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Finny The Fish Swims Into Videogaming View

Posted by simoniker on from the fish-tales dept.

Thanks to IGN PS2 for its short article noting Natsume has announced the PlayStation 2 action title Finny the Fish & the Seven Waters for North American release "in the first quarter of 2005." NCSX describes the Sega WOW developed Japanese version as being "a surprisingly fresh and engaging gaming experience", as "the protagonist UO (fish) is sent on a mission by an old turtle creature... prey may be gobbled up by wagging the right thumbstick... fishermen also plunk their appetizing baited lines into the water to snatch hungry fish." There are also a number of screenshots of this quirky-looking title over at The Magic Box.

14 comments

  1. Fisht Post by SimianOverlord · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They'll have a hard time matching the simplistic brilliance of .::FISHY!::.

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  2. Ok, there is something I found very odd by foidulus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the screenshots, such as this the frogs are talking in Chinese, not Japanese...
    Its very doubtful there was an official version....maybe a hacked Chinese version?
    My chinese is a bit rusty and the screen is low res, so I can't make out the last character, but the first four are:
    jiegou shih ni
    Which means something about your results, I guess the last character is kind of important!

    1. Re:Ok, there is something I found very odd by andycjw · · Score: 1

      ok, i read chinese, and the last character is "ah"
      so the whole sentence is 'jie guo shi ni ah?'
      translation: "At last, it was you?"

    2. Re:Ok, there is something I found very odd by kLaNk · · Score: 1

      ok, I read traditional and simplified chinese and also katakana and the last character is most certainly "oh"

      so the whole sentence is 'jie guo shi ni oh'

      translation: "Damn I wish I was playing Doom 3"

  3. I remember this game... by Necronian · · Score: 1

    It was called Shark! Shark! on the Intellivision. I never owned the cart but I've wasted many hours playing the rom.

  4. invasive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    You sure it's a good idea to be taking a japanese fish and bringing it here "for North American release."

    A news article from a couple days ago (08/05/04) on the subject...

  5. Anyone remember Army men by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What was it a few days ago "If it doesn't have army men it's original"?

    Well this seems original but I don't find the idea very entertaining, if I want to swim around and get food then I'll goto a leisure centre, swim for an hour and grab some lunch.

    Anyone remember the "Seaman" game on the Dreamcast? Same thing, different ideas. It'll fail majorly outside of the Asian market, but in that market it'll sell like hot (fish)cakes.

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    1. Re:Anyone remember Army men by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
      You are most likely not the market for this. There are some gamers out there like myself who enjoy fairly mundane games.

      Hell, I enjoy doing trade runs, and mining resources in RPGs more than I do PvPing.

      Something like this is actually appealing to me.

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  6. Re:not to be ornery by pashdown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Achtung! You're reading the gaming section of Slashdot. This wasn't a main story, and yes, it does qualify as news for gaming nerds.

    I'm always glad to see more PS2 imports. Now we just need that weird rolling game, that cool drumming game, and the ribbon games and I'll be happy.

  7. Re:not to be ornery by kisrael · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know I was reading the gaming section. But even for gaming nerds...does this game have some kind of big reputation? Vic Ribbon and some of those other do, but I assume there's tons of odd Japanese games, some of which get ported. (And some are pretty good; Seek and Destroy and to a lesser extent Road Trip were both pretty nifty)

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  8. GameSpy's coverage by fruitofwisdom · · Score: 5, Informative

    GameSpy also covered this game back in July in their It Came From Japan series of articles.

    The link is here courtesy of Google: http://www.gamespy.com/articles/533/533067p1.html? fromint=1

    If that doesn't work for you it's Volume 23 which I'm sure you can navigate to from http://www.gamespy.com/.

  9. Demo in this month's Official Playstation Magazine by bearl · · Score: 1

    The demo disk in this month's Official Playstation Magazine has a playable demo of this game.

    It's the Japanese version of the game, however, so while it looks great, it's hard to tell what you're supposed to do. :-)

    And unless you speak Japanese, you can't tell WHAT advice the old turtle is offering.