Putter Golf for MD

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Putter Golf

Curse that cursor

Genre: sports - golf

Publisher: Sega

Year: 1990

System: MD

Gameplay Score: 1

Gameplay Notes:

Power guage moves super fast, making it nearly impossible to get the exact amount you want. Plus it's difficult to guage how hard you want to hit it anyway. Plus plus the power doesn't seem to scale consistently. Hitting it half power isn't twice as far as 1/4 power, for example. I couldn't figure out how the scaling works, but it's not what you'd expect. The biggest sin though is moving the camera. There's no way to recenter or easily move the camera to see the course. Instead you have to manually move the camera via a tiny cursor. This is painfully slow, with terrible, jerky scrolling. And once you've moved the camera to your liking you then have to slowly move the cursor all the way back to the ball to get back to the direction and power UI. It's SO annoying, and the primary reason why I dislike this game. It'd be alright without this mechanic, but is almost unplayable with it.

Level Design Score: 1

Level Design Notes:

No modes, no passwords, no options. Just turn it on and you start at the beginning. The holes are all poorly designed, in my opinion. They feature a lot of right angles and narrow openings which require you to carefully hit the ball to the next opening. Miss it and you're screwed.

Theme Score: 2

Theme Notes:

Has kind of a Marble Madness vibe, even though there's no enemies or other animated obstacles. It just has that look, I guess. The complete lack of even a pause screen makes this feel more like a demo than a full game.

Art Style Score: 3

Art Style Notes:

Not much to see here. Not terrible, but not interesting either.

Audio Score: 3

Audio Notes:

It's got a dorky song that I enjoyed for the most part. Only the one song though

Overall Score: 29

Review ID: 6062