Shredders Review - Needs More Tricky
If there’s one sports genre I’m into, it’s snowboarding. That and skateboarding. I guess I just like anything with boards. Well, except for board games. Anyway, my love of the board has been a real shame over the past generation as, although skating games are having a Renaissance, snowboarding games have almost completely disappeared.
What was once a genre filled with stand-out titles like SSX and Amped is now down to an individual sport amongst many in Rider’s Republic and Steep. Those games do it well, but I’ve wanted something purely dedicated to snowboarding for some time now, and Shredders is here to do just that.
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At its core, Shredders is low-budget snowboarding Skate. If that doesn’t paint a clear picture for you right off the bat then damn, I guess I better write some more about it, but if you’re a fan of boarding games that’s probably enough to get you interested right off the bat.
Shredders has you playing as the second member of Shreddageddon, a YouTube channel with 20 subscribers that is trying to make it big. They decide to shred through some flags and end up working with 540 Indy to slowly gain some attention.
As soon as Scotty, the talkative one of your internet duo, opened his mouth and spewed some YouTuber cringe my way, I thought this was going to be the worst part of Shredders, but it ended up being one of my favourites. The main two characters, Scotty and Lisa, bounce off of each other really well and there’s a great tongue-in-cheek nature to the whole thing. It’s pretty funny when it wants to be, such as when Scotty asks a French snowboarder to say “cinq cent quarante” and keeps mistaking it for sink sunk carrot. It’s
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