Pangya

Pangya is a game you run when you don’t want to play the traditional golf simulator. It allows you to play golf in a virtual world but one that’s from the anime world and fused with plenty of MMO features.

Pangya takes a lot of features from MMORPGs. You create a character and customize it, there are quests, items to win, potions to use, a shop from where you can buy more stuff and the list is quite long. However, here you don’t have swords and mage staves. There are only clubs and comets (golf balls).

It’s a game created for golf fans, more precisely miniature golf fans, who want to relax with a game or two. It’s designed to be cute and colorful, and it is, so it might just be a good choice when you want to forget about the troubles in a day.

When it comes to playing Pangya, after a short tutorial you’re ready to go. Apart from picking the angle and power of the shot, there’s not a whole lot more to it. There’s the putting part, hitting a few bonuses along the track, using special kinds of strikes and swapping the irons, but that’s about it.

The gameplay is relatively linear, and if you’re not into golf at least a little bit, it might just get tedious. It is repetitive, apart from the scenery nothing really changes but even so, you do the same things. In a multiplayer challenge, things are more interesting but the servers are fairly empty and finding a game takes a while, unfortunately.

In closing, Pangya is worth it for the casual nature of it all but if you’re looking for something that challenges you, it might not work out. In the single player mode at least. But at least it’s cute.