Hello, and welcome back to side Quest with another solo bonus episode from yours truly, Dylan Musk, here to share my top twenty five Tony Hawk levels of all time.

I've been playing so much Tony Hawk last couple months, and I thought this would be a good time to do it because it's October.

But it's not just any October.

It is ok Tony October, which is something I've seen many other content creators celebrate over the years, where in the month of October really go all in on some Tony Hawk things, whether that's level rankings, you know, live streams, other content about these games.

And it's perfect time because I've been playing Tonyx three plus four four and then one plus two and then many other games which I'll talk about in a minute, and Yeah, this feels like a good time to do this.

I have a lot of juice, a lot of things to talk about here, so let's just get right into it with a couple things some preamble, of course, as any ranking needs and requires.

First off is my history with this series.

So the first Tony Hawk game I owned and played was TONYACKX pro Skater two on the N sixty four.

I feel like the most memorable thing about this game for me though, back in the day is the fact that it had a yellow cartridge.

It was that in Downkhawks before the yellow cartridge, and then I had Majora's Mask with the gold cartridge, and that's honestly maybe the most memorable part about the game for me as a kid.

I was not into it.

I could not figure it out.

It was too hard, you know, I think, honestly, looking back, it was probably just the fact that the N sixty four controller is so bad, and I feel like Tony Hawk is such a precise game that requires so many inputs.

That's maybe why I could never really get deep into the game.

So I don't think I got very deep, maybe just three or four levels in and then I just couldn't make it past that.

But after that it was it was on the game Pube, and that's where I had my big moment with Tony Hawk and falling in love with the series.

And that is of course, first.

Off with Tony Hawk's Underground, which is a game that I played for just over and over again, played it with friends in multiplayer.

I just played solo, put through the store multiple times, just spending hours in the map creator going through the story over and over again, just exploring, finding all the secrets, doing all the stuff in it.

And then you know, jumping from that right into Tonia Hawk's American Wastelines skipping Thug two, not even a game I knew existed until I was a little bit older, but Tony Hawk's Underground or sorry, Tonyhawks American Wasteline after that, which is another game that I really love, you know, building up the skate park as kind of the main story there, going to these different locations, more story focused, which was interesting, and I think, you know, I bring up all these details because I think it is really important.

Though.

This is kind of where my Tony Hawk story really starts.

You know, I did have pro Skater two on the N sixty four, but it wasn't super into it.

And so for a lot of people, you know, they started with either one, two, three, or four and that's kind of where they cut their teeth.

But for me, it was different.

It was Thug, and it was Thaw and Thug you know, had cars.

Every mission at every level had a car you could drive around in, you could get off your board, you could climb up things, and American Wasteline added like more parkers stuff, you could ride a bike, and so I think for me, like these games are more than just skateboarding games, and especially Underground is a game since I had these pretty open levels, I would just spend hours running around, roaming around doing random stuff, maybe not even skateboarding.

So of course that was always the primary verb of the games, but I feel like they were so much more for me than that, and so it's been interesting to jump back to some of the older games in the series now where you can't get off your board, where there is no driving, where there's no bikes, where there's no parkour really and so it's fun to see the differences, and I've found that I really love both flavors, even if they are quite different.

But this series overall has a lot of different flavors to it, which we'll talk about, and I think primarily the next game that I played after those two GameCube ones was Downhill Jam, and this was a game I played a lot, and it was a very different style.

Of course, the downhill maps which the previous games.

You know, there was like Airport and Mall which had the and the original Downhill Jam, which are kind of downhill maps.

These were never really my favorite, but Downhill Jam is a game obviously focusing on those mechanics and going all in on them.

It was a game that I really loved, really enjoyed, And I think part of that too was because when I first got my Wii.

I might be misremembering in the timeline here, but I think the first games I had was of course We Sports.

I had Excite Truck, and I had Downhill Jam.

I think those were like the launch games I had when I got my Wii a few months late, and so all of those games because of that, got so much play time because that's all I had, and so I played a ton of Downhill Jam, but it was not really a game I revisited much.

It wasn't when I come back to and it's not when I've played in quite some time.

And so I feel like after Downhill Jam, I would kind of revisit Thug.

That was kind of when I'd revisit pretty often.

But I think around that time is when I would jump over and really get into the skate franchise one, two, but primarily three.

I think those three was the only one that I owned, and I played a lot of it back in the day, and I think it was like, oh yeah, the more grounded game played to it, the flick it controls as I think they called it, and that was that was kind of where my love kind of converted over to skate and just kind of wanted to get super into that.

And I did play that for quite a few years, and whenever I wanted to play a skateboarding game, I would usually revisit skate And then I think there's just a big empty space, empty point on the resume where I really just wasn't playing any skateboarding game for many, many years, and I think it's more recently just the last you know, I think it was last year's twenty four hour stream.

We played a little bit of Tony Hawk, and then with some of these remakes and these last few months is just when I've kind of been getting back into skateboarding games.

And it feels kind of perfect because I feel like there's a lot of indie skateboarding games now.

I played Skateboard a little bit.

I think I played a bit of Sessions.

Skate Stories another one that I'm looking forward to that's coming out soon, and then twenty twenty five on top of all that stuff, Like you know, skate got a new release this year, it's an early access, so I'm kind of waiting for one point oh to play that, and then three plus four with the Tony Hawk remake, and of course the one plus two one back in twenty twenty, so obviously a big time for skateboarding games kind of coming back in all different shapes and forms.

And because of that, I've been getting really back into these games too, And so that kind of kicked off a little bit with three plus four that was on game Pass, So I played that kind of my first time any of those levels, and I know there's a lot of changes that they made to four from the original version, but you know, I didn't play the original version, so to me, it was just a so totally solid Tony Hawk game and wasn't kind of devoid of some of the more openness that the original game had from what I understand.

And I've been waiting to play one plus two, waiting for it to go on a good sale, waiting for it to join game Pass because it is owned to buy Microsoft now, but it still hasn't, And I was just loving three plus four so much, so I said fitt I'm finally just gonna buy this game.

I don't care.

