{"id":9215,"date":"2017-12-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/feature_memorable_games_of_2017_-_party_golf"},"modified":"2017-12-31T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:00:00","slug":"feature-memorable-games-of-2017-party-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/feature-memorable-games-of-2017-party-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Memorable Games of 2017 &#8211; Party Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In this series of features Nintendo Life contributors have shared thoughts on their most memorable games of 2017. This final entry by news writer and reviewer Ryan Craddock opts for a lesser known eShop title that showcases some of the biggest strengths of the Nintendo Switch.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/feature_memorable_games_of_2017_-_party_golf\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/feature_memorable_games_of_2017_-_party_golf\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Party Golf.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Party Golf falls into a category of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0that I respect, but usually avoid. Since I can remember I\u2019ve always preferred gaming alone (or at least playing through a solo adventure with my partner watching by my side) and have always fallen in love mostly with\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0such as Zelda, Pok\u00e9mon, and the 3D Mario titles. Online gaming isn\u2019t really my thing, and whilst I do love a bit of local Mario Kart or Smash Bros., for example, most party\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0just don\u2019t do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, though, from the moment I first started playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/party_golf\"><strong>Party Golf<\/strong><\/a> (it was actually for review) I thought about the potential it could have with the right group of friends. Luckily just a few days later I was hosting a couple of my closest friends for a weekend \u2013 a perfect test, then! Sure enough, as soon as I explained the concept they were on board and we had hours of fun and constant laughter as we played through the game\u2019s barmy level ideas.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the game, Party Golf is made up of 100 different levels \u2013 and you can create your own customised ones, too \u2013 where the aim is to land variously-shaped balls into a hole. Everyone is doing this at the same time and the different physics that can be applied to each player, as well as the different shapes that each player can be, result in absolute chaos as everyone barges into each other. The simplicity of the thing just shouldn\u2019t be as good as it is, but aside from occasional frame-rate hiccups,it turned out to be a total blast.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Despite my personal enjoyment with the gameplay itself, the reason I\u2019ve chosen it as my most\u00a0<span class=\"il\">memorable<\/span>\u00a0game of this year (apart from the obvious contenders, of course) is actually down to the impact it had on my friends. I\u2019ve known them both for years and love them to bits but, unfortunately for me, they\u2019ve never been into the Nintendo family of systems and\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>. I love video\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0of all types across all platforms, but Nintendo will always be incredibly special to me for a number of reasons, and not being able to play my favourite\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0with these friends has always been a huge shame.<\/p>\n<p>Since having the hardware in their hands, and thanks to the huge amount of fun we had on Party Golf, however, both of these friends have since been in touch to say that they are seriously thinking about buying the console for themselves. Of course, the fun we had was partly thanks to just us (party\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0require good company, after all), and their interest in the Switch will largely be down to the console itself, but it is undeniable that this game helped them to form that decision. It could well be that as we go into 2018, I\u2019ll be playing online matches of my favourite\u00a0<span class=\"il\">games<\/span>\u00a0with my best friends in ways that I\u2019ve never been able to do before and for\u00a0<em>that,\u00a0<\/em>Party Golf, I thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of features Nintendo Life contributors have shared thoughts on their most memorable games of 2017. This final entry by news writer and reviewer Ryan Craddock opts for a lesser known eShop title that showcases some of the biggest strengths of the Nintendo Switch. Party Golf falls into a category of\u00a0games\u00a0that I respect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}