Mario Golf Super Rush - it's not Strikers though, is it?

This is looking quite good now, so definitely up for giving it a go.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

GNamer rounds of online Speed Golf needs to happen every day and every night, forever.

No this is for babies, you must all play golf the traditional way. The traditional boring way. The traditional slow boring way. The traditional dull slow boring way.

Actually I am dead excited for this, and would have to play online with you as no bugger here will play it.

Mixed reviews however, the playing of Golf sounds great, and we know we're getting more content down the road.

And hopefully you guys are online for some rounds.

Yeah I think I'm gonna get it, sounds similar to the Mario Tennis release, that was a little sparse at launch but they kept supporting it and made it even better. Only 2 player in local play for the simultaneous modes is a bit naff though, hopefully that's something they can update, the online absolutely needs to be reliable as well.

I’m quite surprised to see this has been getting a muted reception in it’s early reviews. I acknowledge that it’s likely incomplete and that there’s more content to be added further down the line, but much of the pre-launch chat seems to repeat that it’s a fairly ordinary golf game that doesn’t have many interesting courses or that usual Nintendo sheen. The one games journalist I follow on social media – Chris Schilling – says it’s “one of the worst Nintendo games in ages”, which is really disappointing to read.

My copy dispatched yesterday so I’m already committed to getting it. I’ll be around for some online games if anybody else wants still to join me.

Oh no - this is a bit concerning. I did worry what everyone was so happy about Speed Golf; I'm gonna pause on this I think.

Speed Golf does look above par, shame though for local play being only 2 players.

masofdas wrote:

Speed Golf does look above par,

I think this is bad in golf?

Yeah it is, bad pun from me.

The weird thing is that everyone's dunking on the game for lack of content and un-Mario-ish courses, when all Toadstool Tour had was six tournaments of six courses, of which only the last two were Mario-ish, and everybody loves that.

Ho hum. I have enough to play for now anyway.

A big reason I spent a lot of time with Toadstool Tour was that you started with what, four characters? You had to unlock courses and characters, probably modes too. It looks like a lot of this is all unlocked from the start, which is a wild decision given the RPG mode appears to be barebones. I never saw the appeal of running to get to your ball in Everybody Golf (2017).

Considering we have had excellent Tiger Woods titles, and the superb Everybody's Golf in the interim, perhaps reviewers expected more. After being disappointed by the Virtua Fighter 5 release, and the poorly handled Ninja Gaiden Collection, I'm starting to think my favourite games are cursed. Don't mess up Advance Wars Ninty!

I got it anyway as I was able to trade in Ratchet and Clank for a straight swap (PS5 games don't hold their value very long), will share my impressions but as long as the intended updates are frequent enough it sounds like this will get the content it needs.

I've spent a few hours playing this over the weekend. While it's a well-playing and solidly-made golf game that challenges you to think tactically, it's main Golf Adventure mode has not been an exciting use of my time. The four courses I've unlocked so far aren't particularly interesting, the NPC dialogue is pointless waffle and the bits where you walk around - both on and off the course - are flat-out boring. The course design simply isn't clever enough and the visuals aren't appealing enough for the "running to get your ball" mechanic to be anything other than a big downgrade on simply being warped to where your balls landed.

The Speed and Battle Golf modes look like they've got potential though - and I agree with treesmurf, I think this'll get the content updates it needs.

I think online multiplayer would really bring this all of Super Rush to life. I'll give folk a shout later in the week and see if they're up for a few rounds

Here are my thoughts on the game: all the characters have big, fat sausage fingers.

10/10 banger.

I'm struggling to get in to this, I honestly feel like all I do on it is aim in roughly the same area the shot starts me at and do the same shot, then running to each hole just seems drawn out and a bit boring, maybe I'm missing something but I'm sure I bounced of the last Mario Golf game I played back on the Cube as well.

Bizarrely dramatic opening video

Buskalilly wrote:

Bizarrely dramatic opening video

As it should be. Don't forget how the opening to Mario Tennis looked like it was going to dissolve into a Luigi/Waluigi fistfight, before being blown up.



Out of it, Toadstool Tour, and Mario Power Tennis, that was the least dramatic of the bunch.