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PGA TOUR 2K21 Switch NSP Free Download There hasn’t been an official PGA Tour golf game on a Nintendo system since Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 chipped onto the Wii nine years ago. With Tiger’s shine dimming over the years and EA seemingly ending its PGA Tour series in 2015 with an underwhelming Rory McIlroy game, that didn’t look like it was going to change any time soon. Now, though, 2K Sports has picked up the PGA licence, and – just like it did with NBA and WWE, with admittedly mixed results – it’s brought the series to Switch with PGA Tour 2K21. And you know something, it’s not a bad start. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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Don’t be swayed by the glamour of the 2K branding, though; what we have here is essentially the fourth game in The Golf Club series by Canadian developer HB Studios. 2K took over publishing duties for the last game, The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour, and now it’s back with a revamped title to help it fully fit in with the rest of 2K’s sporting output. PGA Tour 2K21 marks the first time the series has been released on the Switch, however, and given that HB has had to technically downgrade its game to be playable on Nintendo’s system, the results aren’t too shabby. It’s certainly the most realistic looking golf game on the Switch, although when your competition includes Golf Story and What the Golf?, we suppose ‘most realistic’ is a prize it gets purely for existing.

This realism is best realised in the 15 official courses available to you.

From the likes of TPC Sawgrass and TPC Twin Cities to the Copperhead Course and the Atlantic Beach Country Club, each course has been accurately recreated with state-of-the-art scanning technology, and it shows. We hope you’ve got a thing for American courses, though, because all 15 of them are based in the US; if you’re a fan of the St Andrews Old Course, Royal County Down or Muirfield, you’re out of luck. As far as this game is concerned, golf only happens in America and your craving for Scottish or Irish courses will have to be fed by downloading fan-made replicas created with the included course designer. Star Hunter DX Switch NSP

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The main meat of PGA Tour 2K21 is its career mode, where you create your own golfer and compete against the best of the rest in an attempt to win the FedEx Cup. You can choose to be dropped straight into a PGA Tour season if that’s what you came for, but if you prefer the feeling of earning it you can start off at the Korn Ferry Tour – the developmental tour for pros who haven’t reached PGA Tour level yet – and try to win your place among the big boys that way. And we do mean boys: although you can create a woman golfer there’s no LPGA licence here, meaning you’ll have to compete against the men (something that would no doubt cause heart attacks for some old duffers in private clubs to this day).

The control system is explained in a brief tutorial

(which can be replayed whenever you like) and can take a little getting used to. Rather than the old-school ‘three button press’ method you may be used to in older golf games, PGA Tour 2K21 is all about the right stick, and nothing else. After lining up your shot with the left stick, you pull the right stick back to start your backswing, then push it forward for the downswing. The quality of your shot obviously depends on how straight you pushed the stick, but the game also takes into account how quickly you moved the stick. Too quickly and it’ll hook to the left, too slowly and it’ll slice to the right. Star Melody Yumemi Dreamer Switch NSP [DEMO]

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It can be tricky to get this timing nailed down, and you may have a frustrating first few hours lining up perfectly good shots, only for them to end up in the rough or a bunker because you were concentrating so much on moving the stick straight up that you did it too slowly. If you’re playing on the Pro difficulty, which is the only control system supported in online play, you have to take even more things into account. The wind, the angle of your lie and your elevation all come into play, and you’ll have to consider how all of them will ultimately affect your shot. You may be placing your aim cursor smack dab in the middle of the fairway, but if it’s blowing a gale and you’re in the rough, you may have to move the cursor away from your intended target to compensate.

For some hardened gamers, this is a challenge they’ll be happy to take on.

If the idea of starting off at the Korn Ferry Tour and languishing in mid-table spots while you get used to the controls and slowly improve is something that sounds rewarding to you, then you can absolutely do that and you’ll have a good time. For anyone else who craves the simplicity of the older Tiger Woods games, however, there are a bunch of assists that can be turned on to make the process of hitting the ball a lot less daunting. You can remove the downswing timing if you like, meaning you only need to concentrate on hitting straight shots without also having to worry about whether you’re moving the stick at the right speed. Star Renegades Switch NSP

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You can also let the game take the likes of wind, lie and elevation into account for you in advance and display a predicted arc showing you the likely path and landing point of your ball. It may not be above-board in the eyes of golf sim purists, but if your sports game tastes lie more on the arcade-style side you can fire through a round in no time like this. While the WWE series took almost no time at all to fit into 2K’s now-standard process of focusing its career mode heavily on grinding and microtransactions, PGA Tour 2K21 feels oddly unlike a typical 2K Sports release. Your player has no stats to level up, no skills to unlock and while they can earn currency it can only be spent on different outfits.

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