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One word: eerie. I just wish I could get another shot at the ending without having to restart (unless there actually is only one ending)
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Great game. Original and really addictive. My one suggestion would be to include a depth guage with the compass. I would like to know how deep I'm at to swim back in time.
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not really a fishing game. or maybe just the most abstract fishing game ever. the gameplay wasn't too much, but it wasn't bad, and the atmosphere was really great. the deep sea is naturally scary because of how little we know about it, and i got the feeling i'd be horrified if i saw what the biggest fishies looked like outside of the vector graphics...and leaving crucial details up to the imagination is almost always scarier. And of course, there was the ending...
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Oh man. When I saw that infinite depth thing I was wondering if this was gonna end up like Motherlode... Creepy thought, that ending...
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Tips: hit the fish on its jaw(the one with red square) until it's cut off. this can make the fish dead quickly and still intact.
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Just beat it. That was....I don't even know what to say. It was different in a good way. What really struck me most was...despite the fact they were just line segments, the "fish" freaked me out. Especially the huge ones. As I went deeper, and they got so much bigger, I literally had chills...just from line segments. Never had such a reaction to something so incredibly simple.
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To get more money from a fish, you have to avoid damaging it !
Cut his head and wait, the fish will die soon. How to recognize the head ? It's the part where the bubbles come out !
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A thing to say, notably an "Unspoken Mechanic".
Fish Frenzy. Hurt a fish along the spine to make it bleed, and then go up a little.
This attracts large Carnivores the farther down you go.
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Another beautiful game from 2DArray. If I remember correctly, "The Most Dangerous Game" has a similar theme and plot... and was written by Richard *Connell*! Reference? I think so. And "guffins" -- could it be a reference to the MacGuffin plot element? :D +1 so 2DArray reads and replies.
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Melee: short range, I think it uses less oxygen. Harpoon: long range and more O2 consumption. With the power upgrades, they would slice through every fish. Harpoon is good if you line up the fish. You also get the most $ for cutting the tips off fish and wait until they bleed. Always dive deeper since bigger fish=more $.
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Awesomely nice! The upgrades are so cool. (Who doesn't love upgrades, anyway?) And I like unlocking deeper sea, it gives me that warmy special feeling of progress.
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I will tell you forbidden knowledge.
Okay, the forbidden is joking.
Typing in "givemefreedom" at the title screen does...
Something special.
I'll leave it at that.
Also, there are only 8 messages to get. Keep this, the jaw trick, and the fact that larger fish are found deeper in mind.
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...What?
Actually, I'm fairly sure I understand, but that's what first came out of my mouth when I finished the game.
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I wish the menu between fishing days was a screensaver! I love watching the krill/fish float from one side of the screen to the other... it's beautiful :')
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Picked up a fish and it flashed #15000. I was like... wait, wut? once i got back on my boat that doubled to $30,000. not sure what I did to earn so much money, but i ain't complainin!
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Just amazing and fun to play. Had fun hunting a big fish only to see a bigger one come up and bite the other fish in half... omg it just bit the fish in half!!!!
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Spoilers follow:
Narrative wise: I had absolutely no problem with dying at the end.
Gameplay wise: the final moment of the game being a boss fight that you have no option but to lose no matter how well you play feels really awful.
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Some quick notes/tips for Freeplay:-
1. The fewer pieces you cut the fish into the more you get for the fish and the less room it takes up in your storage but it will take longer to bleed out and die.
2. Try not to cut the dimmer/thinner lines, just cut the brighter/thicker ones in the center.
3. Be sure to keep other fish from eating your catch while you wait for it to bleed out.
4. The biggest fish down very very deep usually require their core to be cut completely apart in three sections. It's best if you can avoid cutting the dimmer lines when doing this but often it's very hard to do so.
5. The green and blue dots of the fish are multipliers which are super important for getting a really high score.
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The ending is about empathy, i mean, you just started killing some fishes at cold blood, thus by the end you have to breath like a fish, and get hunted suddenly and for apparently no reason until you die, then you shall know how the other face of hunting, being hunted, feels.
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Saw it coming lol But am I the only one who thought you could maybe win and started trying really hard with splendid control and outmaneuvers, until you lost and realized you were being trolled
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Oct. 22, 2011
i couldn't find my boat and i failed to purchase the compass. i became enraged and proceeded to carry out an ethnic cleansing on anything that didn't look like me or my boat.
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At first I was like "Pssh, these graphics are terrible."
Not twenty minutes later I found a fish that took up my whole screen and marveled in its beauty before being scared half to death by the giant red box that threatened to take away my very life. It looks like so little, but it does so much.
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I have dived too deep! In the uttermost depths, as my life ebbed away...There are THINGS there that cannot be unseen! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
The fools called it a bad dream. But I...I know better.
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I like how you can earn a lot at the deepest depths simply by salvaging the dead fish that come from the other fish fighting. You can be a pacifist and still collect fish!
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I am impressed with the Guffin Message Guy. How did he know how to hide them in a manner so that i'd find them in order?
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Oh look the game didn't load, instead of rating 1/5 like some people, i should use logic and refresh, now that for once a game does that to me....
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For those wondering about how to get the ending, it's fairly simple and you should accomplish it easily, but just go as deep as you possibly can.