Mario Golf: Super Rush

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  1. TheLonelyGoomba
    Jun 29, 2021
    4
    A shallow hollow imitation of the Mario Golf gameplay. The new swing system not only removes the timing based aspect of the game. It also removes any real penalty for making a bad shot.

    Stuck in some sand? Crack out the 1 Wood and smack it to the green, no problem. The whole concept is built on a risk/reward system but it simply doesn't work. The risk is microscopic and the reward is    A shallow hollow imitation of the Mario Golf gameplay. The new swing system not only removes the timing based aspect of the game. It also removes any real penalty for making a bad shot.

    Stuck in some sand? Crack out the 1 Wood and smack it to the green, no problem. The whole concept is built on a risk/reward system but it simply doesn't work. The risk is microscopic and the reward is huge.

    People defending this gameplay mechanic, heck, I even defended it at one point. It's not worth defending. It basically removes the whole point of golf, it removes learning the clubs, knowing how to handle each situation. It's all gone. You just smack it and hope for the best. The game simply wont allow you to mess up. It's the worst thing to possibly happen to Mario Golf cos it ruins every single aspect of the game. The skill element, the planning element, the timing, the importance of each club, it's all gone. if you think I'm exaggerating, you haven't played the game enough, or haven't dared to experiment. The only thing that comes out unscathed really is the putting.

    At the most it's a system you can tolerate but I highly doubt people familiar with the series can honestly say this is the right direction for the series. And it's not just me. My dad bought a Switch JUST for this game cos he loves the series so much. And after a day, he was saying he's thinking of selling it. He's 60 and even he hates it, it's sad.

    I can't believe how much they messed up Mario Golf here. It's a shallow, hollow shell of a game and I reckon it'll forgotten about by most in a month or two. And top it all off, it barely has any content or side modes. No ring shot, club slots, challenges, vs matches, win records, leaderboards. Nothing. it's almost comparable to Mario Tennis Ultra Smash and that's just sad.

