The Simpsons Skateboarding - Square Eyed Jak 

Im a jak-ophile

Funny story. I used to have this friend who owned a PS2. He had a huge collection of PS2 games, and I remember picking up this exact game on his floor and then immediately being told by him to “not play that game”. This was when he was 8 years old. Even back then, kids had standards.

Square Eyed Jak is the biggest legend out there

I’ve seen a few reviews of this game but you’re the first one I’ve seen actually finish the thing.

"The game was clearly made on a $$Mega-Bucks$$ budget of $99!" Well, isn't this S-M-A-R-Tastic. XD Given so many people don't go this deep into the game, I'd wager your final critique not only is the most detailed, but potentially even more justified than others. Really great episode, and given you're couch-side currently, it's super wholesome your mum is supporting the channel.

2:55 Homer's successful audition to be the next Mike Myers in Halloween

The Simpsons are known to parody a lot of things, so a parodied version of Pro Skater would have been great, but instead, there is a complete lack of focus on the game design and is ultimately underwhelmingtastic.

It is so bizarre seeing past the first two levels of this game. You deserve bragging rights for showing those alone, let alone actually clearing them cause they look atrocious.

This is the Simpsons Wrestling of skateboarding games

2:40 what's worse is that this game's music was composed by christopher tyng, the guy who did the music for futurama. how the fuck did he screw this up so badly lmao

I've watched many videos on this over the years but you're the first to actually play the whole thing, I salute your bravery sir.

Never in my life have I seen beyond the first stage in the game. I honestly for years thought it was just 1 open world with how reviewers talked about it. You madlad

Congratulations on being the only person to ever beat this game!

True reviewers actually finish the fucking game before giving their takes on it

The intros are such king shit also the artwork for this one is hilarious. Jak looking like he wants to kill Bart for making his ass skate again, LMAO. Been waiting for you to bury this atrocity.

Thank you for an actual in depth review of this game

19:44 first time I've laughed that hard over Nelson laughing

13:46 Australian Angry Video Game Nerd - Perfect "I'd Rather..." quote. 17:04 AVGN Reference from the "Action 52" episode

"I'm a Shredophile!" Man, I forgot more about this game than I thought. I like Simpsons, I like Tony Hawk, I bought this game years ago and wow! It was just so clunky, I'd rather be playing Hit and Run It cracks me up that the "Warp" sound effect is a sound effect that Roblox uses. Button.wav in Psychonauts was just the beginning

Even though you are between homes again at the moment, this year's Hawktober is going strong as always. As a content creator you seem just unstoppable, so much passion. Keep it up! I'm sure everything else will fall into place soon as well, so hang in there man and take care of yourself.

First off, THANK YOU FOR DOING MORE THAN JUST THE FIRST 2 LEVELS WITH THIS. You have no idea how much that annoys me to no end with reviews of this game. It's just not even fair to me and comes off as a half assed piss take on a game with more potential than they let on. Also not shocked you went for Bart btw. I personally went for the person so many don't want to do: Homer. The jump isn't too much of an issue to me for the most part with him. Next up, the flips and spins are a tad confusing, but they kinda stop when you realize you have to hold the buttons before making the jumps. You also have to do a grab to keep doing them, otherwise the game stops you automatically on 1 back/front flip or a 360 spin. The game DOES kinda tell you this, but it isn't very obvious. I 100% agree with you on the separate player progression in the case of doing levels outside of the character you chose before. I have more issues with it personally, like how you HAVE to 100% the game with all of them to unlock all the movies and such and that none of the challenges ever really change, making it so, so repetitive and unfun. Construction Site does pretty much suck. Its also the most confusing level to have out of anything with Simpsons back then, since there's rarely a moment where a construction site even shows up in the show. All the other levels have significance with the Simpsons in general, like Krustyland, the Mall, Itchy and Scratchy Land and Sir Putt-a-lots. But Construction Site is just... like, 2 episodes i think? And doesn't last long with its appearence either, just for a joke or two really. It's a weird choice. Im kinda surprised you didn't notice the fact your grind balance always resets back to neutral, no matter what, if you jump and grind again. If you knew this, you'd find that stuff like the leftorium key challenge is easy, because you just need to keep small hopping and grinding up the rail. Every time you do it, you gain speed from it if you're also holding up/nosegrind. So you can get insane speed with little effort and get up to the key no problem. Im also surprised you never checked the tricks really, and the whole special trick thing, which almost every trick literally leads to a full 360 rotation of the analog stick, and how you're made to do that with some of the main mode's goals, and with the Skillz School stuff, which honestly makes Skillz School the hardest of the 3 modes. The special tricks might be the worst thing in the entire game to me. They do not work correctly and are the worst to pull off, especially in a specific combo. Personally, i don't find the game that bad, but i can respect your opinion, especially since you didn't just quit after the first 2 levels and actually tried with this. I also appreciate that you didn't give this game a 1/10 too, despite how much you found it terrible with what you said. This game does have things wrong with it, but there's worse skateboarding games and its not deserving of a 0/10 or 1/10 really. Good video and review, Jak. - Xindictive (the dude who 100%'d Simpsons Skateboarding on youtube before anyone else)

Never been more excited to see Simpsons, Hawktober and Square Eyed Jak in the same video! Happy to see you killing it!

