Nice Day for Fishing

It really was a nice day for fishing! Fun fishing based combat system, nice looking sprites in a pixel perfect world, and a silly enjoyable story following our hero Baelin. That sh!ts dingo.

I like this game a lot but there is one caveat - buy this game on sale! It is NOT worth full price, I'm really sorry to say that, but it just isn't. There are only five screens total in the game that you march back and forth between over and over again for hours on end. Also, what happened to the Mayor's quest?! Where's the ending?! I think the game is fun as a chill fishing game but at $10 or under.

[b]NICE DAY FOR FISHING[/b], is clearing a game made specifically for Viva La Dirt League fans but man does it do really poorly as a game if you remove all the fan service. All the jokes that make about poorly designed RPGs in their videos, expect every flaw to be included. The game very quickly becomes a chore and extremely frustrating. The core of the game is a billion fetch quests, really slow fishing, and bad platforming. You do the same things OVER AND OVER, listen to the same voice clips OVER AND OVER, and fishing is painfully slow and frustrating even after you get upgrades. There is no variation, you run around in the same tiny map, and the jokes get old. Fast. All the fish are basically the same, getting to the deeper fish require a ton of time and so does reeling them in. If you're really looking for nothing serious and just mindless fishing, I am sure you can find some fun in this. [b]PROS[/b]: - VLDL fan service - Easy to run - Simple controls [b]CONS[/b]: - Extremely repetitive quests and tasks - Small map - Frustrating fishing - Shallow dialogue - Collection system is tedious [i]The end game fishpedia is horrible to hunt, I finished the game at around the 8 hour mark, and the fishpedia took the remaining 12 hours. Just 12 hours of mindless fishing, no strategy, no variation.[/i]

This was tough for me. The game was cute and the 'combat' was somewhat interesting. I really wanted to like it. But the more I played it, the more it bothered me. It really felt more like a commentary on gaming than a game. And worse, the 'commentary' is done in the most annoyingly unironic way possible. Like they want to make fun of how boring and repetitive quests are in most MMOs, so they make you do the most boring and repetitive quests possible. And the fishing game you'll do constantly just misses all the sweet spots. It's too active to be something you can mindlessly tune out to. But it's too repetitive to be something you can be engaged in. So it just feels like a chore.

Mornin'! Nice day for fishing, ain't it? Hua ha! (Big recommendation if you're a fan of Viva La Dirt League!)

Mornin'! Nice day for fishin', ain't it? Hua ha!

This is a classic 3/5 game. The core gameplay is extremely repetitive, but it's short enough and enjoyable enough to be fun. It's well paced, with good forward momentum to go "do the next thing". That said, you're really only doing one thing, over and over. The game is basically one extended fetch quest. But the core fishing and underwater "exploration" are fun enough to keep you going for the game's 10-15 hour playtime (without grinding for achievements, which could extend that for an extremely boring 10+ additional hours). Get it on sale, as it's certainly not worth $20. It's pretty mindless, but fun enough, and a good game to play while watching something else on a second monitor, for instance. There's no story that matters, and you can easily skip all the dialogue -- you're not missing anything, trust me. The game is sloppily made in some places, but I didn't run into any bugs. Some annoyances: * The fish log is only available at the fish god statue. Why is this not an inventory menu? It's a fishing game... smh my head * Pause menu is not available during fishing and at other times. Only volume settings are available from the Pause menu, and other options can only be accessed from the title screen. * Fish inventory limit of 25. No gameplay reason for this, really, so I imagine the devs just didn't want to bother to add a slider to display more inventory slots. Annoying. * Occasional lag in some places, which is surprising for such a simple game. * The game is WAY too loud. The music in particular is egregiously loud, and doesn't even have a dedicated volume slider (There's only Background and SFX). The volume sliders have big notches, and I had to play at the lowest non-muted notch and STILL turn down my system volume. There's no Master volume to finetune it. So, is this game funny? No. I never heard of the sketch comedy group involved before this, so I didn't come in as a fan. I did not find the game funny. At all. Even a little. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but it failed to wrest a single chuckle, or even a wry smile from me. There's probably a lot of in-jokes and references here, but not much in actual comedy. The writing is... functional. What humor there is is just harping on stereotypical gaming tropes without bothering to have any actual jokes. Probably the sketch comedy group is funnier than the game... it would have to be.

Nice little game, not the type that you play 6hrs non-stop, because it can be repetitive but a few minutes to 2hrs a day was really fun ! Really enjoyed getting all the achievements (DLC is not needed wich is nice), completed in 25hrs. I skipped all the dialogue and I still managed to understand every mechanics, the story is probably really nice but I wanted to fish more than reading haha :)

Hua ua

I WANT to love this game, I really do. And I can't tell you how appreciative I am of the whole team that spent their time on it. The graphics are cool, the fishing is just OK, but the pacing is too much for me. It's "Run over here and get this." Return to vill0age Run back where you just were. Return to village It's this same thing over and over. I just wasn't having fun. I'm sorry to the team for the negative review, but I just wanted to share my opinion.