![]() Oh, you’ll also want to do yourself a favour and turn the maddeningly repetitive music down or off. The free cam that lets you preview the course also has the curse of adjusting your shot power and spin (if you have that enabled) when you return to the ball, and there’s regular instances where you get zoomed all the way in because your ball is a bit too close to a wall. Content Rating Mild Blood, Mild Fantasy Violence Developers Blacklight Interactive Publishers. Mostly this seems to be down to geometry reacting badly when you overhit, but when you’re then reset to your previous position, any camera angle changes you’ve made while in motion are retained, disorienting you and making minor adjustments or tweaks to your shot more difficult. Golf With Your Friends is a challenging, multiplayer mini golf game for up to 12 players. While the game plays a good game of minigolf the vast majority of the time, you’ll almost certainly encounter some kind of inexplicable bounce or rebound at least once a course. That leads us to a golf game’s biggest sin: inconsistency. A handful of funky geometry and shadowing issues have persisted through Early Access to release. The flat textures and dull lighting are not the best advert for the Unity engine (which is actually capable of great lighting effects!), nor is the pop-in during the flyover and stutter when a course title card is revealed, even on Xbox One X. At the very least, it feels like nobody went back to revamp the first courses that appeared when the game first launched into Early Access. Each course almost feels like it was created by a different team, and even within a course, there’s difficulty spikes. The number of environments is great, but you get the feeling that quality and effort varies from one to another. The laws of gravity are defied, there’s spectral ramps that you can temporarily make solid, boost pads and explosives, and you’re never quite sure what’s around the corner… unless you use the free look camera to preview a hole’s layout, that is. The course designs get progressively weirder, starting off in a standard wooded area, jumping to a haunted mansion, then a space station, a sci-fi volcano, all the way through to a Worms course thanks to Team17 publishing the game. All of these modes can then be customised to different shot and time limits, collisions, ball spin and more, and you can play with your own rules in both open and closed lobbies. There’s nothing quite like hitting a randomiser that turns everyone into odd shapes as they’re trying desperately to navigate through a level, or cunningly holding onto a freeze ability until you need to stop yourself rolling off a ledge. Then there’s the Party Mode, throwing a handful of chaotic power ups into the mix for you to pick up and curse your rivals with. These include swapping holes for hoops to jump through – making things maddeningly more difficult – or for goals and strafing goalies while you now strike at a hockey puck. Of course, it wouldn’t be minigolf if you could easily chart your way past every axe-wielding ghost, Indiana Jones boulder, pachinko-style tumbler sometimes you just have to hit the ball and suffer the consequences, good or bad.As well as a server browser where you can hop into custom games that might delve into GWYF’s modified rules and modes. With Your Friends Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players 12 Player Multiplayer Make sure your skills are up to scratch as you tee off against 11 other golfers in simultaneous online multiplayer. The fine aim function gives you minute control when you need it, the underlying ball physics are reliable (both in how the ball bounces and the importance of angles), and holes’ pars are mostly realistic. ![]() However, I usually came away feeling that I could do it with more practice at the hole. ![]() What does is that on any given hole I was rewarded for my patience, planning (look around for different paths), and skill nailing the power gauge, but could also be surprised, both pleasantly and unpleasantly. Golf With Your Friends is an enjoyable minigolf adventure because it balances the absurd, the expected, and the unknown.Ĭombining a ball, a putter, angles, obstacles, and physics isn’t what makes this game stand out. Besides the normal golf stuff, gravity-bending black holes also stand between me and the cup, but I just have to take them in stride I know I can do it. Getting a par here is going to take good judgment, skill, and a little luck. I’m on the 11th hole and the pressure is on.
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