
The other 10 all need to be unlocked, most of them from the character challenge mode, but a few of them from completing other modes and challenges. Without that beautiful transfer pack, you are left with 14 playable characters but only 4 are available at the start of the game. The original Mario golf includes 18 playable characters, but 4 required the use of a transfer pack of the Gameboy game.
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Obviously these aren’t real golf courses that you would be familiar with from watching TV or playing in real life, but I think that these 6 courses and 108 holes is more than enough to add variety to the game and prevent you from burning out on the courses. In the final course you unlock, all the holes are extra challenging and require you to hit very specific shots or end up in tall grass or bunkers that look like various Mario characters. Some holes require precise hitting and landing shooting between islands or on top of mushrooms to avoid going out of bounds, and other holes are more traditional big open greenery. There are a lot of modes here, but I spent most of time in the tournament and character challenge modes as it seemed the closest one could get to “beating” this game.Īs for the courses themselves, there is a lot of variety in terms of how they look and it varying difficulty. A ring shot mode, where you have to hit the ball through certain rings before finishing the hole, a speed golf mode where you gotta play fast and even a character challenge mode where you can unlock new golfers by beating them on the course of your choosing. There is a tournament mode where you play all 18 holes and try to do the best out of a field of multiple other golfers. For the main golf courses, there are multiple modes that you can play in order to tackle the courses and if you earn enough points overall then you can unlock new courses. You can square up and tackle 6 different 18 hole courses as well as 2 different mini-golf courses. Mario Golf is a golfing game staring everyone’s favorite cast of characters. Why is this F*cking dude in my Mario Game However I put the cart in front the horse on this review so lets dive into the game. To me this was a wrong place and wrong time of game, because I can certainly see a different timeline where I grew up with this game and played it ad nauseum. I know that this game is good, because I played it, but I don’t have the love and admiration that other people are going to have, because I wasn’t there to champion this game a long time ago.

A game that I think a lot of people have nostalgia for, but something that I never played when I was growing up alongside the Nintendo 64. The reason we are discussing that, is because today’s review is a game that I just played for the first time, Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64. We never owned either of those games, so while the art and music can tickle the nostalgia hairs on me, they don’t resonate with me as much as they should. I grew up in the SNES era and while I can wax poetically about games that I loved like “Secret of Evermore,” or “TMNT: Turtles in Time,” I can only offer a passing nod to games like “Super Metroid,” or “Earthbound,” because I didn’t play them during that nostalgic forming time in my life. If we didn’t play a game, we can’t be nostalgic about it specifically. However, while our own personal nostalgia can encompass a set time period of era of gaming, not all games get a glow from just existing during that time period. Hell, as I write this little blog, I am listening to a Chrono Trigger soundtrack, so I get it.
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Kids growing up today, will be nostalgic for the first time they played Tears of the Kingdom, and some kids first Final Fantasy ever is going to be Final Fantasy 16 which they will believe is the greatest in the series forever. Whether you want to admit it or not nostalgia is incredibly powerful and games we grew up on are going to hold a special place in our heart no matter how long it has been since we first played it. There is no way to deny the existence in how time and place affects the games that we play.

Placed 1st in all 6 Tournaments, unlocked some characters, completed 1 ring shot course This is an ongoing list where I attempt to do the following: Play, Complete, and Rank every video game in the known universe in order to finally answer the age old question "What is the greatest game of all time?" For previous entries find the links on the attached spreadsheet.
