[b]Super Battle Golf[/b] is a [i]"racing golf game"[/i] that somehow captures that charming, nostalgic experience of coming home after a day of school, booting up your favourite console and playing that one game with your friends or siblings that you all can't get enough of. For me, that was the Nintendo 64's [i]Snowboard Kids[/i] and [i]Diddy Kong Racing[/i], two games I find more comparable to this game than any your typical golfing game (though if you like golf games, your skills will be very much transferable!)
Your goal is simple! Score the most points, earned by finishing a golf course the fastest, with signifigant bonus points for completing under par. The catch? All the numerous power-ups and hazards that all the other players will no doubt use to hinder you, with mechanics that interact with eachother in complex, yet simple and instantly understandable ways. Because a shotgun is pretty good at shooting your opposition off cliffs, but the massive knockback on it could also be used to give yourself an unexpected boost needed to arrive to the green before anyone else can.
And once someone does get their ball into the hole, a timer appears for everyone else to get in quick, as the music hypes up the intensity and the panic of everyone else now forced to make a mad dash to the finish. It quickly turns to total chaos, with things exploding outside your vision, contrasted hilariously with the scene of each player carefully trying to line up accurate golf shots before someone else blows them up.
Pistols are drawn, landmines are struck with golf clubs to land ahead of other players, meanwhile first place is suddenly atomized by an orbital laser that last place picked up. It's great fun, with insults flying as much as the golf balls, only for the game to end with everyone laughing because, first place and the points doesn't matter when there's always another round to play.
It feels like the game that was designed to be fun first and foremost, with so many of the choices in the game's design and mechanics reflecting that. If you got a group of friends to play this with, especially the kind that loves to banter or enjoy friendly competition, then I would consider Super Battle Golf as an excellent reccomendation.
