Customer Reviews

River King: A Wonderful Journey

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I'm a little bit of a fan of the River King series and for $20 I couldn't pass on this game. If you haven't played a River King game then what you're in for is a hybrid of fishing and RPG gameplay or to be more specific if you've played a Harvest Moon game replace the farming for fishing. The game doesn't have a whole lot of story or direction, you're basically thrown in to the world, you fish, gain levels, get better stuff, and do an occassional side quest to move on like winning a fishing tournament or catching a specific fish for somebody. Fishing is impossible to screw up, it comes down more or less to having the proper equipment in the proper location more so than any skill being a factor. You would almost have to try to not catch a fish. The game feels very sterile, everything is very quiet and serene and the graphics are very minimal so it tends to have me yawning before too long. There's over 100 fish to catch and several different areas to fish in that are all geographically defined ie. stream, river, lake... If they had implemented some more solid progression in this game it would have been much more fun but as it is makes it good only to pick up every now and then.

Probably a pass for most people but if you dig Harvest Moon or previous River King titles then the game is cheap enough to make it worth it.

ALL of the games in this set are aMAZING. They are filled with clean fun,
challenges and enough to capture a childs attention. My 8 yr old grandchild had some difficulties navigating but older children are just fine (plus I think it's good to play the games with them anyway).

I have just begun playing this game but I like it so far, a lot of interaction between characters and easy to play.

I tried a game of this once and enjoyed it and saw that they had a game of it for the Playstation 2 which i had bought not too long ago. I like a few of the harvest moon games and enjoy rpgs, so when I saw there was a fishing game that was an RPG with better graphics than the old gameboy I just had to buy the game. It is cool because it has a good button action on catchign the fish no continual punching the buttons like on some games I have tried (get tired of pushing the buttons fast to play a game wearing out the fingers.) its easy to find worms but not as much action to understand what is going on. took me a while to figure out i could quickly find worms just standing in one spot having it spam the different messages saying if you found something or not.The game is ok, but like I said it acts more like a more simpler game and really takes getting used to if you are more used to playing natsume's Harvest Moon games.

PS2 RPG that is nice enough but you need to paly with it for a little while to get the hang of the game.