News Summary

• Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots is the latest entry in the long-running sports franchise.
• The game's RPG elements and rich single-player content provide a fresh spin on traditional golf.
• However, the game's presentation is pretty basic, and its courses lack variety.
• Despite these shortcomings, it's one of the better sports games released this year..
• In 1997, the series was originally localized as Hot Shots Golf in North America.
• Fast-forward to 2017, and it was released as Everybody’s Golf, adopting unified naming conventions across regions, similar to Sega's merger of its Like a Dragon and Yakuza series.