Backyard Skateboarding: Game of the Year Edition Walkthrough

Welcome to yet another walkthrough, this time for perhaps the guiltiest pleasure of all the Backyard Sports, Backyard Skateboarding. More precisely, this is the updated Game of the Year Edition, which added a fair amount of things that I'll go into detail about later. I played through all of the levels and did all of the challenges, as well as collected all the coins.

This was actually a bit of a pain to make. As much as I do love this game in a so-bad-it's-good way, there's a lot of things that annoy me about it. Primarily, pulling off tricks that require ridiculous key combinations are much easier said than done. You'd think it'd be as simple as just following what the screen tells you, but it's really not. I find it's just easiest to spam whatever keys it tells you to press and hope you pull off the trick doing so. The controls are also a bit finnicky, especially with grinding. There are probably a lot of parts where nothing happens or I'm just looking for coins, so you may want to have the video slider at hand.

As far as what the GOTY Edition added, for the most part it is the same game, but there's a fair amount of additions as well. The most notable one is the inclusion of a new level, Rooftops, though they also added many other smaller things like the new jet power-up, a new tutorial level (as well as the yellow Andy Mac helmets that serve as help), new cosmetics, and some small level tweaks. They also fixed a few of the bugs from the original (the most noteworthy of which being the infinite jumping bug). For the most part it's a "the same but more" situation, though if I ever do run across the original I may just go on ahead and walkthrough it as well for completion's sake.

This game is very much a guilty pleasure for me, and it seems that way for a lot of others. The game is chock full of dumb glitches, the physics are hilariously stupid, and the power-ups are not balanced in the slightest, but for some reason I still find myself enjoying it anyway. However, did it really deserve a Game of the Year award? Meh, not really, though looking at the history of the games they gave the award, I'm not terribly surprised either.

Now, onto level-by-level comments...

Neighborhood: Had to go with Achmed because he's my favorite. I try to kill two birds with one stone by collecting coins while doing the challenges, though that can cause some stalling...hope nobody minds it too much. I don't have a lot to say here.

Boardwalk: Going with Pablo because I know everyone would kill me if I didn't play as him at least once (fun fact: one of his lines translates to him not knowing why he's called Secret Weapon. How humble of him!). This level is a little easier since its layout isn't as complicated as the neighborhood, but some of the coins are still a pain to find.

Rooftops: Ugh, I don't like this level. Not only does it feel really tacked on (mostly because it is), but the coins can be a real pain to get. I don't think it helps I went with Keisha on this level, who has really sluggish acceleration, a major pain for going up those windows. There's also one challenge involving grinding on helicopter blades that is really annoying because it only counts when it feels like it. I cut out a good chunk of me fumbling around trying to get the stupid thing to work.

Castle: In the original there was originally no hint you were supposed to jump into those rocks to get to the turrets. This version added signposts that point to them...great, now you gave a really, really vague clue on what the rocks do. Would it have killed them to have just added a proper way to get to the turrets instead of...oh, I dunno, jumping into perfectly normal looking rocks? Oh yeah, and they added the stupid molasses power-ups on them because apparently it wasn't annoying enough having to get to them, now they make it a pain to get the coins too. Anyway, other than those rocks this level went alright, but I almost ended up with the Last Lousy Point problem by having only one coin left. Thankfully I remembered which one I missed and found it without a hitch.

Skate Station Alpha: This time I went with a custom player, and yes, I made him look as horrid as I possibly could. Come on, I have to have a little bit of fun, don't I? Also, me choosing the bear slippers had nothing to do with me loving furries. At all. What ever gave you that idea? Joking aside, this level is thankfully pretty easy since the coins are all fairly confined. The last challenge is a pain though because you have to do one of those tricks that involves an annoyingly long key combination, and you can't just keep retrying it over and over, you have to keep grinding up that rail. Thankfully I was able to do it with enough attempts. Regarding the remaining unlockables, I believe they are likely unlocked by completing the trick book or getting certain scores, but I didn't care enough to try for them.

That's all I have to say. Enjoy the walkthrough.

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