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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to side Quest with another solo

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bonus episode from yours truly, Dylan Musk, here to share

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my top twenty five Tony Hawk levels of all time.

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I've been playing so much Tony Hawk last couple months,

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and I thought this would be a good time to

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do it because it's October. But it's not just any October.

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It is ok Tony October, which is something I've seen

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many other content creators celebrate over the years, where in

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the month of October really go all in on some

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Tony Hawk things, whether that's level rankings, you know, live streams,

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other content about these games. And it's perfect time because

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I've been playing Tonyx three plus four four and then

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one plus two and then many other games which I'll

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talk about in a minute, and Yeah, this feels like

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a good time to do this. I have a lot

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of juice, a lot of things to talk about here,

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so let's just get right into it with a couple

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things some preamble, of course, as any ranking needs and requires.

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First off is my history with this series. So the

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first Tony Hawk game I owned and played was TONYACKX

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pro Skater two on the N sixty four. I feel

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like the most memorable thing about this game for me though,

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back in the day is the fact that it had

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a yellow cartridge. It was that in Downkhawks before the

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yellow cartridge, and then I had Majora's Mask with the

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gold cartridge, and that's honestly maybe the most memorable part

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about the game for me as a kid. I was

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not into it. I could not figure it out. It

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was too hard, you know, I think, honestly, looking back,

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it was probably just the fact that the N sixty

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four controller is so bad, and I feel like Tony

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Hawk is such a precise game that requires so many inputs.

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That's maybe why I could never really get deep into

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the game. So I don't think I got very deep,

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maybe just three or four levels in and then I

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just couldn't make it past that. But after that it

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was it was on the game Pube, and that's where

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I had my big moment with Tony Hawk and falling

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in love with the series.

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Speaker 2: And that is of course, first.

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Speaker 1: Off with Tony Hawk's Underground, which is a game that

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I played for just over and over again, played it

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with friends in multiplayer. I just played solo, put through

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the store multiple times, just spending hours in the map

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creator going through the story over and over again, just exploring,

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finding all the secrets, doing all the stuff in it.

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And then you know, jumping from that right into Tonia

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Hawk's American Wastelines skipping Thug two, not even a game

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I knew existed until I was a little bit older,

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but Tony Hawk's Underground or sorry, Tonyhawks American Wasteline after that,

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which is another game that I really love, you know,

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building up the skate park as kind of the main

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story there, going to these different locations, more story focused,

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which was interesting, and I think, you know, I bring

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up all these details because I think it is really important.

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Speaker 2: Though.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of where my Tony Hawk story really starts.

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You know, I did have pro Skater two on the

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N sixty four, but it wasn't super into it. And

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so for a lot of people, you know, they started

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with either one, two, three, or four and that's kind

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of where they cut their teeth. But for me, it

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was different. It was Thug, and it was Thaw and

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Thug you know, had cars. Every mission at every level

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had a car you could drive around in, you could

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get off your board, you could climb up things, and

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American Wasteline added like more parkers stuff, you could ride

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a bike, and so I think for me, like these

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games are more than just skateboarding games, and especially Underground

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is a game since I had these pretty open levels,

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I would just spend hours running around, roaming around doing

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random stuff, maybe not even skateboarding. So of course that

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was always the primary verb of the games, but I

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feel like they were so much more for me than that,

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and so it's been interesting to jump back to some

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of the older games in the series now where you

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can't get off your board, where there is no driving,

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where there's no bikes, where there's no parkour really and

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so it's fun to see the differences, and I've found

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that I really love both flavors, even if they are

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quite different. But this series overall has a lot of

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different flavors to it, which we'll talk about, and I

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think primarily the next game that I played after those

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two GameCube ones was Downhill Jam, and this was a

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game I played a lot, and it was a very different style.

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there was like Airport and Mall which had the and

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the original Downhill Jam, which are kind of downhill maps.

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a game obviously focusing on those mechanics and going all

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in on them. It was a game that I really loved,

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really enjoyed, And I think part of that too was

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because when I first got my Wii. I might be

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misremembering in the timeline here, but I think the first

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games I had was of course We Sports. I had

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Excite Truck, and I had Downhill Jam. I think those

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were like the launch games I had when I got

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my Wii a few months late, and so all of

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those games because of that, got so much play time

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because that's all I had, and so I played a

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ton of Downhill Jam, but it was not really a

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game I revisited much. It wasn't when I come back

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to and it's not when I've played in quite some time.

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kind of revisit Thug. That was kind of when I'd

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revisit pretty often. But I think around that time is

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when I would jump over and really get into the

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skate franchise one, two, but primarily three. I think those

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three was the only one that I owned, and I

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played a lot of it back in the day, and

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game played to it, the flick it controls as I

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think they called it, and that was that was kind

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of where my love kind of converted over to skate

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and just kind of wanted to get super into that.

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and whenever I wanted to play a skateboarding game, I

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would usually revisit skate And then I think there's just

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a big empty space, empty point on the resume where

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I really just wasn't playing any skateboarding game for many,

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many years, and I think it's more recently just the

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last you know, I think it was last year's twenty

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four hour stream. We played a little bit of Tony Hawk,

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and then with some of these remakes and these last

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few months is just when I've kind of been getting

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back into skateboarding games. And it feels kind of perfect

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because I feel like there's a lot of indie skateboarding

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games now. I played Skateboard a little bit. I think

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I played a bit of Sessions. Skate Stories another one

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that I'm looking forward to that's coming out soon, and

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then twenty twenty five on top of all that stuff,

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it's an early access, so I'm kind of waiting for

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one point oh to play that, and then three plus

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four with the Tony Hawk remake, and of course the

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one plus two one back in twenty twenty, so obviously

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a big time for skateboarding games kind of coming back

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in all different shapes and forms. And because of that,

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so that kind of kicked off a little bit with

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three plus four that was on game Pass, So I

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played that kind of my first time any of those levels,

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and I know there's a lot of changes that they

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made to four from the original version, but you know,

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was just a so totally solid Tony Hawk game and

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wasn't kind of devoid of some of the more openness

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that the original game had from what I understand. And

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I've been waiting to play one plus two, waiting for

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it to go on a good sale, waiting for it

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to join game Pass because it is owned to buy

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Microsoft now, but it still hasn't, And I was just

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loving three plus four so much, so I said fitt

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I'm finally just gonna buy this game.

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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 1: It had a little bit of a nice discount there

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on PlayStation at the time, so you know, pretty much

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for a few weeks there are just three plus four,

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one plus two, jumping back and forth playing those games.

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What am I feeling today, I'm feeling I want to

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go knock some more challenges out in two, and then

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I want to go over to four and get some

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more completion do these challenges in one.

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Speaker 2: So kind of just flip into.

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Speaker 1: Between these four different games, playing these levels over and

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over again, kind of discovering everything I can about them.

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And then from there I went to the Classic Used

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Game Store pick up some older games that I missed

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from the series, and so I did pick up the

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Original four and Project eight, but they didn't work in

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my three sixty unfortunately their original Xbox games, and they

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just weren't compatible, or my three sixties just busted one

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of the two, so I couldn't play those ones. But

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what I did play was Tonyok's Underground Too, which is

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obviously a big blind spot for me, and since tonyox

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Underground was my favorite growing up and I love Thaw,

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so much and it's kind of nestled rate in there.

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reason I stopped is because on the three sixty. Once again,

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this is the original Xbox game. I'm playing on three sixty,

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and the frame rate and like the performance is just

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super bad, which you know, looked up on Redd. Apparently

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there's just the case it just doesn't run super well.

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played through about half the game, but it was not

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the best way to play it, and so unfortunately, my

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you know how honest it being in my rankings is

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probably not true. And so if anyone's salty that I

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don't have some of these maps higher, just notes because

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I played kind of a borked version of the game.

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So you know, I definitely will do another version of

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this because there's other Tony Hawk games I haven't played,

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so I can always revisit this ranking in the future.

