Last Dream Fishing Arcade Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · September 2, 2024

Last Dream Fishing Arcade Review, Fish your way across lush Gaia in this retro 2D pixel-art fishing RPG. Enjoy a relaxing day or battle for your fishing life against monsters of the deep. With 12 selectable characters, varying difficulty, equipment options, and numerous surprises, you’ll be hooked on this buried treasure of a game!

Last Dream Fishing Arcade Review Pros:

Decent pixel art graphics.
150.06MB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Fishing gameplay.
2D perspective.
It can be played with just a mouse.
Every location has its own set of fish which are grouped together by tiers.
Caught fish give you rank points amd a star rating.
Rank points are used for buying new rods, and parts which all increase or decrease stats.
Day and night locations.
Many characters to unlock and each has unique stats.
Your unlocked fishing rod always transfers to the character you are playing.
A merchant can randomly appear.
Potions and food can be bought and used to give time buffs.
When a fish is hooked you need to press the pull button but feather it as you have to balance it against the fish’s strength bar, too high, and the line snaps and too low and the fish gets away.
Caught fish show in the lake amd uncaught or undiscovered fish just show as a dark shadow until caught.
You can call it a day at any time and go to another location.
Find treasure chests and messages in a bottle on the sea floor.
Items like rings and capes can be found and equipped and they offer buffs or stat increases.
A very addictive game and a great little time waster.
Nice soundtrack.
A fishing tournament can happen and is optional, if you take part then you earn points for fish you catch and you have five minutes to get as many as you can.
Upgrading your rod is not just for making the reeling in easier it’s also so you can cast further.

Last Dream Fishing Arcade Review Cons:

Says controller support but no matter what I tried, I could not get it to work.
The game locks up a lot, I have it happen when dismissing fishing tournaments, usually when catching my biggest fish.
You can rebuy already owned rods and upgrades which is frustrating.
The fishing tournament is just a time-based catch a thin and it’s the same thing every time.
It takes ages to unlock new characters and locations.
The layout and controls are very awkward, to cast you press the cast button then go across the screen to hit the button to set and actually cast the line.

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