Sketchy Snowboarding

Genre: Arcade / Sports (Snowboarding)

Players: 1

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Review:

Sketchy Snowboarding, released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2019, is an Arcade-style Snowboarding game where players try to see how long they can ride without missing a colored gate or crashing into anything.

As the title indicates, the visuals in this game use low-quality hand-drawn visuals designed to look like they were scribbled in by pencil. These visuals do at least have some decent animation, but otherwise they are highly unimpressive. These visuals are joined br a rough scrawling noise intended to be the sound of carving through snow, and no music whatsoever.

The underwhelming presentation might be forgivable if the gameplay made up for it, but Sketchy Snowboarding features simple, unimaginative gameplay with stiff controls that make it difficult to wrangle your character in the direction you want. In a game where you can’t do very much, it’s outright bizarre that what little you can do is so difficult to get the game to do as you tell it to.

Yeah, I just do not see much merit in Sketchy Snowboarding, and even with a low $3 price tag, I can’t possibly recommend this game to anyone. It looks ugly, is simple, and plays poorly. Skip it.

tl;dr – Sketchy Snowboarding is an Arcade-style Snowboarding game where players see how long they can ride without crashing into anything. As the name implies, this game is rendered in a “sketchy” hand-drawn style that looks extremely unimpressive, and the simple gameplay and poor controls aren’t any better. Skip this one.

Grade: D

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