Hey, at least they made it a little more realistic by including a drunk Aussie guy. To this very day, most golfing games omit that essential part of golf.
Aside from what other commenters have said, another important thing about this game's reputation include the deceptive advertising that made it look like the game was filled with content. But in fact, all of the game's courses were in the commercial. It was originally priced similarly to Smash Bros.... The sales of the game was about 720 units sold in the first week. Also, Pro Golfer Saru's anime is available for free on their official UA-cam channel, though of course it's entirely in Japanese.
Since the video didn't explain why it's terrible, here are some: - Only including oddball characters and missing more popular (and more traditionally playing) characters. - Only six playable characters is pathetic considering the wealth of them in the franchise. - Even worse, the sixth one is a reskin of the girl tha recycles the nunchuk character's moves. - You can only land the ball at handful of predetermined spots. It's not a golf, more like Monopoly or sugoroku with branching paths. - You cannot shoot towards outside the designated spots; otherwise the shot is not allowed or automatically out of bounds. - In putting, you cannot read the greens or even move the course; all you can do is swing at a right time. - The game is extremely short. You can finish a single player (a round of 11 holes) in 10 mins, and there is no character-specific endings. - Unlike the real golf, each hole determines the winner and loser. There is no score counting over the round. - Benibachi (the girl) has an OP special move that she can borrow one of the opponent's clubs and break it. Since Saru is canonically a one-club character, he becomes totally useless.
The anime was remade in the west as a movie called "Happy Gilmore". I think they took the same liberties they always take, but it was much more faithful than the DBZ adaptation.
Yeah, I'm surprised at how visually competent it is given how poorly it's recieved for other reasons. It has a solid 2000's kids show design to it and the models for the characters and stages seem decent
Eighting also co-developed Pikmin 4 with Nintendo. Before they were Eighting they were known as Raizing. Raizing developed one of the best shmup of all time Battle Garegga.
They also developed Marvel vs Capcom 3 and it's expansion, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, DnF Duel, and will be developing the upcoming Hunter X Hunter: Nen Impact
Just to understand this villain. He shares a hobby with his daughter, and after every hole, he asks her which one she wants to play next? My goodness, this guy is pure evil.
I've actually seen reviews of this one that describe it as absolutely putrid, I think it's kind of a famous kusoge? There's one on youtube with 5 million views. Not only does this game have about ten minutes of content, apparently also the shots you can take are so deterministic that the reviewer describes the game as more like sugoroku than golf. And I know how much roll-and-move enthusiast RndStranger loves sugoroku.
I think the channel you're talking about is "Karasuma A Channel" (からすまAチャンネル, Karasuma Ei Channeru), a very notable Japanese kusoge reviewer. I don't understand any of what he says (English speaker with minimal Japanese knowledge) but I like watching him regardless
@@xiaolin867 Basically, the criticisms boiled down to: An IP-driven game without any fanservice (only 5 characters total, no story mode) Wears the skin of a golf game without any of the depth that a golf game would reasonably have (the ability to pick your own route to a course, the fundamental gamble in how to putt, etc.) You basically clear the entire game in 10 minutes It costs 50 something bucks at retail Unlocking secret characters is entirely dumb luck The final secret character is a reskin of one of the normal characters without even any spec changes Honestly if you were duped into buying it based on IP value or if you liked the original manga I can see why people would rate it so low. It's not a buggy mess, its a bad game without any substance that could push it into the so bad it's good or so bad it's a challenge level - just empty.
@yaoyao9 i see and agree with all these criticisms and facts about the game; pro golfer saru for wii Is A Bad Game, but still "just empty" isnt THAT bad and does not warrant famitsus lowest score ever and mockery as the ultimate kusoge. I am in no way defending this game when i go to point out that other games are worse. There are many ugly unprofessional, badly coded, hatefully designed, untested messes of games out there that barely count as playable which deserve the kind of hate this game is receiving and more. The graphics and cut scenes are nice, golfing, while basic and full of random events... Works well enough, and there are no huge bugs that hinder gameplay, or regular crashes. At the end of your reply you even mentioned ways that the game could still be enjoyable both ironically (challenge level) and unironically. There are plenty of famicom titles rnd stranger has reviewed alone that dont even have that to say for themselves. My point is that while this game is really empty and aggressively mid, that doesn't justify the medias strange and disproportionately hateful reaction.