    The worst Mario Golf game.    … Expand
  2. hiphoptherobot
    Jun 29, 2021
    0
    There is barely a decent golf game buried under some of the most aggravating mechanics I've ever seen in my life. In Cross Country Golf you have to plan your path carefully to avoid spending the whole game trying to shoot up a cliff wall. When you plan it carefully there are obstacles that frequently put you in a stalemate. Hole on an island? Land the shot perfectly and spend the restThere is barely a decent golf game buried under some of the most aggravating mechanics I've ever seen in my life. In Cross Country Golf you have to plan your path carefully to avoid spending the whole game trying to shoot up a cliff wall. When you plan it carefully there are obstacles that frequently put you in a stalemate. Hole on an island? Land the shot perfectly and spend the rest of the game trying to cross the bridge to the island only to have a cloud blow you off while assigning a penalty stroke every 2 minutes you spend hopelessly trying to reach your ball. Clearly, I should run around the entire course and go the back way! Nope, screw you for playing this game we're going to make unscalable cliff walls around the barrier and another cloud pushing you back in the only other path to the ball. Oh you were 8 shots under par and right next to the hole? Wow, sucks to be you. Thanks for the $60 schmuck! Wait here while we slowly fail you on your best game. Stalemates are lazy game development. At least let me skip the stupid stuff so I can enjoy the rest of the game. I appreciate all the corny Mario nonsense, but primarily I want to play golf. When getting to my ball becomes the biggest challenge it ceases to be a golf game. Please save your money. At best it's criminally greedy to charge $60 for this half-baked nonsense, but at worst it's probably a big waste at any price. Play it at a friend's house first. You probably don't want to buy it without playing it first.… Expand
  3. Dude80
    Jun 29, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great game for the family especially the super rush mode and of course normal golfing. This game is definitely a must have!… Expand
  4. Greenej10
    Jun 29, 2021
    6
    Fun....for a few hours. No complaints about the gameplay, but game gets repetitive fast, CPU characters are inept, and campaign is far too short. I wish nintendo would stop creating games for babies. There is no way to adjust the skill of the CPU, which by default is far too easy. From my experience over 18 holes the CPU players average 8 over par. Meanwhile new to the game im shooting 8Fun....for a few hours. No complaints about the gameplay, but game gets repetitive fast, CPU characters are inept, and campaign is far too short. I wish nintendo would stop creating games for babies. There is no way to adjust the skill of the CPU, which by default is far too easy. From my experience over 18 holes the CPU players average 8 over par. Meanwhile new to the game im shooting 8 under. There is no challenge so the game loses its luster fast. Speed golf is fun, but I feel the game needs additional modes available . Cross golf and a Tournament is playable briefly in the story mode but is non existent otherwise. The campaign,if you can call it that, is more like a tutorial with a light story. Its disappointing because they already have the blueprint from prior games to create a great campaign mode. Seems like they just dropped the ball. I'm hoping Camelot releases an update soon to give what is otherwise a good game any replayability.… Expand
  5. MJ3000
    Jun 29, 2021
    4
    This is the first time I'm playing a Mario Golf game. I have played other golf games before but Mario Golf: Super Rush is not good. You have no real control of how the ball is going to be played. Everything feels random. And when you are close to the hole, it's so difficult to see where your ball will go due to the blue lines that are shown. There are no options to turn this off. And GolfThis is the first time I'm playing a Mario Golf game. I have played other golf games before but Mario Golf: Super Rush is not good. You have no real control of how the ball is going to be played. Everything feels random. And when you are close to the hole, it's so difficult to see where your ball will go due to the blue lines that are shown. There are no options to turn this off. And Golf Rush and Battle Mode feel random too, the AI is so much faster than you that it makes no fun at all. This game could be fun as a party game with other players but alone it feels boring and unfair. I am missing Nintendo's polish in this game. I regret buying Mario Golf for $60, it's not worth it at all, probably more like $30 due to the lack of content. It's very disappointing what Nintendo has released as a full price game. Don't buy it at this price.… Expand
  6. MaximumD
    Jun 29, 2021
    8
    I got this on release and played for a bit the first night. Aferwards I immediately deleted PGA 2k from my switch. The gameplay is just so refined and yet pretty challenging. I don't think I'll need another golf game for a while and I'm sure they will add more courses and characters in the future. Nintendo is the best at post launch support of it's products, just look at smash bros.I got this on release and played for a bit the first night. Aferwards I immediately deleted PGA 2k from my switch. The gameplay is just so refined and yet pretty challenging. I don't think I'll need another golf game for a while and I'm sure they will add more courses and characters in the future. Nintendo is the best at post launch support of it's products, just look at smash bros. Graphics are what you would expect for a mario game. Same as all the others in style.

