How can you expect me to catch fish when they're all so cute and make sad faces when they're low on stamina?!

I love the music in the game especially the seamless transition into the fishing music

super fun little game and water-tight on my playthrough at least, didn't catch any bugs or general issues! good job!

• liked the music and graphics, especially the actions of the character during fishing
• did not like the difficulty.  I gave this two playthroughs, and I think I finished with 100 both times.  catching the blue fish became consistent (after I read the instructions) but still took probably over two minutes.  the yellow fish seemed impossible.  never got the red fish bite.  maybe I just suck
• I guess this is just a little demo that will be part of a bigger game, but unless I missed something obvious I had to exit through the task manager.
• I appreciate the challenge and I would enjoy having to master this to get 1000 points in 5 minutes.

Really neat minigame, didn't play for too long but the mechanics are solid, the UI and sfx fit very well. Made me feel big brained when I figured out I could bait fish to come closer to shore before they bite.

So, after sleeping on my bed for an hour to restore all my HP, here I come to review your game:

Simple, fun and understandable approach to fishing. Could be better with the following:

• Actual button icons on the bottom right instead of just letters.
• If you could look around before casting.
• More animations for the fish sprites. Maybe only one or two more would be enough.
• Hopefully more complex skills or maybe fish "passive" abilities, as currently mashing pull until the fish is tired then reeling, and using your skill as soon as you have a full bar seems to be enough to beat anything.
• If you wanna be fancy, make the mountain reflections half their y-size, and make them shimmer.
• If you have a big dick, make it so you can attract fish by pulling in a rhythm before one of them bites, and make them only really bite if you pull while they're close, to avoid hooking fish you don't want to.

That's it, hopefully I'll check out your full game later on!

That's pretty fun minigame.
At first I lost, but second time could beat it. Once even caught a yellow fish.
Cool music and sound effects.

In the context of being a short palate cleanser in the middle of a full-length platformer game, this is a fun diversion and a pretty substantial minigame.

• I feel like difficulty can scale up a bit faster. Until you catch a fish that punishes you for reeling in at certain times, it really just feels like a numbers game in which the player's numbers are higher. Maybe even the smaller fish could have a weaker version of the mechanic just to make catching them less mindless
• When casting your line, it would be nice to be able to zoom out or move the camera somewhat. Without being able to see the position of more fish, it doesn't seem too relevant when I cast.
• I see that reeling cannot be initiated when low and stamina but can be held until you run out completely. It would be nice to have some marker on the meter that indicates the minimum stamina threshold where you can pull/reel again
• It would be nice to be able to release a small fish that you catch on accident when trying to catch a larger one.
• cute art as usual and options to rebind controls is appreciated as always

I'm curious whether  you plan on making this minigame recurring with harder fish and more complex mechanics, or whether it is a one and done event. Either way, good stuff, keep it up!

so i failed the first time because i thought you had to alternate pulling and reeling, because i thought reeling had something to do with controlling the amount of slack you have in the line so it doesn't break and pulling was just a sharp decrease in slack

it doesn't feel like fishing or even a fishing game, like the two i'm most familiar with are far cry v where you control slack in the line and you have to pull against the fish's movement and pokemon where you have to time the pulls to a text prompt

for a minigame it's fine but it feels like a turn based rpg more than anything, also there doesn't appear to be a system for making additional money off it, you just go past a certain amount and you win

art is fine, it's very tohou-esque, i'd either lean into the "it's an rpg battle system thing" with like different types of pull and reel moves and maybe different fish countermoves or make it more like other fishing minigames

• Works well, haven´t found any bugs
• I like the character art, but the portrait art not so much. I don´t even know why exactly, maybe because it´s missing the hat?
• It´s always annoying if people use Z and/or Y as inputs because I´m on european keyboard layout and those two are switched, you have button remapping though so not a big issue
• I think the overall game gets mundane once you realize you can just mindlessly spam pulls until the fish has no more stamina and then reel in. Maybe make it so you have to time the pulls with something the fish does, like you pull when the fish pulls. The ability you have doesn´t really feel like it has much impact either, it´s not useless but just meh

Not sure what else you have planned for this minigame. I´d add maybe something like a chest on the bottom that you can try and catch as ultimate goal. You´d need to catch away the fish first since they´ll always take the hook before it can sink to the chest.