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So yeah, I played a little bit of that, and

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then Tonyak's Pro Skater five, a much controversial, very poorly

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reviewed game. I picked that up on PS four and

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played through all of that, and I'll just say it

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right off the top of that game absolutely sucks. It

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is so slow, the mechanics feel awful. You can't they

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took out someone of the ability like Combo Tricks. The

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maps are so devoid of life or personality or anything

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at all. You know, it was a game designed for multiplayer,

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and multiplayer doesn't work anymore, and so it just feels

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it feels like a single player game, or it feels

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like a multiplayer game that has kind of been abandoned

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in that way, Like so much of the mechanics and

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activating missions and switching between levels, it feels very set

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up for multiplayer, and it just feels like the single

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player part was not really thought about. So that game

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just spoiler here not making a dent on the top

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twenty five. Like, there's a couple interesting ish sword levels,

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but none of them are going to crack in with

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one kind of minor exception, which I'll talk about when

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we get there. So that is kind of my history

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with the series. You know, maybe played a couple other

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games at a friend's house here there, or you know,

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some of the later games have remakes of levels from

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the earlier games, so I've kind of seen them in

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different versions over the years. But that's more or less

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what it is. So what are the levels that are

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eligible for this? It's gonna be a big list, So

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get ready for this mouthful. So for all, for all

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the one plus one through one two, three and four,

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all of those games, I'm kind of ranking them for

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their version in the one plus two and three plus

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four remakes, although I've played some of these levels just

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kind of in the original version or in there as

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that kind of stuff, but just so you're aware, But

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from Tonyawk's one pro Skater one we have Warehouse School, Mall,

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Skate Park, Downtown Downhill, jam Burnside Streets, and Roswell. We'reund Tonyak.

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Two we have the Hangar School two Marseille, New York City, Venice,

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Skate Street, Philadelphia, Chopper Drop, and skate Heaven. From three

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we have Foundry, Canada, Rio, Suburbia, Airport, Skater Island, Los Angeles,

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Tokyo Cruise Ship. From four we have College, San Francisco, Alcatraz,

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ConA Shipyard, London Zoo. And then in the three plus

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Skater five, we have Barracks, Bonfire, Beach School, Three, Megapark, Rooftops, Bunker,

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Asteroid Belt, Mountain, wild West, and the Underground. And then

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from Tonyhaok's Underground we have that's kind of nice, nice

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little segwe there. We have New Jersey, Manhattan, Tampa, San Diego, Hawaii, Vancouver,

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Slam City, Jam Moscow, and Hotter than Hell. I guess

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in the day had Tonyok's Underground on the Game Boy Advance.

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But man, I just don't like the top down isometric

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Tonyhawk games, So I'm kind of I've played some of

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the game, played a few of the levels, but you know,

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it's not making a dent. So that is one game

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I've played but not really worth discussion. In Thug two,

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there is a Warehouse remake, but it has kind of

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added sections to it, so kind of a Warehouse point five,

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I guess you could call it. Boston, Barcelona, and Berlin.

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Those only ones that I was able to get through.

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Downtown La East La, the Vans Skate Park, Casino, Santa Monica,

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and the oil Rig and then also with American wastelines.

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Kind of a tricky one because there's a lot of

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transition areas. Like the whole all the levels are kind

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of within the world, sort of loosely connected, so you

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get like these little traversal sequences that connect the levels.

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So those aren't really counted, I guess, in any of

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the levels I just mentioned, but they're kind of there.

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And then Downhill Jams, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Matrepeachu Rio, Rome,

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the Alps, and Chicago Mall. So that is I think

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seventy nine seventy eight actually yeah, seventy eight eligible levels,

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and I've picked my top twenty five, and twenty five

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is quite a lot, so I don't have any honorable

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mentions here, but there are some other ones that of

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course did not make it on the list that you know,

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are still good. A couple last preamble things, don't worry,

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we're almost into the ranking. First up is like my

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play style. I feel like I'm a very street style player,

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you know, flip tricks into grinds into manuals. That's kind

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of my bread and butter, trying to find cool lines.

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I want to try and get as far as I

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can in my combos, rather than being a big like

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pool or like quarter pipe type or half pipe type

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type player. Not a big fan of the downhill style,

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you know, Downhill Jam obviously focused on that and does

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a good job of it, but like just not really

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my favorite types of levels in general. And then you

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know what am I looking for? What is it's ranking

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really about? You know, there's of course a pinchon nostalgia

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that's going to be a factor in here, but there's

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also I think that's actually one of the interesting balances

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here is the nostalgia versus the recency bias, because I've

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played so many of these games than the last two months,

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and so comparing that with like my memories of these levels,

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you know, from childhood is an interesting thing to kind

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of have to weigh up. But that's you know, I've

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tried to factor then in as best as I can.

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Of course, I'm looking at the theming of the level,

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you know, what is the setting of it and how

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well does it bring that to life? The visuals all

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that kind of stuff. Of course the gameplay, like does

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it have good lines? Is that have good connectivity between

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the different sections of the map, long rails that you

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can connect you between different areas, that a rail into

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a certain half pipe and do an acid drop, like

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all these kinds of fun things.

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Speaker 2: Do they connect well?

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Speaker 1: Fun obstacles, right, of course, that's a big part of it.

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I also factor that in with like you know, Underground

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has like cars you can drive, or American Wasteline has

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has bikes, so I have to factor in those things too,

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and how fun it is to drive around in a level,

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because of course it's more than just the skateboarding in

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some of these games. Memorable missions of course, that is

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for the games that like are pretty straightforward in like

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the Underground American Wasteline style, but then also in like

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the one through four and like those missions, how memorable

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are they? Like the locations of the letters, skate the

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combo letters, these other funny objectives you can do that

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change the map in certain ways or open up secret areas,

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and then yeah, kind of with that too, secret areas,

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bonus things, finding hidden areas, All those kinds of things

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are factored in here. So I don't know, maybe gameplay's

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top gameplay and theme are kind of top of mind things,

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but of course there's so many little little details that

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factor into all of this, and maybe a couple other

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things along the way. So I think with that we

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can kind of get right into the list already. So

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as I mentioned no honorable mentions, I'm just going right

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into this and let's kick it off with Thug two

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Tonno's Underground two. I have Barcelona here as my number

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twenty five spot. This has been my favorite level in

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the game so far. I will say I feel like

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Thug two has a very a bit more of a

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formulaic approach to the levels, Like all the levels feel

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kind of square like in their shape in the street

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aspect of it. So I'm curious if that changes in

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the second half of the game that I haven't got

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to yet. But yeah, this one definitely makes it in

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the top twenty five for me. This one is pretty crazy,

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you know, A Thug two is like a jackass game

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as well, kind of, even though it's called Tony Ooks

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Underground and this one you can like switch skaters with

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Steve O who's on like a bucking bowl thing, and

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you can like fly around the city and knock people

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over and all that crazy stuff. You like throw tomatoes

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at bowls to get them to run around the city.

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It's it's you know, hectic, crazy Tony Hawk jackass madness.

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Speaker 2: That you'd expect.

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Speaker 1: But I think my favorite location in this map is

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the kind of well I think of it as the North.

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I don't know if it is the North, if these

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maps even have cardinal directions, but there's an area with

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like the gardens where there's just you know a bunch

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of halfpipes and you can kind of do transfers between

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them and like acid drops and all that. You can

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even get way up high above on like a gondola

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type thing. You can even drop from that down into

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this and just like you get huge air, huge combos,

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and you can do that stuff and then it like

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will combo into the rest of the You can kind

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of fly all over these half pipes, do a big

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transfer and then like comble that into a grind and

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then just fly off into the distance. So really satisfying,

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really fun. There's some good grind opportunities. There's like a

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fun bridge you can grind across that leads to a

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kind of almost a little bonus area that has a

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fun couple objectives in there.

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Speaker 2: I really like the verticality.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a factor you might see in a

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lot of the missions I pick here as I like

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when there is some opportunity you can get really high

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up above and look down at the streets below. And

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this has that where you can hop into a couple

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different elevator spots and it will pop you up to a

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rooftop which you can use to jump to other rooftops

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or just fly off, go up onto the gondola, that

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kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy this level. I think it's really fun.

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It's really goofy. There are some like tighter street areas

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that are hard to kind of move through in an

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interesting way, but I think there are also a lot

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of it's kind of more moving around the edge of

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this map, I think is the most interesting location part

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of it. So yeah, shout outs to Barcelona at number

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twenty five. Up there, we move over to Edinburgh from

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on hill Jam and I will say that's my only

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Thug two pick, and this is my only downhill Jam

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pick for the top twenty five. So I wanted to

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get a level from them in here, and so I

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wont Edinburgh as my favorite. This one is just you know,

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those beautiful kind of Scottish castles you're flying through, which

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I think was a very unique setting for Tonyak And

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I would actually like to see more castles because I

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feel like just grinding around like the turrets or like

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the walls could be like a really fun type location,

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So I'd like to see that in a more traditional

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Tony Hawk level. But Edinburgh for me, you know, it's

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been a long time since I've played Downhill Jam, so

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a lot of this is like pretty faded memories. But

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I just watched some YouTube videos of like trying to remember, O, yeah,

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what do all these maps look like a couple of them,

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I'm like, man, I don't recognize this at all. Did

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I even play this level? But Edinburgh was the one

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that was like, oh yeah, I remember playing the heck

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out of that level and absolutely loving it. So that

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one is my number twenty four. Number twenty three. We

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have Pinball from Tono's three plus four, so this is

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a new map that they added to the game, so

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I think they clock it in like Tony Knok's pro

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Skater four in the actual game, like when you're level selecting,

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But yeah, it is a new map, and you know,

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I feel like there are a few of these kind

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of silly maps, Like I know, one of the levels

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you can get in one of the games ahead an

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area is like a kitchen countertop and you're like a

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little guy almost like on a tech deck, flying through

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this kitchen. I don't know which game has that, but

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that's like a weird secret area you can get access to.

