DreamWorks had a track record at this point of releasing spinoff games that were essentially DLC for the GBA title that more closely followed the film's narrative

So...what happened here? I booted it up expecting a platformer where Hammy collects coffee or whatever but this is a secret golf game with surprisingly interesting mechanics like being able to move around the terrain before taking a shot

I'm genuinely curious as to how this happened. Like golf has nothing to do with Over the Hedge other than them maybe having a golf bag that they use at one point...who watched the movie or looked at the concept art and went "those critters should be golfing"

I highly suspect this was another game called like "Animal Golf" or something that they slapped the Over the Hedge branding on because wtf even

This was my first Nintendo DS game and my parents got it for me (I had never seen the movie). I remember when I first played this and I put the cartridge in and couldn't figure out how to get it out so I thought I had gotten it stuck so I told my mom that the case didn't have a game in it because I didn't want to tell her I broke my Nintendo DS and she took me to Walmart and told the guy that there was no game in the case and the guy was really confused and gave me another one (Probably because he didn't get paid enough for this BS and didn't really care) so I get home and I now have 2 copies of this game and I fucking hate this game.