Ridiculous Fishing EX

This game is excellent. I’ll say it right now. I love this game to bits, specifically the bits of the fish I obliterate daily in game. I really just love a lot about this game. Most fishing games take a gritty and serious avenue, choosing to appeal to that demographic of people who enjoy that specifically. However I find almost all fishing games boring, until I found this artifact at the bottom of the mobile game abyss known as Ridiculous Fishing EX. I love how it takes such a goofy and fun route. Everything is ridiculous in a fun and great way. The art style, the music, and the gameplay all look like the devs had so much fun with this. The progression is also great, I really enjoy the games’s progression from island to island. I only really have some issues in a few bugs, but don’t let that discourage you. I also love all the little things, such as the fish phone showing your actual battery and the actual time. If you can, or especially if you’re on the fence, PLEASE don’t pass up this gem. Also Devs, I hope you add new content as well, keeping players coming. Also don’t be afraid to not do that and instead focus on bug fixes too if it calls for it. Good luck with your next endeavors.

What the title says. I loved the original and got this one the day it released. It had a bunch of issues at release but the developers have really been on the ball with fixing them. In general, this game is an improvement from the first one (besides BikBok being a lot less fun than Byrdyr) but could use a bit more new content. Mainly I find the stuff from Pro Fishing Tour to be lots of fun and really interesting but sadly you only get to play about 5 minutes a day. Some kind of new, challenging world that uses some features from Pro Fishing Tour could work. Anyway, the fishopedia issue- I like the new variant thing (even when gigantic rare fish all over get kind of distracting) but there's also these new fish in the game that are really REALLY hard to obtain. The five 'Friend' fish from the Maelstrom. Far too much luck and weird circumstances are involved in collecting them all, and their variants make matters even worse. I would suggest making use of the 3 save files and let players find 'friend' fish that represent their high scores in their other save files. Otherwise, collecting all types of 'friend' fish may be impossible in some cases, and most players might not even know they exist.

The original Ridiculous Fishing was still functional, but had a lot of visual bugs as newer devices came out. This was understandable since it was a pretty old game at that point, but still a bummer because I really loved playing it back in the day. But now it is back, and better than ever! The updated graphics are great, the new items are fun and excellent additions, and while I haven’t gotten to the new areas yet I’m excited that they exist! There’s a lot here for newcomers and veterans of the game, and it’s amazing to see this on Apple Arcade. I hope a lot of people will get to try this out and enjoy it like I have! Update: In 15 years of using the App Store I’ve never gotten a developer reply to a review. To have gotten one on a game I love by a developer I’ve followed since 2010 and Super Crate Box, is just wonderful. The previous performance-related issues I had mentioned do indeed appear to be gone and the game is running extremely smoothly while the phone stays cool. The polished controls are really noticeably better as well. Fantastic update, and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the teased upcoming content! Thanks Vlambeer!