History VideoGame / GolfStory

* OhCrap!: On your second match with Lara at Oak Manor, she'll land a hole in one.

A sequel, ''Sports Story'', is in the works for the Nintendo Switch with a mid-2020 release date planned.

* PointBuildSystem: Every level-up earns Skill Points, which can be spent to make skills stronger. You can also ''decrease'' your Power if you're hitting too hard, since increasing power will periodically decrease your other skills.

** Max Yards can [[MeaningfulName regularly hit at least 300 yards]], yet he is a ''terrible'' shot. A lot of his tee shots end up in bunkers, or worse, ''water''.

* DifficultButAwesome: The turtles that appear in the waters of Lurker Valley to bounce your ball off. If you don't know what you're doing, you may as well shoot straight into the water. But if you make the right shots, you can get some ridiculous drives off of them and easily set up for an eagle putt.

* DefrostingIceKing: Coach is initially loathe to training the protagonist and [[NoRespectGuy calls his performance total garbage, despite the fact that he's blatantly shooting better than any of his students]]. In fact, one of his students, who overheard the whole thing from a couple of tees away, then proceeds to fire off some actually-terrible shots, which Coach ''commends'' despite the legitimately good play that he saw from the protagonist not even five minutes ago. Once the protagonist substitutes in during a competition due to a lack of competitive-level players representing Wellworn Grove and helps the team catch up for victory, Coach finally throws his full support behind him and offers to train him for real.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: During your match against Lara at Oak Manor, she'll steal Max Yards's "Unbound!" after a particularly good tee shot, then apologizes for saying it.

* BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: Zig-zagged. While you still take a penalty for hitting a ball into the water, things like tar pits and moles stealing your ball are treated like ordinary obstacles. Also, in the overworld you can tee off from any outdoor location, which is used to solve various environmental puzzles.

[[caption-width-right:307:''"The course was lovely today, got some birdies when I needed them and par is a good score here."'']]

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* LikeASonToMe: Coach comes to view the protagonist as a surrogate son figure, and sees it as his second chance to coach someone into a successful golfer after [[spoiler:his son accidentally hit a drive shot at him years ago, [[CareerEndingInjury ending his career]]]].

* MundaneWish:
** On Blue Moon Dunes, the female Wellworn Grove hooligan has come into possession of a genie, and used her first wish to make her hat and boom box flash rainbow colours. She doesn't know what to do with her other two wishes, so she sells them to you for $1000 each, as the protagonist, in inner monologue, [[LampshadeHanging wonders why she doesn't just wish for money instead]]. After buying both wishes, she realizes too late that she screwed up... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she should have wished for a rainbow-flashing]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint shirt]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint too!]]
** For that matter, the protagonist himself just uses both wishes on new golf clubs. The genie proceeds to "upgrade" the Wellworn Woods and Irons, but other than greater shot curving they don't exactly do much.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: When you do the Tidy Park vs. Wellworn Grove match, the moles will move the opposing team's ball forward onto the fairway, but they'll still put your ball into unfavorable places such as bunkers.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Lara has pink hair. The two goth girls also have their hair died [[MulticoloredHair a variety of colours]].

* WidgetSeries: It's a golfing RPG that has a Frisbee golf gang, crocodiles, and angry geese. Can't get much more widget-y than that. Unless it were actually made in Japan and not Australia.

* NorthIsColdSouthIsHot: Inverted with Coldwind Wastes, which is the southernmost course, and Bermuda Isles, which is north of Wellworn Grove (though not the northernmost).

* MadeOfExplodium: The undead skeletons you have to defeat by shooting golf balls at them don't simply collapse into a pile of bones. They ''burst'' upon getting hit.

** For that matter, the protagonist himself just uses both wishes on new golf clubs. The genie proceeds to "upgrade" the Wellworn Woods and Irons, but the upgrades don't do anything. The description of the clubs in the equip menu doesn't even change.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Pro Woods allow for the furthest drives in the game with a +15 yard buff, but that's really their only gimmick, when the other two "specialty" woods have slightly less power boosts but have utility besides "hitting as far as possible."

* DefrostingIceKing: Coach is initially loathe to training the protagonist and [[NoRespectGuy calls his performance total garbage, despite the fact that he's blatantly shooting better than any of his students]]. In fact, one of his students, who overheard the whole thing from a couple of tees away, then proceeds to fire off some actually-terrible shots, which Coach ''commends'' despite the legitimately good play that he saw from the protagonist not even five minutes ago. Once the protagonist substitutes in during a competition due to a lack of competitive-level players representing Wellworth Grove and helps the team catch up for victory, Coach finally throws his full support behind him and offers to train him for real.

* GenreShift: After doing most everything of consequence in [[HalloweenEpisode Oak Manor]], it looks like the Tidy Park arc is going to be a typical SlobsVsSnobs story. That is, until your welcoming party, where it comes to light that somebody's been taken by a Werewolf, and [[ClosedCircle nobody is allowed to leave]] until the culprit is exposed.

* GhostlyGoals: The various ghosts around Oak Manor give out side quests framed as these.

* GrumpyOldMan: The elderly golfers at Tidy Park have the NostalgiaFilter on and don't look kindly upon younger golfers due to their more cutthroat and competitive approach to golf and what the former perceive to be a grave disrespect for the sport.

* IdleRich: The Folks around Tidy Park.

** On Blue Moon Dunes, the female Wellworn Grove hooligan has come into possession of a genie, and used her first wish to make her hat and boom box flash rainbow colours. She doesn't know what to do with her other two wishes, so she sells them to you for $1000 each (the protagonist, in inner monologue, [[LampshadeHanging wonders why she doesn't just wish for money instead]]). After buying both wishes, she realizes too late that she screwed up... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she should have wished for a rainbow-flashing]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint shirt]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint too!]]

** After completing all of the required tasks at Oak Manor, you gain access to a Ghostly Tee that lets you tee off n almost any terrain, i.e. you can shoot from bunkers, deep rough, etc. as if the offending terrain isn't there.
** ''However'', shrubs in turn are immune to Tee Up, so if you land in one, you are forced to waste a shot shooting back onto more favorable terrain.

** The Pro Woods have the highest bonus yardage of any woods in the game at +15 yards, but they incur a penalty to your Strike stat, meaning that if you miss, you will ''feel it''.
** Max Yards can [[MeaningfulName regularly hit at least 300 yards]], yet he is a ''terrible'' shot. A lot of his tee shots end up in bunkers or worse, ''water''.

** After completing all of the required tasks at Oak Manor, you gain access to a Ghostly Tee that lets you tee off on any terrain, i.e. you can shoot from bunkers, deep rough, etc. as if the offending terrain isn't there.
** ''However'', shrubs are immune to Tee Up, so if you land in one, you are forced to waste a shot shooting back onto more favorable terrain.

* BattleRapping: The old geezers of Tidy Cove vs the young hooligans of Wellworn Grove.

* InsistentTerminology: It's "Disc Golf" and "Throwing Discs", not "Frisbee" and "frisbees". Don't let Harland and co. hear you [[ComicalOverreacting call Disc Golf the 'F' word]].

** Tee: Places a "Ghostly Tee" under your ball, allowing you to shoot as if you're on the tee, even if you're in troublesome terrain like roughs and bunkers (which only marginally reduce the power of irons and wedges, but reduce the power of woods by at least ''50%'').

* {{Prehistoria}}: Lurker Valley has shades of this. Features tar pits as hazards, dino skulls and mammoth tusks as set dressing, and the [=NPCs=] speak in YouNoTakeCandle.