Another sequel to Hot Shots, and in some ways, I love this game, but in other ways, it's detestable.
The gameplay itself is wonderful. Skill shots are slowly unlocked through progression and the game rewards you for amazing shots and staying on the fairway/green. When you get the hang of reading the greens and the different modes, you'll really feel unstoppable, but there's even harder challenges in this game waiting.
Speaking of those "harder challenges", they're hidden behind some of the most difficult shots in video game history. They come in the form of secret VS characters, and most can be achieved while regularly playing the game. But the actually good characters? My god, good luck. You'll have to hit a couple albatrosses (1 & 5, hole in 1 in par 4, or hole in 2 in par 5), and 1 and 3 condors (hole in 1s on a par 5). This took me a solid 5-10 hours, and even better, the counter glitched on displaying how many I had, so I had to wait for another day for perfect conditions to make the shot again. Wow that sucked.
Along with these arbitrary and stupid challenges, the "endgame" of this game is pathetic. They expect you to grind for gems by either playing against unforgiving CPUs, or to go on the daily Multiplayer courses and pick up all the gems they hide in the asscracks of the course (servers will shut down by Oct 2022).
When you get that set amount of gems, you have to give it to an NPC who crafts a new "better" set of clubs, but how many levels he upgrades your clubs is determined by pure RNG. No suprise it can also be purchased by tickets that the game expects you to spend money on. Super scummy for such an inoffensive golfing game.
Overall, a good game, but I wouldn't really suggest this to Hot Shots fans. They're actually better off playing the PS2 and PS3 games before they got as greedy and bold as they did in this one.
The gameplay itself is wonderful. Skill shots are slowly unlocked through progression and the game rewards you for amazing shots and staying on the fairway/green. When you get the hang of reading the greens and the different modes, you'll really feel unstoppable, but there's even harder challenges in this game waiting.
Speaking of those "harder challenges", they're hidden behind some of the most difficult shots in video game history. They come in the form of secret VS characters, and most can be achieved while regularly playing the game. But the actually good characters? My god, good luck. You'll have to hit a couple albatrosses (1 & 5, hole in 1 in par 4, or hole in 2 in par 5), and 1 and 3 condors (hole in 1s on a par 5). This took me a solid 5-10 hours, and even better, the counter glitched on displaying how many I had, so I had to wait for another day for perfect conditions to make the shot again. Wow that sucked.
Along with these arbitrary and stupid challenges, the "endgame" of this game is pathetic. They expect you to grind for gems by either playing against unforgiving CPUs, or to go on the daily Multiplayer courses and pick up all the gems they hide in the asscracks of the course (servers will shut down by Oct 2022).
When you get that set amount of gems, you have to give it to an NPC who crafts a new "better" set of clubs, but how many levels he upgrades your clubs is determined by pure RNG. No suprise it can also be purchased by tickets that the game expects you to spend money on. Super scummy for such an inoffensive golfing game.
Overall, a good game, but I wouldn't really suggest this to Hot Shots fans. They're actually better off playing the PS2 and PS3 games before they got as greedy and bold as they did in this one.