COMPLETE: Golf Story
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kjorteoGolf Story is a Switch-exclusive indie game about Golf and... uh... Story.
You are a nameless protagonist who wakes up from his going-nowhere life one morning and decides he's going to make something of himself and become a pro golfer. He has no training, his form and stance are awful, but for some reason he has the magic intangible "it" factor where whatever he's doing somehow works for him, allowing him to go toe to toe with the very best.
Golf Story has the 20-hour world-map-traveling storyline, sidequests, and XP/level-up systems of a JRPG, all with the mechanics of a golf game. Wherever you're standing, whatever the situation, there's never a bad time to tee up and hit a golf ball at it. The same "tee up and hit balls to the target" gameplay is used for everything from feeding alligators to returning stolen birds' eggs to their nests to eradicating the undead, and, of course, to play actual stroke and match play rounds to advance your would-be tournament career. The World Is Golf.
The plot is pure silliness except for the parts where it sometimes pushes sports movie tropes so far over the top that the parody wraps around the other side and somehow accidentally becomes earnest--think Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, only golf instead of dodgeball.
Overall, this was great. Lighthearted and entertaining, genuinely funny and strangely endearing, the actual golfing feels solid, and even the pixel graphics and overall audiovisual style work well. And, of course, the writing speaks for itself.
In conclusion, golf.
You are a nameless protagonist who wakes up from his going-nowhere life one morning and decides he's going to make something of himself and become a pro golfer. He has no training, his form and stance are awful, but for some reason he has the magic intangible "it" factor where whatever he's doing somehow works for him, allowing him to go toe to toe with the very best.
Golf Story has the 20-hour world-map-traveling storyline, sidequests, and XP/level-up systems of a JRPG, all with the mechanics of a golf game. Wherever you're standing, whatever the situation, there's never a bad time to tee up and hit a golf ball at it. The same "tee up and hit balls to the target" gameplay is used for everything from feeding alligators to returning stolen birds' eggs to their nests to eradicating the undead, and, of course, to play actual stroke and match play rounds to advance your would-be tournament career. The World Is Golf.
The plot is pure silliness except for the parts where it sometimes pushes sports movie tropes so far over the top that the parody wraps around the other side and somehow accidentally becomes earnest--think Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, only golf instead of dodgeball.
Overall, this was great. Lighthearted and entertaining, genuinely funny and strangely endearing, the actual golfing feels solid, and even the pixel graphics and overall audiovisual style work well. And, of course, the writing speaks for itself.
In conclusion, golf.
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Date: 2021-05-07 12:40 pm (UTC)think Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, only golf instead of dodgeball.
Also, assumedly, not written by the South Park guys, two incredibly skeezy libertarian bootstrap fenceriders.
Disregard this, it's left in strikeouts for posterity because I'm a dumbass and want to own up to this, I was confusing Dodgeball with BASEketball
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Date: 2021-05-07 12:49 pm (UTC)