    The minus here though is that there not too much single player content and the adventure mode is kind of boring, but it will at least teach you all the basics you need. Anyway, multiplayer is where its at and this game doesn't disappoint. It's fun to play with friends and is a great addition to all the other main Nintendo games like smash, kart, tennis, Etc. Worth a purchase and arguably the best golf game on Switch unless you can't stand not playing against real world golfers. In that case stick with the inferior gameplay of PGA 2k. Gameplay is king for me, so I vote for Mario Golf.    … Expand
  7. miguelux
    Jun 29, 2021
    3
    Mario golf has a shining lack of playability mechanics. one button shot and spin, that's all. it's a joke that they use Mario's name like Nintendo does to sell and present a rubbish so that a guy I've seen in the Polygon press says it's the best sports game, such analyses need to be reviewed, because people who read these things will buy the game and then how do they get their money back?Mario golf has a shining lack of playability mechanics. one button shot and spin, that's all. it's a joke that they use Mario's name like Nintendo does to sell and present a rubbish so that a guy I've seen in the Polygon press says it's the best sports game, such analyses need to be reviewed, because people who read these things will buy the game and then how do they get their money back? . I've wasted my time and money. A game like neo turf masters from more than 20 years ago beats the hell out of Mario golf. A big disappointment but of a game I was looking forward to for a long time.… Expand
  8. clippers334
    Jun 29, 2021
    4
    This like 1/2 a game. Maybe not even that much. Barely any content for $60. Worst Mario Golf game yet
  9. thom808
    Jun 28, 2021
    0
    unfinished. only 6 courses. annoying character noises. Ridgerock Lake is a joke. SUPER RUSH game .
  10. Pleaserefresh
    Jun 28, 2021
    10
    Love it, great Mario sports game to bring to the switch. With that said it could use some ranking system for online and a tournament would be nice
  11. RingoMandingo
    Jun 28, 2021
    3
    Truly a waste of 60 USD
    I would say wait til this game goes on deep discount but nintendo 1st party games never do
    This game fails at being a fun golf game or a competent golf game. Some how the developers made a game that lacks as much fun of a PGA on a Sunday after or the seriousness of a Golf with your Friend tournament. They could have done a Golf With Your Friends silly game or a    Truly a waste of 60 USD
    I would say wait til this game goes on deep discount but nintendo 1st party games never do
    This game fails at being a fun golf game or a competent golf game.
    Some how the developers made a game that lacks as much fun of a PGA on a Sunday after or the seriousness of a Golf with your Friend tournament.
    They could have done a Golf With Your Friends silly game or a serious PGA golf game. But they failed at both. They pin marker is never right, the trees suck the speed and velocity out of any ball that comes near them, there are no fun short cuts or hole in ones yet they want you to hit up a cliff using a tornado. With Mario Tennis you had serious tennis and power up tennis with Mario Golf you someone don't get ether.
    Nintendo should apologize to consumers who purchased this crapfest    … Expand
  12. Monke419
    Jun 28, 2021
    2
    This is NOT Mario Golf. This is some wacky a** BS. I purchased this game thinking it would be anything like the past renditions of Mario Golf. It's not. They give you like 5 courses to play. There's an adventure mode, but the tournaments and actual game play is anything but golf. They give you random weird tasks that have nothing really to do with a real game of golf. Whoever thoughtThis is NOT Mario Golf. This is some wacky a** BS. I purchased this game thinking it would be anything like the past renditions of Mario Golf. It's not. They give you like 5 courses to play. There's an adventure mode, but the tournaments and actual game play is anything but golf. They give you random weird tasks that have nothing really to do with a real game of golf. Whoever thought adding tornadoes to a course as a means of elevating from one level of the course to another should be fired. The level design there is extremely flawed.. The game sucks, simply put. I wasted my money on it. Thankfully I purchased the physical version so I can at least get some money back from it by selling it to Gamestop so they can sell it to some other unfortunate soul. Very disappointed in this game and I am very disappointed that they even allowed this game to be a part of the Mario series with how low quality crap this is. I WOULD NOT recommending purchasing unless you want to be extremely disappointed.… Expand
  13. Ek1k3
    Jun 28, 2021
    7
    I personally like the game a lot, i think its really fun. BUT it truly feels incomplete and it lacks the Mario personality and creativity older Mario sports games had. The fact that they reused the victory/loosing animations from birdies and bogeys across every other type of hole outs (hole in ones, eagles, triple bogeys etc.), the game courses lack the Mario uniqueness of them, with onlyI personally like the game a lot, i think its really fun. BUT it truly feels incomplete and it lacks the Mario personality and creativity older Mario sports games had. The fact that they reused the victory/loosing animations from birdies and bogeys across every other type of hole outs (hole in ones, eagles, triple bogeys etc.), the game courses lack the Mario uniqueness of them, with only a few being good enough for that, the fact that the "supershots" are unbalanced and inconsistent since less than half of the roster gets unique attributes to their special shots while the rest of the roster gets the generic Blast away special, and its not like they didn't have material to pull from. World tour had such a great set of starting courses, unique and creative victory animations and overall better gameplay. It's truly sad hoe the game lacks n personality like this and that most of this stuff that is missing from the game will probably never come to the game in any of the "free" updates. Not to mention the short adventure mode that disappoints beyond belief in my opinion, it started out great and I was expecting to continue on with what it set but half way through it I became bored and it felt more like a task rather than a source of entertainment. My only wish is that they fix some of the issues I and other players have in future updates. Also I'm mad that we can't taunt other players like we used to in Toadstool tour, I know that Nintendo wants to approach more family friendly terms with this, But it could easily be a setting to turn on and off these taunts, which lead to my next complaint which is more of a nitpick, but its that the characters are not very expressive, this goes along with my complaint about the animations/victory screen where the characters barely say anything, from what I can remember, the most a character has talked in the game was Daisy when she says "Whatever" in her Bogey/loosing animation or Rosalina's "Oh Boy" in the same situation, these I find are very good expressions from these characters but having it as every single loosing animation makes them feel dull, with Daisy saying "whatever" gives her some of that sass that she had back in the day and that she still has but has been dulled down as of recent years, I would have loved to see her rage in madness when she gets a triple bogey or do cartwheels in while creating fields of flowers and plants when getting a Hole-In-One. When I started playing and got my first eagle I felt really excited at first because of my accomplishment, but then I saw the character I was playing as, in that case Wario, do the same animation I had already seen for his birdie celebration screen, it made me sad and I was shocked to see that they all suffered the same fate. I don't know if this is Camelot's doing or Nintendo's, but I, along many others, am tired of this recent takes that have been doing on recent Mario Games were it's all more simplified, minimalistic, dull, and overall lacking of the Mario personality, and What worries me the most about this is the fact that This has been going on for a while and I don't want this to take effect on future installments. For example, The Mario Strikers Games are know for being really chaotic and excitement, One of the things that stand out from these games to me is the intros and interactions characters have between each other, basically talking smack to the opponent before starting the match, I fear that things like this would be replaced with more friendly and non interesting intros were the characters wouldn't even interact with each other. Anyways Going back to Mario golf, I still think it's a good game, though as of now, it is not worth the price it's got, and I fear that the updates won't be enough to make the game good enough to reach that price tag. I personally Mario Sports Tittle shouldn't be more than $50, unless they have enough content to justify the price tag. Would I recommend this game? Skeptical yes, but I'd recommend waiting for some of those "free updates" to buy it or wait until it goes n discount.… Expand
  14. setz
    Jun 28, 2021
    2
    This game is completely underwhelming on every level. It’s a shame Nintendo released this game, feels like something you’d play on Facebook. Basically everything this series stands for has been removed or tweaked for the worse. Cannot recommend to pass on buying this more.
  15. superduper99
    Jun 28, 2021
    2
    This game is completely underwhelming on every level. It’s a shame Nintendo released this game, feels like something you’d play on Facebook. Basically everything this series stands for has been removed or tweaked for the worse. Cannot recommend to pass on buying this more.
  16. thebasicblues
    Jun 28, 2021
    4
    I was REALLY excited for this game. After playing Toadstool Tour for nearly 18 years(!), my friends and I were ready for another title in the MG series to play for the next 2 decades. TT was a wonderful balance of gameplay, strategy, and of course, Mushroom Kingdom wackiness.