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But Pinball kind of has that vibe too, where you're

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in this giant pinball machine, or at least you're a

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little guy in a regular sized pinball machine. You can

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look up and Tony Hawk is up there and he's

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flicking the buttons and all that kind of crazy stuff.

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This map just has like really good momentum to it.

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There are a couple like speed up boosters that you

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can get on that just launch you across the map,

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really great grind combos, there's kind of a vertical section,

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and I just think it's a really fun setting. I

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feel like I generally do prefer a more realistic type

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of setting, but this one really stood out to me

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as just being a map that has really fun, big

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combo opportunities, really big air you know, really fun color

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palette as well, and then some of the objectives that

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you have to do on it to complete it are

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quite engaging as well. So yeah, really enjoy Pinball. And

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then we move up to spot number twenty two, and

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this one on the list is going to be Skate

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Ranch for me from Tony Hawk's America and Wasteland.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think big.

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Speaker 1: Part of this is just the factor of like the

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whole story is kind of centered around this.

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Speaker 2: You get access to the skate park.

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Speaker 1: When you first go there, it's pretty barren, pretty empty,

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but as you're going around to the different areas, you're

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kind of you know, hitting this grind to break it

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off its railing, or breaking off this big dinosaur head,

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you know, breaking this rooftop, and then you're kind of

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transporting that stuff back to the park and just seeing

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it grow over time into like the ultimate skate park

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with all these memorable obstacles and set pieces from these

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locations you're going to throughout the game.

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Speaker 2: Just really satisfying.

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Speaker 1: I remember always going back there anytime you completed admission

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and just being really thrilled to see, like, where is

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it going to be? Where's that grind that I just

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got where is it gonna get added on here? And

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it is just a totally solid, like pretty traditional skate

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park level and obviously of course has like no connectivity

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or cohesion to its theming, but I think that's kind

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of perfectly fitting for the American wasteline vibe that that

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whole game has. So yeah, big shout out to the

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skate ranch. From there up to spot number twenty one,

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we're gonna go to Kona, which is from Tonyaks pro

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Skater four and yeah, this is a one of the

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competition levels, and it's a pretty traditional skate park. It

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kind of has two, i'd say, yeah, two or three

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major zones to it. One of the zones is like

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a really fun almost like a snakelike almost like a

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river bed. It's not it's like made of concrete, so

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it's not an actual riverbed, but that's really fun to

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like manual down or convert into a grind and it

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pops you down in like a pool area. There's the

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more traditional skater era on the other side that has

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some big half pipes and like some grinds that go

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all the way around, and yeah, I feel like the

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you might see on this list that I don't have

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a lot of like the traditional just skate park maps.

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I feel like I generally like skating around like just

476
00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:11,039
real life kind of locations that are integrated into skateboarding

477
00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:14,000
maneuvers rather than like just the skate parks. But this

478
00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:15,799
one is pretty memorable for me. I think the reason

479
00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:18,359
maybe it drops down further than it could be is

480
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,920
just because in general, like the competition levels, I feel

481
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,000
like are gonna lose some points for me because all

482
00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:26,759
you're doing is there is getting big score, and you

483
00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:29,359
don't have like collect the skate, collect the secret tape,

484
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,519
do these other bonus objectives. I think those things help

485
00:21:31,599 --> 00:21:35,799
make the levels more memorable and they highlight key set

486
00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:38,680
piece moments, But obviously the competition levels don't really have

487
00:21:38,759 --> 00:21:40,920
that as much unless you're getting super creative with them.

488
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,599
So yeah, I think that that's maybe why it drops

489
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,200
down a little bit. But still really enjoy that one.

490
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,640
And then at number twenty, I have Santa Monica from

491
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,039
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. This one, for me is definitely

492
00:21:54,079 --> 00:21:56,400
the most memorable level for me in that game, and

493
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,000
it might not even be the best in terms of

494
00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:00,119
like big lines, but I think it just has like

495
00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:03,000
the amusement park area, which is super iconic, you know,

496
00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:06,240
grinding like the roller coaster or doing like the elliptricks

497
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,839
on the ferris wheel, like a big bowl in there,

498
00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:11,000
and that's kind of on the Santa Monica Pier where

499
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,440
you can like grind all the way down off to

500
00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:15,200
like this little dock area. I think there is another

501
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,880
game that had like an amusement park, I forget which

502
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,720
one it was in the series, maybe just Project eight

503
00:22:19,799 --> 00:22:22,359
or something like that, which I feel like is just

504
00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:24,519
an area that I actually do want to try that

505
00:22:24,559 --> 00:22:26,279
level and whatever game that is, because I feel like

506
00:22:26,319 --> 00:22:29,000
that is very ripe kind of level for what is

507
00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:30,839
super fun, and I feel like Santa Monica gives you

508
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:31,440
a bit of that.

509
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,519
Speaker 2: And then there's the.

510
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,079
Speaker 1: Area kind of more where there's some shops where you

511
00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:37,519
get some really just big nice pools and like halfpipes

512
00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:39,359
that kind of thing. And then there's a back area

513
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,480
that has some really fun grinding with like the amphitheater.

514
00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:43,200
I think it is where you get like the funny

515
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,279
shape rooftop, which I think is one of the props

516
00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:47,480
you bring back to the skate ranch at some point.

517
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,920
And none of these areas are truly that super connected

518
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,920
to each other. But I just always remember this being

519
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,559
a super fun level to come back to over and

520
00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:58,839
over again. So shout outs to Santa Monica. I think

521
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,200
that is our last American wasteland level on the list

522
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,480
if I'm correct here. But we're gonna jump over to

523
00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:08,079
a new game we haven't seen yet, and that is

524
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,480
Tony's pro Skater two with School two. I really like

525
00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:14,279
this one. This is one I think it's the first

526
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,200
level in the game, right, So I remember playing this

527
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,880
one a lot as a kid, because, like I said,

528
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,880
I wasn't good at that game on the N sixty four,

529
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:21,680
so I spent a lot of time on the first

530
00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:23,599
level in the game because I couldn't get much further

531
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,599
than that. Yeah, I think this level has like some

532
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,759
really it's pretty massive, sprawling level, but I feel like

533
00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:32,200
there is some pretty good connectivity to it. But also

534
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,440
the areas kind of just distinctly on their own are

535
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,000
pretty memorable. A lot of really good grinds down like

536
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,680
a lot of big staircases. You can do the roll

537
00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:42,319
call grinds, which open up the gym area so you

538
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,000
have like a big bowl in the pool, and then

539
00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:46,039
you have the gym area, which has some fun set

540
00:23:46,079 --> 00:23:48,720
pieces to it. There's like a whole hidden area if

541
00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:50,839
you like, jump off this one rooftop you get to

542
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,039
and there's not much there, truthfully, but it's just like, whoa,

543
00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:55,880
this whole big hidden area that's pretty cool. So yeah,

544
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,880
I feel like it's just a very grind heavy kind

545
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,599
of place. Jumping off rooftop has some good verticality to it,

546
00:24:01,799 --> 00:24:04,240
but it's a pretty big, sprawling map and just a

547
00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:06,000
really fun one to almost like warm up on. It's

548
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,039
like a fun level to jump into first. So obviously

549
00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:10,519
it being positioned as the first game or the first

550
00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,160
level in its game is obviously very well placed. And

551
00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:15,559
going up from there, we're going to go to Tony

552
00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:18,799
Hawks prostk Or one for the first time with Streets

553
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,839
also known as I guess San Francisco, which I feel

554
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,400
like it's funny that they just named it Streets. They

555
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,279
could have given it like a more memorable name, but

556
00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:27,480
maybe they didn't realize this series would have, you know,

557
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,319
twenty games and they needed to differentiate the levels with

558
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:30,920
better names.

559
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,799
Speaker 2: But yeah, I really like this level.

