A cute fishing experience with a competitive twist that should captivate casual fishing fans - and families!
Full review by Cory Galliher on Popzara Press
Matt Yeager of Diehard GameFan: "When I think about Arc System Works, I automatically think of the fighting games that they develop, such as BlazBlue, Guilty Gear and Arcana Heart. I don’t think of them as a developer who makes quirky little family-oriented games… only it turns out they’ve been making those kinds of games for a while now and I’ve just never noticed. Well, until recently, when I discovered they’d developed a fishing game (one of my favorite genres) published in the US by Aksys, and I was sold."
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
If you are looking for a game that is overflowing with adventure, story and dialog... you might want to cast your line somewhere else. Family Fishing is a competitive game with a faster pace and more challenges than one might expect, but it is still fishing from a shallow pool of water.
Nintendo Life: As the house of Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, Arc System Works is perhaps best known for its fighting games, but over the past few years it's also been quietly churning out a series of arcadey eShop sports games starring a multitalented Japanese family. Billy and his hyper-competitive clan have already brought charming, thoroughly decent renditions of tennis, ping pong, kart racing, and bowling to the 3DS, and now they're headed to the seaside in Family Fishing. Like their other outings, Family Fishing is a simple game that puts a fun twist on a standard formula, this time with battle-based fishing and some fighting game-inspired mechanics. It's a bit rough around the edges but it's lots of fun, and well worth a try for any aspiring anglers looking for something different.
