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Too Real For Me
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Sep 9, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
14 out of 18 gamers (78%) found this review helpful
Fishing could be great at reducing stress; all you have to do is sit at a location, cast your line, and wait for the fish to bite. Then, you reel it in, and do it all over again.
Real Fishing: Angler's Dream could've been that game. It has easy to understand controls; using simple gestures of the Wiimote to cast the line and put up a fight against the fish. Reeling in the fish is just as simple - either you shake the Nunchuck or hold down the A button.
No time limit, no worries about any objectives to complete.
But this isn't that game.
There are 11 possible locations for you to fish in, but all of them are locked except for one. In order to unlock the rest, you have to catch a certain number of a certain type(s) of fish in single player mode.
Adding to the aggrivation is the game won't tell me which bait or pole to use in order to catch the needed fish. There's a "Fishing Master" that is supposed to help me with this task, but all he does is talk about his family and the legendary fish (which I'm nowhere near ready to catch).
So, I'm stuck at two locations trying every possible pole, tackle, and bait to find out the right combo in order to catch the needed fish to unlock the next location.
The game makers try to spice up the title by giving a multi player contest where up to four players compete to find out how many fish they can catch in a certain time limit.
But the locations of the contests are limited to the unlocked locations in the single player mode, so most likely, you'll only have two or three locations out of 11 to pick from.
Real Fishing could've been a grea game for the casual gamer - at $20 - but the large amount of locked material and the trouble to unlock that material ruins the game. SKIP IT.
Real Fishing: Angler's Dream could've been that game. It has easy to understand controls; using simple gestures of the Wiimote to cast the line and put up a fight against the fish. Reeling in the fish is just as simple - either you shake the Nunchuck or hold down the A button.
No time limit, no worries about any objectives to complete.
But this isn't that game.
There are 11 possible locations for you to fish in, but all of them are locked except for one. In order to unlock the rest, you have to catch a certain number of a certain type(s) of fish in single player mode.
Adding to the aggrivation is the game won't tell me which bait or pole to use in order to catch the needed fish. There's a "Fishing Master" that is supposed to help me with this task, but all he does is talk about his family and the legendary fish (which I'm nowhere near ready to catch).
So, I'm stuck at two locations trying every possible pole, tackle, and bait to find out the right combo in order to catch the needed fish to unlock the next location.
The game makers try to spice up the title by giving a multi player contest where up to four players compete to find out how many fish they can catch in a certain time limit.
But the locations of the contests are limited to the unlocked locations in the single player mode, so most likely, you'll only have two or three locations out of 11 to pick from.
Real Fishing could've been a grea game for the casual gamer - at $20 - but the large amount of locked material and the trouble to unlock that material ruins the game. SKIP IT.