560
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 1: I think a factor of this one that hasn't come

561
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,200
up yet, but I think is really important is like

562
00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:39,440
the start of a level, you know where it spawns

563
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,319
you when you load up the level for the first time,

564
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,599
And I think this level really succeeded that because it

565
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,359
starts at the top of a classic kind of San

566
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,359
Francisco hill and you have like the Brick the Red

567
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,880
Brick kind of winding path that you can try and

568
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,240
manual down, which is fun, or you can do grinding

569
00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:55,759
on either side of the buildings from the top or

570
00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:58,400
on either side, which just drops you down into the

571
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,640
city and then you can kind of go left, forward

572
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,359
or right from there whichever area you want to go

573
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,599
to next, and so it's always fun to boot up

574
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,400
this level for the first time. You can also get

575
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,279
a bunch of speed off like a quarter pipe and

576
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:11,160
then just fly down that hill, so that's always super satisfying.

577
00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:13,960
Over on the left side, you kind of have this

578
00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:16,400
fun like stair set piece with a big kicker to

579
00:25:16,519 --> 00:25:18,960
jump over this bridge, and then there's like the more

580
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,720
Park area where you get some fun grinding opportunities and

581
00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:24,799
a weird big sculpture that's really fun to just ride up,

582
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,759
and that kind of leads into this one area of

583
00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:29,319
the map where you can jump up on this rooftop,

584
00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:32,160
convert over on the rooftop, go up these ramps and

585
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,599
you can get like way way high up above the city,

586
00:25:35,519 --> 00:25:37,400
and then you can get this huge ramp that's set

587
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,680
up there. Just fly through, smash through this per smash

588
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,799
a bunch of glass everywhere. That's where the secret tape

589
00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:45,279
is hidden. I believe, just super fun to go up

590
00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:48,079
there every single time and get like a huge combo

591
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,240
starter right off the top, and then kind of around

592
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,039
the outside of the map there's like a good pool

593
00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:56,160
pool area inside like a dish almost inside of a

594
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,240
building that you can smash into. A couple other buildings

595
00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:01,319
you can get into, which I always like in any

596
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,000
video game whenever I can go inside of a building,

597
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,680
it's always an exciting things. That feels like most buildings

598
00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:08,000
and games are just the wall, you know, but it's

599
00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:09,720
fun when you can break through that glass and actually

600
00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:12,079
go inside of them. And there's like an area that's

601
00:26:12,079 --> 00:26:14,480
almost like a little Chinatown section that I kind of

602
00:26:14,519 --> 00:26:16,240
wish that area is more integrated into the rest of

603
00:26:16,279 --> 00:26:18,000
the map. It feels like very out of the way,

604
00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:20,440
but it is a cool little set piece area, and

605
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,079
I just wish it connected into it more. But this map,

606
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,640
because it is another pretty big one in terms of

607
00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:28,119
like just the surface area of the space of it.

608
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,279
It's a really fun one to try and route out

609
00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:33,000
the speed run for it in the remake of one

610
00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,200
plus two, because yeah, you just really have to plan out. Okay,

611
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,599
I don't want to have to backtrack it all. So

612
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,519
what's my How can I knock out all these objectives

613
00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:41,759
in one place, grind all these cop cars as quick

614
00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:43,920
as I can, get up to that rooftop as quick

615
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:44,319
as I can.

616
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 2: So really fun level. I love the visuals of it.

617
00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:49,519
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be maybe another San Francisco that

618
00:26:49,559 --> 00:26:52,279
pops up later on as well. But yeah, I think

619
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:54,240
it makes for a really good skateboarding location.

620
00:26:54,319 --> 00:26:54,759
Speaker 2: Apparently.

621
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: Next up is another level from tonyox perskater once and

622
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,680
I was at number seventeen, and that is going to

623
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,799
be downtown also known as the Minneapolis This is level

624
00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:06,680
set at nighttime, which I like. I feel like not

625
00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:08,680
a lot of levels typically are in Tony Hawk and

626
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,519
I think they did that more with the remake of

627
00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:12,279
one plus two and three plus fours. They tried to

628
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,000
switch up the setting for some of them to give

629
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:15,440
a little bit of a different vibe.

630
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,039
Speaker 2: This level is very cool.

631
00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:19,039
Speaker 1: It's very technical, I feel like at times to get

632
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,240
some of the objectives, so it's a tricky one. But

633
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,480
this one has some good verticality to it. There's like

634
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:24,920
a little tunnel you can take to get up on

635
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,240
top of this rooftop which you can blast off in

636
00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:29,319
like all sorts of different directions, and there's fun stuff

637
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,880
to be had there, really aggressive like vehicles. I think

638
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,319
in this one you're gonna like jump over like the

639
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,799
crazy taxi drivers, some really good grind opportunities, some kind

640
00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:41,640
of silly stuff around the edges. So yeah, I really

641
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:43,920
like this one. I think it's quite fun. Just I

642
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,200
feel like a good vertical map and even trying to

643
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,000
get up onto those rooftops with some like cheeky wall

644
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,400
ride grind combos is also really fun. So yeah, I

645
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,720
really enjoy that one that takes us into level sixteen.

646
00:27:57,279 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 2: This is going to be Rio from pre pro skater Free.

647
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,319
I really love this one.

648
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: This is like a pretty traditional skate park level that

649
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,599
has kind of in the middle is where you have

650
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,400
you know, your half pipes, your quarter pipes, your transfer opportunities,

651
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:12,839
and I feel like that's where you kind of start

652
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,720
your combo and then you kind of blast that out

653
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,079
into the sides. And this kind of this map around

654
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,480
the skate park is like all sorts of different grinds

655
00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:22,559
that have different props. You know, some are like these

656
00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:25,720
big wood plank things set up. Some of them are

657
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:28,680
just like ledges or like staircase type things, but you can,

658
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,319
you know, if you can keep it going, you can

659
00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:33,119
get like a full combo and just grind a complete

660
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,799
loop around this huge skate park, which is super satisfying.

661
00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:38,480
I love maps that have that kind of thing, just

662
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:41,240
one long grind opportunity. You have to jump between the grinds,

663
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:42,880
but you can just really connect all this stuff and

664
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,319
it's super fun. And then even outside that there's like

665
00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:46,839
a street and then there's like kind of some other

666
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,039
props along the outside. But to me, this is just

667
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,519
like a really great skate park level, a pretty simple one,

668
00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:55,759
a pretty small one, but it's just really tight compact,

669
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:58,839
and like every square inch of it is like factored

670
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,880
into just be the ultimate fun experience. This one is

671
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,799
another competition level, but it is one that you know

672
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000
just because of how fun the level is and how

673
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,559
tight and compact it is. It's one that I'm like

674
00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:11,640
happy to do over and over again, even though it

675
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,359
doesn't have like as fun of objectives coming out from it.

676
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,680
We are now into the top fifteen and at number

677
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,720
fifteen from pro Skate or four, I have London. This

678
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,680
is one that the first time I played it, first

679
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,000
couple of times I played it, was not a fan.

680
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,400
There's some objectives here that you have to like, you know,

681
00:29:28,519 --> 00:29:31,119
wall ride like two buses, or you have to like

682
00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:33,440
you know, combo is stitched together or something like that.

683
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,240
These objectives I found just too hard. I found the

684
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:39,319
buses like not connected super well in these areas, Like

685
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,079
there's rooftop grinds, but I didn't really see.

686
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: How they all connected.

687
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,319
Speaker 1: There was this mission like Jack Blacks on this level

688
00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:47,119
he's like a cop and you got to chase him around,

689
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:49,240
and I was just getting kind of annoyed to buy

690
00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:50,759
a lot of the things that were going on here.

691
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,640
But the more and more I played it, the more

692
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,680
I kind of mastered it. The more I kind of

693
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,000
mastered these objectives, the more I fell in love with

694
00:29:57,079 --> 00:29:59,279
this map, Like it starts out really well of having

695
00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:01,799
like these two big fountain areas, with has a good

696
00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:04,519
grind opportunity and are also great kickers. But then like

697
00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:07,759
there really is just like vertically a huge like wires

698
00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:10,279
connecting all these buildings that you can connect all these

699
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:14,920
areas vertically. There's a whole like under I don't think

700
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,400
it's I think it's like a skate park or like

701
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,119
a parking lot area like under the bridge that is

702
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,839
like a fun and almost hidden area that you can

703
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,079
get to some really good grind connectivity between like the

704
00:30:24,119 --> 00:30:27,160
different parts of the city. There's like this other rooftop

705
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,160
that has just like some big quarter pipes on it,

706
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,400
which is super fun. Yes, it just feels feels like

707
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,799
a very expansive map, and actually, once I got used

708
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:36,759
to it, like comboing some of these tricks with like

709
00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:41,200
the big double decker London buses is really satisfying. So yeah,

710
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,200
I've really grown to love this level and it might

711
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,359
even climb up higher the more I play it, but

712
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,440
for now I'm happy.