@@candykatkittylichiousisthebomb I'm not sure if you understood my point at the end, I'd recommend reading the comment again. Regardless, I just surmised the info presented in the video that was referenced from Karasuma A using the examples that he used verbatim. As someone who hasn't ever tried playing this title, I only presented my opinion as a rationale for why players may have found the game detestable to that degree. Famitsu is known for its age, though not necessarily for its quality of reviews. I'm no expert in the publication either, but I'm suspicious as to whether it even bothered to cover all the shovelware that would've been present on the Wii alone. Perhaps this was just the worst game that the magazine decided to cover at all.
I think sometimes reviews can really end up being based on how the game makes you feel in the moment, especially if you're a weekly magazine reviewing games as they come out. Dropping full price on a game with barely an hour's worth of content would certainly leave a bad taste in your mouth when you're presumably expecting at least 18 holes of golf.
To be fair, it's almost like a stripped down party game, a party game that was given a full game, as in a game that takes years to develop full game price. No surprise it rated that bad, it's not actually broken bad, just bad for a collection of reasons to drag it that low.
The problem with this game is that it's a demo. If there were a full game with five 18-hole courses and more variety in characters, I'd love to play it. But it's a little shocking that Famitsu gave this a worse score than Death Crimson.
Thank you for reviewing this game... and I can't wait to see you review the other games trashed by Famitsu! And, as expected, this isn't a BAD game, but it's typical of the Wii's lesser titles that feel shallow and would be better suited as a mobile game in the future. For a couple minutes of mindless fun, it's not bad, but the full price of $50 is a little too much for this kind of game. I woulda picked this up if I saw it in a bargain bin.
hey, i remember watching a jp review of this. Apparently, only 2 programmers worked on this, and the wind feature is non-existant. More characters would have made this less of a bummer.
I was really excited to see what this game had to offer when you mentioned this game in the Year of FDS episode and now I feel kind of cheated that it turned out to be just mediocre will look into picking this one up regardless, even if it failed at the ideas it presents its still an interesting Wii game with one heck of a backstory behind it
I got jump scared when you said Eighting since I love most of their library but never heard of this one. Being a fan of this company is like a curse, but an enjoyable one.
It's crazy how Famistu's worst reviewed game is just a really mediocre sports game, while games like Sonic 06 gets higher scores. And this situation kinda reminds how people reacted towards Mario Strikers Battle League, where the game is priced at $60 with barebones content and people giving it low scores because of it.
it's funny how, for all its faults, the game just oozes with charm. in a way, that's the 8ing experience! i got a review copy for their new-ish zoids game years ago [i managed to get into the US publisher's good graces rather easily] and it was *also* very shallow but dumb fun. it also got a dub and included the jp version's dlc, so even if i didn't get it for free, it was at least fair value for a budget title.
3:55 I like the way you say monkey 😂. Also surprised I never heard of this one! Tatsunoko vs Capcom was such a gem that didn't get enough love 😢. Surprised they fell from the same tree! Great video overall !
Kinda disappointed that the game is just mediocre, I thought it was gonna be truly awful. Maybe the reviewers were just big fans of the series and were led to believe there'd be more content?
@@RootVegetabIe While I have personally always adhered to that idea (boring games are indeed the worst, outright shitty games can be interesting), I'm still not sure that a deeply boring game would warrant the worst review your outlet has ever given.
Seems like a game where they had a pretty good concept, but either not enough time or not enough manpower to really see it through. When the system comes with a golf game for free, you're gonna have to do better than a barebones shell of a game at full price.
