Skate It Balance Board Gameplay
7Playing Skate It with the Balance Board works exactly how you’d expect. You step onto the board and steer your in-game skater by leaning left and right. With the Wii-mote in hand, meanwhile, you control actions like pushing your board forward and grabbing it. It’d be a little silly, though, if you actually performed tricks using the Wii-mote, considering you have a skateboard-like device just beneath your feet. Thankfully, that’s not the case. You control your board’s physical movements using your body. To ollie, you simply motion as if you were going to ollie with a real-life skateboard. There is a noticeable difference between ollying in real-life and in Skate It, however. You don’t actually jump off the board when playing Skate It — the impact of your body weight slamming onto the Balance Board over and over would probably render it useless within minutes. Instead, you simply motion as if you’re about to ollie, but right before you jump, you don’t. All flip tricks, meanwhile, are controlled the same way. To kickflip, you must ollie and apply pressure to the side of the Balance Board. Again, though, you don’t actually jump off the board.