713
00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:49,599
Speaker 2: With it being at number four on my list.

714
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: Number fourteen is gonna go to the og map, the

715
00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:56,720
first ever Tony Hawk's pro skater map, and that is

716
00:30:56,799 --> 00:31:00,559
Warehouse from of course don Out pro Skater one. It's

717
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:02,759
a simple level. It's a small level. You know, you

718
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,880
blast down the hill at the start. You got the

719
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,519
big kind of ramp on the right side that also

720
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:09,359
has a half pipe in the middle, smashing through that

721
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,640
glass to get through there, get the secret tape. You

722
00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:13,720
got like the big grind that you can connect around

723
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,160
the whole kind of right side of the map, right

724
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,200
off that half pipe that connects all the way around,

725
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,039
and then there's like that big rail kind of in

726
00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:24,480
the middle, and then you have like the kind of

727
00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:26,519
three quarter pipes right next to each other that have

728
00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:27,960
the gaps in between so you can kind of jump

729
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,519
between them on wall what is it called wallplant to

730
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,720
jump back and like do that back and forth, back

731
00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:36,720
and forth, and like, you know, that's pretty much it.

732
00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:37,839
Speaker 2: Like it is a small level.

733
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: There isn't much to it, but I just think it

734
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:43,079
is a small compact level, super fun, really good combos

735
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,680
and I don't know, just you know any I feel

736
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,319
like this level has been remade over and over again.

737
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:50,599
I think in Thug two there's like a semi remake

738
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,720
of Warehouse. And this is also where my shout out

739
00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:56,599
for Tonaux's pro Skater five is because this that game

740
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,359
also has a partial remake of Warehouse that takes that

741
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,880
base level. It re jigs a couple things, changes a

742
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,880
couple of things up, and then adds a couple zones.

743
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,039
And actually those added zones were pretty decent as well

744
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,640
in pro Skater five. But I'm still going with just

745
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,079
the og Warehouse here, which of course has been premade

746
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,319
multiple times as well. But yeah, I think this is

747
00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:16,759
a classic map, and even comparing it to like in

748
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:18,839
pro Skater two, they tried to have the I guess, yeah,

749
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,720
the first level was actually Hanger and then School two

750
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:25,519
is the second one. I fudged that earlier, but yeah,

751
00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:28,640
I think even just comparing this to two Hangar, this

752
00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:30,400
map is like ten times better. I don't know, there's

753
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,680
something about it that I just can't get enough of it.

754
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:35,559
It's always super fun nailing those objectives, getting the speed

755
00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:40,440
around on it, just super engaging stuff that takes us

756
00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:44,440
over to thirteen. And actually, now that I mentioned, I

757
00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:47,000
think that actually was our last game from pro Skater one,

758
00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:50,640
and yeah, so that one's officially out of the ranking,

759
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,319
but I gave it. Yeah, pro Skater one Warehouse, that

760
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,359
was my favorite level from that game, and now we

761
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,480
are getting our first introduction of Thug one on first

762
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:02,680
underground map on the list, and I'm going to give

763
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,359
it to Vancouver, my place of residence. So of course,

764
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,680
you know, a big factor of this is that it's like,

765
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,200
oh yeah, I've been to these locations. It is my

766
00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:15,519
stomping grounds. Seeing those locations put into a video game

767
00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:18,839
and like turn to you know, the Tony Hawk madness

768
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,559
is super satisfying. So that's definitely, you know, something that

769
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,680
gives it a bonus and edge above something else. I

770
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,480
love the little hockey rank area with like the kind

771
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,720
of figure eight type grind that they have designed for it.

772
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,000
There's like some solid kind of transfer and quarter pipe opportunities.

773
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,559
I also really like that, you know, there's another level,

774
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,319
slam City Jam, which like takes place in I guess

775
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,119
was like what should be Roger's Arena, but they just don't.

776
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,960
They don't call that in the game, of course, but

777
00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:49,279
I like that there's kind of that just connectivity, like

778
00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:51,880
you're kind of doing the missions in Vancouver to get

779
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,680
into that level and then you like go through the

780
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,480
door and you enter that level and then you know,

781
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:57,839
lows into a whole nother zone. But I think there's

782
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:01,640
that connectivity too, that is really interesting. So yeah, honestly,

783
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,960
I admit that I give this level probably a bigger

784
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,079
bump than it deserves just because.

785
00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: It is where I live, so I will say that.

786
00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: But jumping right from there, speaking of Canada, let's talk

787
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,960
about Canada from pro Skater three. This is one that

788
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:17,920
I feel like I've always heard about and seen, but

789
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,800
I haven't actually played it until recently, so it was

790
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,480
fun to do that. And this one is a much

791
00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:24,800
more generic Canada stuff. Snow everywhere. It's like, how is

792
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,039
the skateboard riding through the snow? It doesn't make any

793
00:34:27,079 --> 00:34:29,320
sense at all, but you know, that's what Canada is

794
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,079
the people in America, so of course that's what the

795
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:34,880
level is going to look like. In here really fun level.

796
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,840
You know, half of it is like a traditional skate

797
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,320
park with all the pipes and grinds and transfers that

798
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,360
you'd expect, and then there's kind of big grind opportunities

799
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,360
on some telephone wires which are really fun. And then

800
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,280
there's the kind of wild forested area which you know

801
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,480
has some kind of traditional skate park set up to it,

802
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,000
and then it also has like the almost boardwalk type

803
00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:57,800
area along like the icy sea, and you kind of

804
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,239
go through there to transfer up and then fly up

805
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,280
onto this other wooden area and then that leads into

806
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,079
like this little mind cart thing which you can grind

807
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:08,400
to fly back into the main level. So yeah, quite

808
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,960
a vertical level, which I like about it. I think

809
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,079
some of the connective parts of it I find it

810
00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:15,719
confusing and don't connect super duper well. But I think

811
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,719
the individual areas are quite fun. And yeah, I feel

812
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,320
like it's a bit of a harder map and that

813
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,159
makes it kind of more satisfying when you get a

814
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,960
really good combo to it, just because it isn't quite

815
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,920
as intuitively connected as some other maps are. So shout

816
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,400
outs to Canada and my little thirteen twelve Canada connective

817
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,800
there between Canada and Vancouver. Next up on the list

818
00:35:36,199 --> 00:35:38,599
we are going to go to I think this is

819
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,440
near San Franco or in San Francisco, but is Alcatraz

820
00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:44,840
from pro Skater four. I mean, really fun setting, right obviously,

821
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,800
like having a prison type area, really dark, gritty, grungey

822
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,639
type location. Some areas are kind of still under construction.

823
00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:55,559
You can get into the building eventually, like where the

824
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,880
cells are and do some of course, they turn it

825
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,880
into a big half pipe situation where you can fly around,

826
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,159
do some crazy grinds, get up onto the rooftop, and

827
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:05,239
then fly off in any direction you could possibly want.

828
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,880
There's kind of some decrepit buildings that have kind of

829
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,039
fallen to time and are kind of semi destroyed, so

830
00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:14,119
you get like some ruins kind of flavored to it,

831
00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:17,440
the verticality to it, and like the teleporters, like going

832
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,119
through the little doors that take you up to the

833
00:36:19,199 --> 00:36:22,000
next level. There's like a huge ramp with like the

834
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:23,760
full loopy loop that you can do that flies you

835
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,360
off into like a trampoline in the middle of the

836
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,480
ocean or the bay or whatever it is. So yeah,

837
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:32,400
just a super duper fun map. I really really enjoy Alcatraz.

838
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:34,719
Just one that I found myself keep coming back to.

839
00:36:35,119 --> 00:36:37,000
I love just starting to combo up top on the

840
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,119
peak of that top roof and then just comboing that

841
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,719
down and down as to the lower areas, and then

842
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,280
even comboing right back up if you want, if you

843
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,480
want to go through those teleporters. So just an endlessly

844
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,360
super duper fun map. So shout outs to Alcatraz. We

845
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,760
are officially now into the top ten and at number three,

846
00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:58,000
or sorry, at number ten. From kind of x prost

847
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:01,320
grade to three for me is going to be suburbia.

848
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,320
I just love this kind of setting. You know, there's

849
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,280
another level that it might just come up in a

850
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:08,559
little bit here higher on the list.

851
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: I don't know.

852
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: I just like this kind of suburb setting. I feel

853
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,599
like that's kind of the perfect skate location for me.

