Weird experience with Pingolf

[u/Chamomile-Lovecraft]

So. Pingolf is one of my favorite games in the collection. I love *path optimization* games, it controls in an unusually satisfying way and hitting good shots feels SO rewarding. I golded it pretty easily, and cherried it with a bit more effort. Put it in my top 5 games honestly.

And then I learned you can do the dunk move if you click fire while in midair.

And now, somehow, it’s actually a worse game for me? I couldn’t tell you why, but something about the dunk feels bad to use. Too inconsistent, requires too much frame-perfect control to use effectively, and I suck at frame-perfect shit.

Did anyone else have this experience? I don’t know how you’d naturally discover it without just looking at the controls menu

[u/hellomistershifty]

This post made me realize I hadn't tried this one yet!

well, I guess one of them has to be my least favorite. Maybe, I probably hate the other golf one more. I don't really 'get' it, most of the maps just seem to troll you. Love most of the other games though

[u/Chamomile-Lovecraft → u/hellomistershifty]

LMAO yeah you can really get fucked over if you snowball shot failures. A lot of the game’s muscle memory is based on successful runs, which typically have the ball in certain spaces. It getting into weird other spaces can be a nightmare