I need to give Dangerous Golf another look thanks to this update

Fast restarts, alternate controls, better cameras

I was very much on board with the idea of Dangerous Golf and its silly sports-based mayhem, but the experience of actually playing it, as described in Steven’s review, was enough to put me off.

With today’s patch on all platforms, however, I’m thinking I’ll need to give the game some serious consideration — it addresses many of the complaints brought up by critics and fans.

• Fast Restarts – number 1 requested feature. We’ve reduced them from 30secs to 2-3 secs and it transforms the game in Single Player, in Co-Op and in Party Golf.

• New Control system – we have introduced a significantly easier single stick, single buttons control system and added in game prompts for all actions. Note that if you have a previous save game the controls will default to the original, more advanced controls. You can change this in Settings.

• More control over Tee off  – introduced ‘Free Aim’ on the Tee and in Putt. Aim where you want on every hole, 360 degrees of movement. 

• Follow Cameras – on the Tee and the Putt and we’ve also improved Camera Collision with the Ball. (The Follow Cameras can be turned off and on in the Settings Menu). You can also now use Danger Time in the Tee off.

• Better Introduction to the Game Features – we’ve brought back an old friend, Ted Stryker, the LA DJ who recorded all our Burnout 3 v/o, to narrate our new Tutorial Video. We’ve also introduced a new Loading screen Tip system to give the player per hole contextual help.

• More Destructive Power – new SmashWave feature enables Players to cause even more destruction whilst clearing their path to the Flag.

• More humour – the ESRB upped our rating to Comic Mischief based on ‘flatulence sounds being heard in the bathroom level’. We thought that was hilarious so listen out for more comic sounds – statues, bears, deer, milk, eggs, skeletons.

• Frame Rate – we have optimised every Hole and the game runs at a smooth 30fps. 

• Updated Holes – we have listened to player feedback and fixed the Holes that people disliked and evened out the difficulty curve.

• Steam specific Features: Support for Steam Controller and Enabled Cloud Save for Steam.

• Bug fixes – including Environment Collision, Translations, Leaderboards, Trophies and PS4 Crashes

This is really reassuring to see. Ideally, a game like this would come out of the gate strong, but the next best thing you can hope for is a team who listens to feedback and gets right back into the thick of it.

Dangerous Golf [Three Fields Entertainment]