854
00:37:14,039 --> 00:37:17,159
Combo in between these different houses, you have one construction

855
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,719
area that's pretty fun, and then you have just like

856
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,239
the backyard. Like that, getting that combo bonus objective of

857
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,760
the combo letters together was a really fun little string

858
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,039
to get together. You have like the creepy house with

859
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,280
the door that mysteriously opens. You got to give the

860
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,280
guy the axe to break down the door, and then

861
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,679
you go in the bag and there's like a spooky

862
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,599
graveyard type area. It's just it's a very goofy map.

863
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,800
But getting up onto that top roof and then there's

864
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,960
a grinding down the telephone wire all the way down,

865
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,639
you know, doing the manual all the way around the

866
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:46,639
the what is it called the cul de sac?

867
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 2: Super fun?

868
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I like too, especially with the three plus

869
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,320
four remake, they made it a bit more halloween centric,

870
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,280
where you got to smash some pumpkins and do all

871
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,320
that kind of fun stuff. So yeah, I just I

872
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,039
really like this map. And then you almost also on

873
00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:00,960
the side have just like a traditional kind of skate

874
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,159
park area with some good quarter.

875
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: Pipes and whatnot.

876
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: So I will say I feel like the different areas,

877
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,599
the different houses and backyards and all that don't really

878
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:13,360
connect super duper well together, like they're almost little isolated zones,

879
00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:15,840
but it is still fun to find ways to make

880
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,760
those connections happen, even if they aren't super intuitive. So yeah,

881
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,360
I really really like Suburbia. And I think actually we

882
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,079
got we got one more from three coming up, so

883
00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:26,239
I'll talk about that in a minute. But we have

884
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,800
our last one from two up next, and that is Philadelphia,

885
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:33,000
which I don't know what it is about this map,

886
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,599
but I just keep When I pull up the game

887
00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:37,679
and I just want to play level, I want to

888
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,039
turn my brain off, listen to a podcast, I often

889
00:38:40,159 --> 00:38:42,840
just jump to this map. I find it super duper fun.

890
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:46,840
It's another big one in terms of the just horizontal

891
00:38:47,039 --> 00:38:48,880
space of it all, and because of that, maybe some

892
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,000
of the parts don't connect super duper well, but I

893
00:38:51,199 --> 00:38:53,559
think it is really fun to find those connections between them,

894
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:55,559
and yeah, I think this is great.

895
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: So there's like the.

896
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: Early point where you spawn in. You can go over

897
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,159
to the right jump off that kicker to get up

898
00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:03,320
on the rooftop or like the balcony, and then you

899
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,559
kind of have to do a wall ride wall jump

900
00:39:05,679 --> 00:39:08,159
combo to get up onto the top roof. And then

901
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:09,639
there's like two directions you can go from there. You

902
00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:11,679
can grind all the way on the telephone wires around

903
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,519
like the outside of the perimeter of the map, or

904
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:14,920
you can do the one that just goes vert like

905
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,719
kind of right through the center of the map. Super

906
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,000
fun to start a combo from either of those locations.

907
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,400
You have like the big fountain area, which once you

908
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,199
empty it is like two just endless grinds. That's like

909
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,280
my favorite thing is a big circular grind where I

910
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,519
can just get a ton of combo and points built

911
00:39:31,599 --> 00:39:34,440
up and multiplier built up, and then of course there's

912
00:39:35,119 --> 00:39:36,760
you know, you go over to the other balcony. You

913
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,280
can grind over some telephone wires that knocks over the

914
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,480
telephone pole which cracks open to the skate park, which

915
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,440
is kind of fills in exactly what the rest of

916
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,320
the map is missing, which is just some big vert

917
00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:51,119
kind of area. There's big quarter pipes and pool type things,

918
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,719
a big transfer you can do, and then they'll also

919
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,119
perfectly lead into some rails that take you back into

920
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:59,159
the regular city area. So it's just super duper well designed,

921
00:39:59,199 --> 00:40:01,599
super fun kind of around the whole perimeter, there's like

922
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,480
a big street area which doesn't really have much going on,

923
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,480
so it feels like a bit of empty space, I guess,

924
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:08,119
But I guess it just makes the level feel a

925
00:40:08,199 --> 00:40:11,679
bit more open because if you are doing a combo

926
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:12,960
and you end up on the perimeter of the map,

927
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,320
you don't just like lose, like, you know, that's a

928
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,159
mission I didn't have in here. Level I didn't have

929
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:19,800
is cruise ship, which I like, but you know, just

930
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,039
flying off the side accidentally and then like dipping in

931
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:24,519
the water and ruining your combo never feels great. And

932
00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:26,639
I feel like that's what this map app adds, like

933
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:28,960
a little buffer with the streets on the outside to

934
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,000
prevent that kind of thing. So yeah, I just find

935
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:35,760
myself keep coming back to Philadelphia. Super duper fun level

936
00:40:38,599 --> 00:40:41,119
Number eight is going to be Los Angeles, which I

937
00:40:41,199 --> 00:40:43,639
believe is a level that's been remade a bunch of times,

938
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:45,960
but originally it came from Turn Next pro sk or three.

939
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,320
I feel like this one has some of the most

940
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,440
if not the most memorable missions and like things that

941
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:52,079
would change it.

942
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:52,599
Speaker 2: Right.

943
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: So there's like early on, there's like a car up

944
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,760
on a street or up on like a highway, which

945
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,719
you can like knock down or I forget how all

946
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,639
this stuff connects, but you can essentially connect all these

947
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,280
different areas, get up on this like upper highway area,

948
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,599
which connects to another rooftop which connects this huge like

949
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:12,320
acid drop you can do. So all that stuff's very memorable.

950
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,719
You can get like the earthquake, I think, yeah, you

951
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,199
cause the earthquake which gets a car to fall, and

952
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,079
all this crazy objectives that are popping off. When you're

953
00:41:19,079 --> 00:41:20,920
doing all this stuff, you kind of have like a

954
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:26,239
weird art architecture area in the center that has some

955
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:29,599
of course weird grind and like vert type areas to it.

956
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:32,679
You have like the more high rise buildings where you

957
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,440
can get some interesting combos over there too, and then yeah,

958
00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:39,239
just like some really solid grinds, some weirdly shaped grinds

959
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,159
which I really like, down some staircases and all that.

960
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,480
So it just kind of feels like it has it all.

961
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,199
I really like this level super duper fun. Another one

962
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,599
that I can come back to over and over again,

963
00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:50,480
and I think is worthy of all the remakes that

964
00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:52,920
it's gotten over the years. And I think with that

965
00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:55,559
that's our last level from TONAXX pro Skate or three.

966
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,119
So that's another one that officially removed from the ranking.

967
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,079
Now another one from Underground. We haven't heard from that

968
00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:03,280
in a little bit, but it is slam City jams

969
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,760
that connective with the Vancouver that I mentioned earlier. And yeah,

970
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,320
this is my highest just straight up skate park mission

971
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:14,119
on my list here, and I think this one just

972
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:15,159
kind of has it all.

973
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: Like it the theming of it.

974
00:42:16,639 --> 00:42:19,199
Speaker 1: It's pretty basic, to be fair, but you know, through

975
00:42:19,199 --> 00:42:21,719
the Middle has all the vert opportunities, grind opportunities, kick

976
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,039
your opportunities you could ask for. It has the I

977
00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:25,360
forget how you do it, but you can like go

978
00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:28,239
through a door which pops you out into the bleachers

979
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,360
and you can like do a huge grind like kick

980
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,079
you into the middle of the level and start off

981
00:42:32,119 --> 00:42:34,119
a combo, and then I think the part that has

982
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:37,199
the best is like the complete perimeter grind that you

983
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,800
can do, whether that's like the outside stands, whether it's

984
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,880
like the actual skate park props that are set up

985
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,199
that it just is extremely fun, endlessly fun.

986
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:47,079
Speaker 2: I feel like this one.

987
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,639
Speaker 1: Followed the blue Oh my god, followed the blueprint that

988
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,760
is Rio and what I talked about like the inner

989
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,519
skate park with the out huge connective grind around the

990
00:42:55,559 --> 00:42:57,519
whole thing, and I feel like this level just takes

991
00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:00,480
that idea and just flies with it. So yeah, to me,

992
00:43:00,639 --> 00:43:03,280
definitely the best skate park or straight up skate park

993
00:43:03,519 --> 00:43:05,599
level in the whole game or in the whole series,

994
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:09,239
I should say, yeah, So shout outs to Slam City

995
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,239
Jam and then up from there we're going to number

996
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,599
six and this is gonna be Tampa. So for Tampa

997
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,679
is a goofy one where it has like the strip

998
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,400
club and it has like the car with the people,

999
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:22,360
you know, making love, and you can like grind it

1000
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,880
to like stop them from doing that, which of course

1001
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,119
is very silly, but like as.