    Sadly... Mario Golf: Super Rush is NOT Toadstool Tour. The combination of my high expectations and nostalgia    I was REALLY excited for this game. After playing Toadstool Tour for nearly 18 years(!), my friends and I were ready for another title in the MG series to play for the next 2 decades. TT was a wonderful balance of gameplay, strategy, and of course, Mushroom Kingdom wackiness.

    Sadly... Mario Golf: Super Rush is NOT Toadstool Tour. The combination of my high expectations and nostalgia for the GameCube classic really affected my ability to enjoy this game. I realize that isn't fair to the developers of MGSR, as this is a NEW game with NEW gameplay modes, but if it ain't broke, why fix it?

    Mario Golf Super Rush seems to suffer from an identity crisis. It feels too complicated for casual gamers, but too rigid for serious competitors (IMO). There's an 'RPG' mode, but the NPCs have nothing to say, the locations are sparse, and the story is snooze. You've got every Mario character ever to choose from and the 'Head Coach' is just named 'Head Coach'? Why not let Yoshi guide you through the adventure? Why is 'Birdo' your 'mama'? Why do you even need to 'rest'? It feels lazy and incomplete.

    Speed Golf is admittedly fun, and the network play enhances it greatly because the local AI is atrocious.

    One of my major gripes is that they got rid of replays... REPLAYS! I understand that they wouldn't work in speed or battle golf... but why take them out of single or multiplayer local play? Also, you can't see the trajectory of the ball / the trajectory never changes as you change clubs. This makes it really difficult to know the flight path of your shot when you're aiming at the tornados in XC mode, or simply trying to curve around trees. Why?!

