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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #1 | 4.784 | 4.784 |
| 90's | #2 | 4.757 | 4.757 |
| Overall | #2 | 4.493 | 4.493 |
| Sound | #3 | 4.541 | 4.541 |
| Fun | #17 | 3.892 | 3.892 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Great to see such a faithful recreation of the 32-bit era, highly enjoyable too.
I loved the aesthetic, music, gameplay, everything! I thought it was going to be difficult since I'm playing with a keyboard, but not at all. Overall great game!
Wow, I did not expect to play this game for as long as I did. This is one of my favorite indie fishing games ever! Great aesthetic, nice little shop & town, really addicting. Had to keep on going to get that Mind Melter!
This is so cool! The aesthetics, music and feel are all perfect, there's a lot of content to discover in this, fab work! :)
The shopkeepers eyes will haunt my dreams. This was super fun to play. One of my favourites from this jam.
This game is amazing, a bit tricky at first, but a lot of fun with a great replayability. I love the graphics; a perfect combination of old-school low fidelity textures and effects with a distinct, high quality artstyle. With your sound design choices, this feels like a true release from the PS1’s heyday. I can’t get enough of this game!
love creepy boats and fishing (even tho i am deathly afraid of the ocean) Im probably gunna be catching my self playing this a few more times
would love to see more!
capsized within 23 seconds, 10/10
An absolute blast tickling all the nostalgic 90s vibes whilst remaining fun. Give these devs all the monies!
An absolute blast tickling all the nostalgic 90s vibes whilst remaining fun. Give these devs all the monies!
Sorry for writing this feedback a bit quickly and not catching every fish before I finish writing it. But I spent several hours playing this game already, and apparently I should be writing feedback during the rating period rather than take my time and write more complete feedback.
Graphics: The environment was interesting, although a bit sameish. Water and rocks everywhere. It was easy to get lost. But after a while I knew a few landmarks: the dock on the lower ground, the tower/lighthouse, the rocks that can later be destroyed, the bones… And once I knew those I could navigate my way around.
And I think the logo looks pretty and fits the game being set in an environment where handwriting is still common, and the horizontal lines above the words sorta suggest the surface of the water, but I feel like it could have looked better without the horizontal line on the word “the” (and the diamond above the e in that word). And maybe I’d replace the diamonds over the “ee” in “deep” with boats, removed the horizontal line above “ones” and replaced the diamonds above and below “ones” with fish. (I also sorta feel like that font is trying to look like the text is in another language.) Maybe making waves on the horizontal lines could help representing the ocean.
Sound: The music was interesting, changing between areas, and the sound effects worked well too.
Fun: The game was fun for a while, but having to catch lots of fish over and over to save up to be able to maybe find a particular fish when it’s determined by what seems to be RNG gets boring quickly if the RNG keeps giving you other fish instead.
I found both keys, and then got capsized and told to look for some mind fish that was near the bones of its prey. I tried to find it near the place where it had got me, as well as in the place where there’s visible bones, but it didn’t appear again. I did try with various items, but getting all items and having to get some of them over and over seemed like it could take a long time, and with the rules saying everyone must play every game I can’t quite put as much time into testing each game as I’d like to. And with no way to continue from where I left off, I’d have to start over completely, which seems kinda slow.
Nineties: I like the fog that still lets me see silhouettes of fairly distant objects. Without those silhouettes, it would be easy to get lost, in fact it happened a few times. The water animation too looks good and nineties. I would maybe have preferred that animation to have a slightly higher framerate.
What I liked most: The fog and the font.
What I’d suggest changing: A way to save progress.
Hey, thanks so much for the detailed feedback!
Saving progress was pretty much the next thing on our list when we ran out of time, but we considered it a low priority as most players during the jam are just gonna give it single red-hot go :)
Thanks again for playing!
Loved the sound design and wish I could have bested the mind melter but my brain was destroyed trying to capture the fabled beast!
It was fun up until trying to get the Mind fish. Only encountered it once ( I assume, it was insanely strong). I spent over an hour and many many items only to never face it again. The timed button presses became too short for me to react to. I still like it, but I wish the "chances" had a bit more bias depending on point in story. Sound and graphics are great!
I love horror fishing games so much and this one was just so fun to play. The fishing mechanics felt really good and I adore the soundscape. If this game doesn't win the jam, I might actually be mad. lol
If you continued making more areas I would probably buy this game, Insanely good everything
Had a lot of fun with this one! Good gameplay loop
omg i did it \o/ I caught the mind fish after 6 tries with full items ^^ but after that I got credits dialogue from the guy and no way to catch the last "fish"? I bought the pendant thinking it might do something but i never noticed?
Amazing game, well done all of you on the team :)
Hey thanks for playing! The last fish, is a rare chance Mythic fish.
Really great and polished looking game that I was terrible at. Good job!
Sick game really good, i especially loved netting the one doppler and the blinky. both gave me a chuckle.
Really nice 90's vibe, fits the theme perfectly. I could feel myself gritting my teeth and really struggling with the harder fish. Very enjoyable experience!