{"id":14347,"date":"2015-12-23T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14347"},"modified":"2015-11-27T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:14:20","slug":"family-fishing-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/family-fishing-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Fishing (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FISH_BOX\"<\/a>Family Fishing is a quick-play, arcade action competitive fishing game from Arc System Works, makers of popular 2-D fighting games like BlazBlue and Guilty Gear (oh man, wouldn\u2019t it be cool to play a fishing game with characters from those series?).\u00a0 Play as a member of a family out on a fishing trip, and in a given time limit, try to catch more and better fish than everyone else.\u00a0 Family Fishing is available to download on 3DS.<\/p>\n

In the main mode, first you\u2019ll pick your character.\u00a0 There are kids Sarah and Bryan, Big Bro and Big Sis, Mommy, Daddy, and Grandpa and Grandma.\u00a0 Each character has his or her own special skill while fishing.\u00a0 In the main story mode, you\u2019ll go up against each family member one at a time and try to get a better fishing score than the other.\u00a0 You can also select free play, where you choose your character, location, and how many numbers of fish to catch.\u00a0 In Survival Mode, you\u2019ll try to last as long as you can in endless stages of fishing.\u00a0 There is also a quick play mode that starts you out as a random character and location.<\/p>\n

When you start fishing, you and your opponent will be on opposite banks of the water.\u00a0 To cast, just aim where you want to throw, then hit the button when a meter hits the highest point to make an accurate cast.\u00a0 Try to cast close to where you can see fish in the water.\u00a0 Slowly reel your rod in with the B button.\u00a0 When you get a bite, quickly reel in with the A button.\u00a0 But the fish will put up a fight.\u00a0 At this point, you and the fish will have separate energy meters, like a fighting game.\u00a0 Try to move your rod in the direction the fish is swimming to minimize damage to your rod.\u00a0 If you have good timing, you can damage the fish and reel it in easier.\u00a0 But be careful because if you run out of energy, you\u2019ll lose the rod and bait you have equipped, and that can really mess things up for you. \u00a0The more fish you get, a meter will fill and when it is full you can use a special skill by pressing certain buttons to damage the fish, heal your rod, among other things (depending on who you choose to play as).\u00a0 As you catch fish, you\u2019ll earn points.\u00a0 Use these points at the shop to buy better rods, lures, and special items like bait that\u2019ll make the fish easier to catch.\u00a0 Whoever has the most total points at the end of the time limit, or whoever can catch the boss fish first, wins.\u00a0 You can unlock illustrations by completing the game with characters, and keep fish in your gallery that you\u2019ve caught.<\/p>\n

The big problems I had with the game were a lack of good instructions when you start, and a high difficulty curve.\u00a0 You have no idea what kind of bait the fish will take, so it\u2019s a bit of a learning curve.\u00a0 And your points reset at the beginning of each round, so it can be tedious to build your items back up again.\u00a0 It\u2019s also hard to tell which way the fish are swimming sometimes, and you can take damage easy when that happens.\u00a0 They also didn\u2019t bother to translate any of the voices, which isn\u2019t a big deal but it would\u2019ve been easy to do.\u00a0 A local two-player mode would\u2019ve been nice to have, too.\u00a0 I like the cute and colorful characters and simple gameplay, but the game is just too hard for its own good. Personally I prefer the StreetPass Mii Plaza fishing game: Ultimate Angler.<\/p>\n

I will say the makers of this game had a sense of humor when posting a warning label when you first turn on the game.\u00a0 It really cracked me up.\u00a0 Here it is: \u201cWARNING: Uploading or downloading this software without permission is prohibited by law and will make baby Cthulhu sad\u2026and vengeful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FISH_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kids will love the colorful characters and quick action gameplay, but reading skill is needed and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty.\u00a0 Family Fishing is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Fishing is a quick-play, arcade action competitive fishing game from Arc System Works, makers of popular 2-D fighting games like BlazBlue and Guilty Gear (oh man, wouldn\u2019t it be cool to play a fishing game with characters from those series?).\u00a0 Play as a member of a family out on a fishing trip, and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}