05-14-2003, 03:40 PM
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From GamerFeed: Mario Golf Impressions:
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Written by Justin Davis, GamerFeed Staff:
The impressive thing about Mario Golf was the fact that you could pick up the controller and mess around and be hitting the greens like a pro after only a couple of practice shots. That's a hard thing to do for a golf game if it still wants to include any kind of depth.
When setting up a shot the best angle and the best club are automatically chosen for you. No doubt once the game is released players will develop strategies of their own to improve on those given to them, but it still helps make the game accessible to everyone. Once you've lined up your shot a power bar appears at the bottom with an arrow indicating where the player should try to stop it. Then there's a second bar for your shot's aim, and the farther off the more you slice.
Once nice thing about the game is that the player has pretty free control over the camera. It's an important feature in any golf game to be able to look at things from any angle you like. Besides just having the standard behind-the-player and overhead views, the C-Stick can be used to manipulate and place the camera almost anywhere you like.
One aspect of the game that needs some work is the putting. I mentioned the power bar earlier, but I didn't mention how fast it moves. You have to have extremely good reflexes to stop it right on the nose, but normally that doesn't matter. If you miss a putt and your ball ends up close to the hole, the stopping arrow for your power bar is very very close to the starting one, since you're mere inches away. That makes it hard to stop the power bar without it going way way over. Closer putts should be easier to make, not harder.
Mario Golf featured two full courses, and it was a lot of fun, but the simplistic gameplay is slightly worrying. It's unknown at this time how much depth the title has. That's going to be the aspect that either raises this game above the pack, or keeps it squarely in the middle.
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