The summer has been spent playing some great games, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Sonic Mania and Mario X Rabbids: Kingdom Rush to name a few. Whereas the summer tends to be a wasteland for decent things to play and more to catch up on earlier in the year. This year it’s really felt like the quality of games over the has improved and made a year when personally I’ve been struggling to be inspired to play a lot of video games seem a lot better. Sonic Mania was an absolute joy to play, apart from the last two levels. The first chapter of the new Life is Strange was a fantastic story and one I wasn’t expecting to like as much as I did, and real surprise! Finally in terms of surprises Mario X Rabbids is a wonderfully addictive strategy game where the biggest surprise is how some of the Rabbid humour has stuck and actually made me laugh.
So onto what I’ve actually been playing recently and the last week or so I’ve played a ton of Golf Story (Switch). An RPG which is built around a more traditional three click way of playing golf, neither the depth of the golf or the RPG is enough to make a great game but by combining the two it finds a sweet spot where the game is funny, charming and addictive. The writing is very amusing, the sense of humour is very self depreciating both to the sport of golf and the characters. Every achievement made in the game is downplayed by the supporting cast, from your drive being too short to when you finally win a tournament. The early hours of the game are all perfectly fine but the game really hits its stride when it builds a relationship between the character being played, the coach, your rival and her coach. There is a particularly memorable dinner scene between the four.
The game itself beyond the story isn’t as much golf as I was expecting, playing a few rounds here and there, interspersed with less traditional tasks like hunting for treasure and hitting targets. That being said the golf in the game is perfectly serviceable and when I was playing rounds in tournaments and against other characters it was exciting and fun, more so because the sport is used so sparingly. It also introduces disk golf, which was at first infuriating as the game has a whole new system of mechanics for it. Once I picked it up though it was a nice respite from other tasks.
The game is nothing special to look at, suffering slightly from an oversaturated market on 16bit style games, but still has a certain charm. The courses themselves have a nice variety on traditional grass courses. The music is the worst part of an otherwise great game, the looping of the music on some levels can sound a bit like a child practicing an instrument. Sound effects are great though and the HD rumble is used to great effect!
By the looks of it I’d say at around 6 hours in Im half way through the game and it’s only getting better as I go.
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