What The Golf answers the question that no one had asked: what would golf be like if we take away all the elements that characterize the sport? Transform a marginal genre in the video game sector and change long games and walks between holes for levels that are completed in seconds. It has a lysergic point, another adorable and one dadaist. It is the best thing that has happened to golf without having anything to do with golf.

Despite having quite long-lived sagas, golf has always been a niche sport in the video game market, almost more relegated to mini-games in titles with a lot to do and applications without depth to hang out.

What The Golf came out of nowhere, took a little of both ideas and became one of those magnificent insanities impossible to explain and as brilliant within his insanity as incomprehensible outside it . The newly released version for Nintendo Switch puts a perfect pin for the cake or the icing on the dress. Because everything is nonsense. Fortunately.

Everything starts normal: a doll, a ball, a target and an arrow that indicates direction and power. By pressing the fire button, the first one shoots the second one in the direction of the third one. Everything is correct ... and here the normal ends. At the next level the one who flies off is the lord, who later gives up his position to the arrow. And although you know you can only expect the unexpected, What The Golf always finds a tangent to surprise on every level.

Other times the ball is a chair, a car, or a house. What if it's a vase? Well be careful not to crash, it breaks, of course. At this level there are fans that modify the direction and in this other we move to two dimensions and the ball is Super Mario.

You finished? Perfect: now you have to score a goal . First you direct the ball and then a doll that has to finish it off. By the time you get used to this you find that what you control is the goal. Of course.

Behind this dream of reason there are no monsters, but challenges: although it may not seem like it, each level has logic, meaning and even rules that, instead of explaining themselves, should be discovered by aiming and launching whatever you want to fly in that screen. As you meet challenges, you advance on a map that drinks from classic RPGs and that has even final bosses.

Visually What The Golf is committed to a naive design that would be unthinkable in any other game, no matter how independent it is. It is simple to the point of appearing plain and simple and combines this with pastel shades to create a perfect atmosphere: this is a game in the most innocent sense of the word.

All this is reinforced with its arrival on a Switch that adds portability and a spectacular multiplayer mode: everything is better in company and the absurd is no exception. The only downside is that it only allows two people to enjoy this.

Perhaps all that What The Golf explains best is that there is a level where you need to shoot down hot dog stands by throwing animals from a swing and it's not just that at that point it seems normal; is that if you complete it when the ammunition, by pure coincidence, is precisely a dog, you leave with a feeling that everything makes sense. And in this 2020 in which nothing has it, it is appreciated.

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