{"id":1484,"date":"2008-11-12T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2008-11-12T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T02:10:49","slug":"game-review-rapalas-fishing-frenzy-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/game-review-rapalas-fishing-frenzy-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Review: Rapala’s Fishing Frenzy (Wii)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Fishing Frenzy is an arcade style fishing game for the Nintendo Wii. Use the remote and nunchuck to cast and reel in the big ones. Fishing Frenzy features simplistic, easy to get into gameplay. But is it the catch of the day? Read on to find out:<\/p>\n

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In Fishing Frenzy, pick a male or female angler and venture out to popular fishing spots and real life lakes to catch bass, trout, catfish, and others. You can jump right into quick play mode at any unlocked lake to catch the biggest fish and get the highest score. Or participate in tournament challenges that task you with reeling in a certain number of species of fish, for example.\u00a0 Earn trophies and other unlockable goodies when you fish well or catch a certain number of fish.<\/p>\n

Fishing Frenzy on the Wii fully integrates motion control into the experience. The game comes with a shell (some assembly required) that allows you to hold the remote and nunchuck like a rod and reel. But like other useless Wii shells like the Zapper (Link’s Crossbow Training), the Mario Kart wheel, or those insipid Wii Sports attachments, you’ll soon discover that Fishing Frenzy ends up controlling MUCH better without the rod and reel attachment.<\/p>\n

Flick the remote to cast and rotate the nunchuck to reel in the fish just as you would imagine yourself holding a rod and reel. While reeling in a fish, make sure to move the remote left and right so you don’t break the line. Other actions also use the Wii remote’s motion controls, like steering and trolling your boat when floating around the lake looking for fish with the boat’s fish radar. Again, play control is pretty decent once you remove the rod and reel shell attachment.<\/p>\n

What makes Fishing Frenzy a more arcadey experience is that at certain times while you fish, on screen icons pop up and prompt you to move the nunchuck control stick or Wii remote in certain directions. If you do so properly, you can get bonus points added to your score, and sometimes get a temporary power boost to help you reel in fish faster or attract fish to your lure better. It’s not very realistic, but it does keep the gameplay going by at a fast clip, even for a fishing game!<\/p>\n

Aside from the awful rod and reel shell, the only other main problem with Fishing Frenzy is it may be a bit too simplistic for its own good. There isn’t a wide variety of fish to catch or lures to use, and the gameplay experience may not be deep enough for some. The fishing mini-game in Zelda: Twilight Princess seems more complicated than this. But if you want a mildly entertaining, pick up and play fishing game the whole family can get into, Fishing Frenzy may reel you in.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong>
\nI don’t know if it’s because I live in the south, but every kid I know likes to fish. And it’s a tradition to give each kid in our family a fishing rod for Christmas at some point in their childhood. Because of the easy to get into gameplay, kids will probably get into Fishing Frenzy pretty well. Reading skill is helpful for the instructions, but the game has pictures cues to let you know which way to move the remote. Fishing Frenzy is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fishing Frenzy is an arcade style fishing game for the Nintendo Wii. Use the remote and nunchuck to cast and reel in the big ones. Fishing Frenzy features simplistic, easy to get into gameplay. But is it the catch of the day? Read on to find out: \u00a0 In Fishing Frenzy, pick a male or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}