I had a quick bash at this last night. Its a Nintendo published game developed by SETA, (Search for Extraterrestrial Apples). Its not simply Mario Golf with real people. Well saying that, effectively there are two types of golf game, the analogue swing and the bar swing, this is still a bar swing, no Super Ultra Mega Backspin that I can find so far.
Initially it looks like you get 4 fairly generically locatated courses, grass, desert, beaches, and somewhere I can't remember. The only single graphical flourish in the game is the swingometer, and since that's pretty much all you look at in these games that aint too bad. The way the land lies on the impact square whatsit is quite intuitive aswell, looks like a BBC micro tech demo.
The guts of the game seems to be a calendar based career mode, every month you have the oportunity to train, practice, rest, buy things for your house...yes, you can seemingly upgrade your TV, not too sure about it yet though, it might just be a "what you've won" thing, in your house!
Win the tournaments when they turnup and you get moola to spend on clubs, hats, trainers, caddies, its quite indepth in a crazy Japanese way. Which goes for the presentation, someone in japan really needs to take the Helvetica Bold font away from the designers, and the graduated fill options in their paint packages, sheesh!
Big fat language barrier too, full on. But the meat of the game is golf so its all different ways to get the gold course essentially. One thing though, if you select a female caddy, you get erotic growns of delight or dispair depending on how well you do each shot...I swear it was an Hentai game for a few holes.
Initially it looks like you get 4 fairly generically locatated courses, grass, desert, beaches, and somewhere I can't remember. The only single graphical flourish in the game is the swingometer, and since that's pretty much all you look at in these games that aint too bad. The way the land lies on the impact square whatsit is quite intuitive aswell, looks like a BBC micro tech demo.
The guts of the game seems to be a calendar based career mode, every month you have the oportunity to train, practice, rest, buy things for your house...yes, you can seemingly upgrade your TV, not too sure about it yet though, it might just be a "what you've won" thing, in your house!
Win the tournaments when they turnup and you get moola to spend on clubs, hats, trainers, caddies, its quite indepth in a crazy Japanese way. Which goes for the presentation, someone in japan really needs to take the Helvetica Bold font away from the designers, and the graduated fill options in their paint packages, sheesh!
Big fat language barrier too, full on. But the meat of the game is golf so its all different ways to get the gold course essentially. One thing though, if you select a female caddy, you get erotic growns of delight or dispair depending on how well you do each shot...I swear it was an Hentai game for a few holes.
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