Reviews are subjective, so by their very nature a definitive review is impossible. After being blasted for giving Final Fantasy XIII a 4/10 on Destructoid and accusations of bias, they gave it a completely and totally objective review: ua-cam.com/video/eMU1_-_4WKg/v-deo.htmlsi=2P0Ppqi27YqbOXuY. Some critics, however, are skilled at consistently and deeply using their own methodologies that their reviews have rightfully been respected and carried a lot of weight.. Think Roger Ebert- the more I learn about his methodology and have read his reviews (and you can learn a *lot* about media criticism in general from his writings), the more they make perfect sense. One example that Ebert was criticized for was giving three stars because he considered context- if you go in expecting some deep drama you're going to be disappointed, but if you go in expecting a silly, very lowbrow family movie about a dog learning to play basketball... it does that very well. There's a little SNES game called Super Solitaire that does what it tries to do incredibly well. What it tries to do is eight solitaire variations, before most people had reliable access to PCs to play it on. That is a game that should get very good critical review scores. It is also a game that is entirely obsolete when I can play several hundred solitaire variations on my phone. (Seriously, if you have enough interest in the art of media criticism to be wondering what's wrong with video game reviews, read some of Ebert's articles, then read some of his film reviews, then read some more of his film reviews. It's helped my own media literacy enough that it's even helped me appreciate video games more.) There was a time that I deeply respected Famitsu's reviews. While they weren't perfect and were always a product of their time and culture, once you were aware of this they were the single most densely packed piece of information you could find on a video game. A 30 was a badge of honor, a 35 was phenomenal, and a 40 was so mythical that if a game made a 40 and you followed gaming news, And I miss that. Famitsu has been giving out an average of one 40 a year this last decade, and it's always a big mainstream game. Their third ever perfect 40 was Not Dragon Quest, not Metal Gear Solid, not Final Fantasy, not Gran Turismo, not Zelda, not Mario, but I couldn't appreciate it as a kid, but I can as an adult, and it is one hell of an incredible game. Famitsu and Edge Magazine are the closest things we have ever had to popular video game resource on the level of critics such as Ebert. Sometime in the 2000's, when games media began going digital, review scores became accessible to anyone with an internet connection and not just paying customers of a magazine, media review sources have become more and more susceptible to game publishers. Game critics may have passion, but if their reviews were published in a magazine or professional website, they're subject to being published by either their employer or whomever they're contracting with. And because of capitalism, game publishers can crush games media outlets. Also, media criticism has been getting processed into a gross slurry called MetaCritic. Film criticism is a century old. Commentary on literature, which is essentially proto-literarily criticism, is a millennium old Video game criticism was barely entering its adolecence when this process began. Mainstream video game criticism got nipped in the bud before it could fully blossom. There probably is a Roger Ebert of video game criticism, but none of us will probably ever hear about them. ...I need to have a good cry now.
@@thestripedmenace @JeremyParish is a fantastic critic. I just haven't (as of this moment!) seen the same kinds of deep dives and defenses of his criticism that I've seen from Ebert... Yet. Which isn't a failing on his part, as he hasn't been as openly challenged in the same way or on the same level. Regardless of what you think of their style and personality, the closest I can think of to a game critic defending their criticism like Ebert did is is @JimSterling (yes they're one of my favorite voices in gaming too, heh.) It's just that Steph gets a lot of very... Unintelligent criticism, which they choose to respond to. Being a skilled critic isn't just about understanding a medium, it's about being able to talk about it and debate it when necessary. And really, how much genuinely intellectual criticism is there of game critics' individual methodology that isn't just monkeys slinging feces nowadays? Media criticism as a whole was sabotaged before video game criticism could take off to a point that it was challenged intellectually. (By the way, if you want to look back and see video game criticism just beginning to evolve on its own, the same sort of criticism that local newspapers would have a movie critic on hand for back before my time, look into some of the late Bill Kunkel's writings on video games in the 70's and early 80's.)
Like you said, this game is very shallow but has some neat things in it. A thought I have for it is to have those gimmicky holes combined into standard holes. Like an example would be to work your way up to a mountain, then have parts with bridges and waterfalls, all in one course. So you would have to have skills in golfing and mini golf. The golfing is too much like a mini game, so they would have to fix that first.
Dealing with unlicensed games and more overt shovelware's really skewed my concept of what constitutes a bad game in some regards. At this point a console would have to format my hard drive and shoot my dog for me to call it exceptionally bad...
@@candykatkittylichiousisthebomb You're a bad person. I can never imagine how badly someone has to be raised in order to want to just leave derogatory, worthless comments in an attempt to make people feel bad. I'm respectful towards everyone online, but you really need a reality check and a long hard look in the mirror.
I feel like the bombed reviews is that it's not the golf they play. Like As Silly as Hot Shots Golf was. That was one of the best Golf Games I've played. So there is that too.
