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Currently Playing: Executive Golf DX

What Is It? A golf game where you golf your way through an office building.

Gameplay Overview: I mean, if you imagine how you'd design a simple golf game, you can probably figure this one out. There are four "holes" going up and then four going down. You aim your ball, select how hard you want to hit it, and let it go. There's some powerups that do different things that you can pick up, too. Basic goal is to get to the elevator doors as quickly as you can and in as few strokes as possible.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/executive-golf/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Executive Golf DX has a sort of funky title screen music. I let it play for a couple minutes, or roughly half of the total playtime of The Botanist.
-So basically here youre golfing through an office building. There are a handful of floors, you hit your ball trying to get it to go up to the next floor so you can keep moving on.
-Theres a very slight bit of Getting Over It here where a bad hit can knock you down a floor (or two if youre super unlucky) which was fun the first time I did that accidentally.
-Im not entirely sure what the hit meter is. Obviously the first time is for power, but then after you select your power, the meter goes back which I think in golf games is usually for accuracy but I cant tell the difference after experimenting with it for a little bit. Like I hit it right after the first hit, I don't hit it at all and let the meter bottom out, I hit it right in the middle...it seems to do all the same thing. Idk.
-Some of these powerups are kinda useless. Theres one for a super bouncy ball which is more likely to send you careening off to failure than to success. At least with a normal hit I can sort of predict where my ball is going to go. Using the bouncy one is basically, "eh I don't care where this goes, I'm not really paying attention anyway."
-Ok there are four holes in the first half of the course, so Im assuming there will be four going down too. At the menu screen you could pick going up, going down, or full game.
-After you get to the top it goes HOSTILE CORPORATE TAKEOVER and you hit your ball into the office building next to you to go down. Fun little bit of flavor there.
-Going down the building was a lot easier for me because a lot of the difficulty was getting the ball to rest on the lip on the floor above without bouncing back down. I sort of fly through the back half.
After making it through the mines (which are below the building), your takeover is complete and the other office building gets shot into a volcano. OH GOD ITS YET ANOTHER GOLF RELATED MASS TRAGEDY.
-Well, thats it. Initial run time was 30 minutes but I wasnt to say 22 or so of that was going up and 8 going down. Im going to give this one a bit more time though to see if I can go back and beat that high score.
-The game tracks both swings and time, and there is a leaderboard for each which is nice.
-No online leaderboards though which is unforgivable in a game like this. Even the messy season 1 games had online leaderboards so this one not having one is a pretty big oversight.
-Seriously I'm docking points for no online leaderboards. Even DYG had online leaderboards and I should remind you the only idea that game had was that "dig your grave" abbreviated as DYG.
-I'll have more thoughts when I do my final write up, but the level design here felt messy. Like they were just plopping stuff down. One hole would have a crazy hard floor with a file cabinet blocking your path to the next floor up and then then next would have like two chairs and that would be it.

Time Played: Roughly an hour. One full game, one up, and one down.
High Score: Full Course - Strokes 176 Time 34:18.143; Going Down - Strokes 44 Time 9:14.201
Beaten? Golfed all the way to the end twice now.
Grade: Eh. I want to say 4 because I'm tired of saying 3 but this might be more of a 3. Simple golf game with some kind of sloppy design choices don't give this the replay value it was looking for.
Favorite Part So Far: Murdering my corporate enemies via volcano. You guys better hope I never become a CEO because that awakened something in me.