![]() Golf With Your Friends is a long-tail title that was released in early access during 2016, but is still played and streamed regularly. Forget trying for the par trophies without a second player, put it that way.English publisher and developer Team17 has purchased the “rights and assets” for chaotic golf simulator Golf With Your Friends for £12 million, according to a report from. It’s a fair minigolf game but the putting is frustrating and latter holes are just that little too luck based. But the barren wastes of online play relegate this to a local hotseat only affair unfortunately. In conclusion, just as the title suggests, Golf With Your Friends is best played with other humans. Very little fun to be had, it’s just too attritional. Eight of the holes we got double figure scores on. Put it this way, par was 61 strokes and we got round in 136 strokes. It’s OK in the early stages but the further you progress, the worse it gets. The third and final course Volcano is the idiot cousin of the batch unfortunately. The Deep is also a good undersea themed course. Only a couple of the holes were overly luck based, so good will wasn’t eroded. The Escapists course, based as it is on the Team 17 prison release is better than we’d necessarily might’ve expected. Trial and error plays too much of a part unfortunately.īefore we close up, the three additional courses added via the newly available DLC pack are mostly good. All too often, you’ll be caught out by ill-explained mechanics and just expected to get on with it. Perhaps we’re playing it wrong, but it’s symptomatic of something else that bedevils Golf With Your Friends. It’s too reliant on a decent approach to a hole. We tried and tried to play it, but got nowhere. Rather than the idiosyncracies of putting, you’re just having to get the puck past the goalie into a net that’s roughly where the hole would be otherwise.ĭunk mode though. Hockey works really well in terms of the fact you’re playing on the same courses. In addition to standard pitch and putt, you’re able to play hockey mode & dunk mode. It might seem like we’re overwhelmingly focussing on the negatives here, but when you’re battling the courses rather than your opponents, it’s a little hard to shake that feeling. It doesn’t help that you’ll often struggle to know where you’re even supposed to get the ball, certainly with default settings anyway. This works just fine on early holes, but it’s a pathway to ruin in the latter stages of a round. Combined with the fact the game clock keeps ticking while you flyby, you’ll inevitably end up hitting and hoping for the best. You can flyby on the courses but you only get fifteen seconds total. Heck, if we were playing all out for the par trophies, we’d have as many extra hot seat players as we were able to give ourselves plenty of opportunity to practice. The obstacles and complications are such that you’ll often do well to be second to tee off, assuming you’re playing with another player. We can understand the devs want to incorporate the themes of each into the mechanics of the courses, but when they lead to you running out of shots or time and getting a stroke penalty, they get old. These generally are fun enough and fit the feel of the themes but just as often they can lead to your undoing. Space Station for example has blackholes. ![]() One egregious round had us under par until the twelfth hole, then two successive bad beats on holes had our until then decent score go out the window. This wouldn’t be so much of a problem if they didn’t sometimes have such a deleterious effect on an otherwise successful round. It works well for the most part but on a few occasions the additional mechanics thrust into the equation seriously mess things up. Forest is all verdant forests, just as Candyland is all confectionary themed. Gameplay wise, this is very much minigolf on a series of themed courses. Oddly, you can’t sign in to a second profile for the second player, so no progress towards trophies for them sadly. ![]() Much to our co-op partner’s delight, he’s been an integral part to our checking out the courses on offer here. Thankfully local multiplayer is very much a thing, simply add additional players in the offline lobby. At the point we wrote this review, admittedly almost six months post release, online is deader than this reviewer’s fashion sense. The default option is to play online, though forget randoms. We’ll get back to that at the conclusion of this review.Īs the name would indicate, Golf With Your Friends is very much best played with others as opposed to solo. We freely admit that this is our first sight of the game that initially came out in May 2020, reaching us courtesy of Team 17 to publicise the new DLC of three additional courses penned the New Worlds Pack. Novemin PS4 / Reviews tagged blacklight interactive / team17 / the escapists / worms by Ianįrom developer Blacklight Interactive and publisher Team 17, comes Golf With Your Friends.
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