i had played skate 2 and 3 before and was super excited for this game and when i first got the game it was different type of game for sure u have to play it for yourself to know what i mean but after like 30 minutes of playing i had the controls figured out and was chillin and having fun, most of the hate is from people who played the game for 5 minutes and thought it was hard so quit but the game is a lot like actual skating you can’t do every trick in the book in a couple of minutes it takes time