

All players golf simultaneously, so no one has to sit through everyone else’s opening drive. In this version, eight players are matched together in a battle to win five holes.

I was immediately ecstatic when I discovered that golf uses that same premise for its online mode. I wound up spending dozens of hours bowling online, usually doing it as I listened to music or podcasts in the background. Rounds felt high-stakes, especially as the final few players battled for the final three spots, but still relaxed thanks to the small moments of downtime between rolls.


It’s a very simple premise, but one that worked incredibly well alongside the elegance of motion-controlled bowling. Rounds start with a lineup of bowlers who slowly get knocked out throughout a match. That was my feeling at the time too, but I quickly found myself sinking an exorbitant amount of time into it for one reason: Survival Bowling.įor the uninitiated, Switch Sports turns bowling into an elimination mode when played online. Critics enjoyed the core idea of it well enough but largely felt the package was too thin for its price point. When Nintendo Switch Sports launched earlier this year, it landed with a bit of a thud. As light an affair as it may be, the version of golf included in Nintendo Switch Sports builds upon one of my favorite online experiences of the year. I personally think you should take your own advice and not extrapolate stuff out of what I said into what you seemed to think was some kind of insult and even worse try and insult the other person in response.And yet, after playing for just a few hours, I’m already obsessed with it. The hostility comment was clearly a joke about the fact you seemed to take my comment in such a harsh way. This is a forum for discussions and people are going to make comments, and even put lols or emojis in the text too. You clearly do, that's fine, it's opinions at the end of the day and I happened to comment on one of yours. That said I don't feel the need to dog pile every one of their design decisions in the name of copying. I think it's pretty apparent they're riding on the coattails of Golf Story. I even said I actually agree that over all they weren't innocent. If you took that as me calling you an idiot then that's entirely on you, I was merely commenting on one part of your post that I don't agree with.
