Mario Golf: World Tour: Difference between revisions

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'''''Mario Golf: World Tour''''' is a sport title for the [[Nintendo 3DS]]. It is the third handheld installment of the [[Mario Golf (series)|''Mario Golf'' series]], and the fifth installment in the series overall. The game features gyroscope support and Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing players to participate in online Tournaments against other players from around the world. The game makes use of downloadable content, in which extra courses and characters may be bought with real money. It is the first ''Mario Golf'' game to have been released after its [[Mario Tennis Open|tennis counterpart]].

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The game includes 13 default characters as well as four unlockable characters, with an additional four available as downloadable content, making a total of 21 characters. When the bonus characters are unlocked or downloaded, they immediately get a star rank.

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'''''Mario Golf: World Tour''''' has the most courses of all ''[[Mario Golf (series)|Mario Golf]]'' games, with 16, including the downloadable courses, making a total of 234 holes. The Castle Club courses have 18 holes and have championships that the [[Mii]] can compete in against other ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' characters. The Mario World Courses contain gimmicks based on different ''Mario'' games and have nine holes. All these courses can be accessed through both Mario Golf (quick round) and Castle Club. The six downloadable courses, which must be bought with real money, are taken from the [[Nintendo 64]] game with updated music and graphics. Some of these courses have changed appearances to look like specific worlds from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''.  

Castle Club is a story mode where the player's [[Mii]] tackles different tournaments (similar to the story modes from previous handheld ''Mario Golf'' games). The building is the Mushroom Kingdom counterpart to real-life golf country clubs. To the left and right of the entrance are the boys' and girls' locker rooms respectively.  At the center of the lobby are two staircases leading to the basement, where the player can enter regional and world tournaments and ask the purple Toad for advice on golf terminology. To the left of the doorway to the Castle Club's exterior is the boutique, where the player's Mii is able to use [[Coin]]s to buy equipment that will affect its stats, such as drive distance and shot trajectory, similar to the Mii customization feature in ''[[Mario Tennis Open]]''. The player can change his/her gear by accessing the pause menu from anywhere in the Castle Club, or by going to the locker room of the Mii's gender and pressing {{button|3ds|A}} when in front of the locker. Above the boutique is the Royal Room, where most of the ''Mario'' playable characters can be met. Located opposite the boutique is the gym, and on top of that is the trophy room. Just outside the Castle Club is the Caddie Master's booth where the player can sign up for a handicap tournament. After completing that, the player will be allowed to compete in tournaments, located on the [[Forest Course]], the [[Seaside Course]], and the [[Mountain Course]] in that order. The entrances to these courses are located to the right of the booth, and when the player goes into one of them, he/she can either go for a stroke play (front tees are used) or the course championship (back tees are used).  Completing either of these modes can raise or lower the player's handicap, and when a tournament is won, the player appears in the Royal Room to receive his/her trophy from [[Princess Peach]].

Official Online Tournaments were concluded with World Tour Final, which started on December 20th, 2018, and ended on January 10th, 2019.

Here are the types of tournaments created so far:

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In addition to Castle Club Tournaments, Nintendo has also created Mario Open tournaments which allow the use of ''Mario'' characters, and are played on Mario World courses and downloadable courses. Tournaments in this category cover nine holes, so on the downloadable courses, either the front nine or back nine are played on. All of these tournaments are world tournaments, but they award pieces of clothing for the Mii in the same way as the regional tournaments. Mario Open tournaments are stroke-play or coin-collecting tournaments, and when there are no item restrictions, players start out with three different items. Fixed-character tournaments limit players to using a specific character, and that character is not allowed to have a star rank. In limited-item tournaments, players can only use a particular item, and they start out with five of it. Players can also make their own unofficial Mario Open tournaments under rules of their choice for other players to enjoy.

On April 17th, a demo of the game was released on the Nintendo eShop for Europe, making this strictly the second ''Mario'' game (preceded by ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'') to have a publicly released demo for download. The demo was later released in North America on April 24. It uses 873 blocks when downloaded and offers ten uses (fifteen for the North American demo).

''Mario Golf: World Tour'' has received generally positive reviews among critics. IGN gave the game a score of 8.6/10 (a "great" rating). They praised the game's learning curve, training options, large quantity of unlockables, and multiplayer, but criticized the map in Castle Club, saying it was "confusing".<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/24/mario-golf-world-tour-review IGN Review]</ref> Joystiq gave 3 stars out of 5, being more critical, while praising the basic gameplay and online options, criticizing the Castle Club for being sparse and dispensable and noting the safe, conservative approach to the game such as the uninspired environments.<ref>[http://www.joystiq.com/2014/05/01/mario-golf-world-tour-review-in-the-rough Joystiq Review]</ref> Thomas Whitehead of Nintendo Life compared ''Mario Golf: Word Tour'' favorably to ''Mario Tennis Open''. He praised the attention to detail that gives the game its charm, such as in Castle Club as well as its reasonable skill curve that allows both novice and expert players to enjoy the game. He gave the game a score of 9/10.<ref>[https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/3ds/mario_golf_world_tour Nintendo Life's Review]</ref> The game was scored 83% by Official Nintendo Magazine.<ref>[http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/57754/reviews/mario-golf-world-tour-review-review/?page=3 ONM Review]</ref> ''Mario Golf: World Tour'' currently averages a score of 78 out of a possible 100 on Metacritic.<ref>[https://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/mario-golf-world-tour Metacritic Review]</ref> Overall, the game was praised for its gameplay and graphics, but criticized for the lack of content in the Castle Club and, by some reviewers, for being too safe.

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*''[[Mario Golf: Advance Tour]]'': The Castle Club has a similar layout to the [[Marion]] Clubhouse from this game. Sky Island has a similar layout to [[Elf's Short Course]].

*''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'': A trophy appears depicting Mario in his ''World Tour'' appearance.

*''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'': One of Peach's victory poses resembles her Hole-in-One/Eagle animation in ''World Tour'', only without the parasol. Similarly, one of Daisy's victory poses resembles her Birdie animation.

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|align=center|Looks like Mario is really on his game today! Or he just sent his ball off the course and into the trees—it's hard to tell. Getting a ball out of the rough is part of golf! It adds a bit of adventure to the game, though the undersea course in this world tour probably adds more.

|align=center|Mario looks like he's having a good game here! Or maybe he's just whacked his ball out of sight and into the trees. It's anyone's guess, really. Well getting a ball out of the rough can still be fun. Things like that give the game a touch of adventure, which is something world tour is just full of—especially the underwater course!

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