This game show some potential, just a severe lack of content alas ={ The courses are quite impressive visually, so are the differents hits... But yup, I wonder why they rated it this low... Thought I think lots of the worst Wii shovelware stayed in the west, in either Europe or America.
This was surprisingly dull for what was supposed to be one of the worst games in history. I kind of feel cheated and I want my ten minutes back. 3/10! 😆
This video was made for me.
Oh hey love your videos too!
lol - love your videos man
It's Kenny!
Heya, Kenny :)
Oh, hi Kenny. This came up on my recommendations.
Hey, at least they made it a little more realistic by including a drunk Aussie guy. To this very day, most golfing games omit that essential part of golf.
He’s only drinking coke though.
Aside from what other commenters have said, another important thing about this game's reputation include the deceptive advertising that made it look like the game was filled with content. But in fact, all of the game's courses were in the commercial. It was originally priced similarly to Smash Bros.... The sales of the game was about 720 units sold in the first week.
Also, Pro Golfer Saru's anime is available for free on their official UA-cam channel, though of course it's entirely in Japanese.
Since the video didn't explain why it's terrible, here are some:
- Only including oddball characters and missing more popular (and more traditionally playing) characters.
- Only six playable characters is pathetic considering the wealth of them in the franchise.
- Even worse, the sixth one is a reskin of the girl tha recycles the nunchuk character's moves.
- You can only land the ball at handful of predetermined spots. It's not a golf, more like Monopoly or sugoroku with branching paths.
- You cannot shoot towards outside the designated spots; otherwise the shot is not allowed or automatically out of bounds.
- In putting, you cannot read the greens or even move the course; all you can do is swing at a right time.
- The game is extremely short. You can finish a single player (a round of 11 holes) in 10 mins, and there is no character-specific endings.
- Unlike the real golf, each hole determines the winner and loser. There is no score counting over the round.
- Benibachi (the girl) has an OP special move that she can borrow one of the opponent's clubs and break it. Since Saru is canonically a one-club character, he becomes totally useless.
"You can only land the ball at handful of predetermined spots." Getting some real Wacky World of Mini-Golf with Eugene Levy vibes from this game now.
That last one has me crying WHAT
It impresses me how shallow some reviews on this channel are, dude muns't have spent 5 minutes with this game. All for pumping out content I guess
@@caiosantos2145 I was expecting him to at least do a quick google search to name the damn characters for us.
@@caiosantos2145 Yeah this review could have been gold if done right. It’s as if he didn’t want to succeed in the channel.
The anime was remade in the west as a movie called "Happy Gilmore". I think they took the same liberties they always take, but it was much more faithful than the DBZ adaptation.
I GET the joke you're attempting to make, but there are virtually no similarities between this manga and that movie aside from "golf exists".
"Organization of evil golfers"
...had no idea that could be a thing.
That's just normal golfers lol
And it was not even the first game about fighting an evil organization of evil golfers not sure if first one was Battle Golfer Yui
There's also Hole Chaser
i feel like if you weighed it out, golf might have the largest amount of evil energy of any sport. maybe pickleball
@@ereborn I'm pretty sure Saru has a decade on Yui since it's originally from the 80s
The aesthetics of the courses are quite nice, at least.
Yeah, I'm surprised at how visually competent it is given how poorly it's recieved for other reasons. It has a solid 2000's kids show design to it and the models for the characters and stages seem decent
@@Zulf85 i agree i like the designs specially for how varied they are and just graphically looks good
A game full of fantastical characters like:
A monkey boy
A drunk Australian
A kung-fu master
A girl.
Even though Saru looks like the Monkey King, he indeed is raised by monkeys, so he kind of is a Tarzan like character with a knack for golf!
she’s got that bird tho
Eighting also co-developed Pikmin 4 with Nintendo. Before they were Eighting they were known as Raizing. Raizing developed one of the best shmup of all time Battle Garegga.
They also developed Marvel vs Capcom 3 and it's expansion, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, DnF Duel, and will be developing the upcoming Hunter X Hunter: Nen Impact
They're one of the successors of Compile, if I remember correctly.