    I'm sure I'll learn to love it more (or at least LIKE it), and am excited to play online with my friends now that we're grown and have families of our own. Super Rush could have been great, but it's not.    … Expand
  17. asneakyfatcat
    Jun 28, 2021
    4
    What a downgrade... Take everything you know and love about other mario golf titles and remove the creativity and fun. What you're left with is the generic, sterile, and boring golf game I've ever played. It feels more like wii sports golf with added mario characters.
  18. DABEASLY
    Jun 28, 2021
    6
    Main story is way to short, not enough courses or characters. I enjoyed the game but not worth the 60 bucks. If I could go back and unbuy I would. Wait for a price drop.
  19. jotape01
    Jun 28, 2021
    9
    if you are trying to find a game that introduces you to the golf world. This is your game.
    If you are trying to find a game to enjoy with friends. This is your game.
    If you enjoyed the Mario Golf Saga. This is your game. There are many pros but I will only focus on Cons to what you may agree. - Music: Not very relevant, but it would be great if they throw more songs so it doesn't get    if you are trying to find a game that introduces you to the golf world. This is your game.
    If you are trying to find a game to enjoy with friends. This is your game.
    If you enjoyed the Mario Golf Saga. This is your game.

    There are many pros but I will only focus on Cons to what you may agree.
    - Music: Not very relevant, but it would be great if they throw more songs so it doesn't get repetitive after so many hours of gameplay
    - Thinking that Adventure mode is like the story or something like that? No, don't try to think of this like that. This is a Mario Game. No think about finding something that is revolutionary or gives the a good story. The Adventure mode is somewhat of a tutorial so you can grind your character.
    - This is not totally a bad thing. But you can notice that there will be DLC. Hopefully will add a ton more content
    - Why they didn't include a tournament mode??    … Expand
  20. mrswitch2687
    Jun 28, 2021
    5
    This is the most disappointing game I have played in recent memory. The story mode is a good idea but executed... haphazardly. The characterisation is fine but most of them are one and done and don't seem to be worth anything. Everything is brought in and abandoned before anything can be developed to actually be fun. Cross-country golf is a good idea but is dreadful. The story modeThis is the most disappointing game I have played in recent memory. The story mode is a good idea but executed... haphazardly. The characterisation is fine but most of them are one and done and don't seem to be worth anything. Everything is brought in and abandoned before anything can be developed to actually be fun. Cross-country golf is a good idea but is dreadful. The story mode doesn't compare to the GBA games or even the 3DS game.
    Furthermore, there is a lack of content. The courses are basic and there are only 6 of them at launch. Only 6 courses isn't a deal breaker but the fact they are so basic and devoid of character kills them. The battle golf gimmick is another good idea done dreadfully, but there are only 2 variations of the course and the item mechanic isn't as developed as the same idea in the 3DS game.
    Finally, the big gimmick; the speed golf. It's fun. The first few times. By the end of the story mode, the mechanic had already worn thin and didn't excite me barring the odd multiplayer game.
    Compared to every other game in this series, this game falls short. No challenge mode (with the challenges in the story just amounting to handholdy tutorials) and nothing to keep my attention for longer than 5 hours.
    This may end up being like Kirby Star Allies and after the launch it will grow to be something fun. But now, it is nothing more than a distraction and I implore anybody who does enjoy this game to go back and play the other earlier games to see what a truly fun Mario Golf game is.
    The game is pretty enough but just feels B-tier across the board. I also don't get why there couldn't be more characters in the game because most of them are simply skins. Sure, animation work takes time, but with the special shots/ dashes being doubled up on occasion it just smells slightly cheap for a full price game.
    Disappointing. Disappointing. Disappointing. High hopes, dashed.    … Expand
  21. zdemigodx
    Jun 28, 2021
    6
    Really basic, I think the game has charm but its lack of content is dooming, will probably be an 8/10 in 2 years.
  22. riccyjay
    Jun 28, 2021
    8
    The most important thing - the golfing mechanics - are solid. The courses are fun and there's a decent selection of new modes and ways to play.

    However, there is definitely a lack of polish to the whole thing. There are some camera issues - especially when zooming in from overhead - the story mode feels unfinished, the running mechanic often feels not properly implemented etc. That    The most important thing - the golfing mechanics - are solid. The courses are fun and there's a decent selection of new modes and ways to play.

