I am still getting my head around it, but when my brain untangles and my hands do what my eyes want them to do, it’s so thrilling I find myself laughing out loud. It makes the game a conversation between thumbsticks. But now grinds are interrupted by tractor beams, so I go from left-stick grinding to right-stick grabbing and floating. Most of OlliOlli World for me revolves around the left stick, which I flick up and down to land tricks and grinds. Tractor beams fit into the flow!īut more importantly they do dizzying things to your brain. Then a tractor beam itself: grab, rise, on to the next part of the adventure. In one level I went from grinding an alien tentacle to narrowly missing a collision with a whale that was tractored out of the way at the last minute. It means that actual ramps and chunks of the earth might be caught in tractor beams, moving around, creating gaps that you can exploit. Most obviously, it means that levels can suddenly ping you between beams that loft you up really high. What this brings to levels is astonishing. It feels elegant – a dream of sudden weightlessness. You will be falling through the air and then you hit this purple beam of light and within it, you grab the board to rise. Two things about them: one, they fit into the control scheme beautifully, because you ride them by grabbing the board. Tractor beams are the big add here, bringing a bit of topsy-turvy mayhem to the flow of a generous range of new levels.
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