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xyzzysqrlChantelise has one of the most... interesting fishing minigames I've yet seen in my gaming career. Not so much because of the mechanics, as because of the aesthetics.
After a certain point in the plot, if you turn around and go somewhere you have no reason to ever return to (the tutorial) you'll find a random fisherman just hanging out. Graciously, he lets you borrow one of his rods, but he admits he doesn't have any lures for you. What's a lure? Oh, it's a sparklesome winged floating thing that attracts fish.
At this, Elise begins to eye her fairy-transformed sister.
So... long story short, yes. Fishing in Chantelise is done by tying Chante to a string and hucking her in the lake, where she beats the living hell out of fish, or occasionally tin cans and boots, and brings them back to Elise. Or you can tie her to a string and smack her face-first into a monster, which stuns it and does minor damage. She complains about this.
You can also fish in LAVA. That does not appear to bother Chante at all.
Faeries are HARDCORE, yo.
So yes, for the last several hours I have been playing Big the Cat all over the landscape. EVERYTHING MUST BE FISHED IN. It is ridiculous, but fun... and, er, I'm not even sure there's really a reward for doing this. You can trade fish to the fisherman for various items, but they're not particularly GOOD items... until they suddenly are AWESOME items, which require upgraded rods to catch, which require more adventuring, to the point where I'm pretty sure you can only catch some of these fish in the Top Secret Bonus Dungeon that unlocks after you've finished the actual game.
By that point, I will have... ...well, finished the game, and I don't see a need to have super-items.
...
BUT FIIIISHING. *cast cast cast*
After a certain point in the plot, if you turn around and go somewhere you have no reason to ever return to (the tutorial) you'll find a random fisherman just hanging out. Graciously, he lets you borrow one of his rods, but he admits he doesn't have any lures for you. What's a lure? Oh, it's a sparklesome winged floating thing that attracts fish.
At this, Elise begins to eye her fairy-transformed sister.
So... long story short, yes. Fishing in Chantelise is done by tying Chante to a string and hucking her in the lake, where she beats the living hell out of fish, or occasionally tin cans and boots, and brings them back to Elise. Or you can tie her to a string and smack her face-first into a monster, which stuns it and does minor damage. She complains about this.
You can also fish in LAVA. That does not appear to bother Chante at all.
Faeries are HARDCORE, yo.
So yes, for the last several hours I have been playing Big the Cat all over the landscape. EVERYTHING MUST BE FISHED IN. It is ridiculous, but fun... and, er, I'm not even sure there's really a reward for doing this. You can trade fish to the fisherman for various items, but they're not particularly GOOD items... until they suddenly are AWESOME items, which require upgraded rods to catch, which require more adventuring, to the point where I'm pretty sure you can only catch some of these fish in the Top Secret Bonus Dungeon that unlocks after you've finished the actual game.
By that point, I will have... ...well, finished the game, and I don't see a need to have super-items.
...
BUT FIIIISHING. *cast cast cast*
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Date: 2012-11-19 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-11-25 05:41 pm (UTC)Ooh, and it's 50% off at the moment, on GamersGate and Steam. Only for Windows, unfortunately, but that'll do.
You're not on commission, by any chance?
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Date: 2012-11-25 07:10 pm (UTC)