The Fisherman – Fishing Planet Is a game exactly where you have two most important items to do: Equip your tackle for particular varieties of fishing employing a huge quantity of tackle selections — and I imply huge — and then locating a location to fish. 1 of these items is way improved and a lot easier than the other, and I will clarify this later in the items I liked and items I didn’t like.
Very first off, you develop your personal character by picking from extremely restricted selections. After you do that, you are instantly thrown into fishing off the shores of a river. You get a tutorial on how to fish, and the controls are just fine. You hold RT/R2 to cast, and then LT/L2 to strike and you then reel the fish in with RT/R2. Effortless adequate. On the other hand, these are just the fundamentals. You can also handle line tension, move your rod about and use diverse reel speeds to perform on bringing in your catch. As the game moves forward and you are tasked with catching larger and stronger fish, the game begins to get a lot far more enjoyable. As you go, it is like a tier program for your gear in a way. You are tasked with upgrading all of your tackle that is necessary to catch particular fish. You have to use in-game currency to acquire these products, but you earn in-game currency by finishing missions. Yes, there are missions.
Not that there is something incorrect with that, but the game tasks you with creating a particular setup, then going to a place to catch fish that the game decides you really should catch. After you comprehensive these tasks, you get currency and unlock products to obtain. But you really should hang on to that currency for the reason that the game will make you acquire particular items. So spending it as quickly as you get it is in all probability not a great thought. An additional explanation to watch your wallet is that it charges revenue to travel and to acquire fishing licenses wherever you fish. There are two varieties of licenses, 1 is standard and the other is an limitless license exactly where no fish are off limits and you can fish at evening.
In the starting of the game, why you are nonetheless acquiring hints and tutorials, it teaches you about bait and what to use for diverse varieties of fish. And there is a ton of bait in the game. After you get by means of all of that, the game opens up a bit, but it nonetheless holds your hand and tells you what you have to do prior to you can do any sort of cost-free fishing, and that requires a though. The far more you progress, and the far more revenue and coins you earn, the far more items you can acquire. This consists of kayaks, bass boats and motorboats to get about. But if you do not like a lot of hand holding, you could be frustrated with the game.
What I Like
The Gameplay
The gameplay is great. In reality, it can be seriously great. This is absolutely a fishing simulation game, which suggests it appears realistic and there are seriously no arcade components. This will in all probability turn off a lot of gamers who have enjoyed arcade-like fishing games in the previous. For instance, I want they at least incorporated an underwater camera to be capable to watch the fish fight. But that is not what this game is going for and so I get it. They are going for a hardcore fishing simulation, and the developers quite considerably did just that. So if you are a genuine-life fisherman, I believe this game is for you.
As far as actual gameplay goes, it is just seriously great. As pointed out above, the controls for the actual fishing are properly accomplished. Baits perform like they are supposed to, and there are a enormous quantity of them and other gear to use. The game also does a terrific job with the physics of diverse casting, luring and strategies. Fighting fish is enjoyable and realistic, obtaining to be concerned about line tension, and the diverse techniques to move your rod and reel also make sense.
There are also a huge quantity of fish species to be caught. Especially, I seriously enjoyed the bass fishing, and employing a spinner and the cease-start out approach to get a bite. And the bass fight really hard, just like in genuine life. All round, there is not also quite a few unfavorable items I can say about the gameplay. I’ve fished in genuine life a lot of instances, and it feels like fishing.
The Presentation
Out on the lakes, rivers and ponds, the atmosphere is good. It is quiet and the birds are chirping. The graphics are absolutely okay, but not outstanding. A seriously good tool they give you is a chart primarily based on the time of day when the fish are most probably to bite. This is accomplished on a graph with slopes, the larger the slope corresponding with that time — therefore the far more bites you really should be capable to get. You also have the capability to rapid forward the time on any provided day so you can fish at the instances the fish are most probably to bite.
In the menu though fishing, there is also a map of the places on that distinct physique of water exactly where you can select to fish. So you can freely move about to any of them. So it is good to have a small wide variety in there. All round, I’d say the presentation is properly accomplished in this game.
What I Do not Like
The Menu Program
I’m not certain exactly where to even start out. I do not like to be hyperbolic, but this game has 1 of the worst menu systems of any game I’ve noticed in a extended time. They are far more or significantly less a jumbled mess. The fundamentals perform fine, such as employing the LB/L1 to move across the major of the menu to get into the sub-menus, but the challenges start out when you are attempting to navigate how to set items up in your inventory. Occasionally A/X is choose but in some cases it is not. This is for the reason that as we dive deeper into sub-menus, such as when equipping tackle, you have to use the suitable stick to move by means of your products by employing the D-pad to get to these products. It will say “select” and you would believe that would equip the item, but it does not imply that.
So, for instance, say I’m attempting to equip a hook. There are a number of vertical lines of gear you have to have to equip, initial becoming your rod, then your reel, line, hook then bait, but by employing the left stick it will in some cases just go suitable previous the middle exactly where you equip the tackle. After it provides you the alternative to equip a thing to the highlighted location, it will say “select” with A/X but it does nothing at all. Somehow it will at some point make a decision to perform, but there’s no genuine logic to it, and this is all accomplished just after a handful of minutes of truly figuring out how to get the hook slot highlighted in the initial location.
I seriously hate to rag on this, and I’m certain just after hours of playing the game you will find out how to navigate the menus improved, but it is just sloppy. Soon after the initial hour that I played the game, I began to choose it up a small far more, but I’m nonetheless obtaining difficulty with some standard items. It can be extremely frustrating so preserve this in thoughts. Hopefully, I’m the moron who just cannot figure it out, and it will be a lot easier for other people today.
I would usually place microtransactions in this category as properly, but there seriously does not look to be a lot. There is a “Packs” category that will give you all types of diverse gear, but there are only two out of the six readily available that expense genuine revenue, and these are each $four.99. The rest have to be bought by in-game currency, the coins, which are considerably tougher to come by than the actual revenue you make. I checked for 20 minutes to see if there is a way to acquire these coins with genuine revenue, but I cannot look to discover it suitable now. Please let me know if I missed it.
Bugs And Glitches
This will be brief and sweet, but I wanted to make every person conscious that I haven’t seriously encountered any terrible gameplay bugs, On the other hand, I have had a number of crashes, and even 1 time my whole progress in the game was wiped out. It is just a thing to be conscious of but I do not know what brought on it to occur.
Bottom Line
My all round encounter with the game was constructive. After once more, it is extremely simulation-oriented. If you are into fishing in genuine life, this game was created for you. If you take pleasure in fishing games but are not as hardcore as the guys on the water week to week, I believe you will nonetheless like the game as properly. But if you are searching for a very simple fishing encounter, this is not your game.
If it had been not for the extremely really hard to master menu program, this would be a game exactly where I could say it is excellent. And though I do not want to take also considerably away from the great gameplay and deep, deep encounter you can have with this game, the menus cannot be overlooked considering the fact that you will be in them pretty a bit. Coming in at $39.99, I would say that is a strong deal for a great, extremely realistic fishing game.
Let us know what you believe about the game if you have played it.