It had a little bit of a nice discount there on PlayStation at the time, so you know, pretty much for a few weeks there are just three plus four, one plus two, jumping back and forth playing those games.

What am I feeling today, I'm feeling I want to go knock some more challenges out in two, and then I want to go over to four and get some more completion do these challenges in one.

So kind of just flip into.

Between these four different games, playing these levels over and over again, kind of discovering everything I can about them.

And then from there I went to the Classic Used Game Store pick up some older games that I missed from the series, and so I did pick up the Original four and Project eight, but they didn't work in my three sixty unfortunately their original Xbox games, and they just weren't compatible, or my three sixties just busted one of the two, so I couldn't play those ones.

But what I did play was Tonyok's Underground Too, which is obviously a big blind spot for me, and since tonyox Underground was my favorite growing up and I love Thaw, so much and it's kind of nestled rate in there.

So I've played through that about half of that.

The reason I stopped is because on the three sixty.

Once again, this is the original Xbox game.

I'm playing on three sixty, and the frame rate and like the performance is just super bad, which you know, looked up on Redd.

Apparently there's just the case it just doesn't run super well.

The emulation, I guess is kind of wacky.

So I played through about half the game, but it was not the best way to play it, and so unfortunately, my you know how honest it being in my rankings is probably not true.

And so if anyone's salty that I don't have some of these maps higher, just notes because I played kind of a borked version of the game.

So you know, I definitely will do another version of this because there's other Tony Hawk games I haven't played, so I can always revisit this ranking in the future.

So yeah, I played a little bit of that, and then Tonyak's Pro Skater five, a much controversial, very poorly reviewed game.

I picked that up on PS four and played through all of that, and I'll just say it right off the top of that game absolutely sucks.

It is so slow, the mechanics feel awful.

You can't they took out someone of the ability like Combo Tricks.

The maps are so devoid of life or personality or anything at all.

You know, it was a game designed for multiplayer, and multiplayer doesn't work anymore, and so it just feels it feels like a single player game, or it feels like a multiplayer game that has kind of been abandoned in that way, Like so much of the mechanics and activating missions and switching between levels, it feels very set up for multiplayer, and it just feels like the single player part was not really thought about.

So that game just spoiler here not making a dent on the top twenty five.

Like, there's a couple interesting ish sword levels, but none of them are going to crack in with one kind of minor exception, which I'll talk about when we get there.

So that is kind of my history with the series.

You know, maybe played a couple other games at a friend's house here there, or you know, some of the later games have remakes of levels from the earlier games, so I've kind of seen them in different versions over the years.

But that's more or less what it is.

So what are the levels that are eligible for this?

It's gonna be a big list, So get ready for this mouthful.

So for all, for all the one plus one through one two, three and four, all of those games, I'm kind of ranking them for their version in the one plus two and three plus four remakes, although I've played some of these levels just kind of in the original version or in there as I mentioned the remakes from like Underground or American Wasteline, that kind of stuff, but just so you're aware, But from Tonyawk's one pro Skater one we have Warehouse School, Mall, Skate Park, Downtown Downhill, jam Burnside Streets, and Roswell.

We'reund Tonyak.

Two we have the Hangar School two Marseille, New York City, Venice, Skate Street, Philadelphia, Chopper Drop, and skate Heaven.

From three we have Foundry, Canada, Rio, Suburbia, Airport, Skater Island, Los Angeles, Tokyo Cruise Ship.

From four we have College, San Francisco, Alcatraz, ConA Shipyard, London Zoo.

And then in the three plus four remake, they actually added three completely brand new maps.

Those are movie Studio, water Park, and Pinball.

From pro Skater five, we have Barracks, Bonfire, Beach School, Three, Megapark, Rooftops, Bunker, Asteroid Belt, Mountain, wild West, and the Underground.

And then from Tonyhaok's Underground we have that's kind of nice, nice little segwe there.

We have New Jersey, Manhattan, Tampa, San Diego, Hawaii, Vancouver, Slam City, Jam Moscow, and Hotter than Hell.

I guess I forgot to mention this earlier, but I also back in the day had Tonyok's Underground on the Game Boy Advance.

But man, I just don't like the top down isometric Tonyhawk games, So I'm kind of I've played some of the game, played a few of the levels, but you know, it's not making a dent.

So that is one game I've played but not really worth discussion.

In Thug two, there is a Warehouse remake, but it has kind of added sections to it, so kind of a Warehouse point five, I guess you could call it.

Boston, Barcelona, and Berlin.

Those only ones that I was able to get through.

From Tonyok's American Wasteland, you have Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Skate Ranch, Downtown La East La, the Vans Skate Park, Casino, Santa Monica, and the oil Rig and then also with American wastelines.

Kind of a tricky one because there's a lot of transition areas.

Like the whole all the levels are kind of within the world, sort of loosely connected, so you get like these little traversal sequences that connect the levels.

So those aren't really counted, I guess, in any of the levels I just mentioned, but they're kind of there.

And then Downhill Jams, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Matrepeachu Rio, Rome, the Alps, and Chicago Mall.

So that is I think seventy nine seventy eight actually yeah, seventy eight eligible levels, and I've picked my top twenty five, and twenty five is quite a lot, so I don't have any honorable mentions here, but there are some other ones that of course did not make it on the list that you know, are still good.

A couple last preamble things, don't worry, we're almost into the ranking.

First up is like my play style.

I feel like I'm a very street style player, you know, flip tricks into grinds into manuals.

That's kind of my bread and butter, trying to find cool lines.

I want to try and get as far as I can in my combos, rather than being a big like pool or like quarter pipe type or half pipe type type player.

Not a big fan of the downhill style, you know, Downhill Jam obviously focused on that and does a good job of it, but like just not really my favorite types of levels in general.

And then you know what am I looking for?

What is it's ranking really about?

You know, there's of course a pinchon nostalgia that's going to be a factor in here, but there's also I think that's actually one of the interesting balances here is the nostalgia versus the recency bias, because I've played so many of these games than the last two months, and so comparing that with like my memories of these levels, you know, from childhood is an interesting thing to kind of have to weigh up.

But that's you know, I've tried to factor then in as best as I can.

