Tanuki Sunset Review | TheXboxHub

Tanuki Sundown is an arcade downhill skater recreation with a cool ‘80s vibe from the individuals over at Rewind Video games. The mixture of chilled out tunes and downhill skating wrapped up in that 1980’s really feel is excellent. Did I point out you get to play as a raccoon?

Yep, the primary character in Tanuki Sundown is a raccoon with aspirations of constructing it to the entrance cowl of a skating journal known as FISH. With a view to get the celebrity Tanuki so wishes, you could full the three ranges and make your method to the massive ramp.

The primary stage is named Sundown Peaks and it comes with blue and pink neon lit backgrounds, feeling ripped proper from the duvet of a ‘Now that’s what I name the 80s’ CD. It’s right here that you just and Tanuki will study the fundamentals of the gameplay featured in Tanuki Sundown.

Now, I like a superb skateboarding recreation. Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater, Skate, even the newer Session: Skate Sim are all on my common rotation of consolation video games. In Tanuki Sundown the skateboarding is a bit totally different from these titles as you received’t be grinding or linking manuals right here. The primary intention of the Tanuki Sundown is to make it via the phases with velocity and precision.

Dodging automobiles and making it round tight corners efficiently is essential. Utilizing cautious steering and a mixture of drifts utilizing RT and LT will get you thru a lot of the sticky conditions you meet in your downhill means. There aren’t any conventional methods in Tanuki Sundown both, in addition to a easy spin trick and a bounce potential.

Additional into every run you’ll come throughout ramps that may be jumped from, and throwing in a spin trick to look cool is obligatory. However, once more the primary intention is to make it downhill as quick, and as safely, as you’ll be able to, performing some tight dodging of the automobiles and skilled use of drifting.

Alongside the best way you’ll discover bits on the street that may be collected. Selecting up these will enable the cosmetics within the retailer to be unlocked as they operate because the in-game foreign money. Don’t worry, there aren’t any in-app purchases to make this both a pay-to-win or pay-to-look-good right here.

That mentioned, accumulating the bits turns into a bit tiresome because the collection of cosmetics is slightly small and there aren’t any character or potential upgrades to buy within the retailer. Skateboard upgrades ought to undoubtedly have been an addition, with new stats like higher turning or quicker velocity, however once more there aren’t any purchasable upgrades for this both.

So with a easy premise and easy controls, Tanuki Sundown hasn’t received an excessive amount of else to supply. Cosmetics – as talked about – are restricted, and precise board and character upgrades don’t make an look both. The large success for the title is the vibe.

As I discussed at first, it’s the 1980’s aesthetic which seeps from each fringe of Tanuki Sundown, pulled off rather well. Combining neon Miami styled seems with a soothing soundtrack makes it a pleasant recreation to have a look at for essentially the most half.

It’s procedurally generated too and which means that you can’t practise areas to get higher. However it additionally implies that it comes with some unlucky graphical hiccups. Trying too far in the direction of the horizon to see upcoming turns will reveal the observe popping into view as you journey downwards.

Having pop-in isn’t dangerous when it’s on a graphically intense recreation or if they’re coated up cleverly with fog, but in Tanuki Sundown that’s sadly not the case; pop-in textures being manifestly apparent. One other hiccup I skilled that required a full recreation restart was when testing the Picture Mode.

Picture Mode in Tanuki Sundown must be actually cool, in a position to give some improbable screenshots to share with pals. Launching into it, the sport doesn’t pause the motion. This implies images should be taken rapidly to get the right spot you wish to seize. Once I fired this up, Tanuki fell via the map endlessly. Yup I couldn’t again out and even reset the extent, left to exhausting stop the sport and return in; all I may see was the board falling all the way down to the pits of doom beneath.

Tanuki Sundown doesn’t outstay its welcome although. The sport can simply be blasted via in a few hours, and a lot of the unlocks within the in-game retailer could be bought as you progress. And what with it being procedurally generated, a contact of replayability is added in.

So all in, Tanuki Sundown is able to offering a enjoyable sufficient time, however it’s sadly hampered by graphical points and a really brief size. The story is virtually non-existent, so all that’s left is the gameplay. Appears to be like sensible and when it runs freed from points, Tanuki Sundown seems slightly good, however pop-in and falling via objects does occur very often.

Tanuki Sundown is a enjoyable arcade jaunt that nails the aesthetic of the Eighties. Nevertheless, it’s tough to completely advocate, and that’s as a result of some graphical points and a brief run time. 

Tanuki Sundown is on the Xbox Retailer