Does Mario Golf need Mario to be good?
Camelot Software Planning has been in the business for decades. Initially known as Sonic! Software Planning, it delivered the seminal Shining Force series. The company would later split from Sega and land a deal with Sony to develop the very first Everybody’s Golf. With both sports and RPGs under its hat, Camelot would finally replicate its successes for Nintendo with Golden Sun, Mario Tennis and Mario Golf.
In the past 21 years, Camelot has only made one game that wasn’t published by Nintendo, and this game came in a strange lull for the company. Between 1999 and 2005, Camelot developed 11 titles in partnership with Nintendo; it was a unique and powerful asset for the big N… so why was Golden Sun: Dark Dawn its only Nintendo related output throughout the entire Wii/DS era?
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