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Golf, the well-worn saying goes, is a good walk spoiled. Golf Story, on the other hand, is a slight 16-bit styled RPG that's fortified by its embrace of that most sedate of sports. This is a pairing that, against expectations, works a treat. Except it won't be that much of a surprise to scholars of the form - those that'll tell you that golf is one of only two sports to have been played on the moon, perhaps, or more pertinently that it was Nintendo who invented the trusty three-click system that's been a genre staple ever since its first appearance back in 1984. There have been countless golf games since, and it's Camelot Software Planning's Mario Golf series that have often shone brightest. And within that series there's one that shines brightest of all: the Game Boy Color outing, with its incredible weaving of a single-player RPG into its depiction of the sport.
There's been very little else like that game since (even if Camelot's series did go from strength to strength, its outstanding 2014 Mario Golf World Tour being a personal all-time favourite in the genre until Everybody's Golf muscled its way in last month). Small Australian developer Sidebar Games has certainly felt the loss, so much so it's taken things into its own hands for this, a Nintendo Switch exclusive that's quietly crept out on the eShop.
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