Skateboard Animal Crossing

OlliOlli World revamps the OlliOlli skateboarding series with gorgeous 3D hand-drawn visuals compared to the retro pixel art of its predecessors. Developer Roll7 opted against a focus on competitive gameplay here, giving players a casual skateboarding game that focuses on pulling off tricks in the flashiest ways possible.

- Tim Augustin

A GLANCE

DEVELOPER Roll7

PUBLISHER Private Division

GENRE Sports, Casual

PLATFORM PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch

PLAYERS SINGLE

High Level Customisation

Right off the bat, you’re treated to a rainbow of visuals in its character creation screen. Much like Animal Crossing, you can tinker with how your character looks at any point in the game, but that didn’t stop me from spending an ungodly amount of time navigating these screens. Since the art style shares some similarities with Adventure Time - namely, the thin mouths and eyes - I tried my best to create Marceline the vampire. I failed. It was still a ton of fun!

Once you’re done picking a character, you enter Radlandia - a rad land full of skateboard enthusiasts. Your character bumps into a small group of friends who decide to teach you the basics of the skateboarding world.

I have to say, my thumb hovered over the ‘skip cutscene’ button most of the time because the story never tries to do anything more than give you reasons to skateboard in different places and in different ways. This didn’t impact my enjoyment of the game too much, thankfully, because OlliOlli World doesn’t really want to be taken seriously.