Top 5 RPG Fishing Minigames - SuperDerek's Top Scores
172The First episode of SuperDerek's Top Scores! Just for fun, here's a top 5 about everyone's favorite mid-passtime passtime: Fishing!
Special thanks to Jonathan Ashley Moore for contributing his amazing music to the show!
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Play through the RPGs of the world like I have and you'll start to notice a trend. And that trend is that there's a heck of a lot of game designers out there who have fishing on the brain. Maybe it's the fact that they are in serious need of a vacation, maybe a little time away from the office, or maybe it's the fact that fishing and fish play such a large role in the lives of the Japanese public. Regardless of that reason we tend to find that there are a lot of games out there which feature the noble sport of fishing! So hey what the heck, I decided to go ahead and make a top 5! Why 5? Because fishing in Pokémon isn't a mini-game! This is SuperDerek's Top-5 RPGs that contain fishing mini-games!
Number 5!
Animal Crossing has a well-known and well-loved fishing game, but unfortunately it's not so much a game of skill as it is a game of reaction times and patience and persistence. In other words it's a lot like the real deal, which we all know is pretty boring, which is why it's at the bottom of this list.
Ok, I already know what you're saying to your monitor, but it's no use because your microphone's not turned on. You're saying, "Hey! If this is only a top 5 because Pokémon’s fishing isn't a mini-game, then why is Animal Crossing on the list when it's not an RPG?!" To which I can only respond that we can either sit here having a philosophical debate about what constitutes a Role Playing Game, or you can just go along with it so we can move onto the next game on the list which is...