Great to see such a faithful recreation of the 32-bit era, highly enjoyable too.
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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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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!
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!
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.
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
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 :)
Sick game really good, i especially loved netting the one doppler and the blinky. both gave me a chuckle.
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