I'm not really much of a golf game guy, but this is a really great full package when it comes to the genre. A lot of fun figuring out how to get good at this with friends, and there's a great amount of single player modes to help get better at the game and have fun alone. Shout out to the opening FMV for this and Mario Power Tennis, remember when the Mario sports games had the best cutscenes of any Mario game for some reason? Good times.
Playing Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is a lot like being a little kid on Christmas. You come downstairs and have all of these wonderful beautiful presents wrapped up and prepared with love. Your parents, who got up before you, have cooked a bountiful breakfast of eggs and sausage, and certainly some pancakes with syrup. Sparing no expense there is even real maple syrup there, not that "pancake syrup" junk they try to give you at other times of the year. Having polished off breakfast and armed with a steaming mug of hot cocoa, you sit down to open some presents and see what's inside; your expectations bolstered by the wondrous character of any given Christmas morning: the inside of the presents matter much less than knowing that your family is with you, and loving, and happy. Anyways I haven't played this game but I bet it's fun.
I really did not play this game very much. There isn't much that I can speak on, aside from it appearing to be a decently accurate golfing sim. Since I'm not particularly interested in the sport in general and this game does not feature a specific objective (like a story mode), I put this one down pretty quickly. It certainly was good, but its also not necessarily a game that many people want to sit down and play, unlike Mario Kart or Mario Party.
Mario Golf Toadstool Tour is a good choice for Mario fans waiting to hit the putting green
Graphics, usual Mario graphics for GameCube, cartoony and fun, also excellent
Controls are good, you press A to fill up the meter to determine how strong you will hit the golf ball.
Lasting value, fairly above average for golf fans.
Final score: 3.5/5
It's a good time with Mario and friends on the GameCube's version of the putting green, but Super Rush on Switch I think will be even better than this one.
Graphics, usual Mario graphics for GameCube, cartoony and fun, also excellent
Controls are good, you press A to fill up the meter to determine how strong you will hit the golf ball.
Lasting value, fairly above average for golf fans.
Final score: 3.5/5
It's a good time with Mario and friends on the GameCube's version of the putting green, but Super Rush on Switch I think will be even better than this one.
This game features a taunt system that allows you to heckle the other players currently golfing. Whoever programmed that feature is an agent of chaos because there is no cooldown and you can spam it until the other players are unable to concentrate over walls of text bubbles accompanied by the same sound clip of Wario burping nonstop. It's great.