Tcheco really just wants to go through a peaceful day of skateboarding, but weirdos with spikes, handsy shirtless guys, and creepy living hands just keep getting in the way.
Skatemasta Tcheco has you cruising through auto-scrolling stages, having you enact swift vengeance on anyone who tries to stop your ride. I’m not sure what all of these annoying people expected, though. Tcheco’s catch phrase for his last game was “Violence is my art!” It doesn’t exactly make you think he’s the kind of person you should mess with when he’s trying to skateboard on the moon.
Like the previous game, Skatemasta Tcheco draws heavily from the chaotic nonsense that often went down in an NES game, taking the protagonist to all manner of wild locations filled with wilder enemies. Take your board with you to the moon, some sort of arena (but you’re also dressed a bit like Santa?), the circus, and a bunch of other places, all while dealing with the array of oddballs that keep getting in the way. Living angry gloves, ballerinas, and an evil yellow Sonic are out to get you, to name a few. It’s weird stuff and you never know what’s coming next, which definitely brings many a bizarre NES game to mind.
Luckily, you can hop on their heads and do a damaging dash roll to deal with them or help yourself avoid them. You need to deal with these jerks fast, as the screen is constantly moving forward, too. Still, it’s all worth it to spend a bit more time with the eerily compelling Tcheco.
Skatemasta Tcheco is available now on Steam.