Mario Golf: World Tour is a great physics puzzler with a campaign that may disappoint fans (review)

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The difficult thing about making a golf game, I would imagine, is determining how much of the math to expose to the player. The real sport hides everything from those who attempt it. Brave and patient athletes must rely solely on experience and instinct. In Mario Golf: World Tour, Nintendo and developer Camelot have gone to the opposite extreme — and it makes for an enjoyably cerebral take on the idea of swinging a club at a tiny ball to get it into a hole that is hundreds of yards away.