Sort of LTTP to this. Decided to play some of my PS Plus games while taking a break from Bloodborne and finally tried this game out. This game is absolutely excellent. It is really hard though. I thought Bloodborne would be the hardest game of March, but Bloodborne doesn't even come close to this game.
I have beaten all the Amateur challenges. Wow at the difficulty spike in the Titan Sky levels. That's where the game tells you to start using spins or you will have no chance of getting the combo and hi-score challenges in some of them. Took me a long ass time to learn, but knowing how to maximize the amount of spins you are doing is absolutely vital to getting the high score challenges in the Pro Levels. So in the end, all that torment I was going through to beat the Titan Sky Amateur challenges paid off.
Now I'm going through the Pro levels, doing the challenges as I go. And it's not as difficult, although I need a lot of tries to clear the high score challenges where 3M+ points are needed (1-5 and 2-3 so far). My strategy is to eschew doing any advanced tricks at all, using just kickflips, heelflips and ollies, so that I have the maximum possible time to do the maximum number of flips to build that combo meter. But with how much trouble I'm having beating the score challenges, just barely squeezing by after near perfect runs using this strategy, I have a feeling I may need to re-think my strategy and start incorporating more advanced tricks to build my score. I checked ahead, and it seems the game will start going a bit easier on me for a while with the score requirements. But the final level has a score requirement of 5M. That will be fucking hard. I will probably have to switch up my strategy by then.
Also fuck some of the challenges that require specific tricks to be made. Those double-movement tricks are an absolute pain. Some of them I have a less than 10 % success rate on even when I'm practising doing them in the skatepark. One of the challenges ahead will require me to do the bottom two tricks in the tricktionary in a level-long combo. That one will probably take me an entire day.
Still, this game is so excellent that I will most likely put up with that. To get through more of the games I haven't had time to play, I decided to stop really caring about trophies, but this game is so excellent that I will be going for the platinum.