Of course, I'm looking at the theming of the level, you know, what is the setting of it and how well does it bring that to life?

The visuals all that kind of stuff.

Of course the gameplay, like does it have good lines?

Is that have good connectivity between the different sections of the map, long rails that you can connect you between different areas, that a rail into a certain half pipe and do an acid drop, like all these kinds of fun things.

Do they connect well?

Fun obstacles, right, of course, that's a big part of it.

I also factor that in with like you know, Underground has like cars you can drive, or American Wasteline has has bikes, so I have to factor in those things too, and how fun it is to drive around in a level, because of course it's more than just the skateboarding in some of these games.

Memorable missions of course, that is for the games that like are pretty straightforward in like the Underground American Wasteline style, but then also in like the one through four and like those missions, how memorable are they?

Like the locations of the letters, skate the combo letters, these other funny objectives you can do that change the map in certain ways or open up secret areas, and then yeah, kind of with that too, secret areas, bonus things, finding hidden areas, All those kinds of things are factored in here.

So I don't know, maybe gameplay's top gameplay and theme are kind of top of mind things, but of course there's so many little little details that factor into all of this, and maybe a couple other things along the way.

So I think with that we can kind of get right into the list already.

So as I mentioned no honorable mentions, I'm just going right into this and let's kick it off with Thug two Tonno's Underground two.

I have Barcelona here as my number twenty five spot.

This has been my favorite level in the game so far.

I will say I feel like Thug two has a very a bit more of a formulaic approach to the levels, Like all the levels feel kind of square like in their shape in the street aspect of it.

So I'm curious if that changes in the second half of the game that I haven't got to yet.

But yeah, this one definitely makes it in the top twenty five for me.

This one is pretty crazy, you know, A Thug two is like a jackass game as well, kind of, even though it's called Tony Ooks Underground and this one you can like switch skaters with Steve O who's on like a bucking bowl thing, and you can like fly around the city and knock people over and all that crazy stuff.

You like throw tomatoes at bowls to get them to run around the city.

It's it's you know, hectic, crazy Tony Hawk jackass madness.

That you'd expect.

But I think my favorite location in this map is the kind of well I think of it as the North.

I don't know if it is the North, if these maps even have cardinal directions, but there's an area with like the gardens where there's just you know a bunch of halfpipes and you can kind of do transfers between them and like acid drops and all that.

You can even get way up high above on like a gondola type thing.

You can even drop from that down into this and just like you get huge air, huge combos, and you can do that stuff and then it like will combo into the rest of the You can kind of fly all over these half pipes, do a big transfer and then like comble that into a grind and then just fly off into the distance.

So really satisfying, really fun.

There's some good grind opportunities.

There's like a fun bridge you can grind across that leads to a kind of almost a little bonus area that has a fun couple objectives in there.

I really like the verticality.

I think that's a factor you might see in a lot of the missions I pick here as I like when there is some opportunity you can get really high up above and look down at the streets below.

And this has that where you can hop into a couple different elevator spots and it will pop you up to a rooftop which you can use to jump to other rooftops or just fly off, go up onto the gondola, that kind of thing.

See.

I really enjoy this level.

I think it's really fun.

It's really goofy.

There are some like tighter street areas that are hard to kind of move through in an interesting way, but I think there are also a lot of it's kind of more moving around the edge of this map, I think is the most interesting location part of it.

So yeah, shout outs to Barcelona at number twenty five.

Up there, we move over to Edinburgh from on hill Jam and I will say that's my only Thug two pick, and this is my only downhill Jam pick for the top twenty five.

So I wanted to get a level from them in here, and so I wont Edinburgh as my favorite.

This one is just you know, those beautiful kind of Scottish castles you're flying through, which I think was a very unique setting for Tonyak And I would actually like to see more castles because I feel like just grinding around like the turrets or like the walls could be like a really fun type location, So I'd like to see that in a more traditional Tony Hawk level.

But Edinburgh for me, you know, it's been a long time since I've played Downhill Jam, so a lot of this is like pretty faded memories.

But I just watched some YouTube videos of like trying to remember, O, yeah, what do all these maps look like a couple of them, I'm like, man, I don't recognize this at all.

Did I even play this level?

But Edinburgh was the one that was like, oh yeah, I remember playing the heck out of that level and absolutely loving it.

So that one is my number twenty four.

Number twenty three.

We have Pinball from Tono's three plus four, so this is a new map that they added to the game, so I think they clock it in like Tony Knok's pro Skater four in the actual game, like when you're level selecting, But yeah, it is a new map, and you know, I feel like there are a few of these kind of silly maps, Like I know, one of the levels you can get in one of the games ahead an area is like a kitchen countertop and you're like a little guy almost like on a tech deck, flying through this kitchen.

I don't know which game has that, but that's like a weird secret area you can get access to.

But Pinball kind of has that vibe too, where you're in this giant pinball machine, or at least you're a little guy in a regular sized pinball machine.

You can look up and Tony Hawk is up there and he's flicking the buttons and all that kind of crazy stuff.

This map just has like really good momentum to it.

There are a couple like speed up boosters that you can get on that just launch you across the map, really great grind combos, there's kind of a vertical section, and I just think it's a really fun setting.

I feel like I generally do prefer a more realistic type of setting, but this one really stood out to me as just being a map that has really fun, big combo opportunities, really big air you know, really fun color palette as well, and then some of the objectives that you have to do on it to complete it are quite engaging as well.

So yeah, really enjoy Pinball.

And then we move up to spot number twenty two, and this one on the list is going to be Skate Ranch for me from Tony Hawk's America and Wasteland.

You know, I think big.

Part of this is just the factor of like the whole story is kind of centered around this.

You get access to the skate park.

When you first go there, it's pretty barren, pretty empty, but as you're going around to the different areas, you're kind of you know, hitting this grind to break it off its railing, or breaking off this big dinosaur head, you know, breaking this rooftop, and then you're kind of transporting that stuff back to the park and just seeing it grow over time into like the ultimate skate park with all these memorable obstacles and set pieces from these locations you're going to throughout the game.

Just really satisfying.

I remember always going back there anytime you completed admission and just being really thrilled to see, like, where is it going to be?

