The tutorial is short and mainly teaches you how to interact with and use the GamePad screen, but tells you nothing about how to play golf - unlike the repetitive nature of tennis and bowling, this is a sport of nuance, which is actually represented to a startling degree. Rather oddly, and the opposite of Nintendo's standard approach, this title doesn't offer much help, either. This is an issue in context, as Wii Sports is a brand representative of simple fun, whereas this is challenging, relatively complex fun. Yes, players can learn as they go and improve, but such is the nature of golf that this demands patience and persistence, and you may have been on the course for an hour or two before you start to master the intricacies of play. We did see - as mentioned earlier - one example online of a player tricking the title with short swings of the wrist (as evidenced by his Mii's motions) yet that seems very tough to do accurately. The issue, perceivably, is that it'll make this all-but-impossible for some that are either not familiar and skilled with the technology, have no idea how to swing a golf club, or both. That accuracy is a strength and a weakness. This feels like a more legitimate, accurate representation of golf than its Resort predecessor, so achieving a top score is a satisfying moment. This is impressive work from Nintendo, showing how its Remote Plus technology, aligned with the GamePad, can further enhance the experience. In the case of everyone who played this for the purpose of this review, the outcome was the same - an initial round was typified by a struggling performance, before a second round showed the player naturally learning and adjusting their technique. In this reviewer's case that exposed some shoddy technique early on, but the literal interpretation of keeping your eye on the ball and then following it once hit - in this case focusing on the GamePad and naturally swinging into viewing the outcome on the TV - never got old. The effect is the game laying down the challenge to hone your technique, keep a straight wrist and play golf properly. You set your stance and, when ready, use B to centre your remote - at this stage a virtual golf club appears on the GamePad screen and it not only gauges power, but gives you a greater real-time visual indicator of the angle of the club head and, impressively, where you struck the ball. The controller is placed on the floor and represents a virtual look onto the course, with your ball resting in the middle. Not only does this version employ the Wii Remote Plus accuracy like the golf in Wii Sports Resort, but utilises the GamePad impressively, in what is possibly its stand-out application to date. No, this needs to actually be played like something resembling real golf.Īnd it's impressive from that perspective. It's possible, in theory, to dupe this one with waggle while lounging on the couch, but the likelihood is that your shots will ping off into the rough or out of bounds. It's accessible in the sense that anyone can pick up a Remote and copy what the players do on TV, and it has basic visuals by modern standards yet the technology is not as primitive, and this new entry demands more of each player. Wii Sports Club: Golf, on the other hand, is the polar opposite in almost every way. The technology was primitive, as were the visuals and mechanics, but it was immediately accessible and fun which, ultimately, was all that mattered. You could get into the spirit of it and swing the Remote like an actual club, sure, but it was almost as easy to slouch in a chair and waggle your arm for the same effect. Golf in the original Wii Sports was, in the context of the sport being represented, a rough and tumble affair. Perhaps unlike its contemporaries to date - Bowling and Tennis - this is the first of the new download-only series that feels like an entirely new experience, rather than a slightly better-controlled tweak of the pack-in phenomenon on Wii. It seems slightly odd that, nearly two-and-a-half years after it made an appearance in the big reveal of Wii U at E3 2011, we now finally get to play Wii Sports Club: Golf.
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