Grand Mountain Adventure in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Fun and Frustrating

This is a beautiful game and can be very fun. Unfortunately camera issues pervade and, often, ruin the experience. The camera rarely allows you to see ahead. I understand that the developers want to control the aesthetic, pace, and performance of the game but the camera can be downright game breaking at times. There are just too many times when you cannot see where you are going. It is common for the camera angle to rotate suddenly and hide either your skier or the path in front of you so you literally are skiing blindly. This issue arises most often in the steep, difficult and fast areas where you need to see the most. As a result, the game’s difficulty is not so much skill as it is luck and having to memorize the entire mountain’s terrain because a small little bump or ledge here (that you probably cannot see because of the poor camera angles) will give you just enough air that you miss your gate or soar off a cliff. Even then, memorizing the turns and sequences isn’t enough because when you can’t see your skier, you lose your line easily. I still enjoy this game but I find myself having no desire to try to collect ski passes beyond what is necessary to open the next area. I do not want to try a challenge 100 times in hopes of getting lucky. Because that is what many of the challenges amount to: pure blind (literally) luck.

★★★★★ One step from perfect…

The variety of turning controls makes for a realistic and fun skiing experience. However, I find it difficult to control speed on really steep terrain. Speed control turns are a fundamental part of skiing, and the game is missing an element of skill and strategy without that ability. In extreme terrain, you pretty much have to straight-line and hope you don’t fly off of, or into something. To deal with this, I’ve learned to use the downward slide hockey stop / brake function at the ends of my turns. This works. But feels and looks really unnatural because you are either in a high-speed GS turn or an all-out hockey stop. A suggestion to fix this would be to make the downward slide function a progressive stopping turn, so that the further down you slide, the more perpendicular your skis turn to the fall line and the faster you stop. Sliding down just a little would initiate a sliding turn that burns some speed off. You could still come to a complete stop by sliding all the way down. Changing this would make GMA the perfect skiing game!

★★★★★ GREAT GAME again

I’m a lover of snowboarding/skiing and love playing games on them (steep sac Shaun white etc.) so when I saw this game in pre order I immediately did. This game has been out for a day and it’s my favorite already. I could play this for hours. Even though it’s a small map there is so much to explore and discover. I got it in dec and was excited to see it got downloaded in my notifications. I love this game and so will you.👍🤗 Hi y’all 👋. The review above is the one I just left but after looking through other reviews I noticed they said the full game cost money; so I go check (I hadn’t had any problems and thought I got the full game because I pre ordered) as it turns out even if you pre ordered it still costs money. The game is still fun but FALSE ADVERTISING I will keep the game and consider getting the full version. Until then bye🤗 Hi... for the third time I just got a dev response and he made me realize something, I. WAS. DUMB. Of course the full game isn’t free; I completely forgot about MONEY. How are the devs supposed to make more games/update current games I will now revert my rating to a five star.

★★★★★ This game is amazing!

Putting this out there paying for the different mountains is definitely worth it! Not to mention it is a free range area but just if you wanna have quests u have the choice to do challenges to get ski passes! Irl I love skiing and the general aesthetic design is 10/10 it really covers the movement of how skiing actually works with the left right motion. The big range of land birds that follow you and wild life is something I love. I’ve been skiing in the Alaskan mountains a few times and the steep drops and trees definitely shows it’s realistic! Also thank you to the creators of this game I have seen you answer other reviews and it shows you’re passionate and you care about the opinions of players. That really got me I love y’all so much if I could give you more stars you bet I would. Fabulous work you guys have done here! Also the sunsets in the game ughhh yessir you didn’t have to do that but you did! I’m a huge bird person so I find it cute birds follow you. Seriously google job on this game it is really a work of art💕😤❤️

★★★★★ Incredible adventure!

This game is really good! I preordered it several months in advance and they still got it out on the day they had projected. The game is an incredible skiing game! In the game you can just ski practically however and wherever you want, however if you want to do races or challenges it super easy too! The game has great definition and incredible game play! It’s very smooth and thrilling! I would definitely recommend this game as a must have if you enjoy fun unique games that aren’t just slapped together! That being said while the game is free you can’t unlock other mountains, there is only one mountain that comes with the free account. I think to find a good balance between making it more fun for the consumer and still getting profit for the developer, would be to have ways of unlocking the mountains but not making it fast and easy, and then for the impatient ones, which are most of us would be to buy the whole game. I would pay up to $7.00 for all the mountains. You guys definitely need to start developing more games! Thanks!

★★★★★ Please make more maps free

I saw this app on the coming soon tab so I pre ordered it. Such a fun free riding ski and snowboard game. It gives you so much freedom in the game that other games with similar concepts do not. It doesn’t make you feel obligated to play and you can play on your terms and your time. However that being said I played it for almost a whole day even after I did everything I could on the first map (the free map). I am still playing on and off because it is so relaxing and stress relieving if you will. I would recommend this game to any one of any age group. I usually like more active action games however this is now one of my favorite games. I hope and pray that they do however make more free maps because 1 just isn’t enough. Download this game and you will not be let down. Also I do not usually leave reviews ever but I decided I wanted to because it was such a well thought out and designed gift. I am editing this to ask please make more maps or more things to do!!!

★★★★★ Great physics…it’s almost like being there….

What a great game. The sounds, the balanced controls, the immersive terrain with humor sprinkled throughout. I tire of games easily but I keep coming back to this one. I used to snowboard so It’s great to be able to try things without hurting myself. The physics, graphics and sounds are all top notch. I would like to suggest a few things….it would be cool to see the layout of real mountains. I’m not sure if the mountains in this game are real. I never got to Whistler, BC. with my friends. It would be nice to be able to see/feel how it was described to me in this game. Also, it would be nice to “buy” all the lift tickets if you wanted to so you don’t have to worry about collecting things or be forced to do things. Lastly, have a super tall mountain where it takes several minutes of just carving, hitting big and little jumps with no barriers to get in your way…like heli boarding on a huge mountain. Pure flow/zen mode. Awesome game! Nice work Devs!