Lemon Drop: Please stop me before I download again!
I hate fishing. The only time I had any luck fishing, I was four. I caught a catfish in a lake in Grand Rapids, MI. I took it back to the hotel and put it in the bathtub and named him Charlie. So, yeah, admittedly, I’m no fisherwoman. Still. I love fishing games. Oh, yes, you might already know that I love Zelda, so Nintendo gets big hugs and kisses from me for Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, two awesome Zelda games that also featured some kick ass fishing.
However, Nintendo gets a big kick in the crotch from me for putting Cocoto Fishing Master out on Wii Ware. They knew I’d download it. It has a cute little demon who fishes. How could I resist? Well, I didn’t resist, and I really should have. Cocoto Fishing Master is so unfreakingplayable it should be called Cocoto Throw-the-wii-mote-at-the-wall Master. What in the hell was I thinking? I know I was thinking “hey, this’ll be fun!…even if it kind of sucks, it’ll be kind of fun.” Fuck you, Cocoto Fish you aren’t even good enough to suck! I demand a half-way or even quarter-way playable fishing game with cute demons…or toads…or bumble bees…whatever, I just want it cute and kind of sucky or better.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I’d settle for a free game download as restitution for that floater.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Hmm, I am tempted to download this just to see how exactly you can screw up a FISHING game so badly. I mean I programmed a fishing game in assembly language in my college computer science class, for chrissakes, and from the sound of it, it played much better than this pile of crap. Sure, it was basically upside down Space Invaders, but it was certainly “good enough to suck”, and the pink and blue EGA blocks were actually kind of endearing.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:44 am
This is why WiiWare needs downloadable demos like XBLA… of course, they’d take a day and a half to download, and then if you actually want the full game you’d have to sit around hitting “Try Again” another 50 times, but it might save people their hard-earned Wii points before they lose them on crap like this.
Oh, and Cocoto Fishing Master is also a PS2 game - I’m not sure if this was just a WiiWare port or a completely new version, but I’ve seen the PS2 game on sale for $9.82. What does that tell ya?