They also developed the Naruto: Clash of Ninja games, Castlevania Judgement, and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
@@ZulaCrashnah compile existed till the 2000s then went full anime and became compile hearts
If battle garegga is good is something people could argue for decades... And in fact they are lol
Just to understand this villain. He shares a hobby with his daughter, and after every hole, he asks her which one she wants to play next? My goodness, this guy is pure evil.
I've actually seen reviews of this one that describe it as absolutely putrid, I think it's kind of a famous kusoge? There's one on youtube with 5 million views. Not only does this game have about ten minutes of content, apparently also the shots you can take are so deterministic that the reviewer describes the game as more like sugoroku than golf. And I know how much roll-and-move enthusiast RndStranger loves sugoroku.
I think the channel you're talking about is "Karasuma A Channel" (からすまAチャンネル, Karasuma Ei Channeru), a very notable Japanese kusoge reviewer. I don't understand any of what he says (English speaker with minimal Japanese knowledge) but I like watching him regardless
@@xiaolin867 Basically, the criticisms boiled down to:
An IP-driven game without any fanservice (only 5 characters total, no story mode)
Wears the skin of a golf game without any of the depth that a golf game would reasonably have (the ability to pick your own route to a course, the fundamental gamble in how to putt, etc.)
You basically clear the entire game in 10 minutes
It costs 50 something bucks at retail
Unlocking secret characters is entirely dumb luck
The final secret character is a reskin of one of the normal characters without even any spec changes
Honestly if you were duped into buying it based on IP value or if you liked the original manga I can see why people would rate it so low. It's not a buggy mess, its a bad game without any substance that could push it into the so bad it's good or so bad it's a challenge level - just empty.
@yaoyao9 i see and agree with all these criticisms and facts about the game; pro golfer saru for wii Is A Bad Game, but still "just empty" isnt THAT bad and does not warrant famitsus lowest score ever and mockery as the ultimate kusoge.
I am in no way defending this game when i go to point out that other games are worse. There are many ugly unprofessional, badly coded, hatefully designed, untested messes of games out there that barely count as playable which deserve the kind of hate this game is receiving and more.
The graphics and cut scenes are nice, golfing, while basic and full of random events... Works well enough, and there are no huge bugs that hinder gameplay, or regular crashes.
At the end of your reply you even mentioned ways that the game could still be enjoyable both ironically (challenge level) and unironically. There are plenty of famicom titles rnd stranger has reviewed alone that dont even have that to say for themselves.
My point is that while this game is really empty and aggressively mid, that doesn't justify the medias strange and disproportionately hateful reaction.
@@candykatkittylichiousisthebomb I'm not sure if you understood my point at the end, I'd recommend reading the comment again.
Regardless, I just surmised the info presented in the video that was referenced from Karasuma A using the examples that he used verbatim. As someone who hasn't ever tried playing this title, I only presented my opinion as a rationale for why players may have found the game detestable to that degree.
Famitsu is known for its age, though not necessarily for its quality of reviews. I'm no expert in the publication either, but I'm suspicious as to whether it even bothered to cover all the shovelware that would've been present on the Wii alone. Perhaps this was just the worst game that the magazine decided to cover at all.
This almost seems like a title made for Wiiware that got shoved into stores without anything extra to justify the physical release
I think sometimes reviews can really end up being based on how the game makes you feel in the moment, especially if you're a weekly magazine reviewing games as they come out. Dropping full price on a game with barely an hour's worth of content would certainly leave a bad taste in your mouth when you're presumably expecting at least 18 holes of golf.
Right - never heard of the series so if the game is clearly just a cynical nostalgia cash-in, it makes sense that reviewers will pan it.
I will say the nunchucks where one end is a golf club is so funny that made me laugh out loud
Out of curiosity, is there a site that contains a list of all the games Famitsu has reviewed?
But fantastic review Sir, kudos!!!
Hi Larry!
Omg it's Laughing Larry! He's my favorite UA-camr!
I mean, I'd take this over any of data design interactive's wii games in a heartbeat. At least if I saw it in a bargain bin or something.
To be fair, it's almost like a stripped down party game, a party game that was given a full game, as in a game that takes years to develop full game price. No surprise it rated that bad, it's not actually broken bad, just bad for a collection of reasons to drag it that low.
You had me at "organization of evil golfers".