    However, there is definitely a lack of polish to the whole thing. There are some camera issues - especially when zooming in from overhead - the story mode feels unfinished, the running mechanic often feels not properly implemented etc.

    That said, if you liked previous Mario Golf titles, this is still a very good, fun game.    … Expand
  23. esreverse
    Jun 28, 2021
    5
    Way too easy and random. Comparing it to Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) on the PlayStation, Mario Golf is just way too easy and random. What in Golf is random? Nothing. It is and should be about precision and a clever combination of parameters. Mario Golf is just Golf for 6 year olds.

    Swinging: Ok, I could have guessed that a 2-click-mechanic might miss the final 3rd click that makes    Way too easy and random. Comparing it to Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) on the PlayStation, Mario Golf is just way too easy and random. What in Golf is random? Nothing. It is and should be about precision and a clever combination of parameters. Mario Golf is just Golf for 6 year olds.

    Swinging: Ok, I could have guessed that a 2-click-mechanic might miss the final 3rd click that makes swinging in golf games so fun and challenging. Hitting perfectly straight in Mario Golf? No problem, because there is no 3rd click. Instead every swing that is close to the 100% of the club length gets a RANDOM divergence to the left or right. Why random? Facepalming really hard. Please introduce 3-click-swings!

    Curve balls: You can give the ball as much as 4 (!!!) curves. Why? Does it make it more fun or are 4 curves needed for certain courses? No. It just adds nonsense complexity that doesn't help the experience at all.

    Putting: Way too easy. All other games are harder and as hard as they should be. Greens in Mario Golf are just super easy and boring.

    Courses: Yes, colorful as Mario Kart courses, but they aren't done smart. No hard decisions to be made, no clever new routes open up with certain characters or clubs, no risk-reward patterns at all.

    Story mode: Just pain. Feels like a 10 year old boring adventure game with loads of dumb conversations and lame challenges. You need to play it though to be able to access all courses.

    Speed Golf: Fine, but running is just very repetitive and not nearly as fun or challenging as a real golf game should be.

