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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun. You have to catch fish and sell them to buy better fishing supplies, while looking for a magic fish. You can even take care of a pet fish. I played for 5 hrs. last night and now my daughter is playing. The more I played the game the more I liked it!

A fishing RPG!?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, it looks like it is a fishing RPG. Not only is it a Fishing RPG but it's fun too. You start off in a small town with limited supplies and skills. Upon catching fish, you can sell them for money, and then use the money to buy better supplies. As for your skills, along the way you'll encounter monsters. Upon defeating them your casting power and attack power will increase. The battle system is rather awkward, but is easy to get used to. The fishing system is great. You let the fish run with the line until it stops. At this point you hold down the reel button until he fights back. Repeat this process until you achieve success. One thing you need to remember is to use appropriate hook sizes. The wrong hook will not get you a catch. The game itself is quite a catch though. Along with the fish raising extra, this game is fantastic and unique.

A Game of Ledgendary Proportions?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is different from all other fishing games, here's why: This is an RPG, not just a fishing game. You fight wild animals and catch fish. Sometimes wild animals will attack you to steal your fish. Other times you have to beat a certain animal to move on. But your main goal is fishing. Your sister is dying, and you need to catch a magical fish that can save her. As you progress you get new fishing equipment to play around with. This is the main mode, but if you get tired of fishing, why don't you raise a fish? This is pretty cool, but gets old kinda quick. Thats why they (the makers) made it so the fish evolve and die depending on how you take care of them.

The Good: Gameplay, fishing tools, RPG style fighting, fighting animals, fishing itself, sprites, raising a fish can be fun.

The Bad: Graphics, weak storyline (excuse to catch all the fish!), losebait every time fish bite, some areas are pretty big (hard to get to that sweet spot), raising fish gets boring fairly quickly.

This is a unique game that is brought to you by the makers of another unique game: Harvest Moon. Altough I recommend it to fishers and RPG fans everywhere, THIS GAME IS NOT FOR EVERYONE! But many do enjoy it, as I do.

A really cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite hard to start with. At the beginning you have a small amount of money and you have to learn how to fish properly pretty fast. It took me a while to figure out how to catch the fish and I got a bit annoyed with it after half an hour of playing and still not catching any fish. The booklet helps you a bit but it doesn't give you detailed instructions on how to fish properly. After you've learned how to fish, the game is very enjoyable and it isn't that hard to follow. I really enjoyed playing this, and even if you don't really like fishing in real life, you should still give this game a try.

A mixed review...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game -- it has a lot of creativity and is a cool premise, in both its halves. I'm not sure it's a success, though. My 9-year-old got it for Christmas, and despite good eye-hand coordination, reasoning skills, AND reading the directions, neither of us can get it to work. There's space to save 2 games so we're both trying it, and neither of us can catch even one fish! Demoralizing. Plus, now my daughter's run out of money to buy bait, so she's not sure she can continue. There seems to be some secret to reeling the fish in, but we haven't caught on (no pun intended). The graphics are very good, and the story seems to progress in a clever way, but it can be a rough go at the start. With luck and perseverence, we may succeed, but it's definitely more involved and not as rewarding initially than Pokemon. I wouldn't recommend it for a child who's not willing to work really hard -- it'd be too easy to give up.

Patience, I don't have.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game would be cool...like Zelda but with an angler angle. I expected it to be like fishing at the lake with Zelda in Ocarina (N64). OH, I was wrong; this game is not so cool at all.

There are two modes to this game: Raise and Fish. The raise portion is interesting because you get to set up a fish tank, feed and care for your fish and watch him/her grow. As the fish grows it morphs into different types of fish. If you take good care of your fishy you get to watch it change and grow. Yippie (read: boring).

The "fish" mode is your typical adventure game; you have to catch certain types of fish and give them to chattering people who stand around the water's edge. Fishing is HARD...but the booklet has some pointers (and a map that shows where the different kinds of fish hang out). When a fish circles around your line and you hear a sustained beep, then it's time to reel him in. Push the A button and you'll see an underwater view. Wait until the fish stops swimming away--he'll tire pretty quickly--once he stops, push and hold A to reel him in. If he pulls back, then let go of A and let him run away for a little while. Once he tires again, repeat the reeling process. Eventually you'll catch one. If the fish steals the bait, then try a different size hook or a different type of rod. It took me ages to figure out how to catch the darn cutthroat trout!

You can also catch random fish and sell them in the shop to get gold. Then you can take your gold to the shop and buy supplies, bait & equipment. You'll eventually get a raft so you can float and fish at the same time. Don't bother paddling your raft because you'll collapse and be sent to the hotel with only 1 health point remaining.

Doesn't that sound fun??

This game is a little too much like real fishing (without the beer and sunshine). You cast your line and wait...and wait...and wait. ARGH! Your patience will be drained quickly.

I like video games because my attention span is short and I need all the quick-action/reaction stuff. This game makes me YAWN (a cure for insomnia?). There are action-packed moments when you have to fight spiders, monkeys, bears, snakes and other foes; those fights are incredibly dull. The fight works like this: a little fist image floats around your foe and if you hit the A button when the fist is on the animal, you get a hit (a hit to the head defeats most foes quickly). You'll get experience points by defeating foes, but I still haven't figured out what experience points do for you.

If you like real fishing and you have reserves of patience, then you'd probably like this game. I don't *hate* it, I just wish it was more exciting; maybe that's why I don't ever go fishing.

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