Kawa no Nushi Tsuri 2 (川のぬし釣り2), launched 4/28/1995, developed and launched by Pack In Video
That is the primary publish the place I revisit the Tremendous Famicom to choose up some video games that I skipped in my preliminary runthrough. This recreation was skipped as a result of it’s probably not an RPG.
Fishing video games are a (considerably?) fashionable style of video video games; they’ve been round since a minimum of the NES period and lots of video games have fishing minigames as properly. I’ve by no means actually appreciated them that a lot. I don’t know if the River King collection was the primary one to have a storyline and a few RPG-like parts in it, however I feel it’s actually the very best recognized. The Japanese title contains the idea of the “nushi”, which is like an outdated, massive fish that lives in a sure lake or stream that everybody needs to catch to show their fishing talent. I do not know the place this concept originated — whether or not it has some foundation in precise fishing or is only a idea for video games and reveals. In any case, the “River King” (because it was recognized in English) has round 8 video games together with 3 “sea king” video games; a few of these had been introduced out in English however not this one. The primary recreation was for Famicom (with a PC Engine remake).
At first you select which character you need to play as within the household. I don’t know for positive what this impacts, maybe it’s simply beauty. Then you definitely start the sport.
The graphics are fairly good, which is perhaps not stunning given the 1995 launch date. You’ll be able to stroll round and speak to individuals to get info, purchase bait, promote fish you’ve caught, and such. Taking place to the river is what helps you to fish.
The fishing half is fairly acquainted if you happen to’ve performed fishing minigames in different RPGs. You select a bait, then let the rod unfastened. When a fish picks up on it, you must alternate between holding down a button to reel the fish in, and letting go when it begins struggling. If you happen to mess up it is going to run away. What fish you’ll be able to catch is determined by the bait you utilize in addition to the rod.
The RPG aspect is available in whenever you meet random encounters wandering round. They’re numerous animals like bats and squirrels.
The fight system is moderately attention-grabbing. Once you assault, a white dot will begin transferring round on the animal. You need to hit the button when it’s on the spot that can do essentially the most injury (which is completely different from animal to animal). Nevertheless, the longer you wait, the sooner the dot will go and the extra it is going to transfer into the “miss” areas of the image so you’ll be able to’t simply sit and wait so long as you need.
The unlucky factor concerning the fight is that I imagine the one impact it has on the sport is to extend your HP whenever you acquire EXP. It has completely no impact in your fishing capability. So the one actual goal of preventing is to extend your HP so you’ll be able to survive longer when it’s worthwhile to stroll to different rivers.
There additionally aren’t any weapons, armor, or something like that. Maybe the builders had been assuming that the first viewers of the sport could be fishing recreation followers moderately than RPG followers, in order that they deliberately stored the system easy and streamlined so it will add one thing to the gameplay with out overshadowing the fishing.
The sport doesn’t actually have a growing storyline; the purpose is simply to fish the 4 “kings” (nushi) of rivers to win. Speaking to individuals can provide you hints about the best way to finest catch the fish, however you additionally should do a number of experimenting.
I’m not a giant fan of this type of fishing recreation so I didn’t play all of it that a lot. It looks like about half of the video games had been localized so it will need to have had a point of recognition within the US. The final recreation was launched in 2007 for the DS (in each Japan and the US); I’m unsure why no extra video games had been launched after that.
