We haven't really seen a massive amount of New Hot Shots Golf since its announcement in 2014, but a PlayStation Japan livestream from the Tokyo Game Show has provided us with 20 or so minutes to sift through. Before you watch, though, you'll want to turn down your speakers just a little bit – there are a lot of presenters on stage here, and they're very excitable.
This is definitely a different kind of Hot Shots than we've seen before. The click-click-click golf is still very much present and intact, but it's complemented by an open world setting, which you're free to explore either on foot or in a buggy which you can summon at any time with a button press. There are also other activities for you to engage in, like fishing for example.
As someone who's a fan of minigames – particularly when Clap Hanz creates them – this author's pretty excited about the idea of explorable courses, though we're hoping that there's half-a-dozen or so at least in the final game. Of course, the problem is that the title's taking forever to release – let's hope that it meets its Summer 2017 target, eh?
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Looks disgustingly good. Cant wait!
I think this will be a big hit if they price it as a budget title.... not sure people would be willing to pay $60.00 for it
@DualWielding Can't see it not being a full price retail game to be honest.
I've never been huge into golf games, but this is looking more arcadey, less serious and huge fun as a result!
I LOVE & HATE Everybody's Golf Brilliant game when you get it right but frustrating game when you get it wrong :-/
@Carl-G Haha, they get pretty difficult fast.
Finally another must own game in hot shots golf, seems like ages since I've said that. I like the under the radar video - I would play any of those over some of the so called bigger games.
It seems to have added mini games now and the fact that you can 'free roam' on the course is new. I like the looks of this.
I freaking love great golf games.
The best ones I ever played were Mario Golf World Tour (that game is crazy good, in fact best Mario sports game ever made maybe) and the Wii Sports Golf on Wii U where you hit the ball with a Wiimote off the gamepad screen into the TV. That one was almost like a SIM it felt so realistic. I liked Tiger Woods on Wii but never liked it without motion.
And now, I'm about ready for something new. I've heard nothing but good things about Hot Shots, and almost bought the one on Vita. But I think I'll get this one (provided it doesn't sink in reviews). This game seems to be more lighthearted, which is exactly how I like them.
I've only ever played one of these games - Everybody's Golf: World Tour on PS3. It was a bargain and everyone seemed to love the series, so despite not being a huge follower of any sport let alone golf, I went for it, and was pleasantly surprised.
The free roaming aspects of this, along with the relaxed pace and mini games, feels like a natural progression for the series, and I love that underneath the cute exterior is actually a pretty robust golf sim as far as I understand it. Can't wait for this, should be a good laugh with friends
As mentioned above, it gets pretty damn hard pretty quick. I hope the difficulty curve is a bit softer as I nearly threw my Vita across the room a few times after screwing up the final few holes of a 18 hole game.
Always been tempted to buy a Hot Shots game but have never quite gotten round to it. This looks great though!
Day one purchase , the missus and me love the Everybody's Golf series despite having no interest in real golf.
EG:WT on PS3 was a fun little game, especially if you played it with friends or one of the competitive rounds against other people on psn (can't remember whether it was 30 or 50 people). sometimes didn't matter if you played one of the brutally hard courses, because everybody was making double and triple bogeys. kind of like playing tiger woods with all of the assists turned off. was really tempted to re-install it on my PS3, but there'd be no-one else playing it, and i have the vita game if i want a solo round.
i'm pretty sure that EG:WT wasn't a full priced game when it came out, i have a vague recollection of it being around £29.99 - though that doesn't necessarily mean that the new PS4 game will be priced lower than normal as well.
This is one game that I am looking forward too...just can't believe we have to wait until next summer to play it (and I'm sure it will be delayed by then). At least let them re-release the PS3 version (with trophies that they never added to it) on the PS4 to keep us entertained until then...with the online play enabled again.
Until then, this game will be a day one purchase for me and my wife! Can't wait for it!
@leucocyte Hot Shots Golf Out Of Bounds (what it was called in the US here) was $60 over here when it came out. Took two years into the PS3's lifespan, but was worth it! You can get it used for $15 now, but it was a full-price title over here.
That's was hard to watch and even harder to listen to. Here's hoping the game is good though as I really like hotshots golf/ everybody's golf.
Not a golf fan at all, but hot shots was excellent on the vita
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