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w00tage!
What a quality game. The hitting system is slightly different; A to start the swing, then A for topspin or B for backspin on the ball, and Z to swerve, with the C-stick doing the camera work. The controls are good, and certainly better than previous Mario Golf games.
The graphics are brilliant! Great backgrounds, detailed grass and the water effects are quality. The trees look nice as well. The landscape is just amazing. Characters look great too. The intro looks great, and it's comical as well.
The audio is much different than it has been in previous games. It's more 'bouncy' than before, and it's not as relaxing, but I suppose it keeps you on your game... or something. :-D The characters are all cool, and they sing songs before you pick them. Heheh.
Speaking of characters, there's the usual lot; Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, DK, Bowser, Peach and Daisy. But there's also new characters - Diddy, Boo, etc.
There's just so much to do. Tournaments, hit the ball through rings, speed golf, coin challenge, and about 4 other modes. And on top of that there's a great multiplayer. It's too fast for my liking though, speeding through shots. Ah well.
Ooh, and when I was getting the game, NGC were on the phone asking for a copy to be sent to them for review. Which means I've got the game before them, and therefore am better than them. Haha. And apparently, I'm one of the first people in Britain to get this game. So go me.
Sooooo, all of you, go and buy it now. Or import. Yeah, import it, seeing as there's no official release date for here (and it's rumoured January 2004). IMPORT!
Enough of the bragging, off to play Toadstool Tour. w00tage! :-D
What a quality game. The hitting system is slightly different; A to start the swing, then A for topspin or B for backspin on the ball, and Z to swerve, with the C-stick doing the camera work. The controls are good, and certainly better than previous Mario Golf games.
The graphics are brilliant! Great backgrounds, detailed grass and the water effects are quality. The trees look nice as well. The landscape is just amazing. Characters look great too. The intro looks great, and it's comical as well.
The audio is much different than it has been in previous games. It's more 'bouncy' than before, and it's not as relaxing, but I suppose it keeps you on your game... or something. :-D The characters are all cool, and they sing songs before you pick them. Heheh.
Speaking of characters, there's the usual lot; Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, DK, Bowser, Peach and Daisy. But there's also new characters - Diddy, Boo, etc.
There's just so much to do. Tournaments, hit the ball through rings, speed golf, coin challenge, and about 4 other modes. And on top of that there's a great multiplayer. It's too fast for my liking though, speeding through shots. Ah well.
Ooh, and when I was getting the game, NGC were on the phone asking for a copy to be sent to them for review. Which means I've got the game before them, and therefore am better than them. Haha. And apparently, I'm one of the first people in Britain to get this game. So go me.
Sooooo, all of you, go and buy it now. Or import. Yeah, import it, seeing as there's no official release date for here (and it's rumoured January 2004). IMPORT!
Enough of the bragging, off to play Toadstool Tour. w00tage! :-D
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Yup I do, because button pressing systems in golf games went out with the N64.
I can't believe they haven't had the brains to use an analog system.
I can't believe they haven't had the brains to use an analog system.
You don't know until you've tried though.
I've played the N64 version, there's very little changed. You can only do a certain amount of different things with a coupld of button presses.
It's all opinion, but it's still a dated system that they should have changed, or at least included analog swing as an alternative.
It's all opinion, but it's still a dated system that they should have changed, or at least included analog swing as an alternative.
To be perfectly honest, I would never consider Tiger Woods over Mario Golf, simply because its too damn realistic about such an awful real sport. Mario Golf on the other hand, is fun.
Then again, so TW2003 might be.
Then again, so TW2003 might be.
*Orders Mario Golf*
I love this game!!! However i'm not sure i like the 'Auto' swing. You only need to press A once and if you do full power (which isn't hard to do) you hit 'Nice Shots' all the time, a disadvantage is the game is a little too easy but an advantage is that everyone who plays it will get good at the game very quickly, so this means in multiplayer mode there is never a quick victory, me and my dad were drawing right until the end (and it was my dad's first go) and it adds alot of competiton, Brilliant. :)
Is it similar to the monkey golf game on SMB 2?
m.o.t wrote:
> I love this game!!! However i'm not sure i like the 'Auto' swing. You
> only need to press A once and if you do full power (which isn't hard
> to do) you hit 'Nice Shots' all the time, a disadvantage is the game
> is a little too easy but an advantage is that everyone who plays it
> will get good at the game very quickly, so this means in multiplayer
> mode there is never a quick victory, me and my dad were drawing right
> until the end (and it was my dad's first go) and it adds alot of
> competiton, Brilliant. :)
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Press B at the top and you don't have to put up with the auto swing. If you press A to start the swing, then B, you can control what happens next manually; A or B for just a normal shot, A-A for topspin, and B-B for backspin.
I don't use the auto controls, as once you've gotten into the game, they're really needless. It's still brilliant, though.
> I love this game!!! However i'm not sure i like the 'Auto' swing. You
> only need to press A once and if you do full power (which isn't hard
> to do) you hit 'Nice Shots' all the time, a disadvantage is the game
> is a little too easy but an advantage is that everyone who plays it
> will get good at the game very quickly, so this means in multiplayer
> mode there is never a quick victory, me and my dad were drawing right
> until the end (and it was my dad's first go) and it adds alot of
> competiton, Brilliant. :)
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Press B at the top and you don't have to put up with the auto swing. If you press A to start the swing, then B, you can control what happens next manually; A or B for just a normal shot, A-A for topspin, and B-B for backspin.
I don't use the auto controls, as once you've gotten into the game, they're really needless. It's still brilliant, though.
Smashamof wrote:
> Is it similar to the monkey golf game on SMB 2?
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Similar in a few ways, but much better in terms of controls, graphics, and generally everything.
> Is it similar to the monkey golf game on SMB 2?
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Similar in a few ways, but much better in terms of controls, graphics, and generally everything.
This games rocks!!
Pretty easy at the beginning, but presume it'll toughen up later.
And my Freeloader works just fine with it!! Hurrah.
Pretty easy at the beginning, but presume it'll toughen up later.
And my Freeloader works just fine with it!! Hurrah.
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