Quick Look: Golf Story

I heard it's great!

Really looking forward to this QL.

About 4 hours in and I'm loving it. It's like 60% golf and 40% story.

edit: use LB/RB to put spin on the ball. Hitting the top/bottom of the ball is for punch/loft shots.

Ok so, Dan hitting X and moving the hitpoint to the bottom isn't backspin. That's something else, forgot the actual name. Back/Frontspin is holding L/R.

Cool QL. 4hrs into this game and and I'm loving it. Following on from Steamworld Dig 2, Vinny is right; it's the best time to be playing game.

Pretty curious about this game!

Also, tip for anyone playing this,

I don't know about you guys, but I'm terrible at putting. Luckily this game lets you use ANY club at any point in the course. Including the Green.

Chipping/dunking/whatever its called with a wedge or another club is a thousand times easier and more reliable than putting ever was.

Yeah, hitting X changes the point you hit the ball and causes it to either loft higher or cut lower, or to curve left/right. Useful when dealing with trees in your way or the wind, also has an impact on how the ball will land and roll (higher loft means it's coming at the ground with less horizontal motion). But actual spin is applied by L/R which causes a little shading to appear on the top/bottom of the ball and spin once it hits the ground.

Gah I wish this was out on PC.

Whenever I hear the noise when you hit the button during the golf swing gauge I think it sounds just like the start screen noise when you hit start during Super Mario All Stars on the SNES. I can't unhear it and it's driving me crazy.

I'm not sure where the Stardew Valley comparisons are coming from. It definitaly has more of an Earthbound vibe to it.

Excellent grunting Dan. Game looks cool too.

@deathpooky: It took me forever to realize this

Quick comment from someone who's further in the game (been to 6 of 8 courses so far): The game stays charming throughout and the sense of humor stays spot on. But the actual golf stays just good, not great. The courses are certainly differentiated and you go to some wacky places, but overall the golf mechanics aren't that different. Slightly different obstacles or course design, different things to avoid on each course, different challenges, but it doesn't go crazy with it.

But the golf is fun enough and the game is definitely worth it just for the story and goofy things it does. I won't spoil the moments, but there are a ton of unexpected, funny scenes, lots of good characters and dialogue, and weird, non-golf things that mix up what you're doing.

The music sounds like a '90s straight-to-VHS children's fantasy film. Not sure if it's great or terrible.

i keep waiting for the Roundabout to be continue thing to happen everything i hear that guitar

A shame this comes out so close to Everybody's golf. Getting two great Golf games in one year is pretty amazing though!

That's interesting to hear because I am a few hours in and had no idea.. like Dan I thought that changing the point of contact on the ball would induce spin on it (like you would expect physically). I don't think the game communicates how to put spin on the ball very effectively.

Love Dan's reactions to a bad drive. He literally said "D'oh!" at one point.

The core golf mechanics in this seems way too basic. Fetch quests can't really make up for that imo.

@stachestash: It's probably a combination of Stardew Valley being a recent game that has a similar look and Earthbound being really old.

This looks so cool. Hope it comes to other platforms some time...

this game is pretty great

@heatdrive88 said:

Any reason this is exclusive to Switch? They're not a Nintendo dev. I don't like buying games and later finding out they're coming to PC, like Nioh.

Why use a pixel-art aesthetic if you're going to plaster a mobile game-grade UI and HUD over it?

It looks kinda mobile UI on a big screen, like a TV or PC monitor, but when you play it in handheld mode it looks normal and fitting, it's something I noticed when I first tried it in the dock. I think it has to do about the colours on icons being too flat and limited. But like I said, looks great on the handheld screen when they're not the size of your hand.

I also wasn't sure about this game when I seen it all of a sudden show up on the switch store. Looked up a couple reviews for it and still wasn't sure if it was genuinely a decent game or just people starved for content. Bit the bullet and payed the whole 20 Canadian pesos for it and got hooked hard within the first 5 minutes. Been taking my switch to work every day since to playing it my whole lunch break.

Removing flags might be a way to let yourself keep track of what holes you've done already?

Switch is really becoming the heir apparent to Vita in being an indie powehouse, All we need are scads of somewhat overpriced JRPGs and we're good.

Good week for Switch indie titles wonder if Dan is going to quick look stardew valley I can see there being a different audience who may be attracted to the game now on mobile like this. My problem with stardew is that it's so dependent on mods to strip away annoying bulls hit.

Leading up to this games release they showed some trailers with crazy things going on but everything I've see has been grounded in reality for this game. Do you ever get an ability to spawn endless golf balls or did they just do that for The trailer?

I want a boss battle, fought by hitting golf balls

The UI resolution not matching the game makes everything look cheap and terrible.

Oh, WOW, I'm like 5-8 hours in and I had no idea this was the case! I knew targeting the ball at different points gave it different trajectories but I assumed the spin was being put on it at the same time. There's so much about this game that it just doesn't tell you.

This game is weirdly unpolished and buggy but it's still compellingly worth playing. Gonna see if this back/front spin can help out my game.

Rejoice!

at one point, you fight a Wizard by literally hitting golf balls at him.

This seems fine, but I still want my GBA Mario Golf (and Tennis) sequel. :(

Oh man this had me shouting at the screen worse than a Layton Quick Look .

In the 14 shots challenge: Hits every shot too long. Keeps moving precision cursor past hole anyway.

Speaks to Archeologist has digging wedge equipped: "I need to find something to dig with".

Right at start shows off the power bracelet he's bought from the 2nd pro shop: Completes quest, is told to buy power bracelet. Goes to pro shop "I don't see anything new here".

Why does Dan golf like Homer Simpson? I mean he actually said d'oh!

I'm about 10 hours into this game, and it never stops being amazing. It's so charming. The writing is really good. It's easily in my top 10 for the year.

A spoiler in the loosest term: there is a golf rap battle in it between a crotchety old man and a backwards hat wearing youth. It goes on for about 4 minutes. I was rather in shock that it was happening. It is literally like 4 minutes of golf-related rhymes.

But really, everything related to the angry old guys at Tidy Park is the best.

Also, the writers leaning into Max Yards being a egotistical sellout piece of shit never gets old. They make him the biggest scumbag and it's so good. He tries to shill at every opportunity and then as soon as the camera's off he talks about how none of stuff he shills does anything.

There is one. You also have to take out an evil army of skeletons by chipping shots at them with your pitching wedge. Oh, and then later you have to reassemble an army of skeletons, but the skeletons can't see so you have to hit eyes into their heads.

To quote Jeff: didgeredoo: the analog dubstep

This Nintendo Switch is really shaping up to be a great console.

About time I get mine

Surprised only one person has mentioned the various Mario sports handheld games made by Camelot. This seems pretty heavily inspired by Mario Golf Advance Tour for the GBA more than anything else; much like how Stardew Valley was heavily inspired by Harvest Moon.

This is the first game I bought and played on my Switch and I am quite happy about it.

This game reminds me of those Cartoon Network flashgames where you have to find items for all the characters and they might trade another item or give you access to new places.

Yeah, no idea what's up with that. The worst thing you can do visually in a game is have multiple clashing art styles.

disc golf chains @4:26!