A seemingly trustworthy, and not-at-all-suspicious robed guy inside an orb of darkness wants you to catch him some fish. What could go wrong?
[spoiler]It's not like it'll be the end of the world![/spoiler]
There are 4 regular fish, and 1 special one:
1 A fat fish.
2 A long fish.
3 An eel thing.
4 A manta ray.
5 A BIG octopus thing.
1 and 2 share an area, as do 3 and 4.
You have limited inventory, so you'll need to go back to robe-guy occasionally to drop 'em off.
After you've caught four of each, you have to fish up a gamecube floating under a noisy cloud, which lets you talk to the star giant, who summons the special 5th fish for you.
After catching fish 5 and dropping it off, I guess the world is saved?...
[spoiler]Either that, or everyone on the planet dies, and are reborn as space-birds? Who can say?[/spoiler]
It's not a horror game, but it has a great ominous and tense atmosphere, and just looks really cool!
I should also probably mention, that my PC is well-below the recommended specs, but ran the game perfectly.
My only gripes are two slight lacks of clarity:
1 It took a bit to figure out how to actually reel fish in, finding/hooking is easy, but when I hooked 'em I couldn't figure out how to move the white bar, which you have to keep inside the yellow one...after many failed attempts I finally realized you move it by moving the mouse horizontally...I had been mashing/clicking everything, but didn't think to do that...Then again, I don't play a lot of fishing games, so maybe this is normal? It did SHOW an example of catching, but didn't actually say "move the mouse, dum-dum"
2 I rowed around for quite a bit in Astra looking for fish 5, but didn't think to look straight down under my boat, and when I failed to catch it, I rowed around again for a while without finding it...tho after talking to the giant again, it respawned.
^ Then again, these gripes can also be summarized as "I may just be an idiot".
Even with my rough start and long search for fish 5, I still won the game in about an hour, so maybe it can be done in 30-40 min if you know what you're doing?
This was really cool! And even kinda relaxing.
I love foreboding-ocean-stuff, and this scratched that itch nicely!
Well worth a play.