Where's that grind that I just got where is it gonna get added on here?

And it is just a totally solid, like pretty traditional skate park level and obviously of course has like no connectivity or cohesion to its theming, but I think that's kind of perfectly fitting for the American wasteline vibe that that whole game has.

So yeah, big shout out to the skate ranch.

From there up to spot number twenty one, we're gonna go to Kona, which is from Tonyaks pro Skater four and yeah, this is a one of the competition levels, and it's a pretty traditional skate park.

It kind of has two, i'd say, yeah, two or three major zones to it.

One of the zones is like a really fun almost like a snakelike almost like a river bed.

It's not it's like made of concrete, so it's not an actual riverbed, but that's really fun to like manual down or convert into a grind and it pops you down in like a pool area.

There's the more traditional skater era on the other side that has some big half pipes and like some grinds that go all the way around, and yeah, I feel like the you might see on this list that I don't have a lot of like the traditional just skate park maps.

I feel like I generally like skating around like just real life kind of locations that are integrated into skateboarding maneuvers rather than like just the skate parks.

But this one is pretty memorable for me.

I think the reason maybe it drops down further than it could be is just because in general, like the competition levels, I feel like are gonna lose some points for me because all you're doing is there is getting big score, and you don't have like collect the skate, collect the secret tape, do these other bonus objectives.

I think those things help make the levels more memorable and they highlight key set piece moments, But obviously the competition levels don't really have that as much unless you're getting super creative with them.

So yeah, I think that that's maybe why it drops down a little bit.

But still really enjoy that one.

And then at number twenty, I have Santa Monica from Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

This one, for me is definitely the most memorable level for me in that game, and it might not even be the best in terms of like big lines, but I think it just has like the amusement park area, which is super iconic, you know, grinding like the roller coaster or doing like the elliptricks on the ferris wheel, like a big bowl in there, and that's kind of on the Santa Monica Pier where you can like grind all the way down off to like this little dock area.

I think there is another game that had like an amusement park, I forget which one it was in the series, maybe just Project eight or something like that, which I feel like is just an area that I actually do want to try that level and whatever game that is, because I feel like that is very ripe kind of level for what is super fun, and I feel like Santa Monica gives you a bit of that.

And then there's the.

Area kind of more where there's some shops where you get some really just big nice pools and like halfpipes that kind of thing.

And then there's a back area that has some really fun grinding with like the amphitheater.

I think it is where you get like the funny shape rooftop, which I think is one of the props you bring back to the skate ranch at some point.

And none of these areas are truly that super connected to each other.

But I just always remember this being a super fun level to come back to over and over again.

So shout outs to Santa Monica.

I think that is our last American wasteland level on the list if I'm correct here.

But we're gonna jump over to a new game we haven't seen yet, and that is Tony's pro Skater two with School two.

I really like this one.

This is one I think it's the first level in the game, right, So I remember playing this one a lot as a kid, because, like I said, I wasn't good at that game on the N sixty four, so I spent a lot of time on the first level in the game because I couldn't get much further than that.

Yeah, I think this level has like some really it's pretty massive, sprawling level, but I feel like there is some pretty good connectivity to it.

But also the areas kind of just distinctly on their own are pretty memorable.

A lot of really good grinds down like a lot of big staircases.

You can do the roll call grinds, which open up the gym area so you have like a big bowl in the pool, and then you have the gym area, which has some fun set pieces to it.

There's like a whole hidden area if you like, jump off this one rooftop you get to and there's not much there, truthfully, but it's just like, whoa, this whole big hidden area that's pretty cool.

So yeah, I feel like it's just a very grind heavy kind of place.

Jumping off rooftop has some good verticality to it, but it's a pretty big, sprawling map and just a really fun one to almost like warm up on.

It's like a fun level to jump into first.

So obviously it being positioned as the first game or the first level in its game is obviously very well placed.

And going up from there, we're going to go to Tony Hawks prostk Or one for the first time with Streets also known as I guess San Francisco, which I feel like it's funny that they just named it Streets.

They could have given it like a more memorable name, but maybe they didn't realize this series would have, you know, twenty games and they needed to differentiate the levels with better names.

But yeah, I really like this level.

I think a factor of this one that hasn't come up yet, but I think is really important is like the start of a level, you know where it spawns you when you load up the level for the first time, And I think this level really succeeded that because it starts at the top of a classic kind of San Francisco hill and you have like the Brick the Red Brick kind of winding path that you can try and manual down, which is fun, or you can do grinding on either side of the buildings from the top or on either side, which just drops you down into the city and then you can kind of go left, forward or right from there whichever area you want to go to next, and so it's always fun to boot up this level for the first time.

You can also get a bunch of speed off like a quarter pipe and then just fly down that hill, so that's always super satisfying.

Over on the left side, you kind of have this fun like stair set piece with a big kicker to jump over this bridge, and then there's like the more Park area where you get some fun grinding opportunities and a weird big sculpture that's really fun to just ride up, and that kind of leads into this one area of the map where you can jump up on this rooftop, convert over on the rooftop, go up these ramps and you can get like way way high up above the city, and then you can get this huge ramp that's set up there.

Just fly through, smash through this per smash a bunch of glass everywhere.

That's where the secret tape is hidden.

I believe, just super fun to go up there every single time and get like a huge combo starter right off the top, and then kind of around the outside of the map there's like a good pool pool area inside like a dish almost inside of a building that you can smash into.

A couple other buildings you can get into, which I always like in any video game whenever I can go inside of a building, it's always an exciting things.

That feels like most buildings and games are just the wall, you know, but it's fun when you can break through that glass and actually go inside of them.

And there's like an area that's almost like a little Chinatown section that I kind of wish that area is more integrated into the rest of the map.

It feels like very out of the way, but it is a cool little set piece area, and I just wish it connected into it more.

But this map, because it is another pretty big one in terms of like just the surface area of the space of it.

It's a really fun one to try and route out the speed run for it in the remake of one plus two, because yeah, you just really have to plan out.

Okay, I don't want to have to backtrack it all.

So what's my How can I knock out all these objectives in one place, grind all these cop cars as quick as I can, get up to that rooftop as quick as I can.

