

So while I will be writing a good majority of this article myself I have brought in three other Story Arc writers to help write this.

The scope of this article is so big in fact that there was no feasible way I could do it alone. I would like to express great thanks to anyone on Twitter and Discord who sent me examples of fishing minigames over the past two months, as well as fellow Story Arc contributor Lynx as this whole thing was their idea that I sort of hijacked and expanded the scope beyond what they could imagine. At the end of the article we’ll then look back and decide which games have the best fishing. I’ll discuss the mechanics of each one as well as how many fish you can gather as well as their purpose in the game as a whole. I have taken the liberty to pick out 50 fishing minigames to look over and review individually. So why don’t we take a few hours to look back on this trend of gaming and judge every fishing minigame we can individually. Have you ever been playing a video game and then suddenly out of nowhere you need to begin fishing? Of course you have, the fishing minigame is one of gaming’s oldest traditions and is a mainstay mechanic of both Japanese RPGS and Western Open-World games now.

Hello and welcome to the Story Arc, I am your host Skeith and I’m back with another gigantic project for you all.