This has to be the ultimate "how could you fuck this up?" kind of game, like what a missed opportunity. I wish so bad it was actually a good game or on the same level of quality as Hit and Run and Road Rage. 9:20 IDK if it's the lack of texture detail or the camera but that half pipe makes me want to barf >.

6:50 - 7:15 Mad respect honestly. I've seen one too many RU-vid reviewers who do just this, especially for a game as awful as Bubsy 3D. You and Nitro Rad are pretty much my favorite content creators for this alone. Unlike most RU-vid reviewers, I always admire those who stick it out and tell more than just beyond the first hours they spend with a game regardless of its quality. Really, really mad respect for that.

If Bubsy 3D is to Nitro Rad, then The Simpsons Skateboarding is that to Square-Eyed Jak. Great job. And yes, a 3/10 on consoles is worse than a 3 or even a 2/10 on portables.

17:05 bruh was that an AVGN reference? I totally heard that in his voice lmao

You know it's gonna be great when it's a 27 minutes video

"The game was clearly on a $$Mega-Bucks$$ budget of $99" is one of the best quotes ever to grace your channel!

Man, the quality of your work blows my mind every time, you need get the recognition you deserve

The Disney skateboarding clip of jak screaming will never not get old

99 dollars (maybe 30) as the grand prize for competing in a skate tournament. I'd rathere join the cannonball race from Crash Boom Bang; it might not be a good competition, but at least you can tell the grand prize is worth more money than what the Simpsons are skateboarding for.

Hey Jak, hadn't watched a video of yours in a long time, maybe a year and this just popped up on my subscription feed, really enjoyed this video, glad to see you're still making quality content Also fair play for actually going through so many levels haha I never got past the power plant level. It has been sitting in my shelf for years

HELL YEAH! October is a great month. It has my birthday, Halloween, a surge of scary movies AND Hawktober!! Thanks for the upload Jak!!

This video is EXCELLENTtastic!

The only thing I remember from this garbage game was that I was once at a friend's house and he had simpsons skateboarding and I remember looking at the box art thinking that it's the coolest game ever

This video is SHREDOPHILEtastic, lovin’ year 5 of Hawktober so far!

Jack did what Caddicarus couldn’t do! He played the full game! 😮

Hello Jak, I've been watching your content for the past week or 2. Something i must tell you is that all your content is super rewatchable. Insane how good this show is.

I really wish this game was better. I like Hit & Run, I like THPS, a good "Simpsons Pro Skater" would be cool.

23:13 The only reason why I came to watch this video.

So weird I was watching reviews of this last night and was looking to see if you ever made a review about this and then I see this. Thank you!!

Haven’t ever played this myself either. But my god finally a review that shows more than just the first level haha. Good work mah dude!

Thanks for making these reviews! I just found your channel recently, and I'm already a big fan of your content, especially your Ty the Tasmanian Tiger reviews.

Damn man. You actually played through all of it. You actually found SOME good in this game. You earned yourself a subscriber my friend. BTW the Nelson sound bite cracked me up!

3 Jak videos within a couple days... my brain is gonna explode with serotonin

It's kind of sad how this is the only skating game that I have been somewhat competent at... doesn't mean its good tho.

Jack you have surpassed all reviewers and fully reviewed a Simpson skateboard game not even cut caddy can't even pull off you are the man you deserve a break after this year's Tony Hawk Tober you are the man of Legends and deserved to be the game Lord of Australia

Even a speedrunner who (I believe) got a record hated this game

I feel you might have had more success with this game if your controller had an “any” key.

thank you for actually playing through the whole game, I know it was probably the worst thing ever but it was actually interesting getting to see the whole game, since as you mentioned most other reviews just play or at the very least just show footage of the first level and nothing more, shows that you put much more effort into your reviews and good on you for doing that, even if it does result in probably permanent brain damage from playing this crap lol, awesome vid!

Jak has probably had requests for this game for years lol.

I ragequit when I got to Itchy and Scratchy Land...all because getting both of them in the pool is a pain in the ass...and I gave up

8:04 R-rated Raiders of the Lost Ark recovered!

