Battle Golfer Yui (バトルゴルファー唯, "Battle Golfer Yui") is a 1991 video game developed by Santos and published by Sega for the Mega Drive. It is a golf video game where the player must stop a mad scientist. Upon release the game did not receive good reviews.

Battle Golfer Yui
Developer(s)Santos
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Kin-chan 68000
Programmer(s)
  • Sōtarō Suzuki (Catherine)
  • Tsukasa Aoki (Tsukasa-chan)
Artist(s)
  • Ano Shimizu (Ano Okata)
  • Hiroyuki Hirama(Mappira‑kun)
  • Hitorin.hagaitai
  • Toshichan
  • Kanako Koyama (Kanchan)
  • Tatta
Writer(s)Kin-chan 68000
Composer(s)
  • K. Nakayama (Nakachan 3-sai)
  • Kentakun.yada!
  • Kei Maruyama (Maruchan wa Omotta)
  • Masayuki Nagao (Kyoporiran)
Platform(s)Mega Drive
Release
Genre(s)Sports, RPG
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

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The game essentially combines a traditional golf tournament with a plot by a mad professor to take over the world while using that golf tournament as its legitimate front. Yui Mizuhara and Ran Ryuzaki are two normal high school girls who are excellent at golf so they get drafted for this assignment. They are abducted by Professor G, but Yui is liberated before he can brainwash her into his organization.

Players can talk to their opponents before teeing against them in oddly-themed golf courses. Special abilities can be invoked at a certain cost to the attribute that is the equivalent of magic points in standard role-playing games.

Reception

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The game was poorly received in Japan and the West, including being given the review scores of 17/40 by Famitsu,[2] 28/50 by ASM..[3] Joystick gave it 35%.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Software List (Released by Sega)". セガ 製品情報サイト (in Japanese). Sega. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  2. ^ "バトルゴルファー唯". Famitsu. Archived from the original on 2022-02-15.
  3. ^ "SCHLACHTFELD GOLF". Aktueller Software Markt (in German). May 1991.
  4. ^ "Battle Golfer". Joystick (in French). No. 16. May 1991. p. 151.
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