A new golf game for the Nintendo Switch – simply titled Mini Golf Simulator – has caught our attention thanks to the bizarre way in which it utilises the Switch's Joy-Con controllers.
Out now on the eShop, the Takahiro Miyazawa-developed game requires you to connect the wrist strap attachments in a way that allows one of the Joy-Con controllers to dangle, allowing you to effectively simulate the 'swing' of a golf club.
The official website says it "faithfully" recreates the feel of a putter, but we're not entirely convinced... How many putters have you used that connects the grip and the clubhead with a piece of string? Probably not many, we're guessing. Still, it's a fun, novel way to mix up the standard golf formula a bit.
We have to imagine, however, that some poor souls will wind up with some broken Joy-Con with this control method. You can imagine someone not quite tightening the wrist straps enough, swinging the controller with extra gusto, and whoosh. Away it goes. Into the TV. It's the Wii all over again.
If you want to give it a shot, mind you, the game's available now for the paltry sum of $5.20 on the US Nintendo eShop, so it's not going to be a major investment or anything. Could be perfect for a night with your mates; crack open the beers and start swinging those Joy-Con. Good times!
At the moment, the game isn't available via the UK or European eShop, but we'll let you know if this changes.
What are your thoughts on this odd little curio? Let us know if you plan on picking it up with a comment down below.
[source nintendo.com]
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Sounds like it’ll be a busy Christmas for TV repair services.
I do love a good golf game but this looks too much of a gimmick for my liking.
I do wish EA sports would give us another golf game with motion controls.... I loved them on the Wii
Safely padded in a toilet roll was the way to go.
It seems to be a made for Japan game. Although there's obviously no problem with anyone elsewhere enjoying it, I think Japan is where it'll likely be more successful
I don't know what mini golf looks like in Japan, but it's a peculiar way to simulate a golf club to begin with.
Hilarious that such a game exists and of course it's made in Japan!
@JohnnyMind It says it’s being sold on the US eShop in the article.
@Markiemania95 Oops, misread at the bottom and forgot that the price was mentioned in dollars - will remove that mistake from my comment, thanks for telling me!
"obviously, you're not a golfer."
I love stuff like this. Reminds me of that game which asks you to put the joycon inside a loo roll. Will keep an eye out for this.
This is the same Takahiro Miyazawa who gave us Bruce and Box (the game where you play inside a box) and Give me toilet paper! (where you put a Joy-Con inside a toilet paper roll). This game looks like a decent time waster and it seems to only need a pair of Joy-Cons to play, so the chances of the Joy-Con flying away seem minimal, you have to be that crazy in real life to put that much force in a real life mini golf swing.
More recently, and once again thanks to the video series of Nintendo making the comedy duo Yoiko play Switch games, I discovered the highlight of his games, at least for me: Voice Mimicry Show, where you use a microphone to imitate sounds with your voice. That game looks like it could be good fun for the Holidays and thankfully I have a Wii U microphone to play it.
THIS LOOKS SILLY AND OUTRAGEOUSLY FUN!!! $5?? LET'S GO!!
New ways to play like this are why I'm a gamer. I'm in love.
Interestingly not on the UK/EU eShop. It's on USA and Japan.
That video is 12 minutes long.
"How many putters have you used that connects the grip and the clubhead with a piece of string?" As with most people, never, however, I want to see this at next years Masters tournament so much!!
this is a bunch of nonsense.
this isnt a "golf" game. it's a mini golf game. why on earth would anyone be swinging a joycon that hard to simulate playing minigolf? they wouldnt. it would be hard to even do that with this setup as it exists.
i can imagine that this setup could feel a lot more like putting than pressing A twice and watching a meter go up and down. 👍 it's weird, i like weird. Nintendo should be taking notes as theyve become very boring.
EDIT - very clever how theyve used the existing dusty joycon lanyards to construct this new apparatus. I am impressed with this game already!
@ninfriendo_1973
"Safely padded in a toilet roll was the way to go."
are you possibly referring to this?? 😂
https://skt-products.com/give-me-toilet-paper/en/
Yes! In a league of its own😂
Ehh. Pretty sure it'll be alright. Other than the geniuses that have an extra prime come up with the idea to purposely wreck themselves and try file suit
While strange, the Wii U Umbra game with the balance board was more human effecting then a Joycon handled the way it does in the images. So equipment or horror game balance board/effects the player......
I think the Wii U situation was more a fair thing for Nintendo to get in on it compared to just yeah well don't use the equipment in such a way which could be worked around more.
Like with Labo or something else, developers......
@Game_Boi yes, it was 12 minutes that was weirdly captivating.
Also, who expected that podium order? 🤣
They spent more money on the ad than the background graphics
But the Million Dollar question is... why is one of the girl's randomly dressed up like Bruce Lee from Game of Death - complete with nunchucks round her neck?
Another weird crappy looking game!
Add this to the one where you put the joycon in your butt crack and try and fight others (also with Jon cons in their butts)
Honestly I’m quite tired of all the gimmicks…
What is this!? Trombone Champ for Golfers?!
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