{"id":24269,"date":"2024-03-06T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24269"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:48:54","slug":"golfinite-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/golfinite-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfinite (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a pretty standard top down viewed golf video game.\u00a0 It reminds me of an above average 8-bit golf title, like NES Open tournament Golf or something.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

Play control is pretty standard, and if you\u2019ve ever played a video golf game before, you\u2019ll know what to expect here.\u00a0 Pick a club by pressing up and down, and your direction by pressing left and right.\u00a0 Swing by timing button presses on a meter for your strength and hook and slice if you don\u2019t line it up right.\u00a0 You can also adjust your top spin and back spin with the R control stick, so you really feel like you have a lot of control where the ball goes.\u00a0 But it still takes a bit of practice.<\/p>\n

There are four different 18 hole courses in all, and in order to unlock them, you have to place in a tournament.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t enter the tournaments until you have enough stars.\u00a0 Earn stars by completing missions or practicing 9 or 18 holes.\u00a0 When you complete any activity, you\u2019ll earn experience points and then divvy them up to improve your accuracy, strength, and more.\u00a0 Although I didn\u2019t really notice much difference when I did that.\u00a0 On the courses you also have to watch out for fantasy obstacles like turtles and warp holes, but you can turn them off in the options screen if you want a more traditional experience.<\/p>\n

The problem that I had with this game is that it\u2019s too darn hard, and there\u2019s too much padding to artificially lengthen the game.\u00a0 You have to get a bunch of stars for a tournament, and the missions are very challenging.\u00a0 And then once you do have enough, the tournament is even harder!\u00a0 I\u2019d be perfectly happy with everything unlocked from the beginning, because there is already a lot here.\u00a0 But because of the steep challenge and padding, I lost interest quicker.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.\u00a0 Golfinite is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a pretty standard top down viewed golf video game.\u00a0 It reminds me of an above average 8-bit golf title, like NES Open tournament Golf or something.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. Play control is pretty standard, and if you\u2019ve ever played a video golf game before, you\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24271,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions\/24271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}