BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner in Apple Arcade [Retired]

Monotonous Fishing

I love the art style of this game and had some fun with the gameplay, but ultimately I see no reason to play this over the much more entertaining originator of this gameplay, Ridiculous Fishing. Also, the AppleTV version of this game has a few issues. Redeeming smolpedia challenges takes anywhere from 3-10 seconds, sometimes the home button doesn’t work as it should, and the game doesn’t support the PS4 controller, and maybe any controller. I wanted to like this, but instead I dragged myself all the way through and was disappointed. The gameplay is very slow which is most evident when you’re playing a level any further than ~2000m. There aren’t a whole lot of level chunks to pick from randomly, so it all feels samey and mindless once you’ve learned it. Also some more text would be useful, I still have no idea what the gear mech familiars do. It felt like the starter ship and weapon were the most effective as well which was a bummer, and because you need to spend money on rope and nets to progress, there’s not a lot of room to experiment. What was the point of the gears? I have like 600 of them that I’ll never use. So yeah, play Ridiculous Fishing. Amazing game.