It's not even the only thing to do this. There's also Battle Golfer Yui for the Mega Drive.
The problem with this game is that it's a demo. If there were a full game with five 18-hole courses and more variety in characters, I'd love to play it.
But it's a little shocking that Famitsu gave this a worse score than Death Crimson.
Yeah, it seems like they had a solid idea, but (presumably) just didn't have the time and budget to do it properly.
@@jasonblalock4429 Or its just a case of licence cashgrab you find with any movies/animes/cartoons that are popular or just new.
Thank you for reviewing this game... and I can't wait to see you review the other games trashed by Famitsu!
And, as expected, this isn't a BAD game, but it's typical of the Wii's lesser titles that feel shallow and would be better suited as a mobile game in the future. For a couple minutes of mindless fun, it's not bad, but the full price of $50 is a little too much for this kind of game. I woulda picked this up if I saw it in a bargain bin.
3:14 Wow, did not expect that Daiku no Gen-san pachinko game for the Gameboy to receive that bad reviews on Famitsu.
hey, i remember watching a jp review of this. Apparently, only 2 programmers worked on this, and the wind feature is non-existant. More characters would have made this less of a bummer.
I was really excited to see what this game had to offer when you mentioned this game in the Year of FDS episode and now I feel kind of cheated that it turned out to be just mediocre
will look into picking this one up regardless, even if it failed at the ideas it presents its still an interesting Wii game with one heck of a backstory behind it
I got jump scared when you said Eighting since I love most of their library but never heard of this one. Being a fan of this company is like a curse, but an enjoyable one.
The Japanese Wikipedia page says that this game was made by 3 PEOPLE
It's crazy how Famistu's worst reviewed game is just a really mediocre sports game, while games like Sonic 06 gets higher scores. And this situation kinda reminds how people reacted towards Mario Strikers Battle League, where the game is priced at $60 with barebones content and people giving it low scores because of it.
Is being a mediocre sports game any better than being a rushed ambitious game, though?
@zakkuth7447 In a quality sense? Yes. But, to some people, being a mediocre game is worse than being an outright bad game.
it's funny how, for all its faults, the game just oozes with charm. in a way, that's the 8ing experience! i got a review copy for their new-ish zoids game years ago [i managed to get into the US publisher's good graces rather easily] and it was *also* very shallow but dumb fun. it also got a dub and included the jp version's dlc, so even if i didn't get it for free, it was at least fair value for a budget title.
I did not know Famitsu scores went that low. Good LORD. This... This video is going to be a ride.
Guess the check bounced
any golf game that has a playable character who smacks the ball with *nunchucks* to tee off can't be all that bad
9:42 did you read the review? That would probably tell you
3:55 I like the way you say monkey 😂. Also surprised I never heard of this one! Tatsunoko vs Capcom was such a gem that didn't get enough love 😢. Surprised they fell from the same tree! Great video overall !
Old school anime character design mixed with modern digital art just looks off.
Even I think as off looking as that style is, it feels more consistent than an actual analogue celluloid anime, which can be full of off model scenes.
Kinda disappointed that the game is just mediocre, I thought it was gonna be truly awful. Maybe the reviewers were just big fans of the series and were led to believe there'd be more content?
I think being boring is worse than being outright bad.
Maybe the publisher itself (Bandai's side at the very least) just simply don't care as they just rushed it out to make a few more copies.
@@RootVegetabIe While I have personally always adhered to that idea (boring games are indeed the worst, outright shitty games can be interesting), I'm still not sure that a deeply boring game would warrant the worst review your outlet has ever given.
The presentation is pretty good
There’s no way this game is worse than like 500 US Wii Shovelware games
I was hoping this would’ve been a lot worse than it sounded. It was just aggressively mediocre instead of an outright trainwreck.
Still better than link's crossbow training
thank you kermit the frog
This video just popped up on my recommended page. Really glad about it. Subbed right away
Seems like a game where they had a pretty good concept, but either not enough time or not enough manpower to really see it through. When the system comes with a golf game for free, you're gonna have to do better than a barebones shell of a game at full price.
I don't think there's such a thing as a "definitive" review. The point is to just read some person's opinion. It doesn't mean anything beyond that.
