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Many video games are made in Japan, and one of Japan's leading food industries is fishing. This is a culture where squid and octopus are seen as viable daily snacks, so fishing is pretty ingrained into the culture. So if the video game you are playing is [[Sidequest]]-ish and [[Mini Game]]-ish enough, it ''will'' have a fishing minigame. |
Many video games are made in Japan, and one of Japan's leading food industries is fishing. This is a culture where squid and octopus are seen as viable daily snacks, so fishing is pretty ingrained into the culture. So if the video game you are playing is [[Sidequest]]-ish and [[Mini Game]]-ish enough, it ''will'' have a fishing minigame. |
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** While there are no cartoon fish, there are cartoon frogs and octopodes. Along with regular frogs and octopodes. One can be your friendly neighbors, and the other you feed alive to a fat walrus for wallpaper. |
** While there are no cartoon fish, there are cartoon frogs and octopodes. Along with regular frogs and octopodes. One can be your friendly neighbors, and the other you feed alive to a fat walrus for wallpaper. |
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** Frog and Octopus neighbors may ask you to catch a fish for them (to eat), to which you can respond by giving them a frog or octopus you fished out of the water. They have no problem eating it. |
** Frog and Octopus neighbors may ask you to catch a fish for them (to eat), to which you can respond by giving them a frog or octopus you fished out of the water. They have no problem eating it. |
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* Both ''[[My Sims]]'' have it in a few places. Despite one being purely Mini Games, and the other a bunch of [[Fetch Quest |
* Both ''[[My Sims]]'' have it in a few places. Despite one being purely Mini Games, and the other a bunch of [[Fetch Quest]]s with a few item-gathering Mini Games. |
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* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has fishing minigames, that double as ways to collect special items and armor (or worthless junk like old shoes.) Of particular note is ''[[Suikoden V]]'', where it takes the form of a competition between [[The Hero|the Prince]], Subala, [[Bumbling Dad|Logg]] and Lun. Notably, it doesn't really matter if you win or lose the contest; you keep everything you caught regardless. It's mainly an excuse for [[Trash Talk|TrashTalking]] (though the Prince doesn't participate, [[Heroic Mime|for obvious reasons]]...) |
* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has fishing minigames, that double as ways to collect special items and armor (or worthless junk like old shoes.) Of particular note is ''[[Suikoden V]]'', where it takes the form of a competition between [[The Hero|the Prince]], Subala, [[Bumbling Dad|Logg]] and Lun. Notably, it doesn't really matter if you win or lose the contest; you keep everything you caught regardless. It's mainly an excuse for [[Trash Talk|TrashTalking]] (though the Prince doesn't participate, [[Heroic Mime|for obvious reasons]]...) |
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* ''[[Okami]]'' had a few, most notably when trying to catch a fish that ate the Moon. Technically, it only ate the moon's ''reflection.'' Which is... well, a lot weirder, actually. |
* ''[[Okami]]'' had a few, most notably when trying to catch a fish that ate the Moon. Technically, it only ate the moon's ''reflection.'' Which is... well, a lot weirder, actually. |
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** While poles are available, it's impossible to buy bait or lures anywhere, leaning to another funny moment when the instructor says she just needs to find something small and sparkly with feathers or something. Chante (who is currently a fairy) retorts that they couldn't possibly be expected to find anything like that anywhere... and notices Elise has that creepy look again... and is looking at ''her'' now... and this is going exactly where it sounds like. Fortunately, Chante is very good at surviving close encounters with fish. |
** While poles are available, it's impossible to buy bait or lures anywhere, leaning to another funny moment when the instructor says she just needs to find something small and sparkly with feathers or something. Chante (who is currently a fairy) retorts that they couldn't possibly be expected to find anything like that anywhere... and notices Elise has that creepy look again... and is looking at ''her'' now... and this is going exactly where it sounds like. Fortunately, Chante is very good at surviving close encounters with fish. |
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== Non-minigame examples of video game fishing == |
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* ''[[Pokémon]]'' allows you to go fishing with a rod in order to initiate wild Pokemon battles and capture Water Pokemon. Later games do, however, introduce timing as a measure of whether you'll be successful. |
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' allows you to go fishing with a rod in order to initiate wild Pokemon battles and capture Water Pokemon. Later games do, however, introduce timing as a measure of whether you'll be successful. |
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has fishing as a craft skill. |
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has fishing as a craft skill. |
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