Fishing Break Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · August 12, 2024

Fishing Break Review, Get on your boat and go on a fishing trip all around the world. Catch big rare fish, upgrade your gear, and build your collection!

Fishing Break Review Pros:

Nice cartoon graphics.
663MB download size.
Own in-game achievements.
Fishing gameplay.
Full touchscreen support for controls and the menu.
Arcade approach.
Every time you get a fish there is a picture taken, the best size, how much money you make from selling the fish, and a rank.
2D perspective.
When you hook a fish you have to feather the reeling in as the tension bar goes up and down.
Using a controller is fine once you realize you need to hold A along with moving the sticks.
All fish have unique difficulties.
Unlock new map locations by earning stars in lakes you have unlocked.
Upgrade your gear with coins earned from selling fish.
You can replay lakes.
Unlock new characters, hats, and boats.
Each lake has quests that reward stars and are split into missions, regular, and special.
Send fish to the museum earn cash, and fill up the sections of the museum for bonus rewards.
Earn rewards and clock the pop-up to receive them instantly from doing missions.
You can see all the different fish.
View all the fish in the museum tanks.
Buy and equip bait.
The weather and time of day can change whilst fishing and this can cause special fish to turn up.
Fish can attack and kill each other.
Your museum generates money for you all the time, more fish equals more money.
Bucks are almost like a premium currency, they are harder to earn but they can be used to buy coins.
As you upgrade your rod, the name of it changes.
You can press a button to reload the lake as it randomizes the fish and locations.
The game offers many fish types.
Bounties are rotating optional missions for better rewards like bucks.
Full stats and best fish menu.

Fishing Break Review Cons:

The controls tutorial is for touch screens only.
Very easy to accidentally not sell your fish.
Cannot remap the controls.
The game doesn’t use the left stick to reel in and instead goes with pressing a button.
No real tutorial.
Controls with the sticks can be really awkward and clunky especially when casting.
Lakes ramp up quickly and you can lose loads of bait.
The menus are stretched out and look off.
It does feel like a mobile game grown-up.
Doesn’t have any online support like leaderboards.
No way to manipulate or move the line.
Bare minimum game settings.
All the menus are used with the left stick acting as a mouse cursor.