An honest review

Hello, I never typically write reviews but I’ve reached the Gold Tier competitively and wanted to share some thoughts. The game is definitely focused on the competitive player. If you enjoy a game that’s rewarding to master the mechanics, this is for you. It’s felt gratifying to fight for a hard earned victory in battle mode against an evenly matched player, and the server connectivity is build for not getting disconnected during an intense match. I would say casual players will not enjoy the game as much, but fortunately there is a casual only mode if that floats your boat and like the cute and well designed characters (mechanically and visually). My only suggestions are slightly more variety in course layout, which I’m sure will be added. I think if the developers want this game to stick around, they’re going to have to make the drop rates on the Gatcha a little more generous, or allow you to unlock characters via the Gold Pass. That being said, you do get quite a lot of free gems for completing challenges, I’ve unlocked one character and rolled the Gatcha a number of times, and without spending money except on the Gold Pass.

A good game… ish

Scroll for the details on pros and cons. TLDR; too many issues for me to justify. Some major good points in my personal opinion, but until they decide to fix a lot of issues/ improve the game as a whole, my playing this will be VERY limited. Pros: -Gameplay itself is pretty fun and rewarding based on the challenge/ skill development. -Nice graphics. -Easy to understand controls. -Fun environment. -Chests (in game rewards for certain accomplishments) can contain decent items for character/ club upgrades. Cons: -Gacha system has worse payout of any I’ve ever played. -Completion of achievements gets you next to no in game rewards. Outside of chests and some limited amounts of currency, everything is paywalled and high price. F2P in this game is going to be a struggle as your club shot length is determined by how high you can upgrade them as well as “spirit rank” (aka how many times you have received THAT particular club through rewards, gacha, etc.) -Instructions on how to perform certain shots is very vague and unclear. Putting especially. Learn to be good on your own or stink at it eternally. -Assisted shots are X% likely to sink based on varying conditions, but they rarely stand up to that % chance. Example: 79% chance to sink putt with assisted shooting sinks (by my math taken from data in my account) roughly 57% of the time.

Good quick game, lack of story or content

The game is really fun, the mechanics work well, and I haven’t found any bugs yet, so I would say it’s worth your time! One gripe I have with the game is that there isn’t really anything for you to do single player other than practice at the driving range. I feel like this game could be really popular if you were to implement some sort of story mode or campaign, where you have to finish a course in a given amount of swings and such. Another problem is that there is a real lack of content other than the clothing and clubs. The clothing is very lackluster, and the clubs seem to be rare to find. You can go a long time without unlocking anything new, and when you finally unlock something, it is likely to be a visor or something for your character to wear. Also, it takes a long time to get a match. I don’t know if it’s because of a low player base or because of the servers, but it consistently takes over a minute to get into a game. This game is really fun, and with some added content or matchmaking fixes this game could be a big hit!

Could be good, but it’s not

So let’s start out with what’s good: -controls are difficult to master but rewarding -the characters are lively and each play a bit differently -graphically very nice -chat options encourage a happy, positive community But unfortunately we also have the bad: -game is an absolute grind. Upgrades are quite expensive compared to what you receive for winning, and even the quests have extremely low payouts. Premium currency is barely available for f2p after the initial boosts they give you to start. I’m talking getting maybe 75 per day, 50 of which go to your once daily box, the rest gets saved to do a 250 currency box at best once a week. -lots of bugs. Lost many matches from game just deciding to end the match. Ran into issues where game would tell me every shot was unplayable (even from fairway) and that I needed to take a drop with no opt out option. Won games, then would get to win screen where I was told I lost. -bots. Now, not so many as I’ve seen in some golf games, but when you run into them it’s obvious because they hit their shots instantly not taking time to aim and yet always end up with great results.

It’s a great and very fun game I would recommend it

I do very much enjoy this game 90% of the time! The big issue I’ve seen is in Battle matches or “Ranked” In silver 2 you see people with a career 25 Pars and it’s an even match other times it’s someone with 1500 pars and 90 hole in ones and you just lose guaranteed. The matches felt extremely balanced up to that point and I honestly don’t understand why and it’s very disheartening because you’ll basically suffer 1-4 losses and make no progress whatsoever. Other than that which is/isn’t a skill issue but hopefully something gets reviewed when it comes to matchmaking on that part! Great game, with great graphics and gameplay!

Fun game, bad gacha

Game mechanics are very fun. If you love adjusting to small details like wind factor, uphill or downhill, etc., then this game will appeal to you. The gacha rates are horrible for how little gems are given out to f2p players. I'm now gold rank and I've only spun the 10x gacha six times, and I've gotten no new characters, so I've been stuck using the starter character this entire time. According to the rates, you basically have a 1% chance to get a new character, and banners are small so they only have that 1 character. The cost of gems is dumb expensive ($19 usd for one 10x spin), which is not worth it considering the garbage rates. Re-rolling should be easy enough, but you can't get the character you want until their banner comes around. If quality-of-life improvements were made regarding obtaining new characters, then this game would definitely be more fun for f2p. I'm not about to spend hundreds just to get one outfit on a character.

Good mechanics, no character selection

The graphics and game mechanics are very, very good for a pad based golf game. But I’ve been stuck playing as a young male with spiky orange hair since I began. At this point I would pay to play as another character. There seems to be some way to access other characters by winning their clothing, but not even a six battle winning streak has unlocked that for me. It’s a shame. The videos show tantalizing character customization. Keeping that out of reach of paying players is just bad business. Three stars awarded as followed: five stars for graphics and game play, one star for lack of character customization.

Has Potential

I quite enjoy the game from what I’ve played. I think the controls work very well and the game looks great. I do wish there was some type of single player mode that let you play a full 18 holes or something. I also wish there were more characters to obtain from the gacha, as there are only 5 characters and I’m not too interested in any of them, although I feel like there will be more characters added over time. Overall, I think the game is fun and I’m looking forward to seeing new content in the future.

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