![]() ![]() The core concept is the same: You’ll drop your fishing line in the water, try to avoid coming into contact with any sea creatures while your hook and line are sinking downwards, and then when you inevitably do snag onto something your line will then change course and begin to rise. Of course, that also means this new refreshed version, titled Ridiculous Fishing EX, is an Apple Arcade exclusive, so keep that in mind. And so that supergroup of original developers partnered up with KO-OP Mode, an ultra-stylish developer probably most well-known for the whimsical GNOG, with Apple playing the role of producer, to rebuild this classic from the ground up. No, at this point it would definitely make the most sense to simply start from scratch. Who knows the last time anyone dove into the game’s codebase or what condition it’s in, and Apple doesn’t make things any easier with their tendency to drop entire technologies or make major changes to iOS in the name of progress. It’s a tough position because players want their games to work even if they were bought many years ago, and trust me developers want that too, but it isn’t always financially or technically feasible to keep games updated and working properly. Time has not been too kind to Ridiculous Fishing, and while it technically “works” on modern iOS devices, there are scaling issues and weird bugs all over the place that pretty much render it unplayable. The fact that Ridiculous Fishing released at all back in 2013 is a huge accomplishment, but that it was so genuinely fantastic and earned so many awards (including our Game of the Year award) had to be major confirmation for the developers and a wonderful reward for their persistence through all the drama.īut that was the original game, and that was more than a decade ago. It’s not only a mechanically fun game that has a gorgeous and unique art style, but it also had to overcome a huge cloning scandal before it ever released, something that emotionally drained everyone involved with making it. ![]() The original Ridiculous Fishing is a stone-cold classic mobile game, made by a supergroup of some of the top indie developers in the industry. ![]()
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