Gil Hazard, president of the Hazard Foundation, is secretly Professor G, the leader of the evil Dark Hazard organization. He has designs on world domination, and has plans to use the power of golf toward this end; this is the Battle Golfer project. Yui Mizuhara and Ran Ryuzaki are two ordinary high school girls who just so happen to be golf prodigies, and so are prime candidates for the Battle Golfer project. They are abducted by Professor G, but are rescued by a mysterious man before they can be taken under his control. Having escaped, Yui hears about a golf tournament being held by the Hazard Foundation, and suspecting more nefarious plans, she secretly enters the tournament to stop him for good.
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Game Review - originally written by Kitsune Sniper
So you’re a girl named Yui, and you’re a golfer. You fight enemies in … a golf course?! The game is kinda fun, the golfing part is pretty good if you’ve played some of the Super Nintendo EA golf games… it also seems to have RPG areas, but I never got that far. At least you can play the golf parts right away.
So you’re a girl named Yui, and you’re a golfer. You fight enemies in … a golf course?! The game is kinda fun, the golfing part is pretty good if you’ve played some of the Super Nintendo EA golf games… it also seems to have RPG areas, but I never got that far. At least you can play the golf parts right away.
A very weird mix of parody, drama and early 90s aesthetics that plays all its tropes straight. They don't merge too well, but they also give this game a very unique vibe.
The golf part of the game isn't actually very fun or intuitive, but having these Visual Novel adventure intermissions makes this a pretty interesting experience.
The golf part of the game isn't actually very fun or intuitive, but having these Visual Novel adventure intermissions makes this a pretty interesting experience.
"The evil organisation Dark Hazard under the instruction of Professor G plans to take over the world using battle golfers!"
How exactly is anyone's guess because there is simply no way to fathom how enhanced mind controlled golfers could achieve such a feat. This really sums Battle Golfers Yui up in a sentence though, it feels half baked across the board, some great ideas but without the execution or finesse to make anything of them.
You play the role of Yui Mizuhara, a 16 year old that was kidnapped to be turned into a battle golfer (I don't know what makes that different from any other golfer either). You escape with the help of a strange man and join a golf tournament to try and find more about the organisation and rescue another girl Ran Ryuzaki who was kidnapped with you.
The main game plays in two parts and is good at neither. First is a more adventure game visual novel section and then secondly actually playing golf. The adventure section feels like a stumbling chore where you have to choose conversation, thinking or investigation options until you bumble on the right option to progress. It felt pointless and cumbersome and adds nothing to the game that a smoother cutscene wouldn't have achieved better. It enabled some conversations with two perverts and a creepy girl I could have mostly done without.
Whilst not being called mistress or being hit on by a surprisingly graphically detailed 50 year old man in a skull cap the rest of the game is actually golf. It's kind of functional but uninteresting. The mechanics don't feel that comfortable to engage with. You have your basic power bar, aim direction, occasional wind to account for and some special skills you slowly unlock. These skills can give spin, stop a ball dead, skim on water but mostly I didn't use them outside of one or two courses. The courses themselves have a few gimics mostly in their shapes though a couple have mines, water or bunkers. They get repetitive though, especially at the midway point where you are forced to go talk to the perverts again and play them again for items to progress in needless padding. Even the final battle recycles some of them just leaving a pretty rushed feeling throughout. Add into this the trial and error of knowing where your ball might go and it's kind of a mess.
So that's Battle Golfer Yui. Decent looking, completely weird and unique but also under baked, incomplete with a truly terrible but hilarious ending. A fun experiment but neither a game you play for it's story or it's golf.
+ Crazy as a bag of cats.
+ Some nice visuals.
- Adventure mode doesn't add anything.
- Golf gameplay is mediocre.
- Padded out plot.
- Ending was dreadful, but kinda funny?
How exactly is anyone's guess because there is simply no way to fathom how enhanced mind controlled golfers could achieve such a feat. This really sums Battle Golfers Yui up in a sentence though, it feels half baked across the board, some great ideas but without the execution or finesse to make anything of them.
You play the role of Yui Mizuhara, a 16 year old that was kidnapped to be turned into a battle golfer (I don't know what makes that different from any other golfer either). You escape with the help of a strange man and join a golf tournament to try and find more about the organisation and rescue another girl Ran Ryuzaki who was kidnapped with you.
The main game plays in two parts and is good at neither. First is a more adventure game visual novel section and then secondly actually playing golf. The adventure section feels like a stumbling chore where you have to choose conversation, thinking or investigation options until you bumble on the right option to progress. It felt pointless and cumbersome and adds nothing to the game that a smoother cutscene wouldn't have achieved better. It enabled some conversations with two perverts and a creepy girl I could have mostly done without.
Whilst not being called mistress or being hit on by a surprisingly graphically detailed 50 year old man in a skull cap the rest of the game is actually golf. It's kind of functional but uninteresting. The mechanics don't feel that comfortable to engage with. You have your basic power bar, aim direction, occasional wind to account for and some special skills you slowly unlock. These skills can give spin, stop a ball dead, skim on water but mostly I didn't use them outside of one or two courses. The courses themselves have a few gimics mostly in their shapes though a couple have mines, water or bunkers. They get repetitive though, especially at the midway point where you are forced to go talk to the perverts again and play them again for items to progress in needless padding. Even the final battle recycles some of them just leaving a pretty rushed feeling throughout. Add into this the trial and error of knowing where your ball might go and it's kind of a mess.
So that's Battle Golfer Yui. Decent looking, completely weird and unique but also under baked, incomplete with a truly terrible but hilarious ending. A fun experiment but neither a game you play for it's story or it's golf.
+ Crazy as a bag of cats.
+ Some nice visuals.
- Adventure mode doesn't add anything.
- Golf gameplay is mediocre.
- Padded out plot.
- Ending was dreadful, but kinda funny?
Played as a kid.
One of the games of all time. Really unique but I think I'd have enjoyed it way more if I could understand wtf was going on. Even if you do speak Japanese there's a LOT of cultural references that might be complicated unless you were born there.
The golf level designs were creative as hell, though. Really pushing what can be considered a golf course.
One of the games of all time. Really unique but I think I'd have enjoyed it way more if I could understand wtf was going on. Even if you do speak Japanese there's a LOT of cultural references that might be complicated unless you were born there.
The golf level designs were creative as hell, though. Really pushing what can be considered a golf course.
This game was definitely a game of all time. Like many, I was absolutely on board with this game off of the sheer title and concept alone. BATTLE GOLFER YUI. You don't even need a sales pitch or advertising, just the name alone sold me on playing this game. Unfortunately, yeah this one ain't a winner. There is a wacky story with a few zany twists and turns but it's nothing that hasn't been crazier elsewhere, and the golfing simulation is kusoge levels of bad. The games golfing takes place in a bizarro world where its more about bouncing your ball with good momentum into the spots you need to go rather than having a decent shot, and there is NO good visual feedback for where your ball is ever actually going to go with your shots. It makes the game incredibly frustrating to play, and if you are unfortunate enough to not be playing this on an emulator, means you are going to be hitting that reset button like a drug addict trying to get their next fix. I guess if you emulate this game and use save states to mitigate the frustrations you would have a fun little wacky golf game, but that's not really how the game was originally designed to be played, isn't it? I still think it was good to play this as now my curiosity has been satiated, and the wacky story beats were good fun, but this game is absolutely not something I can wholeheartedly reccomend.
not so much "the little game that could" given that i was locked out of completing the game by getting stuck in an endless loop in the ADV section, and the golf feels pretty fucking terrible, but by god it's hard for me to dislike it in either case