A really nice game, the main gameplay loop is very fun! I loved the concept of the fishing minigames and how you have to search for the fish in the sea's depth. My only critiques are the hook is a bit slow during the catching minigame, also many of the fishes, when caught, don't correspond to their name (for example, when I caught a manta, it said I caught a guppy), but i can see this done due to the limited timeframe. More consistency with the names would fix this easily. I would've also liked a bit more of a challenge, as most of the times the minigames are just "go to fish"->"go up", maybe some other distractions or obstacles in more advanced stages would've been interesting! The pixelart and animations are a bit strange (the starting animation where I didn't really know who I was of the two characters, the trees that sometimes look like carpets of grass, and some other assets that could be sprited better, but that also comes with the chosen graphical style of the game). Also there are some other smaller things that could be fixed, like the boat sometimes going on land (glitchy collisions with land tiles), but as for the rest, it is a nice game with a great potential! keep up the good work! :D
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I really appreciate the thorough review. I've fixed the names corresponding to the right fish and hooked them up to the aquarium so that you can see your progress. We had a few more levels ready to go that I didn't get a chance to make the original cut. I got those other levels in and I added a way to lose your bait and fail the game to add some challenge but it could still probably use a little more challenge I think. Updated the animations for the intro scene. Fixed boat going on land, had to generate physics shape for the texture (was only a problem for the sand texture). Your review was a great help, thank you!