{"id":5753,"date":"2022-08-25T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/review-cursed-to-golf-a-spooky-roguelike-thats-more-than-up-to-par\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:14:36","slug":"review-cursed-to-golf-a-spooky-roguelike-thats-more-than-up-to-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/review-cursed-to-golf-a-spooky-roguelike-thats-more-than-up-to-par\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Cursed To Golf &#8211; A Spooky Roguelike That&#8217;s More Than Up To Par"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re not being the ball, Danny&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Halloween might still be a couple months away, but Chuhai Labs has seen fit to kick off the spooky season early with its latest release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cursed_to_golf\"><strong>Cursed to Golf<\/strong><\/a>. Starring a person who basically escapes from hell using nothing but their god-tier golf skills, it\u2019s certainly a <em>memorable<\/em> adventure and we\u2019re happy to say that it\u2019s actually a pretty solid golf game. There are some relatively minor flaws here and there, but the quality of its excellent gameplay means that Cursed to Golf generally shows itself to be up to par.<\/p>\n<p>Cursed to Golf places you in the role of a professional golfer who, at the start of the narrative, is a very <em>alive<\/em> person about to claim victory in a world-renowned golf tournament. As you close in on the end of the round, a thunderstorm rolls in, but your character will not be deterred from seizing their destiny. Unfortunately, this turns out to be a poor decision, as you\u2019re soon struck by lightning and subsequently killed. Your golfer\u2019s soul is sent to a sort of golfing purgatory, where you\u2019re then greeted by the ghost of a golfer Scotsman who says you need to clear 18 holes on a spooky, ever-shifting course to ascend back to the world. The problem is that nobody has actually done it before, but that isn\u2019t going to stop you from trying as many times as it takes to get back to your body and finish your tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/cursed-to-golf\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Cursed To Golf &#8211; A Spooky Roguelike That&#8217;s More Than Up To Par<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re not being the ball, Danny&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Halloween might still be a couple months away, but Chuhai Labs has seen fit to kick off the spooky season early with its latest release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cursed_to_golf\"><strong>Cursed to Golf<\/strong><\/a>. Starring a person who basically escapes from hell using nothing but their god-tier golf skills, it\u2019s certainly a <em>memorable<\/em> adventure and we\u2019re happy to say that it\u2019s actually a pretty solid golf game. There are some relatively minor flaws here and there, but the quality of its excellent gameplay means that Cursed to Golf generally shows itself to be up to par.<\/p>\n<p>Cursed to Golf places you in the role of a professional golfer who, at the start of the narrative, is a very <em>alive<\/em> person about to claim victory in a world-renowned golf tournament. As you close in on the end of the round, a thunderstorm rolls in, but your character will not be deterred from seizing their destiny. Unfortunately, this turns out to be a poor decision, as you\u2019re soon struck by lightning and subsequently killed. 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The problem is that nobody has actually done it before, but that isn\u2019t going to stop you from trying as many times as it takes to get back to your body and finish your tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/cursed-to-golf\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}