Im in love, but we have work to do.

This is a great step in the right direction. The core fundamentals and objective/idea are fun. Thank you for including Hall of Meat in some capacity, please expand upon it! I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed everything. Rag-doll mechanics are hilarious and pretty well done. I love the ability to just roll around anywhere curled up in a ball. 

Climbing is essential and a much welcome change. I hope to see the trick system added upon as I have not seen the ability to Dark Slide just yet. Pogo maybe? 

I would very much like to see the clothing and apparel get more love for the old school stuff. I enjoy and embrace the new skate culture but I grew up on Word Industries, Alien Workshop, Mullen, Birdhouse, Element, Habitat, FLIP, Blind, And many more. I understand licensing probably prevents a lot of this. Surely though, if you're serious about listening to the fans, a couple bucks can be spent reaching out to respective ownerships of those brands, or their estate, and offering them a small stipend for allowing their brands to be enjoyed in-game by all of their long time fans.

 More boards, board damage appearance modifier, if we could get music from the first 3 Skate Games that would be amazing. Skate 1 and 2 had the best with 3 still being very good. 

Character customization is at a good starting point, if we could get more goofy stuff like missing teeth, missing eye?! Scars, tattoos, where are the Liberty Spikes! Voice modifiers, facial expression change-ability. Expansion on team/party options, potential for Skate competitions team vs team, customize team name and logo, in-game rewards and level up system for team function. Interactive emotes such as fist bump, high five, maybe an assisted jump to reach higher climb spots? 

I love what we have so far, Its been 15 years since skate 3. In closing, please pay homage to the old brands and culture, while doing the necessary to capture the new stuff as well. Genuinely excited for the future of this game, please dont go overboard with the animations for some of the epic emotes and apparel. I dont want someone's skateboard and attire to have a cloud of smoke and lightning around them when im trying to finish my quadruple kickflip, lol!