I have been waiting for this!! Keep up the great work!

I remember buying this game when i was a kid. And the next day i had to give it back cuz i couldn't even move. Good thing i did it.

EXCELLENTtastic video, Jak!

Great review Jack! Sad to see Hawktober has one vid left, but I will be looking forward to next year’s. A suggestion for a next Hawktober would be the “modern” skateboarding games (2016-2022).

I remember when I first discovered this game during a Simpsons craze I had leading up to the movie, I was always curious about it given the whole concept made sense with Bart and so on. But at the time, there was no gameplay footage for it up uptil the mid-10s when I rediscovered it and learned that it was really that bad for a few reviewers and later learned that the same devs also made those infamous Phoenix "games" that would have a crappy cartoon packed in with a bunch of interactive mini games once those started to hit popularity amongst reviewers. Also I can't help how your voice reminds me Minty Comedic Arts but slightly pitched down.

Even tho this game was hard as fuck and not really designed well, it was still a good part of my childhood. Thanks for reviewing it. I’m glad you touched on all the other levels.

6:55 I just came from watching the Star Fox 'reveiw' where he did exactly that 🤨🤣

Ah, the early 2000s. Is it weird to miss the days of licensed shovelware when the most we get these days are generic identical phone apps with different licenses slapped onto them? Even if it was shit, it was still *interesting* shit.

Oh boy, haven’t played this one since I was a kid. Absolutely despised this garbage

I remember playing this game. No wonder I really struggled playing this game as a kid. I just put it down to me playing bad but I think the controls were just awful. Thanks for the awesome nostalgia though. Great review as always Jak! :)

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO

lmao at shredophile part, keep up the awesome work Jak

Finally, it's been 300 years... What a SKINNERtastic review. :P

This game is Craptacular. Also you have my sympathy for going through the whole game, that can't have been easy.

I can't wait for the next video😂😂

I love that Disney logo parody at the beginning. XD

Loved your mad scientist from Crash Bandicoot scream at 8:09

Man this is a great episode glad to see someone play this game fully through instead of the first 2 levels, but yeah the only other "Disney" Skateboarding game there is, is Disney Extreme Skateboarding which was the one to bring over multiple Disney Characters in a crossover game to skate, looking forward to that one soon as I seen Jak do the Disney Skateboarding games Marathon.

7:00 Thank you. I know that first impressions are important but seriously I've met some people that have shat on games when only on tutorial or 1st levels or even skip cutscenes and call the story trash.

For me the best way to explore a 3D Springfield is by vehicle or on foot and is why I still love hit and run to this day

HAWK TOBER THE BEST TIME OF THE YEAR !

Shredophile. It's like an audiophile but with shredding

It's been to long Jack! 😍

I remember renting this game back in the day. Holy fuck, this game was awful.

Fucking lost it at shredophile lololo

I fucking love this game and everything about it, it has so much nostalgia to me

I like the reward being $99, just enough to be a lot, but not enough to be worth all the effort a player character has to do.

Not gonna lie, that head explosion caught me off guard and I was wheezing laughing

god damn it man your dedication to making entertaining videos not even Cadicarus reviewed the entire game

Who doesn't love the Simps?

6:48 every negative reviewer who's reviewing a show they hate

Your videos are still great!

Your videos are wonderful man. Cheers Dude :)

Anyone who watched caddicarus old simpson skateboarding video after this?

17:05 I understood that reference

I don't know why everyone seems to hate this game so much. I liked it.

This review truly was something else. It was better than excellent. Much more than fantastic. It was Excellenttastic.

Now this is a Simpsons Skateboarding review! You deserve the bragging rights now. Now take your Mega Buck$ prize of $30! After all, $30 can buy you many peanuts b/c money can be exchanged for good and services! Until then, this game is abysmal-tastic!

My only skateboarding game I ever owned. Unless spyro 3 counts

Great as always Jak, I always come back for Hawktober every year and I'm not disappointed this time! I had this game as a kid and I always thought it was my fault that I couldn't pull off even the simplest tricks.. But nah, the game was just shit.

i had no idea most of these skateboarding games existed lol

Wish I could see more from the game. Never beat the first level

Thank goodness we got Simpsons Hit and Run to much critical acclaim and applause a year later. This game was unforgiving!

Hey Jak, they dont communicate it properly in the game but spins and back/front flips you have to hold the button before ollieing. Good video

I played this before and yeahhh...... bless you soul with this

6:28 "you see a guy you talk to him immediately, the mission starts"

I played this a lot back when I was a kid. Don't know how I managed to make it far considering how broken and sluggish the game was.