After a 6 hour session of Legend of Zelda: TP fishing, this game brings down the wii to an all time low. My aunt is a finishing guru and loves the wii(especially after she played wii sports and TLoZ:TP fishing). She thought that Rapala would be a welcomed game. When we started playing this game we noticed that the assistant in the boat was she called "lame". We both then noticed that the boat steering controls were horrible. The camera would only move in certain directions and we could hardly ever turn it around. When we finally got past the "lame" driver and boat controls, she started fishing(which we thought would be the game's saving grace) she yelled out the phrase "WTF!" Her lure was 10 feet in front of the nearest bass and magically the bass got it. Yes people the fished was magically placed on the lure. To us it was a no brainer, this title is heading to the dumpster. This is not a rent or a buy, you would be wasting money on both.There is even a part where you do not have to have a boat, and yet this aspect still sucks. Your lazy assistant is still there and mocks you at every turn. Now for those who view games from the technical stand point, the graphics look as if the developers half-@$$ed it, and decided to use a psp model for it. Yes the graphics are just that bad.
The AI is not very responsive either. Like I said before the lure was 10 ft in front of the fish. Also the it seemed the smaller the fish were fighting harder than the big ones. It also seemed like the fish threw the hook every ten seconds.
The camera was very spastic. Some points the camera would just catch the reflection of the water and you could barely see the outline of the fish. the pros:(yes there is a pros section) the sound was nice and everything was smoothe like butter, that's it. If you hve read this review in it's entirety and you are yelling at me for not being a true fisher man, then I want you to ask your self "how long you fished in your life" I have fised with my family since I was 3 yrs old.
Overall Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has the best fishing game out there for the wii right now. This game is too buggy and the driver ruins the experience, the fish do not know when to bite, and controlling the boat was way to hard with the wiimote. My aunt can't say it any better, TLoz:TP is 1000 times better than Rapala. Rapala is not the fishing game for the fisher man inside of us.
If you want to yell at me for this PM me and we will talk about it.
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