Heath Hindman has done no research on Fishing Resort but can still give you a pretty good preview. Or at least he seems to think so.
While its true that Yuji Naka hasn’t been churning out classics over the last fifteen years, a closer look at his work over that time shows a creator with a singular vision
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.
This might well be the greatest preview for a game I've ever read!
It's like Hunter S. Thompson playing video games. Sans drugs. Well, some drugs.
Hahahaha, classic.