While falling slightly short of its full interactive potential, A Fisherman’s Tale is a unique experience, lovingly and charmingly crafted with a clever premise, solid puzzles and the poignant feel of a Pixar movie.
A Fisherman's Tale
Innerspace VR · Jan 22, 2019
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Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
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- 6.5All great VR experiences start with an idea. “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” As much as I enjoyed my time with A Fisherman’s Tale, the unique concepts it bears and the surprisingly deep narrative carried on its roiling waves, it’s hard to recommend something so brief. Not to mention, the game feels more like a proof of concept for something far bigger, rather than a proper VR title in its own right. This lighthouse will always carry a forlorn sense that infinity isn’t quite as infinite as it is meant to feel.
- 7.0A Fisherman’s Tale is a typical puzzle-solving first-person VR experience that stands a cut above with a good-quality gimmick that doesn’t overstay its welcome. It barely stays long enough to finish saying hello, but it has the wit, charm, and novelty to make it worth the single sitting it’s asking for.
- 9.0From slow-motion shootouts to trips across the universe and stories of loved ones lost, VR has already proven that each of its core design tenants can be tamed. But A Fisherman’s Tale might be the first to achieve a perfect storm of gameplay, immersion and narrative in a single experience. Though brief, it fuses experience and interactivity to really show what this medium is capable of. This is exactly what old seadogs aren’t meant to be capable of; something genuinely new.
- 8.0There is no shortage of action games on the VR market, with games like The Space Pirate Trainer and Arizona Sunshine, both of which are fun, and there's no shortage of more puzzle and narrative-driven games either, but few are as enjoyable as A Fisherman's Tale. It will be exciting to see what Innerspace VR has to offer in the future, because if this is anything to go by we certainly have good things in store!
- 8.0A Fisherman’s Tale succeeds in being one of the most interesting games on VR. It is charming, magical, and awe-inspiring. It manages to do all of this with you playing as a puppet, and feeling a huge amount of warmth towards that little puppet. It is just a shame that the playtime is so short, even just an extra couple of hours would have made this impossible to miss. As it stands, it is a wonderful game that deserves playing, but the play time is such a drawback to an otherwise impeccable game.
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