Golfaria

[Ozium]

♥♥♥♥ Golfaria.

That is all.

[♥Puroseki (she/her)]

The start is the worst part. Try and make it to a nearby golf hole (look around by holding X) and find a few upgrades for your Stroke Count. Once you have more than the default 20 the game will feel a lot better and less punishing.

[Simbabbad]

Haven't played this one yet, but there seems to be a pattern with Porgy.

[Malkav0]

Was pretty easy and enjoyable, 100%'d it.

[Ozium]

I managed to finally get the brakes and +3 strokes and it is still garbage. It is fundamentally trash. 1 pip on meter is like tapping the ball, 2 pips on meter is like hitting it 20 yards... the slopes have idiotic physics, random ♥♥♥♥ just pops up out of nowhere and knocks your ball into the water. When you go in the water you teleport back to where you are, you don't just get placed outside the water where you dropped in with a stroke deducted, no you get teleported back.

How do you manage to make a game based on a sport and not understand the most basic of rules and concepts?

[♥Puroseki (she/her)]

Originally posted by Ozium:

I managed to finally get the brakes and +3 strokes and it is still garbage. It is fundamentally trash. 1 pip on meter is like tapping the ball, 2 pips on meter is like hitting it 20 yards... the slopes have idiotic physics, random ♥♥♥♥ just pops up out of nowhere and knocks your ball into the water. When you go in the water you teleport back to where you are, you don't just get placed outside the water where you dropped in with a stroke deducted, no you get teleported back.

How do you manage to make a game based on a sport and not understand the most basic of rules and concepts?

You can see enemies sitting there before you hit the ball. With practice you can manage the power of your hits pretty well and the brakes exist to help that even further. Slopes behave consistently and your aiming line even shows you the angle you'll roll. Falling in water is bad because you aren't supposed to do it and should aim more carefully, and again you have brakes.

It's really not as bad as you make it seem. It might just not be the game for you.

[Ozium]

"your aiming line" you mean the aiming line that told me I would curve to the left going up a hill and the ball then curved to the right? you mean that "aiming line?"

[Aldrenean]

Originally posted by Ozium:

♥♥♥♥ Golfaria.

That is all.

oh my god I've been trying to follow the wise ball's advice (go to the hole on the hill to the west) for the last hour and I'm about to kill myself.

[Anolise]

This is my favorite game in the collection so far and I'm confused about why people are struggling with it. Maybe yall spend too much time in the world map and not enough time hitting those holes for upgrades. You should get yourself at least 26-29 strokes before doing anything else.

[Ninjaboy5056]

I was the same way at first. I initially hated Golfaria for how frustrating the stroke count was. Using the free cam in underground holes is incredibly useful. The positions of the areas in the underground map is in line with the holes on the overworld map, so you can find a golf club in the free cam and if it's not in your hole, you will still have a good idea of the direction of that hole.

Somewhere in the 30-40 stroke range, the game turns from frustrating to enjoyable. Going straight for the upgrade that the NPCs and the wise ball are directing you toward may cause you to miss some of those golf clubs. (You'll still need to get there eventually as that is the first major upgrade you need). Find the easiest and nearest hole, use the free cam, and you should hopefully find some golf clubs pretty quickly.

I'm not saying this will work for everyone or that the game will become fun just because you get more strokes. Sometimes a game just doesn't click with people and that's understandable. I just can't agree with it necessarily being bad game design even if it does cause frustration. I don't like the taste of coffee, but that doesn't make it bad drink design, for example.

[blob]

Originally posted by Anolise:

This is my favorite game in the collection so far and I'm confused about why people are struggling with it. Maybe yall spend too much time in the world map and not enough time hitting those holes for upgrades. You should get yourself at least 26-29 strokes before doing anything else.

Maybe I m just missing an instruction in the game but I just have no idea how to get more strokes. Like others as soon as i get to the village it's endless mayhem with slopes preventing from progress or water resetting me and then game over. How to get 26-29 strokes?

[CluelessWonder8]

In some of the holes, if you use the free look to pan around, you'll see a floating club. Each such club collected is worth +3 max strokes.

You may want to try using the terminal code FORE-EVER, which, while anything done while using it doesn't save, your stroke count will not drop (outside certain hazards like mosquitoes). It should let you get a better feel for the game, and an idea where to go, etc. before playing "for keeps".

(I used it because I am/was terrible at this game, but well... it doesn't save.)

[Evanpik64]

Honestly one of the best games in the collection so far, take the guy in the starting village's advice and find the Wise Golf Ball man, trust me.

[PlantMurderer]

Love the game. I was tepid on it initially until I found the Brake, and then it clicked.

[Nothing]

I finished the game today, and while I enjoyed it, there are definitely some things wrong with it. The beggining is too punishing, sometimes the game will make you fall down after you already very obviously cleared a slope, and most annoyingly the shot prediction line is extremely off on occassion (Legends of Diskonia have a similiar problem imo), that being said I think it's pretty fun once you get around 40 strokes and find a few checkpoints.

[11clock]

I'm not really finding this game too hard or anything, but I don't find it all that fun. Exploring a map by hitting a ball around is very tedious and annoying. Golf is not a good vessel for exploration.

I had pretty much the same opinion on a pinball metroidvania I played a while back. When I want to explore, I don't want to wrestle with another genre's mechanics to do so.