Okay, so how’s about this for something just a tad different? Welcome to the world of PangYa…a strange and mysterious island where a game of golf…erm, I mean a game of PangYa (both the name of the game itself and the island on which it’s played) can settle the fate of the world! …I’m not kidding! …really! To save on the long-winded and complicated…and less than perfect explanations…PangYa is a sort of anime-esque (although it originally hails from Korea instead of Japan) fairytale golf. I’ll be starting our journey to the land of the fantastic realm of…uh…golf…that is actually adapted from a popular (apparently) massively-multiplayer online golf game known commonly as PangYa (noticing any important recurring proper nouns within this game?), I’ll be going through a sampling of the courses and characters this game has to offer. The main factor the game has to offer is swing-driven mechanics tied to the Wii remote, and honestly, having taken some golf lessons and played more than a few holes myself…I would tell you that a golf swing is something too intricate for what you might try to apply to a control gimmick like this, but I’ll tell you right now that I’m a converted believer, because it actually works better than you would think. Oh, and if you play the likes of Mario Golf religiously and can’t be separated from your three-point-swing meter, it can also be played that way. This is just a look at the intro video, a quick look at the menus, and a single …
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May 4th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
sigh! I played the 1st one and was great. incredibly hard as hell and yet unbeaten tough. I would like to give this one a go but it is nowhere to find T_T too bad I love Pangya Characters
May 4th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Ya I played it today! I bought some stuff for hana, like kitty ears gloves and some new shoes so she as alot of control now, ya I realized that I might not have enough money for lucky clubs, and I cursed to myself! I’m good at playing stroke game though, I played the first one, with the cherry blossoms!
May 4th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
I’d just give it time. I used to miss every putt when I first started playing and I literally couldn’t manage to make a single straight shot. I actually played through a lot of the game with the Lucky Clubs so that I could get a straight shot while I was still getting a feel for the proper controls. Too bad the only cure for my putting was practice.
A Super Swing Tennis with PangYa characters would be pretty awesome…plus Max is already a tennis star, so maybe they’ve already thought about it.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Ya but your so good, I can’t even beat the first game in tour mode…..I can’t unlock any powerful clubs, catties etc. I just get bumped becuase I can’t even pass the tutoral!!
I wish there was tennis version of this, I love how the characters are anime style! It’s just I’m not good at golf……
May 4th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I didn’t find the tutorial too helpful either, actually. I just tried to do what it wanted and learned the rest as I went along instead.
Putting is tricky no matter what, whether for real or in this game or any other video golf game for that matter. It’s the single hardest part about golf, actually, so I wouldn’t worry too much if it’s not something that comes naturally.
May 4th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
This game really gets me mad!! Even when I’m so close to the hole it doesn’t go in!!! Even nthe tutoral was trouble….
May 4th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Because otherwise she wouldn’t be as cute. It’s a vicious cycle of aesthetics always winning out over logic, especially when it’s funnier if it does…which it always is.
May 4th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
It’s a wonder she still has those scrawny arms then. (Also, I meant “maim,” not “main.”)
May 4th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I actually know what you mean, because just thinking about it absentmindedly, I almost confused some of the stranger voices that he does for the stranger ones that Derek Stephen Prince does. It’s an honest mistake.
I guess Kooh built up her strength by lugging her father’s old cannon around wherever she goes (not seen here)…if I’d gotten a bogey or worse…or an eagle, it would have at least made an appearance during the excessive celebration moments just like something out of Mario Golf.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
He didn’t voice Veemon and his last name is Horvitz.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
I believe Horwitz also voiced Veemon in Digimon Season 2.
It’s really weird that a little girl like Kooh would have super strength like that. I guess she and Juniper Lee would be good friends or something…if June doesn’t main Dolfini first. (Man, that show was violent.)
I like how some parts of the intro don’t look like a golf game at all.