THE FUSE

There’s an awkward phenomenon that happens with this job from time to time: you might play something for a bit pre-release, not feel it at all, and then see a bunch of your respected peers start lauding it with praise. You expected this game to come and go with minimal chatter, but now people you know and trust are assuring you it’s worth seeing through. That’s what happened to me with Skate Story, a game I (perhaps dismissively) said “could have been a screensaver” and I would have liked it more. But hey, I’m not so closed-minded that I’m not open to being wrong.