Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour

Get that fat frickin’ plumber off the green! Oh wait, it’s his course—he shares Mushroom Kingdom’s freaky links with Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and the usual lineup of Ninten-dudes. There’s more trippy fore play than you can shake a sack of psychoactive fungus at; lob your ball into a “warp pipe” and it pops out elsewhere on a back nine landscaped with obstacles like Chomp Chains, Piranha Plants, and Thwomps. Golfing game standards like club selection, power meter, and control of backspins and topspins satisfy, but the sometimes-clunky controls and confusing camera perspectives will leave you teed-off. Hard-core golf fans should buy it for a kid. Then steal it.