RPGolf Legends

I have 7.5 hours into this game. The premise holds so much promise that the execution seems dead set on smearing excrement all over. I persevered. I played the first 27 holes, unlocked 2 classes, and at every single turn the game got worse. Boss fights *always* consist of running in circles until the boss has a single window of vulnerability, hitting it, then repeating that *exact* pattern for another 4-8 hits. Enemies have hitboxes that fully *do not work* if you're north of them on screen. The second class gives you a cool 3 hit combo that does one of two things : step you forward into the thorns effect of enemies with thorns OR hit once, then get ignored by all mobs because they have 3 seconds of invulnerability after you hit them. The dev's favorite status ailment is "confuse" which inverts your controls for an absurd amount of time. Everything about this game feels 20% "off" of what it should be. The golf is incredibly simplistic and I have never seen anyone, myself or AI, miss a putt on the green. The money economy is godawful, expecting you to purchase multiple $10,000+ upgrades per town when enemies (the only repeatable source of income outside of time consuming tournaments) drop 1 - 10 gold, and rarely also drop crafting materials that might be worth 120. Crafting is a joke. You'll have 600 of some mats and 2 of the only other thing required to craft. you get recipes for crafting half the game before you'll be able to use them to craft something. I cannot recommend anyone play this game, at any price, unless you're an aspiring developer looking for a primer on how to make a game *just* interesting enough that folks can't get a refund when they realize it's never getting better.