Tyler from The Vita Lounge says; "Reel Fishing: Masters Challenge is a game by Natsume which is all about fishing (with a bit of story).
Starting off, the game gives you a little story to sink into about a son’s mission to follow in his father’s footsteps as a great fishermen. The game delivers this story in a journal entry format, and before each mission you get a short sentence about what the son is thinking as he gets ready to fish. After returning, he then talks a bit more in depth about what he said before he went out."
GamingLives takes a look at Natsume's latest in the Reel Fishing series, and its debut on PlayStation Vita.
"Natsume have been producing the Reel Fishing series since 1996 and, as is typically the case when developers maintain focus on a single IP, each subsequent release has shown improvement over those before it. Master’s Challenge is the twelfth in the series – the fourth handheld release, but the first to hit the PlayStation Vita – and makes great use of the device’s graphical prowess and touchscreen controls."
DD:
I love fishing. I'm terrible at it, but I love it.
I'm not even exaggerating when I say I'm terrible at it. I once spent a whole week on a houseboat in a prime fishing river, with all the cool baits and fishing rods, and didn't catch a single fish the entire week. I was on a houseboat, so it's not like I had much else to do. I just fished, and fished, and fished, and caught nothing.
GA:
In some ways, I'm kind of a horrible person to be reviewing Reel Fishing: Master's Challenge. After all, it's a fishing game, and I've been a strict vegan for nearly a decade. On top of that, it features a super-maudlin story about the game's protagonist visiting his late dad's old cabin, where be reflects on his father's life as he prepares to become a father himself. While I get along just fine with my own dad, I can't imagine there being any kind of similar pilgrimages in my future when that unfortunate time comes, and I'm probably even more hardcore about my childfree-ness than I am about being vegan. I'm sure there are ways this game could feature a lifestyle and a belief system that's even more diametrically opposed to mine than this…but I'm struggling to think of how they might do it.