So really fun level.

I love the visuals of it.

I think there's gonna be maybe another San Francisco that pops up later on as well.

But yeah, I think it makes for a really good skateboarding location.

Apparently.

Next up is another level from tonyox perskater once and I was at number seventeen, and that is going to be downtown also known as the Minneapolis This is level set at nighttime, which I like.

I feel like not a lot of levels typically are in Tony Hawk and I think they did that more with the remake of one plus two and three plus fours.

They tried to switch up the setting for some of them to give a little bit of a different vibe.

This level is very cool.

It's very technical, I feel like at times to get some of the objectives, so it's a tricky one.

But this one has some good verticality to it.

There's like a little tunnel you can take to get up on top of this rooftop which you can blast off in like all sorts of different directions, and there's fun stuff to be had there, really aggressive like vehicles.

I think in this one you're gonna like jump over like the crazy taxi drivers, some really good grind opportunities, some kind of silly stuff around the edges.

So yeah, I really like this one.

I think it's quite fun.

Just I feel like a good vertical map and even trying to get up onto those rooftops with some like cheeky wall ride grind combos is also really fun.

So yeah, I really enjoy that one that takes us into level sixteen.

This is going to be Rio from pre pro skater Free.

I really love this one.

This is like a pretty traditional skate park level that has kind of in the middle is where you have you know, your half pipes, your quarter pipes, your transfer opportunities, and I feel like that's where you kind of start your combo and then you kind of blast that out into the sides.

And this kind of this map around the skate park is like all sorts of different grinds that have different props.

You know, some are like these big wood plank things set up.

Some of them are just like ledges or like staircase type things, but you can, you know, if you can keep it going, you can get like a full combo and just grind a complete loop around this huge skate park, which is super satisfying.

I love maps that have that kind of thing, just one long grind opportunity.

You have to jump between the grinds, but you can just really connect all this stuff and it's super fun.

And then even outside that there's like a street and then there's like kind of some other props along the outside.

But to me, this is just like a really great skate park level, a pretty simple one, a pretty small one, but it's just really tight compact, and like every square inch of it is like factored into just be the ultimate fun experience.

This one is another competition level, but it is one that you know just because of how fun the level is and how tight and compact it is.

It's one that I'm like happy to do over and over again, even though it doesn't have like as fun of objectives coming out from it.

We are now into the top fifteen and at number fifteen from pro Skate or four, I have London.

This is one that the first time I played it, first couple of times I played it, was not a fan.

There's some objectives here that you have to like, you know, wall ride like two buses, or you have to like you know, combo is stitched together or something like that.

These objectives I found just too hard.

I found the buses like not connected super well in these areas, Like there's rooftop grinds, but I didn't really see.

How they all connected.

There was this mission like Jack Blacks on this level he's like a cop and you got to chase him around, and I was just getting kind of annoyed to buy a lot of the things that were going on here.

But the more and more I played it, the more I kind of mastered it.

The more I kind of mastered these objectives, the more I fell in love with this map, Like it starts out really well of having like these two big fountain areas, with has a good grind opportunity and are also great kickers.

But then like there really is just like vertically a huge like wires connecting all these buildings that you can connect all these areas vertically.

There's a whole like under I don't think it's I think it's like a skate park or like a parking lot area like under the bridge that is like a fun and almost hidden area that you can get to some really good grind connectivity between like the different parts of the city.

There's like this other rooftop that has just like some big quarter pipes on it, which is super fun.

Yes, it just feels feels like a very expansive map, and actually, once I got used to it, like comboing some of these tricks with like the big double decker London buses is really satisfying.

So yeah, I've really grown to love this level and it might even climb up higher the more I play it, but for now I'm happy.

With it being at number four on my list.

Number fourteen is gonna go to the og map, the first ever Tony Hawk's pro skater map, and that is Warehouse from of course don Out pro Skater one.

It's a simple level.

It's a small level.

You know, you blast down the hill at the start.

You got the big kind of ramp on the right side that also has a half pipe in the middle, smashing through that glass to get through there, get the secret tape.

You got like the big grind that you can connect around the whole kind of right side of the map, right off that half pipe that connects all the way around, and then there's like that big rail kind of in the middle, and then you have like the kind of three quarter pipes right next to each other that have the gaps in between so you can kind of jump between them on wall what is it called wallplant to jump back and like do that back and forth, back and forth, and like, you know, that's pretty much it.

Like it is a small level.

There isn't much to it, but I just think it is a small compact level, super fun, really good combos and I don't know, just you know any I feel like this level has been remade over and over again.

I think in Thug two there's like a semi remake of Warehouse.

And this is also where my shout out for Tonaux's pro Skater five is because this that game also has a partial remake of Warehouse that takes that base level.

It re jigs a couple things, changes a couple of things up, and then adds a couple zones.

And actually those added zones were pretty decent as well in pro Skater five.

But I'm still going with just the og Warehouse here, which of course has been premade multiple times as well.

But yeah, I think this is a classic map, and even comparing it to like in pro Skater two, they tried to have the I guess, yeah, the first level was actually Hanger and then School two is the second one.

I fudged that earlier, but yeah, I think even just comparing this to two Hangar, this map is like ten times better.

I don't know, there's something about it that I just can't get enough of it.

It's always super fun nailing those objectives, getting the speed around on it, just super engaging stuff that takes us over to thirteen.

And actually, now that I mentioned, I think that actually was our last game from pro Skater one, and yeah, so that one's officially out of the ranking, but I gave it.

Yeah, pro Skater one Warehouse, that was my favorite level from that game, and now we are getting our first introduction of Thug one on first underground map on the list, and I'm going to give it to Vancouver, my place of residence.

So of course, you know, a big factor of this is that it's like, oh yeah, I've been to these locations.

It is my stomping grounds.

Seeing those locations put into a video game and like turn to you know, the Tony Hawk madness is super satisfying.

So that's definitely, you know, something that gives it a bonus and edge above something else.

I love the little hockey rank area with like the kind of figure eight type grind that they have designed for it.

There's like some solid kind of transfer and quarter pipe opportunities.

