>>61587
Played a bit more of this game. It's okay but too shallow (heh) to hold my attention for more than an hour or two. There are some pretty significant problems with feedback and the general design. It's a neat novelty but I don't know that I would expect great things from this if I were installing it in arcade.
First of all, the game has the same problem that I've seen in every other fishing game and minigame, which is a bad camera. You can't control the camera and the camera doesn't properly change to show the nearest bass, which means that if you get a good cast or a bad cast, it can be very hard to tell the difference between them because all you'll see is your lure floating or sinking on a blue background, but you don't have any sense of position. You can see how far away your lure is, but that's a linear measurement out from the boat based on your line, so you never actually know where your lure is in absolute terms. A depth/length/line indicator would help a lot.
Further, the feedback is really bad, even for an early 3D arcade game. According to the manual, there are a few things you need to do to hook and reel in a fish:
>cast a line and get a bite
>press DOWN to hook the fish
>reel in, adjusting the direction of your reel to be the opposite of where the fish's mouth is pointing (left, right, down)
There is a directional indicator for only the reeling, not the hooking, and that indicator doesn't go away until well after you've actually begun to reel in that direction. I kept expecting it to be like
>REEL LEFT!
>I reel left
>OK!
but it was just a warning indicator that popped up and disappeared with seemingly no connection to my inputs. Felt very poor.