There’s a lot to be said about such a beautiful game as Alto’s Adventure. Some say it is just a Ski Safari clone. Some say it is repetitive, some say games like this are dime a dozen. I say bullsh*t. Alto’s Adventure would be an awesome game even if only because there are llamas in it. As for the other criticisms, I’ll tackle them below.
In Alto’s Adventure your goal is to constantly snowboard among never-ending slopes among an awesome scenery. Jumping over rocks, executing backflips, escaping enraged village elders, all make Alto’s Adventure an endearing experience. You’ll face heavy storms, snow, sunsets and sunrises, shooting stars. You’ll crash, and jump and fall and smash, constantly. It has been done before? Yes, it has, and it will be done again and again. It never has been so beautiful, though.
Controls are easy: tap to jump, keep pressing to execute a backflip and keep pressing to keep on spinning. Fall wrongly and you’ll have to start over. Game mechanics add a little more to this simple setup: every time you execute a trick you gain a small speed boost, which in turn makes your jumps higher so you can execute more until you can be going pretty fast (something that the games handles awesomely by slowly moving the camera closer or farther from you depending on your speed: genius.) Among the slopes you’ll find some pole lines you can grind as trick points, rocks where you can bounce as an extra trick, rooftops for more grinding, campfires to stomp and coins to purchase improvements (and no, there are no IAPs in Alto’s Adventure: it’s a great game where you pay just once.)
To keep some sense of progress in a mostly endless runner game, there are goals you can achieve (180 goals split in 60 levels of 3 each) and in turn you can unlock new characters. Which adds quite a bit of gameplay, since each character has different handling.
Would I recommend Alto’s Adventure? In less than a heartbeat. One of the best games I’ve played in quite a while.
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