I also really like that, you know, there's another level, slam City Jam, which like takes place in I guess was like what should be Roger's Arena, but they just don't.

They don't call that in the game, of course, but I like that there's kind of that just connectivity, like you're kind of doing the missions in Vancouver to get into that level and then you like go through the door and you enter that level and then you know, lows into a whole nother zone.

But I think there's that connectivity too, that is really interesting.

So yeah, honestly, I admit that I give this level probably a bigger bump than it deserves just because.

It is where I live, so I will say that.

But jumping right from there, speaking of Canada, let's talk about Canada from pro Skater three.

This is one that I feel like I've always heard about and seen, but I haven't actually played it until recently, so it was fun to do that.

And this one is a much more generic Canada stuff.

Snow everywhere.

It's like, how is the skateboard riding through the snow?

It doesn't make any sense at all, but you know, that's what Canada is the people in America, so of course that's what the level is going to look like.

In here really fun level.

You know, half of it is like a traditional skate park with all the pipes and grinds and transfers that you'd expect, and then there's kind of big grind opportunities on some telephone wires which are really fun.

And then there's the kind of wild forested area which you know has some kind of traditional skate park set up to it, and then it also has like the almost boardwalk type area along like the icy sea, and you kind of go through there to transfer up and then fly up onto this other wooden area and then that leads into like this little mind cart thing which you can grind to fly back into the main level.

So yeah, quite a vertical level, which I like about it.

I think some of the connective parts of it I find it confusing and don't connect super duper well.

But I think the individual areas are quite fun.

And yeah, I feel like it's a bit of a harder map and that makes it kind of more satisfying when you get a really good combo to it, just because it isn't quite as intuitively connected as some other maps are.

So shout outs to Canada and my little thirteen twelve Canada connective there between Canada and Vancouver.

Next up on the list we are going to go to I think this is near San Franco or in San Francisco, but is Alcatraz from pro Skater four.

I mean, really fun setting, right obviously, like having a prison type area, really dark, gritty, grungey type location.

Some areas are kind of still under construction.

You can get into the building eventually, like where the cells are and do some of course, they turn it into a big half pipe situation where you can fly around, do some crazy grinds, get up onto the rooftop, and then fly off in any direction you could possibly want.

There's kind of some decrepit buildings that have kind of fallen to time and are kind of semi destroyed, so you get like some ruins kind of flavored to it, the verticality to it, and like the teleporters, like going through the little doors that take you up to the next level.

There's like a huge ramp with like the full loopy loop that you can do that flies you off into like a trampoline in the middle of the ocean or the bay or whatever it is.

So yeah, just a super duper fun map.

I really really enjoy Alcatraz.

Just one that I found myself keep coming back to.

I love just starting to combo up top on the peak of that top roof and then just comboing that down and down as to the lower areas, and then even comboing right back up if you want, if you want to go through those teleporters.

So just an endlessly super duper fun map.

So shout outs to Alcatraz.

We are officially now into the top ten and at number three, or sorry, at number ten.

From kind of x prost grade to three for me is going to be suburbia.

I just love this kind of setting.

You know, there's another level that it might just come up in a little bit here higher on the list.

I don't know.

I just like this kind of suburb setting.

I feel like that's kind of the perfect skate location for me.

Combo in between these different houses, you have one construction area that's pretty fun, and then you have just like the backyard.

Like that, getting that combo bonus objective of the combo letters together was a really fun little string to get together.

You have like the creepy house with the door that mysteriously opens.

You got to give the guy the axe to break down the door, and then you go in the bag and there's like a spooky graveyard type area.

It's just it's a very goofy map.

But getting up onto that top roof and then there's a grinding down the telephone wire all the way down, you know, doing the manual all the way around the the what is it called the cul de sac?

Super fun?

Yeah, like I like too, especially with the three plus four remake, they made it a bit more halloween centric, where you got to smash some pumpkins and do all that kind of fun stuff.

So yeah, I just I really like this map.

And then you almost also on the side have just like a traditional kind of skate park area with some good quarter.

Pipes and whatnot.

So I will say I feel like the different areas, the different houses and backyards and all that don't really connect super duper well together, like they're almost little isolated zones, but it is still fun to find ways to make those connections happen, even if they aren't super intuitive.

So yeah, I really really like Suburbia.

And I think actually we got we got one more from three coming up, so I'll talk about that in a minute.

But we have our last one from two up next, and that is Philadelphia, which I don't know what it is about this map, but I just keep When I pull up the game and I just want to play level, I want to turn my brain off, listen to a podcast, I often just jump to this map.

I find it super duper fun.

It's another big one in terms of the just horizontal space of it all, and because of that, maybe some of the parts don't connect super duper well, but I think it is really fun to find those connections between them, and yeah, I think this is great.

So there's like the.

Early point where you spawn in.

You can go over to the right jump off that kicker to get up on the rooftop or like the balcony, and then you kind of have to do a wall ride wall jump combo to get up onto the top roof.

And then there's like two directions you can go from there.

You can grind all the way on the telephone wires around like the outside of the perimeter of the map, or you can do the one that just goes vert like kind of right through the center of the map.

Super fun to start a combo from either of those locations.

You have like the big fountain area, which once you empty it is like two just endless grinds.

That's like my favorite thing is a big circular grind where I can just get a ton of combo and points built up and multiplier built up, and then of course there's you know, you go over to the other balcony.

You can grind over some telephone wires that knocks over the telephone pole which cracks open to the skate park, which is kind of fills in exactly what the rest of the map is missing, which is just some big vert kind of area.

There's big quarter pipes and pool type things, a big transfer you can do, and then they'll also perfectly lead into some rails that take you back into the regular city area.

So it's just super duper well designed, super fun kind of around the whole perimeter, there's like a big street area which doesn't really have much going on, so it feels like a bit of empty space, I guess, But I guess it just makes the level feel a bit more open because if you are doing a combo and you end up on the perimeter of the map, you don't just like lose, like, you know, that's a mission I didn't have in here.

Level I didn't have is cruise ship, which I like, but you know, just flying off the side accidentally and then like dipping in the water and ruining your combo never feels great.

