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It takes longer to master the spins on ‘L’ and ‘R’, but each one adds a 1x multiplier to your trick score, so it’s worth incorporating them into your repertoire. Similarly, it takes a while to learn but proves to be a fluid, satisfying system once you nail the basics. You tap ‘B’ to ‘flex’ your knees on landing, which took us back twenty years when we were trying to land spins by hitting ‘Z’ at just the right moment on the slopes with Dion Blaster ( work your body, wo-work your body).

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Tony Hawk casts a long, lanky shadow over the skateboarding genre and OlliOlli is obviously indebted to the series which bears his name, but its trick system also reminds us of 1080 ° Snowboarding.

Perfect timing gives you a minor speed boost – you’ll otherwise have to tap ‘B’ on the ground to gain momentum. Grinding is achieved by holding the left stick in any direction when you're above a railing or other grindable surface. Pulling and releasing the left analogue stick launches you into the air, and rotating the stick in different directions (as you might in a beat-‘em-up) enables you to pull off a wide variety of tricks, the names of which will be familiar if you’ve ever dabbled in the skating genre – plenty of ollies, nollies, kickflips and the like. Every time you come a cropper you restart the course, although hitting ‘X’ restarts immediately if you’re not satisfied with your performance. For the uninitiated, it’s a side-on, auto-scrolling skater that relies on twitch movements to negotiate short but tricky courses filled with grind rails and obstacles. If this is your first encounter with Roll7’s indie title, OlliOlli: Switch Stance combines both the original game and its 2015 sequel, OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood, in one gnarly package. Fortunately, the wait has been worth it OlliOlli is just as satisfying – and infuriating – now as it was five years ago.

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For a game so suited to portable play sessions, it’s taken a remarkably long time to come to your favourite ‘homeheld’ console, but here it is, and the belated arrival feels like a handheld homecoming. Remember OlliOlli? Its addictive 2D take on the trick-combo formula that fuelled the Tony Hawk franchise for a good fifteen years launched on PS Vita back in 2014 and then got ported to pretty much everything else, including Wii U and 3DS.