There's a decent game of Golf on offer here. 18 unique courses with Stroke and Tournament play modes and records for each course being recorded. The options for swinging are pretty in depth for a golf game of this era with direction, stances, and clubs all able to be set before a swing. The meter bar is hard to read with how they curve it out of the screen for the 3D effect and it makes it difficult to gauge how far you're going to hit the ball. Spin is also determined by pressing A while a marker zooms across the ball so if you stop it left or right of centre then you'll add spin to the ball. The core gameplay and what's on offer here is solid for a portable golf game of this era but there's one key area where it unfortunately all falls apart for me.

Graphically this is a headache inducing, eye straining mess of red and black lines, especially in 3D. There's just way too many lines for this kind of display with how they try to indicate different terrain and the slopes with the grid before you swing. I could barely stand playing for a few minutes in full 3D with the red and black display.
Thankfully, the Red Viper emulator on 3DS does allow you to change the colour scheme, with a black and white option being a standard. Unfortunately it doesn't help much with the 3D effect being an eyesore but turning that off on 3DS does make the game a bit more playable. It's still messy graphically to the point where it feels like it was rushed to market (which it probably was considering the Virtual Boy itself was) and it isn't enough to stop this being a sour experience overall for me

Reviewed on Apr 23, 2024


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