1002
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 2: A kid, it was like, oh, oh, this is crazy.

1003
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,039
Speaker 1: What is this game that I'm playing, and I will

1004
00:43:31,039 --> 00:43:32,880
say the Strip Club at least has a very fun

1005
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,320
bowl in it that's like a actually really fun area

1006
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,039
to like build up some big combos in. Yeah, I

1007
00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:40,000
think this this map has like a really solid skate

1008
00:43:40,079 --> 00:43:41,880
park section that starts out in a warehouse but like

1009
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,360
connects to an open street area that's really fun. You

1010
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,000
can get up on the rooftop and start some big

1011
00:43:46,079 --> 00:43:50,280
combos from there, and then it has like the similar

1012
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,039
to Knat has like the big kind of snake cement

1013
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,079
like area that you can manual through, which connects into

1014
00:43:56,159 --> 00:43:58,320
some grinds that you can get all the way down.

1015
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,920
There's like the party boat off the side, which you know,

1016
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,400
if you mess that up you fly into the water.

1017
00:44:03,039 --> 00:44:05,800
But yeah, I really really like Tampa. Tampa's a classic,

1018
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:11,199
a really fun one. Yeah, just always infinitely replayable. Next up,

1019
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,159
we've got our last level from Thomas pro Skater four

1020
00:44:14,679 --> 00:44:16,679
and this is gonna be San Francisco, which I don't

1021
00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:18,320
know if this is how it works in the original game,

1022
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,159
but in pro Skater or I guess in yeah, pro

1023
00:44:22,199 --> 00:44:24,760
Skater three plus four the remake, this is like the

1024
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,199
tutorial level, Like even if you're playing three. This is

1025
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,039
like just the tutorial level for the game where it

1026
00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:31,559
teaches you a bunch of things, and so obviously I

1027
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:32,880
was kind of introduced to it there, but then you

1028
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,800
come back to it and actually is a fully fledged

1029
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,039
level that has all it subjectives punched in there, and yeah,

1030
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:39,920
this is one that I just love. I think it's

1031
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,679
it's a super duper well designed level where it has,

1032
00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:46,679
you know, the main skate park area around the edges,

1033
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,679
it has these buildings with grinds connected to like telephone

1034
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:52,079
wires that give you some big combos around the sides.

1035
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,440
It has like this whole other side of area that's

1036
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,960
almost completely disconnected from the rest, which is like has

1037
00:44:57,039 --> 00:44:58,880
some trains that you can jump around and get some

1038
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,119
grinds off of. And then it has like the boardwalk

1039
00:45:02,159 --> 00:45:04,480
area which has some fun vert sections, has some good

1040
00:45:04,639 --> 00:45:07,679
grind opportunities there. And then there's like the upper balcony

1041
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,639
area that it's kind of above the skate park where

1042
00:45:09,679 --> 00:45:12,239
you get like the big challenge to do a long

1043
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,800
manual across the whole boardwalk or across the whole walkway,

1044
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,920
whatever you want to call it. And then all these things,

1045
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,960
I think the part that makes this level sing is

1046
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,400
that a lot of these areas are like very interconnected, right,

1047
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,920
so you can kind of combo in between them. The

1048
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:28,320
missions that you have to do here are really memorable.

1049
00:45:28,679 --> 00:45:31,079
So yeah, another one that I just find myself coming

1050
00:45:31,159 --> 00:45:33,280
back to over and over again trying to build up

1051
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,639
these big combos get around. Doing the speed run challenge

1052
00:45:35,679 --> 00:45:38,639
for it was super fun, super engaging. So yeah, San

1053
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:43,559
Francisco makes it into my top five at number five. Yeah,

1054
00:45:43,639 --> 00:45:46,639
and between that streets and then I guess Alcatraz, like

1055
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,440
San Francisco, you know, has a big representation in my

1056
00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:55,800
list overall. Into number four is water Park. So this

1057
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,719
is from the three plus four remake. So it's a

1058
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,960
new map, one of the newest maps to the series.

1059
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:02,119
It's only you know, two months old at this point,

1060
00:46:02,599 --> 00:46:06,320
but to me, this is like absolute peak level, one

1061
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,239
of the best you have in the whole series. Obviously,

1062
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:10,800
that's why I put it at number four. So it's

1063
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,280
overtaking years of nostalgia from some of these maps to

1064
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:17,760
get into my top four. And you know reason for that,

1065
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,920
there's so many One the start of the level, you

1066
00:46:20,039 --> 00:46:22,840
start at the top of these kind of racing slides,

1067
00:46:23,079 --> 00:46:24,719
and that's like the perfect way. You can either grind

1068
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,000
off to the right, which leads into this whole grind

1069
00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:28,519
and the right side of the map you can go

1070
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,800
just do one huge grind right down through the middle,

1071
00:46:31,079 --> 00:46:32,880
convert that over to the left which has some other

1072
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,119
connection over there, or you combo it into some other

1073
00:46:36,159 --> 00:46:38,039
grinds or takes you to this fountain area which takes

1074
00:46:38,039 --> 00:46:39,239
it all the way to the back of the map.

1075
00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:40,159
Speaker 2: So starting this.

1076
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,039
Speaker 1: Level, hitting that replay button always satisfying because you know

1077
00:46:43,079 --> 00:46:45,280
you're gonna be in for like a big combo rate

1078
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,480
off the start. The whole map, like the ground of

1079
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:50,679
it is pretty much filled with pools, right because it's

1080
00:46:50,679 --> 00:46:52,840
a whole water park, so you just have quarter pipes,

1081
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,920
half pipes, pools all the way littered around this whole thing.

1082
00:46:56,199 --> 00:46:58,239
I love the setting of it being like an abandoned

1083
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,480
water park, so it gives it like this dark tone

1084
00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:03,559
to it where there's kind of the crustiness the abandonedness

1085
00:47:03,679 --> 00:47:06,119
to it. So it just makes it perfect where there's

1086
00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:08,360
no barely any water in any of these pools, like

1087
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,400
it's just there for you to skate through them. Of course,

1088
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,599
you have the big pirate ship. Pirate ship kind of

1089
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,719
set piece to it, and that has some fun objectives

1090
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,360
tied to it. And then at the back of the

1091
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,199
map is where you have the entrance to I think

1092
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,079
like three or four different slides, and that teleports you

1093
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,880
to the top of the slide and then you can

1094
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,119
grind through them, ride through them, get some big air

1095
00:47:28,199 --> 00:47:30,559
off them. And then there's like even the big Castle

1096
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,639
area I talked about the Edinburgh area. You have like

1097
00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:35,480
a big castle here which has just like a huge

1098
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,280
transfer you can do that just sends you out with

1099
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,760
a ton of air right through the middle of the course.

1100
00:47:41,159 --> 00:47:43,159
And because the whole map has the pools all the

1101
00:47:43,199 --> 00:47:44,760
way through which you can grind on or you can

1102
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,559
do vert in, every part of this map is just

1103
00:47:47,639 --> 00:47:50,519
like perfectly interconnected to the other areas. So this is

1104
00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:53,679
one of the reasons why like after A instead of

1105
00:47:53,679 --> 00:47:55,679
another remake of Especially you know, next up in the

1106
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,719
series would be Underground, which is a game I'm deeply

1107
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,199
nostalgic for and love so much. I just I want

1108
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,559
this team to make a new Tony Hawk game because

1109
00:48:02,559 --> 00:48:05,480
if like this, this level alone shows that they got

1110
00:48:05,519 --> 00:48:07,280
the chops to make some of the best I also

1111
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,800
had pinball there and then Movie Studio. The one I

1112
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,880
didn't include, which is one of the new ones, is

1113
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,519
also a really really great level that you know, if

1114
00:48:14,599 --> 00:48:16,079
I did top thirty, I think it would have been

1115
00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:18,039
in the list, So it's super close to making it.

1116
00:48:18,199 --> 00:48:20,280
So yeah, just these new maps were really really good.

1117
00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:25,000
But here's not a new map, and that is Hawaii

1118
00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:28,559
from Tony Hawk's Underground. This is where no stall is

1119
00:48:28,599 --> 00:48:30,440
coming in for sure. I mean, this is where you

1120
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,639
do the mctwist over the helicopter, which of course is

1121
00:48:33,679 --> 00:48:36,960
a super iconic mission, maybe the most iconic mission in

1122
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:40,079
the whole series for me. You have the like a

1123
00:48:40,079 --> 00:48:42,280
little Tiaki you can jump into which like converts you

1124
00:48:42,519 --> 00:48:44,440
takes you to hell for a moment. You can go

1125
00:48:44,559 --> 00:48:46,480
up on the top of these rooftops which leads into

1126
00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:49,199
these huge transfers. We can get a ton of air

1127
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:51,440
combines into the swimming pools.

