Nice Day for Fishing

This is a classic 3/5 game. The core gameplay is extremely repetitive, but it's short enough and enjoyable enough to be fun. It's well paced, with good forward momentum to go "do the next thing". That said, you're really only doing one thing, over and over. The game is basically one extended fetch quest. But the core fishing and underwater "exploration" are fun enough to keep you going for the game's 10-15 hour playtime (without grinding for achievements, which could extend that for an extremely boring 10+ additional hours). Get it on sale, as it's certainly not worth $20. It's pretty mindless, but fun enough, and a good game to play while watching something else on a second monitor, for instance. There's no story that matters, and you can easily skip all the dialogue -- you're not missing anything, trust me. The game is sloppily made in some places, but I didn't run into any bugs. Some annoyances: * The fish log is only available at the fish god statue. Why is this not an inventory menu? It's a fishing game... smh my head * Pause menu is not available during fishing and at other times. Only volume settings are available from the Pause menu, and other options can only be accessed from the title screen. * Fish inventory limit of 25. No gameplay reason for this, really, so I imagine the devs just didn't want to bother to add a slider to display more inventory slots. Annoying. * Occasional lag in some places, which is surprising for such a simple game. * The game is WAY too loud. The music in particular is egregiously loud, and doesn't even have a dedicated volume slider (There's only Background and SFX). The volume sliders have big notches, and I had to play at the lowest non-muted notch and STILL turn down my system volume. There's no Master volume to finetune it. So, is this game funny? No. I never heard of the sketch comedy group involved before this, so I didn't come in as a fan. I did not find the game funny. At all. Even a little. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but it failed to wrest a single chuckle, or even a wry smile from me. There's probably a lot of in-jokes and references here, but not much in actual comedy. The writing is... functional. What humor there is is just harping on stereotypical gaming tropes without bothering to have any actual jokes. Probably the sketch comedy group is funnier than the game... it would have to be.