True Surf

So, I was sitting out at Pipe’s second reef, waiting like a jungle cat for its prey...Pipe and Backdoor were firing...like, “epic” was a spot on forecast (thanks Surfline). Anyways, finally, my set came...I skipped the first wave as I could see what was coming....it was a bomb...like, the lord’s wave...So I got into position, took off WAY late and decided to go Backdoor. In that moment, everything was slow-mo...took off behind the peak and I was checked in. Like, you could have driven a bus in this tube...I trimmed back, grabbed a rail and committed. It was glory...almost didn’t make it, but when the wave spit, I came flying out! I grabbed my rail, cut back and hit the lip and proceeded to launch THE GREATEST ALLY-OOP in surfing history. Had to have been 65ft above the reef. Landed it too. Problem is, because there’s no replay feature, my Boo doesn’t believe that I got pitted for over 8 seconds on a second reef Backdoor set followed by THE GREATEST ALLY-OOP in surfing history. As such, I give this only 4 stars. December is a long way away so hopefully we can get it before next winter. Also, my thruster has weak tail rocker, but I’m saving up my clams for a new one.

A fun game with sweet graphics, something that I’m pretty sure people have been waiting since Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer but the problem is that it gets boring after a while. It could add lots of features and game options to make it amazing and addictive. Here’re some of my thoughts and ideas: - Instead of XP, create small missions to advance levels and/or unlock spots (ex: ride a 6 seconds barrels, score higher than 7, complete a full rotation air, etc). - Championship against CPU. - Cheaper and customizable clothing and boards (ex: stickers, design, maybe you could spend money to buy new fins and improve your board’s performance, etc) - Character customization (ex: name, nationality, features, etc) - Something similar to Become a Legend in FIFA would be amazing too (could even start as a QS surfer, trying to sign contracts with sponsors, etc). - Photo and film gallery. Could even partner with some musicians to create soundtrack for auto-generated short videos of your best waves. This would be an amazing thing for people to share. - The Ranch could be included as a training facility where you could learn new tricks, free surf, test and customize surfboards, etc. Well, I guess these are the ideas I thought so far. I usually don’t write reviews but I really would like to see this game skyrocketing cause I really enjoy it and feel like it has room for it and audience as well... Good luck and keep pushing it. Cheers from Brazil!

Ok, so this has been my DREAM GAME, incredible work and the waves look great the scoring is fun and the live aspect is so rad. Great work, but it needs a fee crucial apects to make it actually playable and addictive like real surf. 1. The controls are not very easy, sliding up and down is just the rotation of the board and whenever you think about doing a snap or air or even just going near the lip you just sink out the back which suucks so much when you want to pull off an air. 2. Theres no drive, theres no flow with the board and you go as slow as possible even with the fast boards i feel like as if the surfer is just sitting there on his/her back foot intentionally slowing the momentum sinking into the wave 3. Barreling, the tube is beautiful, the gracefulness of the ride, is not. Youll pull in and right as you think youre gonna make it out your surfer falls, bails, hits the tube wall or something even if your dead center and off the foamball. Please i fully support this game, this is the next best thing since Kelly slaters pro surfer but for IOS, incredible work, best waves ive seen. Just please make them ridable, you guys keep it up all love from San Clemente. 🤙🏼🤙🏼 yeww

The game is fun, exciting and very realistic; I have the 3/5 star review due to the results of such hard work with minimal surfing results. The contest section will show you perfect 2/3 waves with the surfer only getting barrels and not ever turning, floating or airing, cool yet to get a perfect 10 on any wave you just ride barrels. I enjoy surfing, watching surfing and playing a game of surfing; yet the rewards given to players for making the most boring ride is at fault for an over all boring game. Watching the top players surf barrels and not anything else, getting perfect 10’s is horrible surf. Honestly, if the top players were pro surfers they wouldn’t have a career. I’m not a professional gamer. Product placement is gold, boring surf is worth more and barreling every wave is the idea of a faulty game. The top 3 players have the same score, ride the same barrel; why would this be interesting at all? It’s entertaining making an exciting run on my own yet that’s a 3.0 wave because I only barreled for 4 seconds and the floater for 7, air and turns made an overall wave at 3/5... wait that’s the rating for the barrel I rode on the App Store.

The game play is great once you get used to the controls and the waves look amazing. Beyond that, I have some complaints. If you look at the replays from the contests, virtually all of the top scorers perform almost identical rides, including glitching at the end of the wave, bobbing up through the lip. Exploiting a glitch shouldn't be the way to win contests in a game that stresses realism in its description. Also, it takes way too long to advance in higher levels (for me it started at 17). It would be nice to see how many shakas I need to get to the next level instead of just a slowly advancing blue bar. I have earned many rides over 300 shakas, including some over 800, and I haven't even started seeing the blue bar advance yet at level 18, so it seems like I'm not earning anything. It doesn't seem like I'll ever make it to 19. It would be better if I saw 5,432/1,000,000 or something to that effect. Some other opportunities to earn shells would be great as well. The 2,000 you are awarded for leveling up gets spent fast when you have to travel for good waves.