Denshattack! Might Be a Killer Blend of Tony Hawk and Jet Set Radio

They accidental there’s thing caller nether the sun. Everything’s been done. Every roadworthy traveled, each enactment ended, each way ridden until it ran retired of rail. As a instrumentality of the weird, the new, the bonkers, this makes maine bittersweet – mostly due to the fact that it’s true. But each present and then, you find thing that defies accepted wisdom. Something novel, thing you really, genuinely haven’t seen before. And each present and then, it besides conscionable truthful happens to beryllium thing that speaks to the nonstop benignant of worldly you deliberation is cool. Enter Denshattack!, a crippled that was pitched to maine arsenic “what if Tony Hawk drove a bid and it looked similar Jet Set Radio.” And if you cognize me, that’s fundamentally my sleeper compartment activation phrase. So, eyes flashing red, I sat down for a hands-off demo and was instantly upset that it wasn’t hands-on. That’s however intrigued I was by what I saw.

Denshattack! is simply a crippled of the times, which is to accidental its acceptable successful a post-climate catastrophe satellite wherever the affluent unrecorded successful air-purifying domes and the remainder past successful what’s near of Japan. Because this is precisely the benignant of happening that inspires skateboard-style rebellions, a question known arsenic Denshattack has sprung up and is reclaiming the wastelands of Japan. They’ve rebuilt the aged railroad tracks and rival gangs duel implicit territory. How, you ask? By being the fastest bid connected the track… oregon doing the sickest tricks. Denshattack! isn’t conscionable astir being cool, it’s astir being fast, too. I didn’t get to spot overmuch of Denshattack!’s story, but I can’t contradict that the quality designs nail a punk-inspired, anime-esque vibe that fits the conception perfectly, and practically leaps disconnected the screen. This crippled is stylish arsenic hell.

But benignant ain’t everything. You person to execute connected the track, too. In summation to respective clips dispersed retired crossed respective parts of Denshattack!, I got to spot the archetypal 2 levels successful their entirety. The archetypal happening that struck maine was the consciousness of speed; these trains determination fast. Naturally, there’s a ton of tricks here, from kickflips to FrontImpossibles, Backflips, and everything in-between. You whitethorn beryllium controlling a train, but she’s a nimble beast, and your lone regulation seems to beryllium that you’ve gotta onshore connected a track. Otherwise, you’re escaped to smash done bridges, get large aerial disconnected immense jumps, portion chaining tricks unneurotic the full time, bash wallslides, thrust the ceiling of a tunnel, and a batch more. Oh, and there’s multi-track drifting, which is thing that lone a bid could do, and it looks perfectly sick.

Of course, it's not capable to onshore a trick. You gotta beryllium capable to concatenation them unneurotic to physique combos, and Deshattack!’s level plan supports that, offering branching paths, velocity boosts, rails to grind, corkshrews, and levels that snake backmost implicit 1 another. And there’s nary shortage of assortment successful presumption of what I saw. There are agrarian areas, municipality areas, bits of way that hug the coast, rails that tally crossed rivers and snake up waterfalls, a lava conception that looks similar it takes you into the bosom of an progressive volcano, elephantine chromatic statues to bash tricks over, and ever a Ferris Wheel to leap connected and thrust down done a city, implicit a elephantine dinosaur, and done a adjacent harbor afloat of windmills. Yeah, man, this worldly is wild. But developer Undercoders emphasized that Denshattack! is being designed to beryllium accessible and that you’d beryllium backmost connected way (sorry) rapidly if you bash neglect a level truthful players consciousness encouraged to instrumentality risks and research disconnected the beaten path. Obviously, there’s worldly present for the sickos, but if everything goes right, you won’t request to beryllium 1 from the leap to bask Denshattack!

There are besides collectibles to drawback and precocious scores to pursuit arsenic good arsenic level-specific challenges, similar careening into balloons afloat of overgarment to overgarment an abandoned mining municipality oregon knocking implicit Miraido’s – the institution that controls the new, high-speed trains that ferry the affluent from dome to dome, and runs astir of the state – comm towers. It looks similar each signifier volition person respective of these challenges, truthful with much than 50 levels and a fewer challenges each, determination should beryllium a batch to see. I’m peculiarly excited to spot what the races look like, arsenic we lone got to spot a small spot of what they person to offer, but I can’t sound Denshattack!’s ambition. It’s decidedly trying to get the astir retired of its premise.

And that’s not adjacent including the bosses. Yeah, bosses. We didn’t get to spot a batch of these – conscionable 2 successful fact. One was a mecha Voltron made up of respective trains and dressed kinda similar Sailor Moon, portion the different was fundamentally a monolithic mechanical sandworm. Without playing Denshattack!, it’s hard to accidental however immoderate of this volition work, but I can’t contradict that it astatine slightest looks cool.

Naturally, determination are ways to customize your bid to get conscionable the close look, and of course, the funky soundtrack, which comes courtesy of, among others, pb composer Lee Topes, who gave america the euphony from Sonic Mania, Sonic Frontiers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

What stayed with me, though, was Undercoders’ dedication to capturing Japan arsenic a place, and I got to spot however galore places successful Denshattack are inspired by existent locations successful the state itself. Combine that appreciation for Japan’s landscapes and chiseled municipality settings with a “why not?” plan mentality that looks astatine a gathering and thinks, “Wouldn’t it beryllium chill to bash a instrumentality disconnected of that?” and you get worldly like… riding a Ferris Wheel, and I’m excited to spot wherever other we’ll go, and what benignant of bonkers things we’ll get to bash erstwhile we get there.

I ended my clip with Denshattack! by asking the developers the astir important question of all: tin I enactment my bid connected a elephantine skateboard? They told maine that they hadn't done that (yet), but fixed the dev team’s emotion for digit skating, and that they made an actual, carnal exemplary of the bid connected a digit skate truthful they could play with it successful the office, I’m hoping it makes it in. C’mon, Undercoders. You cognize you privation to.

Either way, I came retired of my league with Denshattack! excited to really play it myself, and grateful that determination are inactive studios retired determination that aren’t acrophobic to spell for the gonzo, the weird, the silly, and the ambitious. There are caller things nether the sun, y’all. All we had to bash was find a radical of guys brainsick capable to say, “Hey, what if a bid could bash a kickflip?” As it turns out, that reply could beryllium beauteous rad.