Take Tournament mode for example. In Mario Golf Toadstool Tour the first 4 tournaments are pretty normal for a golf game. Besides the enhanced graphics, waterfalls, and challenging courses its basically the same as any new golf games, but courses 5 and 6 are awsome. You'll probably unlock Boo in coarse 5 or 6. I havent unlocked the Hyrulian Cup (coarse 7) yet so I dont know much about it but as soon as I do i'll update this Review.
Let me bigin with tournament 5. These coarses are not far from Princess Peaches Castle. There are warp pipes everywhere. Althought Warp pipes are hard to get into its usually worth it because they usually add about 200 yards to your drive. Their are 2 different types of warp pipes. One is the traditional pipe that sticks out of the ground and actually makes your ball warp. Then there are different warp pipes which are seen on the sides of mountains and are tilted so if you manage to get your ball in one it will roll to the other side. Then there are the Mushrooms. The can also give your drive a boust, but only if you hit them on there backside. If you hit there frontside you lose several yards and have a large possibility to get out of Bounce or in a Water Hazard. Also after all that there are Chomp Chain Hazards. Their Nothing special all that happens when your ball gets in one is it says Out Of Bounce and a chomp runs around. Finally theres the colored flowers. You probably never heard of this but when you ball falls in the colored flowers a bunch of Pikmin fly around on impact. Hey its the little things that make a game great. Even though the pikmin are way too big, (about the size of half of Mario's arm) there great to see.
Tournament 6 is the Crazyest Tournament of them all. Its called Bowsers Championship. I mean its just crazy. The first time I played it I got +23 as a total score and the first times I played Tournaments 1-5 I always had under par. Lets see where to begin, theres about everything in tournament 5 exept the Pikmin in Flowsers (there are no flowers here), Lava everywhere, Blocks, Boos, Bob-ombs, Hundreds of lava drooling statues, Those things that fall on you when you go infront of them, Bullet Bills flying in the air and blowing up when they hit land and a few thin tiny island you have to use. Basically if you hit any lava you go out of bounce. If you hit a boo your ball slows down a bit. When (yes when) your ball goes infront of those things that fall on you well you guessed it they fall on you, but it doesn't do anything. It just makes them dissapear opening you vision range. Bob-omb blow up when you hit them. The bigger the Bob-omb the further you go. Try and completly avoid these thigs they send you ball flying, but if you want hit them on their backside so the balls flies where you wanted to go increasing your drive. If you hit them on their frontside theyed usually send you in the water (exept for 1 couse which they send the ball onto a tilted brige and you balls rolls back to what remains of the bob-omb. The Bullet Bill fly to high to hit and when they blow up its at the far reaches of the coarse (the out of bounce area) so dont worry about them, but like I said before "The little things make a game great" I know it doesn't sound crazy but you have to play it to see how crazy it is. Oh and the best Mario Game Music comes from this Tournament.
Then theres Get Character Mode. I think they should change the name because you dont get any characters their. All you do is challenge enemy oponents to get their star capabilities (Star Powers lower the Stat of a character but increat the drive from araoud 50-100 more yards per drive) ITs a good extra, but should have a different name. You dont need to get star powers for the 4 secret characters (Baby Bowser, Boo, Shadow Mario and Pety Pirhana). They come with Star Powers. To get these characters you must Completely beat the Birdie Challenge Side Game (for Baby Bowser), get 50 best badges in Tournament Mode (Boo), Completly beat Ring Mode (Shadow Mario) and complete every other side game then Birdie Challenge in Biginer, Intermediate and Expert mode (Pety Pirhana).
The Side games are all very hard and great. You can't save here makeing it harder. You get Baby Bowser and Pety Pirhana here. Its not long and doen't have anything special here so lets go on.
The Last Main Feature id Ring Mode. Its the shortest mode in the game. You play 6 course per tournament with rongs in them. The rings are placed in the odest areas giving this mode some chalenge, but its very short. Shadow Mario is unlocked whan you comletly beat this mode.
If this game does't make you love golf (or at least the Mario Golf series) then nothing will...exept maybe the next console systems Mario Golf.
Graphics 4/5
Gameplay 3/4
Music 4/5
Controls 4/5
Replay 5/5
Story 3/5
Overall 23/30
Written By: DarkLordBowser