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Mario Golf: World Tour - GR Review

Added: 25.04.2014 23:10 | 11 views | 0 comments

Out of the semi-rough.

Citing golf titles as an area of expertise feels strange to say as a reviewer, but that's what happens when I readily assign myself titles since the original on Nintendo 64, where I rocked Maple because of her straight shots and congratulated myself for beating the final ridiculous course based on character faces. World Tour brings back the nostalgia for sure, all while adding a fresh campaign mode and nifty online tournaments, though a handful of features are oddly lacking.

World Tour doesn't mess around with the traditional formula for casual golf titles too much, using a roster of familiar Mario characters (Bowser for the win!) with simplified stats and a two-hit bar for power and accuracy. One major point of difference is topspin and backspin, which can be controlled by pressing the right sequence of buttons at the impact point, allowing you to perform super topspin for long drives down the fairway or super backspin on tight or down-sloping hole locations on the putting green. Another is a handy indication of the landing location for the ball so that you don't need to worry much about the slope of the ball's lie.