Golf Rival - Multiplayer Game

I was playing another game and an ad for Golf Rival came up. I watched the ad and became curious. I continued my other game for about another week and the same ad reappeared so I decided to jump to it and install it. It totally sucked me in. I played day and night, 7 days a week, for 6 weeks. As I climbed stages, I was learning the wind charts and clubs. Occasionally a fully outfitted player would compete with me and crush me. I enjoyed it to the fullest as I wanted those awesome clubs and the technique to use them, a great learning experience. As with other Golf games, you can Pay to advance, but you don’t have to pay. It can take quite a long time to grab enough Legendary clubs to compete, unless you let go of your cash. But let me tell you, golf is expensive in real life. There are bad apples that emoji bomb you as you line up your shots, but there is a MUTE button to silence them. The developers put the option of being a jerk to your opponent just like real life. But the large majority of players are courteous and well wishing. This is a very good, fun, challenging, and engaging game. Golf Rival has EARNED a place on my phone. Install it if you know the game of golf, or if your are a novice. Either way I know you will enjoy it!

The competitiveness does need to shift is the reason I give it a 3. 1. Not right to be placing someone who has been playing thousands more games than you because hmm obviously they have clubs that are supposed to be far upgraded than yours. (I see this probably significantly when you move to next stages.) 2. This is a two parter, people who pay for stuff and game modes. I see someone who has 100 kangaroo balls like 120 black balls, upgraded Bat Wings to like level 5-6 so on it’s like ok your already driving the ball an extra 100+ yards than me great it’s a waste of time. Also really hurts in the Draws it’s like hmm I have maybe 3 balls of each, this person has all these upgrades on my same stage level I don’t stand a chance besides to get lucky they miss fire!!! So I say make a stage mode or some sort of feature that levels it out to just skill. Nobody should have x30 more balls than you, nobody should have a Bat Wing level 2 and facing someone at level 6 and so on with the other clubs. Put those players using some algorithm facing one another so it gives the playing field a little more even. For instance I love the concept when finding opponent you can adjust your setting “No special balls” “Clubs within one ranking up any legendary or free game for all the base level clubs etc” if that means you lower the ranking trophy boost from 60 down to 30 or whatever so be it but at least the game is more fair and gives you a chance against equal level opponents.

There are many things about this game that are just truly aggravating. When the special challenges come up and you go up against people around your skill level but as soon as you start advancing you’re facing against (for example) a level 6 bat wing compared to your level 3. While you can barely get to the fairway, the other person can clear it with no problem. The most aggravating thing over all is the problem with the clubs changing on you depending on your slight distance from the pin. Thus eliminating the possibility of dunking the ball. Instead of lining it up with your iron, it changes to your wood, then your wood club has wind debuff so it’s nowhere near where you were lining it up. See what I’m saying? ANNOYING. Yes, I love this game, yes I spend money on this game even though I’m paying into this obvious pay to win system. I’ll continue to play but I strongly urge the devs of this game to fix this small yet incredibly annoying thing plus al the pay to win stuff to maybe slow down a bit. Maybe even some better gem discounts and more opportunity to play for stuff. Maybe even some new game modes. Me and my buddy play this game at work together and we would love to have a simple custom game where we can pick the map and maybe the wind (just a few obviously) I hope the devs see this and do something. That would just be dope.