WE MAKING IT OUT THE POND WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥 🗣🗣

Most of Sega's catalogue is completely alien to me, I do know of the funny Yakuza men dancing and the monkey ballin, but I've never really actually played any of their franchises, aside the games of a certain fast blue mammal, of course. So I think it's about time that I expanded my horizons, picked a rod, a hat with questionable quotes, and basked on the glory of the act of bassing. And mean, even the game told me to ''enjoy the fishing'', and it was no simple request or kind-spirited wish... it was a demand.

Sega Bass Fishing is a very special case, because in one hand it's just is what it is: a bass fishing simulator with a very ''arcadie'' style and design. And in the other hand, is a game with borderline manic energy; it injects every action this kind of irreplaceable style, and makes you excited over even getting new types of get (Worm bait my beloved). The visuals are actually extremely pleasant and good-looking and the music just goes fucking nuts; one moment you are peacefully fishing in a calmed dock, the other you are in a seemingly haunted palace with the scariest bass you'll meet in your fucking life. I may sound surprised, like I was just expecting a mediocre fishing simulator or just shovelwhare, and I really wasn't, is just that this game goes bananas over everything that it can possibly do and I love it.

The gameplay also surprised me; while not exactly my cup of tea and it does feel a bit unresponsive and repetitive, it does spice things to make the act of reeling actually pretty involved, and hey, putting to use my Big the Cat story skills was nice. Fish AND frogs fear me.

I know that having the fishing controller for this would make the best thing humanity has ever conceived and the absolute GOTY of eternity and beyond, but as of now, Sega Bass Fishing is definitively a rad game; it LOVES being what it is, either a small tourney run to be the very best fisher in the world, a small arcade adventure that ends with you catching the biggest fish possible, or just a peaceful, relaxing little distraction. It's more than just a meme, it's fucking Sega Bass Fishing, baby.

Oh, and this site has officially become the High Rank Bass Fishing Club (patent pending), so I would like to ask those who aren't rank one on the arcade mode to leave as soon as possible, thank you very much and have a nice fishing.

Reviewed on Aug 24, 2023


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