What's bizarre is they had the format nailed down in Toadstool Tour - now, almost 20 years later, they release this mistake.
The Adventure Mode looks good on paper, but it's so bland and empty. You can skip everything outside of (the largely pointless) equipment, getting from point to point as fast as you can to progress in the...story? I found myself checked out of all this after the first course and had stopped by the third.
The golf itself is largely a step down from TT - I can no longer view the land where my ball will finish, instead I have a large overhead circle so I have to guess the ground elevation? The swing meter changes also don't work for me - hitting a powerful shot adds a factor of randomness for no reason I can see. Plus I don't seem to be able to strike the ball in an exact spot anymore, instead there's some awful curving system where your ball trajectory starts looking like a goddamn firework.
Which beings us to the main gimmick of Super Rush - you can now walk between shots. Look, I just want to play 18 holes against some Mario characters, but now I have to spend 60 seconds walking slowly between shots just to do that? And then there's eXtreme Golf, which adds in the awfulness of having to plan out your shots - on mountain courses this is an exercise in tedium as you work around cliff faces and whirlwinds. I just want to play shot to shot! Why is this being shoved in my face?
I think that's what annoys me most - the strange additions which takeaway from the standard golf. I know this is Mario and they have to add 'wacky' things, but they only detract here. Special shots seemed to be shoehorned in just... because, there's new modes which are forced on me, my ball can now be wacked by Bowser charging across the green. Even when I do play standard golf, there's no leaderboard. It's just me - but where's the fun in that? There's a real lack of content too, with only the free DLC giving us more courses than TT.
The whole game just feels incredibly soulless, like no real though was put into some of the new additions. This may just be a case of 'it's not for me' but it really feels like this is being forced on us because we're told it's fun, rather than it actually being fun. Rant over.
The Adventure Mode looks good on paper, but it's so bland and empty. You can skip everything outside of (the largely pointless) equipment, getting from point to point as fast as you can to progress in the...story? I found myself checked out of all this after the first course and had stopped by the third.
The golf itself is largely a step down from TT - I can no longer view the land where my ball will finish, instead I have a large overhead circle so I have to guess the ground elevation? The swing meter changes also don't work for me - hitting a powerful shot adds a factor of randomness for no reason I can see. Plus I don't seem to be able to strike the ball in an exact spot anymore, instead there's some awful curving system where your ball trajectory starts looking like a goddamn firework.
Which beings us to the main gimmick of Super Rush - you can now walk between shots. Look, I just want to play 18 holes against some Mario characters, but now I have to spend 60 seconds walking slowly between shots just to do that? And then there's eXtreme Golf, which adds in the awfulness of having to plan out your shots - on mountain courses this is an exercise in tedium as you work around cliff faces and whirlwinds. I just want to play shot to shot! Why is this being shoved in my face?
I think that's what annoys me most - the strange additions which takeaway from the standard golf. I know this is Mario and they have to add 'wacky' things, but they only detract here. Special shots seemed to be shoehorned in just... because, there's new modes which are forced on me, my ball can now be wacked by Bowser charging across the green. Even when I do play standard golf, there's no leaderboard. It's just me - but where's the fun in that? There's a real lack of content too, with only the free DLC giving us more courses than TT.
The whole game just feels incredibly soulless, like no real though was put into some of the new additions. This may just be a case of 'it's not for me' but it really feels like this is being forced on us because we're told it's fun, rather than it actually being fun. Rant over.