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Thanks! This one was a *very* long time coming.

Thanks!

Very kind of you. Thanks. Been a while since I've started this; work has gotten in the way big time. But I'm gonna resume this before long. We're about 1/3 of the way through the game with my currently uploaded videos.

It never fails to impress me just how realistic the physics are in this game, and just how much care they put into it. You've caught up on my LP at this point. Thanks for your viewership and feedback! I do have a couple more videos stored away to prepare to upload, but I'd rather not interrupt the middle of a course. Better to be between courses in a situation like this. It's been too long; I need to get ahead on recording when I'm not swamped with work and academics.

The AI at its toughest is absolutely brutal and merciless. Part of why I broke these mutliplayer series into the front nine and back nine was to give myself ample opportunities to defeat these later golfers. For example: I've never beaten Donkey Kong legitimately (though I'm definitely capable of it; would have if I didn't botch this game), only beat Bowser legitimately once, and Metal Mario is a machine whose ferocity is almost beyond description. You're almost certainly going to see more losses in the future.

What's bizarre is Wario's behavior in this match compared to how I observed him before. Typically, he plays *ridiculously* well early on and then just utterly falls off a cliff. Now, he just played rather badly throughout. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I played him on the back nine and he's programmed to do extremely well on the front nine?

I think there was just baaaarely a little too much momentum for a hole-in-one that time. Would have bounced back off the pin. I have exactly one (non-mini-golf) hole-in-one in Mario Golf 64 history, and it was on a cartridge I no longer own.

There was a mini-golf course about five or six miles from my home as a kid that I absolutely loved, especially after having seen something similar to it in the form of Mario Golf. I played *tons* of Mini-Golf in Mario Golf 64 as a 6 year old kid, since I struggled with the nuances and complexities real golf until I got a bit older and smarter. I'd say I was maybe 8 or so when I reached a respectable level of play. As you have just seen, that childhood experience paid off. I was very skilled at this particular set of holes. I'm far less experienced with the blue or pink variants (which will come later and are worth playing, as the holes are actually in different places), and less experienced with the overall more difficult Peach's Castle course. You just might see some Mini-Golf spills in the future.

I've never played multiplayer Ring Shot in Mario Tennis; I've just played the single player mode. I've found an exploit against the CPU for Ring Shot in Tennis; hopefully I can describe it properly here: Just use Backspin shots (double-tap B) and your opponent will do the same which is easy to return, keep it up until you've reached the requirement. And yes, Ring Shot is a very challenging mode, and it only gets tougher from here! Wait until you see what crazy stuff I'll have to do in the harder courses. To unlock Donkey Kong, you have to complete 30 of the 36 Ring Shot holes. Yes, they're generous enough to give you a 6-hole buffer. It's that tough.

I use an Elgato Game Capture HD to record my gameplay and my commentary all at once. No post-recording editing whatsoever. Don't know how to do any of that stuff. I click on "Record" on the software to start recording gameplay, and click on "Record" again to stop. After starting the recording, I click on "Commentary" to start my commentary and click on "Commentary" again to stop. It's about as simplistic a setup as you can get. It's all on my laptop, with a track pad for my fingers (once finger for left click, two fingers for right click). Once in a while, when I move my pad, a "click" triggers without me actually clicking the trackpad. I guess it happened this time when I went to move my mouse off the "commentary" button so that I wouldn't click on it again, and didn't realize it clicked off the commentary. I do have Audacity and Win Movie Maker so I can try editing later, but I'm keeping it simple for now and for the forseeable future.

@@MelloMathTeacher That's fine. Syncing up audio from Audacity is pretty simple, but work at your own pace.

Glad to see you're enjoying it. This is my first ever LP.

@@MelloMathTeacher You seem like a natural already

@@MelloMathTeacher It makes me mad seeing that you get only a couple of views a video. I could possibly shout you out next video i make whenever that is. I dont have much subs either but I would like to see my mans who taught me multiple things about ppl to thrive.

