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You should be ashamed of yourself. Yes, you, the person reading this right now.
You are seeing a game with the coolest concept imaginable and the first thing that goes through your mind is "hhhhmmmm I don't know about this, I'll check the reviews to see if it's good" IT'S A GAME ABOUT KILLING FOOLS WITH GRENADES WHILE DOING 360s OVER CANYONS! How can that not be good you fool?! Do you even have taste ?!
Forget about the Renaissance or the United Nations, THIS is what peak human achievement looks like. The fact that some crazy fuckers went "you know what Tony Hawk needed? GUNS" and managed to turn that into such a mechanically bulletproof, insanely fun piece of gaming media has single-handedly restored my faith in humanity. They should send this in the next Voyager so that aliens can check out what artistic perfection looks like.

Maybe you are thinking that I'm just being hyperbolic. Well let me tell you I'm fucking not. It is that masterful . Systems that would be the core of entire games are only one of the many perfectly woven threads in Rollerdrome's tapestry of style and death. Control your spacing. Maintain your speed. Measure your range. Remember the tricks you haven't used. Stay aware of your enemies. Get enought air. Choose the appropriate weapon. Decide the best path. Dodge the attacks...
And at some point, you jump over an enemy to dodge them, wallride to the upper floor, which gives you enough points to reload your guns, which you use to multikill a few mooks with a grenade, and now you have maintained and increased your combo, so you start front flipping while twisting around, and that gives you more ammo and...
And you realize, they did this to absolute, 110% perfection. Every decision, every mechanic serves to make the skating and the shooting work in symbiosis in a way that makes the combination exhilarating to play.
There are no words. Absolutely floored.

But I know what you are thinking right now. It's like I was reading your mind... You are thinking that it looks too hard . That you are not worthy of this challenge.
But come the fuck on, you are checking a niche indie game with Moebius art. I know the kind of player you are. How many times have you beaten Hollow Knight? 100%'d Celeste already? I bet you have no-damaged Sifu.
So stop being a coward, and start perfecting your 720s while headshotting snipers until you get an excellent score like you know you want to. Yes it is hard, yes it is the kind of game that you have to master mechanically, but that is exactly why you need to play it. After all, if you wanted to play a game that lets you win without properly engaging its mechanics while telling you how great you are, you'd be browsing the Sony publisher catalogue instead.

What else can you say about this game. It is the one of the great unsung heroes of 2022. An excellently polished, delightful experience of a game with capital G, that went all but unmentioned in most end of year reviews. The fact that such a game has less than a 1000 reviews at the time of writing this is a bigger crime than any of the murdergames that happen in it.
I implore you, correct that injustice. Be the hero. Try this badass game.