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Mario Golf: World Tour |OT| Bring Cursing to the Fore with Mario and Friends!
- Thread starter PreyingShark
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Instead of hitting A to finish your shot, hit B. AA is top spin, AB is super top spin, BB is back spin,and BA is super back spin.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
This doesn't make sense to me. I feel like it would be way more natural to have them reversed.
crankypants
Member
A B is alphabetically FORWARD (forward spin). B A is alphabetically BACKWARD (back spin).
I would think it would be confusing the other way round.
Is that different to using the circle pad to move the cursor of the ball?
I need to go back and check the ringmaster course. That seemed impossible to me - not enough shots, plus difficult to see precisely where you are aiming. Generally I'm not a fan of gimmicky courses, will probably stick to the normalise ones.
Yes. Moving the cursor changes where you hit the ball. You can do both at the same time as well if you think the shot you're trying to make calls for it.
Let's a-play!
Oh, I see. For some reason, I thought you had to use A when shooting.
UncleSporky
Member
For me it's just remembering that the same button twice = regular, different buttons = super, because having to hit different buttons is slightly more complex which means more power.
And then you lead off with B for "backspin" or the other one for topspin and it all just falls into place.
Regular is just 1 button push (A or B) when setting accuracy which results in no spin.
Special is 2 button pushes when setting accuracy (AA or BB) which results in a forward spin or a back spin.
Super Special is 2 alternating button pushes when setting accuracy (AB or BA) which results in a super forward spin or a super back spin.
Outside of the length of the spin I'm not sure if there are other differences in them. In HSG doing a super spin could let you do things like climb the pole and slam into the hole. It obviously didn't change your stroke count, but it was a cool extra touch to try and get.
Special is 2 button pushes when setting accuracy (AA or BB) which results in a forward spin or a back spin.
Super Special is 2 alternating button pushes when setting accuracy (AB or BA) which results in a super forward spin or a super back spin.
Outside of the length of the spin I'm not sure if there are other differences in them. In HSG doing a super spin could let you do things like climb the pole and slam into the hole. It obviously didn't change your stroke count, but it was a cool extra touch to try and get.
PreyingShark
Member
...? He said what you said. How is he confused?
Yeah, I re-read it after I hit Reply
The word "Regular" threw me off because a regular shot doesn't take 2 button pushes. But he meant a regular special shot, not a regular normal shot.It has to be manual.
UncleSporky
Member
Yeah, I re-read it after I hit Reply
Yeah sorry, I was specifically referring to topspin or backspin.
If other people are like me then they'll know that you hardly make a shot in this game without one or the other.
Sometimes a plain shot can be useful to just see where it lies...I've gotten really pissed at myself sometimes for using spins too much and overshooting everything, but generally they're good stuff.Regular backspin when you're hitting the green at an angle is awesome for landing by the hole!
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
With the button layout, AB is physically backward and BA is physically forward. That matches with the notion of A being topspin and B being backspin. It literally feels like tapping the top of the imaginary ball or the bottom. I am not thinking about the damn alphabet when I play videogames, but I am thinking spatially and what a motion of my thumb feels like in relation to a virtual object. Sliding it forward feels like what I would need to do to make a ball roll forward, and sliding it backward feels like what I would need to do to make a ball come back towards me.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Welp I'm fucking ready! I've been waiting for this game forever and the demo is great! Nailing chip ins and long puts is so awesome. Control is pretty much perfect!
Loooove it
Loooove it
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Demo is great. Can't wait to get the full game.
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
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chickdigger802
Banned
hmmmm reviews are making me hesitant a bit, but its $30, and i need a game to hit plat....
PreyingShark
Member
Basically, as far as Nintendo of America goes, Friday is the new Sunday.
Amazeballs
Member
They've been doing Friday releases instead of Sunday releases for a while now. I think it started with Pokemon X/Y.
PreyingShark
Member
Hey, this Hole-In-One music is pretty cool. ~
I'm shocked that it was Lefty Bowser I got my first one with, though, due to that curve...
I'm shocked that it was Lefty Bowser I got my first one with, though, due to that curve...
PreyingShark
Member
Both, among other things.
Sweet. The demo was all by yourself so I wasnt sure how that was going to be lol. Thanks
Series tradition. One of the earlier games (I think it was Toadstool Tour, might have been 64) would have a Boo fly across the screen, complete with Boo laugh, any time you left the controller idle for like, 3 seconds. So any time you were using the camera to line up a shot, you'd be concentrating on getting the aim right, and boom, Boo laugh out of nowhere to break your train of thought.
I still hear them, sometimes.
1000 Branches
Banned
Just downloaded the demo for this from the eShop. This will be my first Mario Golf game ever. Someone tell me what to expect!
Velcro Fly
Member
Just want the full game already so I can play! The demo was good but it is like giving a starving man a single bite of steak. I need more! I want to start unlocking star characters and buying clothes for my Mii and trying out all the characters to see who I like to use the most. I've done the best with Mario but Yoshi was my dude in TT.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Surprisingly sophisticated golfing mechanics and really nice, bold presentation.
This one gives the characters quite a lot of personality too, as everybody has multiple animated sequences for bogeys, birdies, hole in ones, etc. The fantasy themed courses are better in this one too - they feel more like actually playing a round of golf through a Mario game world.
ConradCervantes
Banned
Same. I had it down pretty well in HSG for Vita, but yeesh. Can't line up anything correctly yet.
JetBlackPanda
Member
I've been playing for the last hour in bed trying to par that last hole with the rings. Legit rage on a couple of long rim out puts!
G'damn this game is good.
With friends it's going to be AMAZING!
G'damn this game is good.
With friends it's going to be AMAZING!
Just don't go in expecting progression. If you enjoy the gameplay and have nothing against playing an arcade mode of sorts, then you'll enjoy it.
Amazeballs
Member
I'm enjoying the demo so far. The game is more complex than meets the eye, but that complexity is logically intuitive (terrain, wind, etc). My only gripe so far is the confusing interface. Speaking of which, are items enabled in the demo? I can't seem to find them on the interface.
You have to tap the shot thing on the top left. It goes Normal -> Power -> Item, but I only saw an item (bullet bill) on the gold coin level.
Amazeballs
Member
Much appreciated!
Poltergust
Member
It took a while, but I managed to get an Eagle with each character in the demo. Used the first Yoshi Lake hole to get them.
Peach took forever lol. You have to have perfect wind, get two perfect power shots (with the first one bouncing off one of those platforms), then putt the ball into the hole, most likely having to use the Medium distance setting. X_X
Peach took forever lol. You have to have perfect wind, get two perfect power shots (with the first one bouncing off one of those platforms), then putt the ball into the hole, most likely having to use the Medium distance setting. X_X
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
When placing the cursor on he ball, you have to think about the travel of the ball once it starts bouncing. Sometimes, your club will get you to the pin but will continue to roll so you want to hit underneath the centre of the ball so it almost comes to an immediate stop when it lands.
Or there are times when you want it roll as much as possible so you hit it above centre to have a flatter shot. I always felt that was beat when playing in windy conditions.
Backspin/topspin was also there to compensate once the ball landed.
Almost all the time that I use playing the game is messing with the camera and working out precisely how I want to play the shot.
Poltergust
Member
I just got an Eagle while doing the Star Coin Challenge. I guess those Bullet Bill power-ups are useful after all.