cowl of a skating journal known as FISH. In an effort to get the celebrity Tanuki so needs, you need to full the three ranges and make your technique to the massive ramp.

The primary degree is known as Sundown Peaks and it comes with blue and pink neon lit backgrounds, feeling ripped proper from the duvet of a ‘Now that’s what I name the 80s’ CD. It’s right here that you simply and Tanuki will study the fundamentals of the gameplay featured in Tanuki Sundown.

Now, I really like a great skateboarding sport. Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater, Skate, even the more moderen Session: Skate Sim are all on my common rotation of consolation video games. In Tanuki Sundown the skateboarding is a bit totally different from these titles as you received’t be grinding or linking manuals right here. The principle purpose of the Tanuki Sundown is to make it by way of the levels with pace and precision.

Dodging vehicles and making it round tight corners efficiently is vital. Utilizing cautious steering and a mix of drifts utilizing RT and LT will get you thru many of the sticky conditions you meet in your downhill approach. There aren’t any conventional methods in Tanuki Sundown both, apart from a easy spin trick and a soar capability.

Additional into every run you’ll come throughout ramps that may be jumped from, and throwing in a spin trick to look cool is necessary. However, once more the primary purpose is to make it downhill as quick, and as safely, as you possibly can, performing some tight dodging of the automobiles and skilled use of drifting.

Alongside the best way you’ll discover bits on the highway that may be collected. Selecting up these will enable the cosmetics within the retailer to be unlocked as they operate because the in-game foreign money. Don’t concern, there aren’t any in-app purchases to make this both a pay-to-win or pay-to-look-good right here.

That stated, accumulating the bits turns into a bit tiresome because the collection of cosmetics is reasonably small and there aren’t any character or capability upgrades to buy within the retailer. Skateboard upgrades ought to positively have been an addition, with new stats like higher turning or sooner pace, however once more there aren’t any purchasable upgrades for this both.

So with a easy premise and easy controls, Tanuki Sundown hasn’t acquired an excessive amount of else to supply. Cosmetics – as talked about – are restricted, and precise board and character upgrades don’t make an look both. The massive success for the title is the vibe.

As I discussed at first, it’s the 1980’s aesthetic which seeps from each fringe of Tanuki Sundown, pulled off rather well. Combining neon Miami styled appears to be like with a soothing soundtrack makes it a pleasant sport to have a look at for probably the most half.

It’s procedurally generated too and which means you can’t practise areas to get higher. Nevertheless it additionally implies that it comes with some unlucky graphical hiccups. Wanting too far in the direction of the horizon to see upcoming turns will reveal the monitor popping into view as you journey downwards.

Having pop-in isn’t dangerous when it’s on a graphically intense sport or if they’re lined up cleverly with fog, but in Tanuki Sundown that’s sadly not the case; pop-in textures being obviously apparent. One other hiccup I skilled that required a full sport restart was when testing the Photograph Mode.

Photograph Mode in Tanuki Sundown needs to be actually cool, capable of give some improbable screenshots to share with mates. Launching into it, the sport doesn’t pause the motion. This implies images have to be taken rapidly to get the proper spot you wish to seize. Once I fired this up, Tanuki fell by way of the map endlessly. Yup I couldn’t again out and even reset the extent, left to laborious give up the sport and return in; all I might see was the board falling right down to the pits of doom beneath.

Tanuki Sundown doesn’t outstay its welcome although. The sport can simply be blasted by way of in a few hours, and many of the unlocks within the in-game retailer could be bought as you progress. And what with it being procedurally generated, a contact of replayability is added in.

So all in, Tanuki Sundown is able to offering a enjoyable sufficient time, however it’s sadly hampered by graphical points and a really quick size. The story is virtually non-existent, so all that’s left is the gameplay. Seems sensible and when it runs freed from points, Tanuki Sundown appears to be like reasonably good, however pop-in and falling by way of objects does occur very often.

Tanuki Sundown is a enjoyable arcade jaunt that nails the aesthetic of the Eighties. Nevertheless, it’s tough to totally suggest, and that’s as a consequence of some graphical points and a brief run time. 

Tanuki Sundown is on the Xbox Retailer