    Maybe I shouldn't have hoped for a nice Nintendo version of Everybody's Golf. My fault, I guess.    … Expand
  24. Dethmunk
    Jun 28, 2021
    8
    It gets a deservedly good 8 from me. As a golf game it plays really well. The simple mechanics belie a pretty complex secondary set of sub-mechanics. There's a good selection of characters and 6 courses that aren't a huge number, granted, but it's enough for the initial roster. We know there's free DLC coming to keep interest up with additional courses and I suspect extra characters asIt gets a deservedly good 8 from me. As a golf game it plays really well. The simple mechanics belie a pretty complex secondary set of sub-mechanics. There's a good selection of characters and 6 courses that aren't a huge number, granted, but it's enough for the initial roster. We know there's free DLC coming to keep interest up with additional courses and I suspect extra characters as there's plenty of space on the selection page. The reason for minus 2 points is the artwork. Mostly the UI is a bland affair with no character or Mario style flair. Podium section at the end of a round is equally bland in presentation. The worst thing though is the environment art especially in the last two courses, Wild Weather Woods and Bowser's Highlands, it looks quite poor and feels very rushed indeed. With rushed modelling and texturing. That said I still think its a very playable game and I believe it will get better when the DLC gets dropped.… Expand
  25. lolhhh
    Jun 27, 2021
    10
    all in all, while the game could use more content the mechanic are refined to it's peak simply put this is Mario golf that feels at its best to play
  26. LeesanJP
    Jun 27, 2021
    3
    This game is a good game, a fun game and a good Mario game, but:
    If you wonder why the scores are so bad is because is obviously a half game, like pokemon SwSh when it went out, like AC, like Mario Party Switch. If the game gets popular and sells a bunch of million it will be updated a few times making it 30-40% bigger and making your 60 dollars or wathever worth it, if not, is border    This game is a good game, a fun game and a good Mario game, but:
    If you wonder why the scores are so bad is because is obviously a half game, like pokemon SwSh when it went out, like AC, like Mario Party Switch. If the game gets popular and sells a bunch of million it will be updated a few times making it 30-40% bigger and making your 60 dollars or wathever worth it, if not, is border line a beautiful indie game full price
    They most likely have killed this game like they killed Mario Party on release because of that, Pokemon was lucky to be on the peak of popularity worldwide cause of Pokemon Go, and Pokemon TCG, if not would have been one of the worst release on the series ( is today the best seller)
    So im gonna bomb this review for Nintendo to stop this **** system, please don’t do this to Zelda 2    … Expand
  27. SirDiesAlot92
    Jun 27, 2021
    7
    What can I say.... well the game is definitely super rushed out the door, I was a big fan of the GameCube game, however, this one seems to take all of what made that game great and totally did away with it. Speed Golf and Battle Golf is fun and makes the game new and refreshing, however, Adventure Mode is a total dud... you only play in one tournament throughout the entire campaign, theWhat can I say.... well the game is definitely super rushed out the door, I was a big fan of the GameCube game, however, this one seems to take all of what made that game great and totally did away with it. Speed Golf and Battle Golf is fun and makes the game new and refreshing, however, Adventure Mode is a total dud... you only play in one tournament throughout the entire campaign, the rest is basically a boring quest to defeat the Snow King or whatever his name is, not to mention not all characters even make an appearance in the storyline... If you want to play with friends or solo play online it’s a fun game that can waste some hours, if you want classic style of golf with tournaments and cups, that’s not present at all unfortunately. I’m assuming both will be added later on, but this is the basis of a golf game that should have been added along with the two gimmicks of Speed and Battle golf. They’re fun, but requires online to play since the bots are pretty stupid and there is no way to change the difficulty of them. There is also no way to see where your ball is going via scope, you get another stupid gimmick to see land slope etc, but can’t really zoom in and out, which is the same case for putting, can’t really tell what slopes are for long putts so it’s a guessing game. Also no really challenges besides those thrown into adventure mode; which aren’t all that challenging. Perhaps after adventure campaign you could go back and play the tournaments on the lackluster 6 maps they put into the game... Overall it’s a decent/mediocre game. Worth $65? Absolutely not, it’s a $30-40 at most.… Expand
  28. Italsam
    Jun 27, 2021
    6
    Some of the movement mechanics are nonsense, the curve in air function can be hard with joycon drift, story mode is really short. Wait until a sale, golfing is fun.
  29. skip47272
    Jun 27, 2021
    5
    Feels unfinished. Story mode didn't even include tournaments really. Would have much rather had a pga-esque type thing than fighting monsters with golf. Not that many courses, could use more characters as well.
  30. Noah4Life
    Jun 27, 2021
    6
    This is my first Mario golf game, and I think a lot of reviews forget that most people haven't played the first 2 Mario Golf games. The RPG-like story mode is fun, a bit short but still an enjoyable experience. Obviously, this game does have a lack of content at launch but each of the courses are fun. This game can sometimes be frustrating but the game of golf is meant to be that way so IThis is my first Mario golf game, and I think a lot of reviews forget that most people haven't played the first 2 Mario Golf games. The RPG-like story mode is fun, a bit short but still an enjoyable experience. Obviously, this game does have a lack of content at launch but each of the courses are fun. This game can sometimes be frustrating but the game of golf is meant to be that way so I don't care. The problem with this game though is a lack of focus. The new scanning mechanic is kinda annoying and doesn't really work Super well, for me at least, also the online mode lags quite often. The gimmick of Super rush is the running to the ball mechanic. This mechanic just isn't that fun though it doesn't feel as wild and fun as you would hope. Overall this is a fun game, but doesn't try to be anything more than that, I hope the upcoming updates are really fun, but this game just isn't as good as it could be.… Expand
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#12 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2021

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 110 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 110
  2. Mixed: 65 out of 110
  3. Negative: 1 out of 110
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 17, 2022
    60
    Speed Golf is undoubtedly the main attraction of the game and it is a pity that other modes aren´t also so good.
  2. Ninty Fresh Magazine
    Dec 3, 2021
    75
    It’s great to see Mario Golf back with some great new modes to play but changes to the gameplay take the series one-step forward and two-steps back. [Issue #4, p.53]
  3. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Oct 7, 2021
    90
    In all, it's incredible, and a great purchase for fans of past installments. [Issue #54 – September 2021, p. 67]
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