And I feel like that's what this map app adds, like a little buffer with the streets on the outside to prevent that kind of thing.

So yeah, I just find myself keep coming back to Philadelphia.

Super duper fun level Number eight is going to be Los Angeles, which I believe is a level that's been remade a bunch of times, but originally it came from Turn Next pro sk or three.

I feel like this one has some of the most if not the most memorable missions and like things that would change it.

Right.

So there's like early on, there's like a car up on a street or up on like a highway, which you can like knock down or I forget how all this stuff connects, but you can essentially connect all these different areas, get up on this like upper highway area, which connects to another rooftop which connects this huge like acid drop you can do.

So all that stuff's very memorable.

You can get like the earthquake, I think, yeah, you cause the earthquake which gets a car to fall, and all this crazy objectives that are popping off.

When you're doing all this stuff, you kind of have like a weird art architecture area in the center that has some of course weird grind and like vert type areas to it.

You have like the more high rise buildings where you can get some interesting combos over there too, and then yeah, just like some really solid grinds, some weirdly shaped grinds which I really like, down some staircases and all that.

So it just kind of feels like it has it all.

I really like this level super duper fun.

Another one that I can come back to over and over again, and I think is worthy of all the remakes that it's gotten over the years.

And I think with that that's our last level from TONAXX pro Skate or three.

So that's another one that officially removed from the ranking.

Now another one from Underground.

We haven't heard from that in a little bit, but it is slam City jams that connective with the Vancouver that I mentioned earlier.

And yeah, this is my highest just straight up skate park mission on my list here, and I think this one just kind of has it all.

Like it the theming of it.

It's pretty basic, to be fair, but you know, through the Middle has all the vert opportunities, grind opportunities, kick your opportunities you could ask for.

It has the I forget how you do it, but you can like go through a door which pops you out into the bleachers and you can like do a huge grind like kick you into the middle of the level and start off a combo, and then I think the part that has the best is like the complete perimeter grind that you can do, whether that's like the outside stands, whether it's like the actual skate park props that are set up that it just is extremely fun, endlessly fun.

I feel like this one.

Followed the blue Oh my god, followed the blueprint that is Rio and what I talked about like the inner skate park with the out huge connective grind around the whole thing, and I feel like this level just takes that idea and just flies with it.

So yeah, to me, definitely the best skate park or straight up skate park level in the whole game or in the whole series, I should say, yeah, So shout outs to Slam City Jam and then up from there we're going to number six and this is gonna be Tampa.

So for Tampa is a goofy one where it has like the strip club and it has like the car with the people, you know, making love, and you can like grind it to like stop them from doing that, which of course is very silly, but like as.

A kid, it was like, oh, oh, this is crazy.

What is this game that I'm playing, and I will say the Strip Club at least has a very fun bowl in it that's like a actually really fun area to like build up some big combos in.

Yeah, I think this this map has like a really solid skate park section that starts out in a warehouse but like connects to an open street area that's really fun.

You can get up on the rooftop and start some big combos from there, and then it has like the similar to Knat has like the big kind of snake cement like area that you can manual through, which connects into some grinds that you can get all the way down.

There's like the party boat off the side, which you know, if you mess that up you fly into the water.

But yeah, I really really like Tampa.

Tampa's a classic, a really fun one.

Yeah, just always infinitely replayable.

Next up, we've got our last level from Thomas pro Skater four and this is gonna be San Francisco, which I don't know if this is how it works in the original game, but in pro Skater or I guess in yeah, pro Skater three plus four the remake, this is like the tutorial level, Like even if you're playing three.

This is like just the tutorial level for the game where it teaches you a bunch of things, and so obviously I was kind of introduced to it there, but then you come back to it and actually is a fully fledged level that has all it subjectives punched in there, and yeah, this is one that I just love.

I think it's it's a super duper well designed level where it has, you know, the main skate park area around the edges, it has these buildings with grinds connected to like telephone wires that give you some big combos around the sides.

It has like this whole other side of area that's almost completely disconnected from the rest, which is like has some trains that you can jump around and get some grinds off of.

And then it has like the boardwalk area which has some fun vert sections, has some good grind opportunities there.

And then there's like the upper balcony area that it's kind of above the skate park where you get like the big challenge to do a long manual across the whole boardwalk or across the whole walkway, whatever you want to call it.

And then all these things, I think the part that makes this level sing is that a lot of these areas are like very interconnected, right, so you can kind of combo in between them.

The missions that you have to do here are really memorable.

So yeah, another one that I just find myself coming back to over and over again trying to build up these big combos get around.

Doing the speed run challenge for it was super fun, super engaging.

So yeah, San Francisco makes it into my top five at number five.

Yeah, and between that streets and then I guess Alcatraz, like San Francisco, you know, has a big representation in my list overall.

Into number four is water Park.

So this is from the three plus four remake.

So it's a new map, one of the newest maps to the series.

It's only you know, two months old at this point, but to me, this is like absolute peak level, one of the best you have in the whole series.

Obviously, that's why I put it at number four.

So it's overtaking years of nostalgia from some of these maps to get into my top four.

And you know reason for that, there's so many One the start of the level, you start at the top of these kind of racing slides, and that's like the perfect way.

You can either grind off to the right, which leads into this whole grind and the right side of the map you can go just do one huge grind right down through the middle, convert that over to the left which has some other connection over there, or you combo it into some other grinds or takes you to this fountain area which takes it all the way to the back of the map.

So starting this.

Level, hitting that replay button always satisfying because you know you're gonna be in for like a big combo rate off the start.

The whole map, like the ground of it is pretty much filled with pools, right because it's a whole water park, so you just have quarter pipes, half pipes, pools all the way littered around this whole thing.

I love the setting of it being like an abandoned water park, so it gives it like this dark tone to it where there's kind of the crustiness the abandonedness to it.

So it just makes it perfect where there's no barely any water in any of these pools, like it's just there for you to skate through them.

Of course, you have the big pirate ship.

Pirate ship kind of set piece to it, and that has some fun objectives tied to it.

And then at the back of the map is where you have the entrance to I think like three or four different slides, and that teleports you to the top of the slide and then you can grind through them, ride through them, get some big air off them.

