Quick Look: Sports Story

I'm very bummed to see that this is not a good game.

To all the people who shout about embargos signaling a bad game, this is a better example. Announced as December in November leading to a shadow launch. Fully banking on "brand recognition".

Thank you for this QL. I've been stuck on the pinecone puzzle since launch!

Ewww, Slinky People.

Now this is such a bummer! I really liked the original one. It wasn't perfect but still a really likeable little game.

I bought this sight unseen the moment it came out. Learn from my mistake :-/

didn't try golf story when it came out myself cause i'm usually not good with golf mini-games in things so i just ignored it despite all the good talk... if thats the same mini-game in this i can se the appeal i Guess? ,... that said this looks rough , a shame given the previous game got such paise.

I don’t doubt that this game is bad. The general gaming community buzz, both critics and players, seems middling-to-negative.

But I still feel like Grubb didn’t illustrate *why* very well in this Quick Look. I’ll give him the bee-cat-frog quest, which A) made no sense, and B) was just boring and movement-based and worse than most activities I can think of in Golf Story.

Everything else shown in this QL seemed similar to Golf Story? Grubb seemed eager to complain about any detail, but from what I saw: you blindly walk around talking to daft NPCs with arbitrary quest tasks, sometimes you shoot a golf ball at a flying object for money. That’s what I remember most of my time with Golf Story being as well (eventually every 40-60 minutes you would play a proper round of golf, which I’d assume comes eventually in this game as well). Pity the game takes so long to introduce the other sports, though presumably that “kick pine cone at fence” quest was the soccer intro.

I’m still not going to buy it because it’s rare to see players be so widely unhappy with an indie game you’d expect to be a charming trifle, but based on this QL specifically I don’t really get the fuss. Granted, Grubb felt burned by losing his save progress and wasn’t about to do some 10-hour deep dive on a game he didn’t enjoy and isn’t assigned to review.