Skate or Die 2

"Hey dudes wazzap? Rodney here telling you about this hapless title which sent me to my death at videogame fandom, major bummer dude! So like, let's get going, I gotta go back to my skateboarding shoppe before my breakfast burrito explodes in the microwave, shaa!"

Skate or Die 2 is a good game for those who enjoy horrible control and a variety of incredibly stupid quests to snatch Compact Disks, Audio Tapes, and Tacos forgotten on the street by other skaters wearing neon-colored clothing. Also, let me tell you about the unique storyline which will get you hooked into this rockin' game, while skating in the beatiful streets of Elwood (I am not kidding), you splat the Mayor's dog, which in turn, gets skating banned the very next day, major bummer dude! You have to challenge his unruling by skating outside, fighting other skaters, turd-colored dogs, crazed chefs in warehouses, and boxing alligators in the sewers. Radical.

Unlike the first Skate or Die, there is no competition on different areas of skating, no challenges, and no two player co-op play. There is only you and your ability to toss eggs which explode on contact at other punks skating on the street, pretty much like any other kid would do if his skating rights were to be threatened in real life. There are however, a lotta weirdo characters, besides the "hero" of the game, including a girl who curiously looks like The Little Mermaid.

Here's our hero in all his moody glory.

The story starts with our unnamed hero (I don't recall his name but he is indeed very forgettable) skating without a care on the streets, where the Mayor's wife happens to be walking her dog at the same time. Some guy named Icepick distracts our bumbling hero and the dog goes "SPLAT!!" (no really, the sound effect clearly states so.) After you kill her dog she goes in a mad frenzy, demanding to the Mayor to stop all skateboarding activity in the city. You gotta fight for your right to skate dude!

MAJOR BUMMER DUDE!!

The only sport-like event ever in the game is when you press SELECT to practice on a U shaped ramp, you score big points and often get your head smashed inside the wooden structure a couple of times. It's too bad once you hit Reset your score and all that hard work is erased, being that there is no other option to get out of the Ramp mode without quitting the game. Duuuude.

That's some pretty deep thoughts right there, dude.

I was completely dissapointed at this NES game, given that it asks you to make fancy tricks with the mediocre control you already have in it, and the fact that I have to fight hopping gators with boxing gloves for a taco seems pretty much idiotic. Let the Mayor have his petty revenge on those skating punks, this game bums me out dude, like, totally.

R.I.P
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