I played a bit of this on Switch, and though it's missing a couple of features that I feel defined the gameplay in Toadstool Tour / World Tour, I was surprised at how fun this outing still was, and how much more punishing this game is for not reading wind, elevation, etc. than its sequels (not a bad thing, necessarily!) The characters are considerably less well-balanced, I'd say, though, with a downright obscene difference in max drive distance from the starter characters to the later unlockables.

The Mario character selections are pretty lacking in this compared to the later titles, but the random human characters' over-the-top voice acting almost completely makes up for that (Sonny, especially). Having alternate costumes is cool, as well.

Plum Golf is fine. It follows the adventures of Plum and Charlie, two new Nintendo characters that play golf with some other friends of them like Harry, Maple, Sonny and Princess Peach..... it's kinda weird how Mario is on the cover though....

As the first big Mario Sports game in 3D, it does for some weird directions in terms of the characters. I do find weird and funny that Plum is part of the opening intro: she is like that OC that the writer put into the canon in a fanfic and nobody questions that.... she is so much of a central character that Mario is unlockable from the beginning.

That is honestly the things I found more interesting about this game: I am not really into golf like at all, but for the first big N64 mario sport, it does it's job well enough I think: it has a fun roster, quirky and cool aesthetic vaguely themed around Mario worlds, and some okay side modes of minigolfs and other side stuff.... it can be clunky sometimes but for a golf game I am pretty sure this is just okay....

It's not a bad game, it's just kind of there: still give it a shot on the NSO, it can be more fun for you that it was for me probably