feedback/feature requests

(played on PC and PS5)

Sorry in advance for how long this is; I’ve apparently got lots of thoughts, haha. And I don’t know how to be concise… I’ve tried to at least somewhat organize them, though?

On Cosmetics

• I’d like to be able to select/preview the items in product boxes. I know you can “view box content,” but that only gives a small image of each item rather than being able to actually preview them the way you can with items from the rest of the shop and the zines. This is especially frustrating when it comes to stickers and profile pictures. Maybe this is just me, but sometimes I find it difficult to tell whether something is a sticker or a profile picture (usually it’s fairly clear, but not always). Even without that specific issue, though, it would just be really nice to be able to preview product box items the same way as other items instead of just getting a teeny little preview picture.
• On a somewhat similar note, I feel you should be able to zoom in/out when viewing cosmetics (in the shop, zines, your own inventory, or anywhere else). I’ve seen several cosmetics (most especially––but not solely––intricate board art) where it’s been difficult to tell what it really looks like since I can’t zoom in to get a better look at the details. As for zooming out, that would be super helpful when you’re changing cosmetics in your inventory. Currently, the only way I can see how a certain cosmetic item looks with my character/outfit as a whole is to either switch to the “outfit” tab (which, of course, isn’t an option if I’m changing my headwear, eyewear, or socks) or to exit the “closet” (if you will) entirely. Either way is frustrating. They both add unnecessary extra steps to the process, and they both make me lose my place in looking through my items––which will only become an increasingly more frustrating problem as the game goes on and I acquire more inventory.
• Speaking of an ever-increasing inventory, I wish there was a way to favorite and/or (but preferably “and”) archive items. I enjoy the product boxes, but sometimes they give me items I’m literally never going to use. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; everyone has different tastes, and I’m sure there are plenty of people who like the items I don’t, just as I’m sure there are plenty of people who hate the items I love. But I also don’t really want items that I’m never, ever going to use to be clogging up my inventory as I’m trying to search through for the ones I do like. And then even if I do like everything in my inventory, there will always be some that I gravitate towards and want to use more frequently than others. Being able to favorite them so I can find them more quickly would make life so much easier.
• I’d also love it if you could save certain outfits and/or boards. I, like many others I’m sure, like to change my outfits to match my mood (or just to keep things fresh), but I’ve also got certain combinations I frequently like to go back to. Being able to quickly re-equip looks I like I like instead of having to go back into each tab to change each individual item every time I want to switch it up would just make things so much easier.
• I wish I could change the fit of certain shirts––t-shirts at least, although all tops would honestly be stupendous––to be tighter/looser based on preference. Currently, I feel like most of the tops are very much on the loose-fitting side, especially if one’s character has a feminine body-type. With the exception of a couple baby tees (and the sports bras I guess? not sure that I’d really count those, personally, but I suppose they do ~technically~ count…) there aren’t really any form-fitting tops for feminine bodies. There are a couple tops that are labeled as “tight,” and while those do appear to be more form-fitting on masculine bodies, they’re still fairly loose on feminine ones. I know changing the fit of shirts was an option in earlier skate games, as well as being able to do things like choose if the shirt was tucked in or out, buttoned or unbuttoned, etc., and all of those options being brought back would be so cool.
• I wish visual board damage would be brought back, too. It’s neat to see scuffs and wear and tear as you use your board, you know? Maybe it could be something that could be turned on/off, so if you didn’t want your board to look all scuffed up it didn’t have to, but it could if you did want.

On Game Features

• Well, I might as well continue with my “things I wish were brought back from older games” spiel as I move on from cosmetic things I guess. With that in mind…. *chanting* HALL OF MEAT! HALL OF MEAT! HALL OF MEAT!
• Also, I would genuinely pay money to be able to hear Coach Frank instead of Vee. I don’t even need to see him. If Coach Frank’s consciousness has been transferred to a little robot friend, so be it. But please, on bended knee I beg of thee, give me Coach Frank T^T
• Music. Older skate games had such killer music, and maybe I’m just old and The Youth™ are all about the songs that are included in this new one, but I am….really not. I’d SO love it if a lot of the music from the older games could be brought back in this one! If not, though, at the very least ~please~ add in an option to dislike songs and stop them from playing. Sure, I can favorite songs and then play the playlist of my favorited songs, but…how am I supposed to find more/new songs to favorite if I’m only playing my playlist of favorites? But I don’t want to ~not~ play my playlist of favorites, because there are so many songs that just ~really~ bug me, and they’re the ones that seem to play the absolute most. I would kill for a way to silence them forever…
• I wish there was a way to join parties/recruit party members for specific challenges. For example, I frequently find myself wishing I could join parties or recruit party members who specifically want to do the Own the Lot challenges, but there’s not really any way of doing that (aside from having Real Friends, which is presumptuous :P). So yeah, if there was a way to recruit/be recruited by people looking to party up for specific challenges, that’d be wicked cool.

Sorry again for how long this is, and I don’t know if this will actually be seen by any devs, but yeah. Figured why not give it a shot, y’know? Thanks for reading if you did, especially if you have The Power™ to make these changes (and eSPECially if you actually ~make~ any of them!).

Genuinely, though, I’m having such a fun time with this game. Thanks so much for your hard work!