Reviews are subjective, so by their very nature a definitive review is impossible. After being blasted for giving Final Fantasy XIII a 4/10 on Destructoid and accusations of bias, they gave it a completely and totally objective review: ua-cam.com/video/eMU1_-_4WKg/v-deo.htmlsi=2P0Ppqi27YqbOXuY.
Some critics, however, are skilled at consistently and deeply using their own methodologies that their reviews have rightfully been respected and carried a lot of weight.. Think Roger Ebert- the more I learn about his methodology and have read his reviews (and you can learn a *lot* about media criticism in general from his writings), the more they make perfect sense. One example that Ebert was criticized for was giving three stars because he considered context- if you go in expecting some deep drama you're going to be disappointed, but if you go in expecting a silly, very lowbrow family movie about a dog learning to play basketball... it does that very well.
There's a little SNES game called Super Solitaire that does what it tries to do incredibly well. What it tries to do is eight solitaire variations, before most people had reliable access to PCs to play it on. That is a game that should get very good critical review scores. It is also a game that is entirely obsolete when I can play several hundred solitaire variations on my phone.
(Seriously, if you have enough interest in the art of media criticism to be wondering what's wrong with video game reviews, read some of Ebert's articles, then read some of his film reviews, then read some more of his film reviews. It's helped my own media literacy enough that it's even helped me appreciate video games more.)
There was a time that I deeply respected Famitsu's reviews. While they weren't perfect and were always a product of their time and culture, once you were aware of this they were the single most densely packed piece of information you could find on a video game. A 30 was a badge of honor, a 35 was phenomenal, and a 40 was so mythical that if a game made a 40 and you followed gaming news, And I miss that.
Famitsu has been giving out an average of one 40 a year this last decade, and it's always a big mainstream game. Their third ever perfect 40 was Not Dragon Quest, not Metal Gear Solid, not Final Fantasy, not Gran Turismo, not Zelda, not Mario, but I couldn't appreciate it as a kid, but I can as an adult, and it is one hell of an incredible game.
Famitsu and Edge Magazine are the closest things we have ever had to popular video game resource on the level of critics such as Ebert.
Sometime in the 2000's, when games media began going digital, review scores became accessible to anyone with an internet connection and not just paying customers of a magazine, media review sources have become more and more susceptible to game publishers. Game critics may have passion, but if their reviews were published in a magazine or professional website, they're subject to being published by either their employer or whomever they're contracting with. And because of capitalism, game publishers can crush games media outlets.
Also, media criticism has been getting processed into a gross slurry called MetaCritic.
Film criticism is a century old. Commentary on literature, which is essentially proto-literarily criticism, is a millennium old Video game criticism was barely entering its adolecence when this process began. Mainstream video game criticism got nipped in the bud before it could fully blossom.
There probably is a Roger Ebert of video game criticism, but none of us will probably ever hear about them.
...I need to have a good cry now.
@@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd IMHO the "Roger Ebert of videogame criticism" is Jeremy Parish
@@thestripedmenace @JeremyParish is a fantastic critic. I just haven't (as of this moment!) seen the same kinds of deep dives and defenses of his criticism that I've seen from Ebert... Yet. Which isn't a failing on his part, as he hasn't been as openly challenged in the same way or on the same level.
Regardless of what you think of their style and personality, the closest I can think of to a game critic defending their criticism like Ebert did is is @JimSterling (yes they're one of my favorite voices in gaming too, heh.) It's just that Steph gets a lot of very... Unintelligent criticism, which they choose to respond to.
Being a skilled critic isn't just about understanding a medium, it's about being able to talk about it and debate it when necessary. And really, how much genuinely intellectual criticism is there of game critics' individual methodology that isn't just monkeys slinging feces nowadays? Media criticism as a whole was sabotaged before video game criticism could take off to a point that it was challenged intellectually.
(By the way, if you want to look back and see video game criticism just beginning to evolve on its own, the same sort of criticism that local newspapers would have a movie critic on hand for back before my time, look into some of the late Bill Kunkel's writings on video games in the 70's and early 80's.)
Shuddup
I guess the game's price factors into its score?
Why does the ball in flight look like an egg?
To communicate that it's rapidly spinning.
So, now for fun.
Once the year of FDS is done, you HAVE to review all the games Famitsu have given a low raiting to.
