Mario Golf (1999)
3.38 from 118 ratings
310 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 76 backlogged · 49 wish listed
How long? · with extras 15h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Details
- Developers
- Camelot
- Publishers
- Nintendo
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Sport
- Franchises
- Mario
- Series
- Mario Golf
Release dates
- Aug 10, 1999 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Color
- Oct 05, 1999 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy Color
- Oct 26, 1999 (Full Release) (Australia) Game Boy Color
- Oct 26, 1999 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy Color
- Oct 03, 2012 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
- Oct 11, 2012 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
- May 02, 2014 (Early Access) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
- May 02, 2014 (Early Access) (Australia) Nintendo 3DS
- May 29, 2014 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
- May 29, 2014 (Full Release) (Australia) Nintendo 3DS
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Rating distribution
5 stars
13
4 stars
44
3 stars
41
2 stars
15
1 star
5
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Jusfei Jun 21, 2021
Fully finished story
- Beat all side-games
- Finished Peach's Castle Tournament
- Played in anticipation of Mario Golf: Super Rush, since I never played the N64/GBC era of Mario Golf games previously.
My thoughts:
It's a good early entry for the franchise despite being unrefined, but I found the difficulty of the game to be rather inconsistent. Even in the first Marion …
Fully finished story
- Beat all side-games
- Finished Peach's Castle Tournament
- Played in anticipation of Mario Golf: Super Rush, since I never played the N64/GBC era of Mario Golf games previously.
My thoughts:
It's a good early entry for the franchise despite being unrefined, but I found the difficulty of the game to be rather inconsistent. Even in the first Marion course, you can get crazy 20mph winds which is pretty brutal for a beginner. The N64/GBC era golf games also have no way to gauge distance, meaning you have to use a good amount of estimation to try to land your shot at the right distance.
The main draw of the GBC version is the golf RPG mode. I find it pretty unique how the early Camelot handheld sports games boil down to you play as a human character in a world where Mario is mostly just a myth, and sadly I don't see this idea will be revisited idea judging how Super Rush's RPG mode will turn out.
A decent first handheld Mario Golf Entry, but to me, Advance Tour is much more refined to play (and it's even a direct sequel set in the same setting as this game).