Outside of the one spark that is the XC Golf stage, it's fairly uninteresting. It doesn’t stop things from ultimately being pretty bland, but it at least doesn’t make things worse. There’s some character customization that adds a not unwelcome touch as you progress through the mode you can fiddle with stats to give your character more power, speed, stamina, etc.
It serves as a means predominantly to tutorialize the core gameplay and different modes (making XC Golf being locked to story mode exclusively even stranger). You can’t play it as a single player mode either, which makes it hard to give Super Rush any points for it.īesides that, there isn’t a lot going for the story mode. Perhaps the limited turn restriction would make multiplayer frustrating, but you could very easily just dump that and have it operate on the standard “fewest turns wins” metric that every other mode uses. You cannot play it with friends, either locally or online, which just feels like a bizarre decision. Things are complicated even more by the presence of a myriad of hazards dotting the course.Īnd since this is the most interesting and compelling mode in Super Rush, it is of course locked to story mode. This introduces an element of decision making planning a route to get through all the holes as efficiently as possible. XC golf has the turn based format of normal golf, but you’re given a limited number of turns to get through all the holes on a map. This story mode features what I would consider the most compelling mode in the game: XC (Cross Country) Golf.
#MARIO GOLF SWITCH SINGLE PLAYER SERIES#
There’s also a story mode, which sees the player create a Mii and go through a series of golf-based challenges to earn progressively higher ranking badges. Speed Golf is fun at first, but lacks meaningful depth and quickly loses steam after about ten or so holes of samey gameplay. Golf Battle is an intriguing blend of strategy and general golf gameplay, but it only has two courses and it doesn’t take long to figure out the optimal strategies. While these are some neat ideas, none of them feel like anything more than diversions. However, this brings us to the ultimate problem underlying Super Rush. I do wish there was more variety to what you can do while you're chasing after your ball you can only really choose to run or do a character specific faster run that drains stamina substantially, but it’s a fun diversion. Additional strokes do add a time penalty, though, so you have to juggle being fast without being reckless. Basically this is golf with a timer once you hit the ball, the task is to get it in the hole as quickly as possible. The catch is that your task is to complete three holes as quickly as possible, so players are forced to think strategically about which holes to go after.Ī second interesting twist on standard gameplay is found in Speed Golf, which in my mind is how golf should be played. Golf Battle is a neat little idea that puts players together in a nine hole course.
Along with your traditional, turn-based golf mode made for people who want all the excitement of walking around and occasionally tapping a ball around without any of the benefits of minimal exercise that normally accompany it, there are a couple of new modes that shake things up quite nicely. If this introduction sounds bland, then don’t worry, because it’s preparing you for exactly the kind of experience you’ll get from this game.Īctually that might be somewhat unfair.
You can play online, with friends or strangers. You select one of these Mario characters (or Donkey Kong) and use them to hit a ball towards a hole. It features Mario characters (and Donkey Kong). By Paul Broussard, posted on 15 July 2021 / 2,592 Views
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