Shuffle Putt
A snazzy little physics puzzle game with birds singing, little flowers blooming from the walls, and a golf ball careening off a land mine on the golf course. Your ultimate goal is to get the ball into the hole and move onto the next level, and for bragging purposes, you want to take as few shots as possible to do so and collect as many hearts as possible along the way.
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too easy
Since it is a drag to aim putting game where the aim goes at the target as opposed to the opposite direction, you can simply drag your mouse to the desired target to get pinpoint accurate shots.
one complaint: the shot velocity is too sensitive-- it is very hard to make a slow shot
I'm not sure it's a physics puzzle as much as a mini golf game with springs and bombs. I think for it to have been a true physics puzzle, the author would have needed to require all hearts collected, a maximum number of putts, or something along those lines.
As such, there was little inclination for me personally to try to get the hearts, and no real sense of accomplishment. Most mini golf games give you a par score as something to shoot for, but not this one. There isn't any real measure of success at all, except for a score at the end, and even there, you're not told how it was calculated (I did much worse when I tried to get the hearts as opposed to ignoring them). There is a high score table link, but it didn't work on my browser.
There are games that don't keep score, and they're fine, but in this one, I just felt a lack of direction as to what I should be doing.
I love the relaxing air of playing this game - the sounds of birds, the comfortable achievements in making each putt. Yea, it could have been more challenging, but I'm no Tiger Woods. Golf for me is being outdoors, enjoying nature and having fun. Nice game :)
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