EVERYBODY’S GOLF HOT SHOTS bursts back onto the green with the confidence of a seasoned pro and the cheeky grin of a first-time caddy. This isn’t just about perfect swings; it’s about embracing the quirky characters, unpredictable weather, and delightfully wacky modes that turn every round into a story worth retelling. Whether you’re chasing birdies in serene sunsets or laughing through a sand-trap disaster, the game’s vibrant personality and pick-up-and-play charm make each shot feel like a fresh adventure waiting to unfold.

EVERYBODY’S GOLF HOT SHOTS Review Pros

• Big bright cartoon-like graphics. 
• 35.8GB download size. 
• Steam achievements. 
• Full controller support. 
• Supports mouse and keyboard. 
• Graphics settings – resolution, display mode, HDR, v-sync, texture quality, and FPS limit (all though mine is always greyed out at 60fps).
• Each controller type shows in-game and has three presets and four custom presets. 
• The mouse and keyboard have three presets. 
• Game settings – gimme putt, teeing up, spectators, shot start camera, button guide text speed, auto advance, and auto advance speed. 
• Audio settings – master volume, BGM, system, ambient, voice language (English and Japanese), voice character, voice caddie, and voice spectators. 
• The data menu includes house tips, library (watch saved replays), manage caddies, stats, and manage golfers. 
• Seven caddies to unlock and use. 
• Customise caddies and golfers by unlocking and buying new clothing items, club types, ball types, etc. 
• Twenty-nine golfers to unlock and use. 
• Stats it tracks are – player info, course scores, golfers unlocked and level, caddies unlocked and level, and putt success rate. 
• Golf lessons are the tutorial hub and are split into lesson types that are replayable: traditional shots, advanced shots, gauge shots, applying spin, traditional spin, wind tips, putting, approach mode, shot mode, understanding your lie, weather effects, and stamina effects. 
• Arcade golf gameplay. 
• Training mode is where you can change course and gear on the fly as you practice. 
• Single player modes – challenge, world tour, stroke play, match play, wacky golf, and solo round. 
• Multiplayer modes – stroke play, match play, and wacky golf. 
• Online game modes – group match and world tournament. 
• Earn cash from playing and use it in the shop. 
• Every golfer and caddy earn loyalty, which is basically exp, and as they level up, you unlock new abilities or controls, new shop items, gear and buffs. 
• World Tour is the story mode of the game, and you can elect to do it quickly or slowly, which dictates all the talking, so if you pick fast, you just play golf over and over without any interactions outside of the course. 
• In the world tour character select screen, dots say if the currently selected golfer is locked, new, to do, clear, or complete in world tour progress. 
• The world tour is split up into chapters and is a mix of official and unofficial events, and you earn an overall rank in each. 
• The World Tour option of quick or slow can be changed at any time in between events.
• Food, gear, and levelling up can and will affect your stats, and gear can add specific buffs. 
• You can watch and save replays. 
• Fast loading times. 
• Big colourful 3D courses to play on. 
• You have five camera angles to switch between. 
• Every game mode awards loyalty, including the single-player modes like solo play. 
• Weather can be set to one type, or you can choose the two types of weather that change. 
• Outside of tournaments and world tour, you can set the weather, the wind, and any penalties like bunker shot,s add more shots and the like. 
• You can play 3,6,9, or 18 holes in modes and choose in or out variations. 
• Wacky golf has four modes – colourful (random surprises), scramble (teams take turns hitting the ball), survival (steal each other’s clubs), and boom golf (random explosions can happen to your ball). 
• Stroke play is the best score on each hole wins. 
• Match play is the first to win 3 holes. 
• World Tour has the usual tournaments and events, but also boss fight encounters where it’s the first to win 3 holes wins. 
• Challenge mode has three difficulties – Easy, Normal and Hard. Compete in events to fill the VS gauge, then face off against a new character and beat them to unlock them. 
• Day and nighttime courses. 
• Unlock and buy passes to new courses. 
• Online lets you create an open or private room, and you have a find room search and a quick match. 
• World tournament says it’s set matches, but it isn’t live yet. 
• Three ways to play in terms of hitting the ball. The traditional hit the button three times to do power, and hit control, then a gauge one, and finally a harder one where you set the power via the swing of the golfer, then time hitting the ball with a shrinking gauge. 
• The stamina system is where the golfer gets tired and fatigued, which affects how much power you have in shots, but eventually the gauge for shots starts pulsing, so it’s harder to use. 
• The game is still a lot of fun to play and just enough arcade and sim to be an accessible golf game. 
• Food is used to temporarily boost stars, so it’s good for tricky courses, or for me, it’s for boss fights. 
• Multiple-choice events pop up in the world tour mode. 
• Many different cup types, like tornado that drags balls in, mega cups, regular, and smaller cups.

EVERYBODY’S GOLF HOT SHOTS Review Cons

• The mouse cursor has a habit of staying on screen at the worst times, and always appears red when in certain menus. 
• You don’t always get an option to save a replay. 
• Your golfer does these stupid animations that slow the pace down, and also means you have to wait until they’ve done it before you can line up your shot better. It’s frustrating and pointless. 
• Having an English voice in is really bad as the characters are repetitive and corny, saying things like cringe or ball something. I forget as the medication has kicked in, and I’m just blocking out the haters. 
• The menus are not all clear to use, and you can easily set up matches incorrectly. 
• It takes absolutely ages to get more characters and gear, as a lot of gear is locked behind loyalty levels. 
• The Story is not needed and makes the quick mode in world tour a godsend. 
• You can click to end a player’s shot, which is handy against the CPU, but it does mean that if you time the press wrong, you go into your swing. 
• The game lacks the same life as the previous games in the series, with no hub to explore or the charm of the characters and locations. 
• The game doesn’t save your story choice of quick or slow, and always resets back to slow. 
• You cannot remap the controls. 
• No accessibility options to help with putting lines, shot lines or Colourblind, etc. 
• The Pac-Man pre-order golfer is annoying with his wacka wacka sounds and how he obscures so much of the screen. 
• The caddy is very repetitive amd annoying and gets in the way. 
• There is no real reason other than to punish yourself to use the stamina system. 
• It is annoying to have controls and shots like that locked behind loyalty. 
• Just be prepared for a lot of grinding. 

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EVERYBODY’S GOLF HOT SHOTS

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Developer: HYDE, Inc.

Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

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