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Title: Review: Ridiculous Fishing for iOS lives up to its name, but in a good way Post by: HCK on March 26, 2013, 03:01:14 pm Review: Ridiculous Fishing for iOS lives up to its name, but in a good way
Ridiculous Fishing, a $3 universal app for iOS, is the story of a fisherman who is uniquely committed to piscine genocide: he riddles his catches with bullet holes. Featuring different gameplay motions—you toss the line, reel in the lure, and then shoot your haul, all within a single round—Ridiculous Fishing is fun without being too repetitive. Paired with a premise that’s just, well, ridiculous, it’s not hard to see why the app is rapidly gaining App Store popularity. This mobile masterpiece is a reboot of Radical Fishing, an online Flash-based game also designed by indie gaming studio Vlambeer. According to Rami Ismail, Vlambeer’s business and development lead, both games were inspired by actual, real-life tuna fish coursing languidly through the sky. “[It’s] based on a documentary about tuna fishing and this really amazing slow-motion shot,” Ismail recalls during an interview with TechHive. “The fishermen hadn't caught anything for days when suddenly they hit this giant flock of tuna, and there was this slow-motion shot of all that tuna being flung through the air.” Keep the line clear going down; then catch as much as you can on the way up. At its core, Ridiculous Fishing is a cyclic endeavor focused on efficiency. You play the role of the fisherman, and you start by dropping your fishing line into the colorful, 8-bit water. The idea here is to go as deep as your line permits you, something that can only be accomplished by deftly avoiding the ocean’s underwater creatures. (One of the game’s power-ups is a battery-powered chainsaw that cuts through any fish in its path on the way down, but we’ll get to that later.) Your line automatically reels back up once it reaches its end length, or if it catches a fish on its way down. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here http://www.macworld.com/article/2032038/review-ridiculous-fishing-for-ios-lives-up-to-its-name-but-in-a-good-way.html#tk.rss_all |