Bro sort of sounds like Kermit The Frog
I cant help but not hear a bad Kermit the frog impersonation lol
5:25 Curse my mind making it sound more sexual than it really is 😂.
this video is dope please make more like this bro!
Like you said, this game is very shallow but has some neat things in it. A thought I have for it is to have those gimmicky holes combined into standard holes. Like an example would be to work your way up to a mountain, then have parts with bridges and waterfalls, all in one course. So you would have to have skills in golfing and mini golf. The golfing is too much like a mini game, so they would have to fix that first.
The narrator sounds like Ernie from Sesame Street, I love it.
Is the Anime... NOT a parodic comedy series!? Is it actually PLAYED STRAIGHT!?!? In that case, I have to jump on it ASAP
Ok but is it worse than aqua teen hunger force zombie ninja pro am? Now that is the question.
How did they foretell the LIV tour?
Way too expensive for such little game
That wasn't actually any of Famitu's problems with it.
I wouldn't mind finding the anime, as it looks better than the game.
For someone that likes golf's games, this one doesn't look bad at all.
I mean this one has a plot of an evil golfer's organization at least. 😂
I really wanna watch the anime now . Looks cool
suppose it at least fared somewhat better than the FDS original? again seems like it had some potential but didn't quite work out in the end.
Dealing with unlicensed games and more overt shovelware's really skewed my concept of what constitutes a bad game in some regards. At this point a console would have to format my hard drive and shoot my dog for me to call it exceptionally bad...
so basically this game’s crime is not being a superlite 1500 series title :V
great extra content!
I guess famitsu reviewers just really care about bang for your buck lol
Right up there with idiots whining about "bUt wHy iS tHE pApEr MArIO THouSAnD yEAR dOOr rEmAKe $60!?!"
I think the question could have been easily answered by buying the issue of Famitsu featuring the review and reading it.
8ting, the 8 stands for how much money they're given to make a game.
Honestly, if I went into this game blind, based on the cover alone with no reviews or expectations, I'd be kind of pissed too. It's so _generic._
Figures it's for the Wii...
It's ironic because this game seems to have more personality to it than literally every modern triple A western game xD
ok weeb
@@DD-ld1xq Wow, I didn't know there was anyone crazy enough to still use that term in 2024. Have fun being a rude and belittling person you xenophobe!
Ok weeb
@@candykatkittylichiousisthebomb You're a bad person. I can never imagine how badly someone has to be raised in order to want to just leave derogatory, worthless comments in an attempt to make people feel bad. I'm respectful towards everyone online, but you really need a reality check and a long hard look in the mirror.
Bro bought a Japanese Wii u instead of just softmodding whatever he already had. Why?
whats the name of the australian golfer?? i need to find more of him
please :(
Interesting stuff!
Play Ancient roman : power of the dark side pls, it's one of the "best" JRPG ever
I feel like the bombed reviews is that it's not the golf they play. Like As Silly as Hot Shots Golf was. That was one of the best Golf Games I've played. So there is that too.
The anime is incredible though.
Cool video, subbed
I loved everybody loves golf on ps4 and this looks like the literal opposite!
This game show some potential, just a severe lack of content alas ={
The courses are quite impressive visually, so are the differents hits...
But yup, I wonder why they rated it this low... Thought I think lots of the worst Wii shovelware stayed in the west, in either Europe or America.
The original series seems crazy, but it seems that it does feel like a very short and disposable game
3:28
In the right corner, a bad game that is also based on Xabungle?
Sign me up.
It honestly looks pretty inventive
Pro Golfer Saru, more like Noob Golfer Sorry.
you sound like PopArena and thats a plus
Ball is oval.
This game seems really fun considering it's based on an old IP aimed for children. I guess the Famitsu reviewers had big expectations.
This game looks good. WTF?
Heh heh... which hole.
why do you sound like kermit the frog?
This was surprisingly dull for what was supposed to be one of the worst games in history. I kind of feel cheated and I want my ten minutes back. 3/10! 😆
"worst games in history" why'd you expect that? it was just one of the worst reviewed in a magazine.
I mean it says worst reviewed game on the title, we got what we were looking for
Despite being made by Japanese people, this character design seems sort of offensive