1128
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 2: You have like the beach area.

1129
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: You can grind up some like coconut trees, some palm trees.

1130
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,760
You have like the area at the back that kind

1131
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,039
of has like the just full on vert area. You

1132
00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:05,280
have the similar area to like the Kona or the

1133
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,559
Tampa with like the kind of snaky area in between,

1134
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:11,039
just a lot of verticality in this map. Everything is

1135
00:49:11,159 --> 00:49:15,639
super interconnected, everything works perfectly alongside one another. So yeah,

1136
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,519
I love this map. I think it's just one of

1137
00:49:17,559 --> 00:49:19,800
the best of all time. Super fun. When I'll always

1138
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,719
come back to number two, Tony Hawks Underground once again,

1139
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,280
we have Manhattan.

1140
00:49:26,679 --> 00:49:28,199
Speaker 2: This is the New York level.

1141
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,039
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of these so far, but yeah,

1142
00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:32,920
this one's the highest one on the ranking for me.

1143
00:49:33,519 --> 00:49:35,679
And yeah, I mean, what isn't there to say about this?

1144
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:37,800
This one's fun to drive around in a car. It's

1145
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,039
fun to skate around because like the whole map has

1146
00:49:40,079 --> 00:49:43,559
like a perimeter that is completely combable with big grinds.

1147
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:45,159
You can get up on the highway up above, and

1148
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,280
that you can jump down to the boardwalk below. You

1149
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,320
don't really have a traditional skate park area, so to speak,

1150
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,079
but you have like all the cars you can grind

1151
00:49:53,159 --> 00:49:53,760
on on the one.

1152
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 2: Side of the map.

1153
00:49:54,639 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: You can get up like into the inside of the building.

1154
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,800
I guess you do have some more kind of traditional

1155
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,000
skate park areas, but they're more like almost like an

1156
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:03,400
art museum. You kind of have these weird props which

1157
00:50:03,519 --> 00:50:06,639
work perfectly as skateboarding, you know, props and all that.

1158
00:50:07,119 --> 00:50:08,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, just a super fun.

1159
00:50:08,679 --> 00:50:13,639
Speaker 1: Level, always infinitely replayable, feels massive because it's like pretty

1160
00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:16,599
big horizontally but also vertically. It's got that factor to it,

1161
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,360
so it really encapsulates that perfect Manhattan energy to it.

1162
00:50:21,199 --> 00:50:25,719
And then that takes us to number one, my favorite

1163
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:26,440
Tony Hawk level.

1164
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 2: This one.

1165
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,679
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to question everything else on the list.

1166
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,320
You know, there was multiple iterations of this list. I

1167
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,639
moved things around, and move things up, I move things down.

1168
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,320
This one was always number one without a shot of

1169
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,480
a doubt. And that is New Jersey from Tonya's Underground.

1170
00:50:39,519 --> 00:50:41,840
So yeah, Underground making up my top three. So the

1171
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,960
nostalgia is speaking there, but I think this is really

1172
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:45,920
just they hit their stride and we're making some really

1173
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,199
really great levels back in the day. This is the

1174
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:49,920
first level in the game, and so obviously it's got

1175
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,280
that sentimental value, but I think it also has that

1176
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,320
bookend factor where you come back here near the end

1177
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,440
of the game. We're at the very end of the

1178
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:58,639
game due to that big combo contest against the Great

1179
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,960
Eric Sparrow where you have to grind do a combo

1180
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,320
across the whole city, and if you hadn't already found that,

1181
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,000
that just kind of shows like, wow, this is a

1182
00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:09,599
big map horizontally, but the whole thing is interconnected and

1183
00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:12,519
you can do and will do a combo across the

1184
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,440
entire thing, doing the perimeter, comboing through the middle of

1185
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,639
the houses up above, down below. It just it's got

1186
00:51:20,679 --> 00:51:22,599
it all and like, I think that that mission really

1187
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:25,800
highlights just how incredible this level is. And then yeah,

1188
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,360
you kind of have like the two separate areas, like

1189
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,320
there is a bridge that kind of breaks apart these

1190
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,320
two areas, but because you can combo across the bridge

1191
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,800
in multiple different ways, it of course does connect together

1192
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,599
pretty well. And I think at the start of the game,

1193
00:51:36,679 --> 00:51:38,000
right you can't even get across the bridge.

1194
00:51:38,039 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 2: You have to unlock that.

1195
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: So there's even that little mini factor of unlocking a

1196
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,239
bigger area, which leads to like a hotel type area

1197
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,440
I think down into the train station, which has some

1198
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:49,440
great vert in there. The vert between the houses is

1199
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:54,599
super fun. Comboing along the pipes, like the gas League

1200
00:51:54,599 --> 00:51:56,480
pipes that are going around, which have like all the

1201
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,920
sketchy people on the one part of the map, and

1202
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:00,280
then kind of that what I can say to be

1203
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:01,960
the South Once again, I don't think these games have

1204
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:04,360
cardinal directions, but you have like the South area that

1205
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,559
has all these other like vert areas that can easily

1206
00:52:07,559 --> 00:52:09,760
connect into some grinds that connect you out with the

1207
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,199
rest of the city. You have like a many kind

1208
00:52:12,199 --> 00:52:14,480
of traditional skate park area in the very center there,

1209
00:52:14,519 --> 00:52:17,599
but that also has like a playground area where you

1210
00:52:17,599 --> 00:52:19,559
can grind around, like monkey bars and those kinds of

1211
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:22,679
fun props. And then you have like the vehicle here

1212
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,880
is like the green sports car, like the rally car

1213
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,199
that you can fly around, which which is always you know,

1214
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,559
super duper fun. So yeah, this level just great. And

1215
00:52:32,599 --> 00:52:34,920
I think this one too as a kid, really inspired

1216
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,599
my imagination once again as Suburbia I mentioned at my

1217
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:40,159
number ten, and this one kind of highlights that area

1218
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,519
more where this was just like the place I wanted

1219
00:52:42,519 --> 00:52:44,880
to hang out and just I would get off my board.

1220
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,559
I'd just walk around, climb the houses, climb the gutters,

1221
00:52:47,639 --> 00:52:50,559
go up on the rooftops, jump off, and I don't

1222
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,639
just drive around, have a good time, do some fake parking,

1223
00:52:54,119 --> 00:52:55,639
you know. I would just have a great time with

1224
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,679
this this level over and over again, and because it

1225
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,119
does bookend the story, I think it also adds so much. Obviously,

1226
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:03,719
Tonyak's Underground is my favorite game. I think the only

1227
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,800
levels I didn't include here were San Diego, which is

1228
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,639
still a solid map and Hotter than Hell like the

1229
00:53:09,679 --> 00:53:12,159
bonus level, and then I think I think Warehouse or

1230
00:53:12,199 --> 00:53:14,079
something is also in the games like a bonus level.

1231
00:53:14,639 --> 00:53:16,519
But yeah, pretty much every level from that game is

1232
00:53:16,559 --> 00:53:19,039
in there, and it made up you know, five of

1233
00:53:19,159 --> 00:53:21,199
my top ten and three of my top three. So

1234
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:22,920
obviously I have a lot of nostalgia for the game.

1235
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,639
I love the game so much, but yeah, it's just

1236
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,559
an amazing game, and this whole series is so great

1237
00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:30,719
super well, not every game is great, but it does

1238
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,199
have a lot of great games in the mix. So yeah,

1239
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:34,960
like I said, I would love to redo this again

1240
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,760
in the future, adding into some new levels into the mix,

1241
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,199
if they get a new game in there, or if

1242
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,119
I just play some of the older ones or spend

1243
00:53:41,199 --> 00:53:42,760
some more time with some of these older games.

1244
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,199
Speaker 2: But yeah, this has been a lot of fun.

1245
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been playing so much of these games,

1246
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,519
so it's fun to kind of endcap that by doing

1247
00:53:49,599 --> 00:53:52,480
my ranking here. My top twenty five levels. If you're

1248
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,280
listening to this, let me know what your favorite levels

1249
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:55,679
are or if you can't remember all of them. Just

1250
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:57,320
let me know what your favorite game in the series is,

1251
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,960
or your favorite you're ranking of just the series itself.

1252
00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:02,440
Let me know if your favorite skateboarder is.

1253
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,639
Speaker 2: I don't know. Let me know whatever you want.

1254
00:54:03,639 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear it. But thank you so much

1255
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,039
for listening to this. I have a great October and

1256
00:54:09,199 --> 00:54:10,639
I will see you again next time.

1257
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Speaker 2: Bye bye,