Golf Story was a modern revival of the classic golf RPG game popularized in game generations past, meshing surprisingly in-depth golf mechanics with an entire adventure to embark on. As that game's sequel, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sports Story aims to escalate thaꦑt concept further, to the point that golf alone can no longer contain it.
Did it work? Eh, more or less, but the game isn't without its problems. From some missing quality-of-life features to mildly underwhelming implementation of sports besides golf, there are definitely some aspects of Sports Story that could do with a mulligan. If these changes could be implemented in a subsequent game, then we'd have a tale of sporting greatness you could tell your kids.
9 Quick Restart Feature 🔯
First and absolutely, positively foremost is a quick restart feature. Whenever you're playing any kind of sport, be it in a full match or just a minigame, there is no quick restart function. Even if you completely botch a few shots and know that it is literally impossible to succeed in your current goal, you still have no choice but to play through to the end.
This is a problem that was present in Golf Story, which is why it's bizarre that it's still a problem in Sports Story. It's especially frustrating if the game you're playing is preceded by a bunch of cutscenes, which you can't skip through to get back to the action quickly.
8 🌼 Cutscene And Dialogue Skip
While we're on the subject: if you're going to make us sit through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dialogue and cutscenes again, at least let us skip through them or scroll the text quickly. A lot of the dialogue in Sports Story has various effects laid over it, such as tilting boxes, font changes, and scroll speed changes. This is presumably to convey different speaker emotions, which is a neat idea, but it's absolutely agonizing to sit through when you're in a rush.
A full cutscene skip would be the simplest solution, but the best solution would be both that and the ability to quickly scroll through dialogue with a press of the B button. Sometimes, we don't have time to sit there and appreciate the dialogue. We just want to play the game.
7 🌟 🎃 Maps And Markers
The various local🌄es of Sports Story are deceptively large, not to mention labyrinthine. Many of these spots can only be traversed in certain ways by taking particular paths or jumping from perch to ♛perch. It can be easy to get lost, which is why an area map would be helpful.
Having a general view of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the entire area would make it much easier to get your bearings. Additionally, some markers highlighting both story quests and side challenges would help to ensure you don't miss any content or run around in circles trying to figure out where progress is.
6 ✨ ❀ Hint System
Speaking of progress, due to the aforementioned lack of mapping features, it's not always immediately apparent where you have to go and what you must do to progress the story. You have a little checklist in your pause menu, which only provides a general overview of your task. If you need details, you need to go all the way back to whoever you spoke to last and gab with them again.
Some manner of hint system, either through your menu or a particular NPC, would alleviate this. It doesn't have to be anything overt; if you're looking for a particular NPC, for instance, maybe it could say something along the lines of "maybe I could find such-and-such at this place."
5 🌟 More Sports, Fewer 💯Fetch Quests
Sports Story has a bit of a bad habit of inundating you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:with fetch quests rather than letting you actually play sports. Compared to golf story, which had golf courses and minigames out the wazoo, the actual games and challenge꧒s in Sports Story are much mo🎉re spaced out.
In their place are numerous go-here-do-this-come-back quests. We're not playing Sports Story to run a delivery service; we're playing it to play sports. Mﷺore minigames of varying type🌳s will help to keep players more engaged.
4 Broader🦂 Sport Support
Despite the multiple other sports that receive high billing, Sports Story is still a golf game first and foremost, which means all the other sports suffer somewhat as a result. Even the sports that get the most exposure in the game, like tennis and fishing, are almost exclusively relegated to one particular spot on the world map. Everywhere else, you get maybe one minigame in a while if you're lucky.
Yes, the golf is what made Golf Story good, and it's good that it's still here, but when a game is called Sports Story, it shouldn't be unreasonable to want to engage in a much wider array of sports on a consistent basis.
3 More Courses And Courts ⛎
Golf Story had eight different golf courses to play on over the course of its story, and that's not even counting the Frisbee golf challenges. By contrast, Sports Story has maybe about half that. You'd think the other half would be filled with other sporting endeavors, but it really isn't.
As we said, the other sports you play are mostly stuck to their signature locations, and even in those locations, there aren't many opportunities to play the sports in question. The underground town of Britannia, for instance, has the game's only cricket court (and you don't even get to play a full game of cricket there). We don't need to have every kind of court in every locale, but more than just one would be nice.
2 💎 Ball Restock 🌳
One of the new features for the golfing side of Sports Story is a variety of special golf balls you can use whenever you want. These balls alter your shot in different ways, such as ignoring the wind, reducing the bounce, skipping over water, and more. These are cool ideas, but they're handicapped a bit by their scarcity.
You can't buy more special balls from any of the game's stores; you can only use the ones you find in the overworld. They don't want you to over-rely on them, which is fine, but couldn't you just set a cap on the number we can hold? Give us three steel balls and make us use them up before we can get more, for instance.
1 More Mall Features 𓆏
The Mall is probably the location you'll visit the most over the course of Sports Story, as it houses the Licensing department and all the sporting gear shops. More shops open as you level up your license and progress, but despite its size, there isn't much substance in there.
Besides the golf shop, all the shops only sell basic equipment, and while there are simulators for their respective sports, you can't play any actual matches. The golf side of things gets a little extra with a minigolf course and a driving range, though bizarrely, the driving range has a soccer field you can't even use 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to play soccer.