@@Caseoh._Funny._Clipss Feel free if you like, but it's not about the views for me. I'm just having fun and testing things out, and letting others enjoy it. As far as being a natural, I guess I've got a couple things going for me. One, I'm a math teacher. I love math, and to do my job well I've gotta be enthusiastic about things I love. Secondly, I watched a fair bit of LPs as an adolescent and picked up on a few things. Most important of all, keep it simple, keep it fun for myself. The rest will come naturally. ;)

@@MelloMathTeacher Its really good that you are having fun on this platform, and you make enjoyable content AND your a math teacher and I respect all of that 100%

That's very good, dude. The Very Hard AI at the very end is about the same level as the middle stages of Super Hard, I think. Keep practicing your chains and garbage tennis, build your endurance, don't be intimidated by the inhuman speeds of the AI; they're fast but really, really dumb sometimes. There exist some setups that really cheese them. I don't like to use the cheese strats because they won't work against good humans. And keep having fun with it. That's the most important thing. ;)

@@MelloMathTeacher thank you I’m getting myself motivated to try s hard so I’ll hopefully get better lol

@@MelloMathTeacher ais can occasionally pressure me into getting no chains and make me lose

@@Caseoh._Funny._Clipss Probably the best advanced strategy you can do is ensure that you have plenty of blocks and your stack is of moderately high height. Obviously work quickly to stay alive while in contact with the ceiling (which is probably the majority of the time against good competition), but don't let your stack fall very low. Be careful with your chains. Don't bother sending a x11 when you know a x6 will put them on the ceiling anyway, and then work on sending new chains to further their backlog of garbage blocks. You want to reach the point where you work efficiently enough to create a chain, and have the block not appear until much later because they're still got too much other things going on. Eventually the AI will mismanage their stack and die due to lack of material. Don't let the same happen to you.

@@MelloMathTeacher Yeah Ive seen that alot. The AI goes up and down with the controller, its just they are able to break my chains easily, so the AI can get an x10 combo out of trash

Could be. We'll have to see. I think this video does a good job of previewing just how tough this game can really get. These are some of the easiest AI in the game. You ain't seen nothing yet. Things just might get crazy.

The easy level AI does show flashes of brilliance once in a blue moon (or in this case, once in a red sun), and it's really satisfying to see when it does. However, as you'll likely see later, very aggravating when in intense competition...

It's not even about golf, it's just about how Skins works. Most people don't play skins in real life; it's a pretty dumb mechanic that rewards reckless play over safe play. And don't worry, Skins Match is its own game mode so it'll become MUCH more clear what it actually is later in the LP. I'll have the skins bet active then so it'll be easier to understand in context as well.

I love this detail. It really makes it feel like you're reaching the end of a long day and can finally relax when night falls. Or can you...?

This game's soundtrack was composed by Motoi Sakuraba. He worked on many Mario Golf and Mario Tennis games, with this being his first one. He has also composed soundtracks for Golden Sun and Kid Icarus: Uprising, and has contributed some tracks throughout the Super Smash Bros. series starting from Brawl. The Toad Tournament has some incredibly relaxing music that I really love. There's plenty of relaxing tracks in this soundtrack, but also some awesome high-energy tracks that may seem out of place for golf, until you witness the intensity of such moments. You'll hear tons of great songs throughout the project.

I haven't played many pool/billiards games; certainly not to the level of depth in which I would find striking different parts of the ball to be practical. But the pros do it all the time, and it's the same here in golf! I love the level of depth this game provides; it really makes it stand out as a precise and challenging golf simulator.

Always a pleasure to keep my viewers informed. ;)

I thought of it when someone asked me if Point Swaps were allowed given the Hot Dog restriction in the Glitz Pit discord. I realized that you could only use them if they were "pointless." MAN, I wish I thought of that earlier. It's SO GOOD. Maybe someone can implement it in a later chapter's challenges. It sure makes planning trickier. On top of that, when HP values and enemy damage increases later in the game, it only becomes harder to plan for.

Obviously I can, but that's not the point of the challenge. As shown in the description, I was required to give both enemies the opportunity to attack with 4 Mini-X-Yuxes out before I was allowed to defeat them. The challenge is that it's difficult to guard this attack without having both party members get immobilized.

LMAO I didn't know people still looked through these... I was miserably busy then. Hopefully in the not too distant future I'll look through all these to get the descriptions up to par with my good ones. Good times. Check out my Shadow Queen to see brilliance. Don't watch Bowser/Kammy unless you want to facepalm over and over again.

It came to me during my test run. Came together like bread and butter. Certainly better than threatening freezing to death or getting JR TROOPA OVERKILLED.

Hello, blatantly obvious student troll. This previously unlisted video is over three months old. I've gotten better. Excuse me for sharing a fun interest of mine. At least be constructive about it.

MelloMathTeacher you right it is a student troll