And then there's like even the big Castle area I talked about the Edinburgh area.

You have like a big castle here which has just like a huge transfer you can do that just sends you out with a ton of air right through the middle of the course.

And because the whole map has the pools all the way through which you can grind on or you can do vert in, every part of this map is just like perfectly interconnected to the other areas.

So this is one of the reasons why like after A instead of another remake of Especially you know, next up in the series would be Underground, which is a game I'm deeply nostalgic for and love so much.

I just I want this team to make a new Tony Hawk game because if like this, this level alone shows that they got the chops to make some of the best I also had pinball there and then Movie Studio.

The one I didn't include, which is one of the new ones, is also a really really great level that you know, if I did top thirty, I think it would have been in the list, So it's super close to making it.

So yeah, just these new maps were really really good.

But here's not a new map, and that is Hawaii from Tony Hawk's Underground.

This is where no stall is coming in for sure.

I mean, this is where you do the mctwist over the helicopter, which of course is a super iconic mission, maybe the most iconic mission in the whole series for me.

You have the like a little Tiaki you can jump into which like converts you takes you to hell for a moment.

You can go up on the top of these rooftops which leads into these huge transfers.

We can get a ton of air combines into the swimming pools.

You have like the beach area.

You can grind up some like coconut trees, some palm trees.

You have like the area at the back that kind of has like the just full on vert area.

You have the similar area to like the Kona or the Tampa with like the kind of snaky area in between, just a lot of verticality in this map.

Everything is super interconnected, everything works perfectly alongside one another.

So yeah, I love this map.

I think it's just one of the best of all time.

Super fun.

When I'll always come back to number two, Tony Hawks Underground once again, we have Manhattan.

This is the New York level.

We've had a couple of these so far, but yeah, this one's the highest one on the ranking for me.

And yeah, I mean, what isn't there to say about this?

This one's fun to drive around in a car.

It's fun to skate around because like the whole map has like a perimeter that is completely combable with big grinds.

You can get up on the highway up above, and that you can jump down to the boardwalk below.

You don't really have a traditional skate park area, so to speak, but you have like all the cars you can grind on on the one.

Side of the map.

You can get up like into the inside of the building.

I guess you do have some more kind of traditional skate park areas, but they're more like almost like an art museum.

You kind of have these weird props which work perfectly as skateboarding, you know, props and all that.

So yeah, just a super fun.

Level, always infinitely replayable, feels massive because it's like pretty big horizontally but also vertically.

It's got that factor to it, so it really encapsulates that perfect Manhattan energy to it.

And then that takes us to number one, my favorite Tony Hawk level.

This one.

I didn't even have to question everything else on the list.

You know, there was multiple iterations of this list.

I moved things around, and move things up, I move things down.

This one was always number one without a shot of a doubt.

And that is New Jersey from Tonya's Underground.

So yeah, Underground making up my top three.

So the nostalgia is speaking there, but I think this is really just they hit their stride and we're making some really really great levels back in the day.

This is the first level in the game, and so obviously it's got that sentimental value, but I think it also has that bookend factor where you come back here near the end of the game.

We're at the very end of the game due to that big combo contest against the Great Eric Sparrow where you have to grind do a combo across the whole city, and if you hadn't already found that, that just kind of shows like, wow, this is a big map horizontally, but the whole thing is interconnected and you can do and will do a combo across the entire thing, doing the perimeter, comboing through the middle of the houses up above, down below.

It just it's got it all and like, I think that that mission really highlights just how incredible this level is.

And then yeah, you kind of have like the two separate areas, like there is a bridge that kind of breaks apart these two areas, but because you can combo across the bridge in multiple different ways, it of course does connect together pretty well.

And I think at the start of the game, right you can't even get across the bridge.

You have to unlock that.

So there's even that little mini factor of unlocking a bigger area, which leads to like a hotel type area I think down into the train station, which has some great vert in there.

The vert between the houses is super fun.

Comboing along the pipes, like the gas League pipes that are going around, which have like all the sketchy people on the one part of the map, and then kind of that what I can say to be the South Once again, I don't think these games have cardinal directions, but you have like the South area that has all these other like vert areas that can easily connect into some grinds that connect you out with the rest of the city.

You have like a many kind of traditional skate park area in the very center there, but that also has like a playground area where you can grind around, like monkey bars and those kinds of fun props.

And then you have like the vehicle here is like the green sports car, like the rally car that you can fly around, which which is always you know, super duper fun.

So yeah, this level just great.

And I think this one too as a kid, really inspired my imagination once again as Suburbia I mentioned at my number ten, and this one kind of highlights that area more where this was just like the place I wanted to hang out and just I would get off my board.

I'd just walk around, climb the houses, climb the gutters, go up on the rooftops, jump off, and I don't just drive around, have a good time, do some fake parking, you know.

I would just have a great time with this this level over and over again, and because it does bookend the story, I think it also adds so much.

Obviously, Tonyak's Underground is my favorite game.

I think the only levels I didn't include here were San Diego, which is still a solid map and Hotter than Hell like the bonus level, and then I think I think Warehouse or something is also in the games like a bonus level.

But yeah, pretty much every level from that game is in there, and it made up you know, five of my top ten and three of my top three.

So obviously I have a lot of nostalgia for the game.

I love the game so much, but yeah, it's just an amazing game, and this whole series is so great super well, not every game is great, but it does have a lot of great games in the mix.

So yeah, like I said, I would love to redo this again in the future, adding into some new levels into the mix, if they get a new game in there, or if I just play some of the older ones or spend some more time with some of these older games.

But yeah, this has been a lot of fun.

Like I said, I've been playing so much of these games, so it's fun to kind of endcap that by doing my ranking here.

My top twenty five levels.

If you're listening to this, let me know what your favorite levels are or if you can't remember all of them.

Just let me know what your favorite game in the series is, or your favorite you're ranking of just the series itself.

Let me know if your favorite skateboarder is.

I don't know.

Let me know whatever you want.

I'd love to hear it.

But thank you so much for listening to this.

I have a great October and I will see you again next time.

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