Being a mostly in-house project (as Camelot Software hasn’t done anything non-Nintendo in over a decade), you’d expect the design to be tight, and it is, for the most part. The graphics for Mario Golf: Super Rush are pretty top-notch, at least for the characters and their Special Shot animations. The story mode, where you take a Mii character through golf school and then into a Mushroom Kingdom-wide tournament, is lackluster, but serves the important task of letting players have some kind of challenge when they’re playing by themselves. Additionally, there’s a story mode that serves its purpose of being as “pure” of a golf game as you can get when you’re playing against Wario and King Bob-Omb. There will be the actual sport at the core of it all, but there’ll be some modifications to make it more accessible for children and more enticing for people who don’t normally play sports games.Īdditionally, there has to be something to help make it somewhat “more.” In the case of Mario Golf: Super Rush, it’s the speed golf mode, where you actively run and shove your opponents as you all try and shoot for the hole in the least number of strokes but also the fastest time. There’ll be a colorful cast of would-be athletes, all hailing from previous Mario games, having specific golf-centric skills. In case the game ever needed to really spell out “this is for the foolish and weak.”Īs a Mario sports title, you anticipate certain things about the game. It was leaps and bounds from the original NES Golf, and now another massive leap forward has come in the form of Mario Golf: Super Rush. Mario Golf was a delightful sports-adjacent title where Nintendo tried to cram some decent physics and a slew of characters into a polygonal color explosion on the Nintendo 64. But golf was a game that no one really saw coming. Metroid Dread was the first console Metroid in over a decade, and was enthusiastically received. Making a new Mario Tennis Aces was natural, though I still have yet to meet anyone in real life who plays these games. “You probably didn’t own a Wii U, so buy this now.” Nintendo took bigger swings with other properties, giving Super Mario 3D World a whole new chunk of Bowser’s Fury, and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore having all the DLC and plenty of bonus content built in.īut the real tests of mettle have come in the new steps forward for long dead IPs, or at least dormant. Some are really transparent: the port for New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is downright offensive (no one actually likes Luigi U), and even Bayonetta receives little more than a shrug. The Nintendo Switch is definitely the platform for bringing back titles with a brand new coat of paint.
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