WHAT THE GOLF? brings an unpredictable silliness to the sport in this week’s IGP First Look. Picture Warioware, but with more clubs.
I rarely knew what to expect when I started any given level of WHAT THE GOLF?. Would I be golfing with a soccer net? Would I be using an office chair? An entire house? It’s not just a use of weird objects, but the game itself would morph into just about anything the developers felt like. Sometimes you’re Spider Man (in golf ball form), using sticky lines to pull yourself to the hole. Maybe you become a kind of Super Mario ball and have to hop over enemies and cliffs to make it to that stage goal. Or perhaps you become the embodiment of a ridiculous pun.
This creativity in what was going to happen made seeing how a stage worked just as much of a delight as playing the game. It was always a treat just to see what surprises lay in each level, or how the developers took flinging an object and made it something new. The control scheme was always straightforward (use the mouse to gauge your strength and choose the direction to move), but there was always some new way to use that simple control scheme in some outlandish way. It’s constantly absurd, resulting in a game of near endless delights as you see just what odd new things have been created for you to work through. It’s easy to control, filled with delightfully silly tunes, and offers endless surprises. WHAT THE GOLF? is easily the best golf game for folks who hate golf.
WHAT THE GOLF? is available now on Apple Arcade and the Epic Games Store.
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