Mario Golf: Advance Tour is a golf game that lets players create their own custom characters and experience golf by progressing through an RPG-like story.
The ultimate goal of the story is to make your player climb through the ranks of the various clubs, ultimately reaching the goal of the elite Mushroom Kingdom golfers, such as Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and of course Mario. It's possible to earn experience for either character by playing through rounds of golf, or by successfully completing various types of mini-games and contests that help you hone your putting, swing, and other golf skills.
Distributing experience is more difficult now, as you have to make sure that both characters are sufficiently levelled up so that you can succeed in double matches as well as solo games. Advance Tour also links up to Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for the Nintendo GameCube, allowing players to earn even more experience points by transferring their characters over and playing the various modes in Toadstool Tour.
Players can also link up with another copy of Advance Tour for GBA multiplayer, adding a social element to the game. With its unique blend of golf and RPG elements, Mario Golf: Advance Tour offers a fun and challenging experience for players.
Advance Tour was released on June 22, 2004 for the Game Boy Advance console.