EVERYBODY'S GOLF HOT SHOTS

Man do I want to say this game is good. And granted, if you bought it now, a year later, you could enjoy the game. All their updates up to this point have been amazing, if the game released in this state, I'd been happy. However there are still many flaws with it, flaws that are so baked in that it really sucks. Character/Club/Ball choice does not matter: I understand what they were trying to do with the food system, allowing you to pick a favourite character and getting to upgrade them to compete at all levels is a great idea. In a career mode. That they don't have. With permanent upgrades, you can bump all stats of all characters up to S. There's no negative VS positive in the food, and using standard clubs are just flat buffs. In older games, you'd use clubs/balls to gain stats but it'd normally take away some stats as well, as well as adding effects to your shots. This game HAS that. But it also just has... permanent upgrading so the S stat will drop just to an A, the horror. In the end, there's no reason to unlock all the characters, as your starting character (your 1 of 2), can just become a Golf Legend after eating some sandwiches. Unlocking Characters feels bad and confus…

This game is good, but not "great." Not the strongest entry in the series. So if you've played the Hot Shots Golf / Everybody's Golf series, controls will feel familiar. It's better than it was last year, as it felt incomplete. I will say a complaint of mine which is supposed to be resolved by future updates. This game is grind-y. You start with just two characters, two. Also the characters themselves are not wildly different from one another. Most of the female characters share the same animations. Again, not a bad game by any means, but some of the choices feel kind of half assed. Playing online with other friends is fun though. It's a golf game, you don't exactly need rollback netcode. Have I had fun? Yes. Could it be better? Yes. Would I recommend it? Sure, but so long as you are aware of what you are getting.

Poor technical performance and incredibly tedious progression. I cannot fathom their design decisions around pacing and acquiring new characters. They literally could have ported the PSP version of this game and I would have been thrilled.

What do you get when you combine golf with anime in the video game medium? A great big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mistake, as far as general resource management and funding are concerned from the perspective of investors everywhere, but otherwise you are likely to get something of a passion project for which those creating it take some degree of pride in their work and wish to execute this unprecedented confluence of media with marketable professionalism; i.e., a fun anime golf video game. Everybody's Golf Hot Shots is in that neighborhood. It has simple mechanics, nothing groundbreaking or exciting - if you were seeking a contender to finally give 2K25 and EA Sports a run for their money in quality of game design, I am sorry to say that those two, despite their generally smarmy modern game design philosophies, remain unthreatened. EGHS, on the other hand, is fitting as a fun arcade-style golf game with that unmistakable anime varnish. There is a roster of unlockable characters, each of which has their own storyline and (generally shallow) relationship with several of the other characters, all of which revolves around golf as the common shared interest. The game encapsulates this narratively common…

Haven't played much yet, but it's fun so far. I'm a bit disappointed by performance though. I was hoping it would be a good Steam Deck game, but the best I've been able to achieve is consistently is 40 fps, which is less than ideal for a game where timing is critical. It's not as punishing for missed timing as I remember the old PS2 games being, though, so it's still playable.

yay golf