Fish!
| Developer: Magnetic Scrolls | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Rainbird | Sound: |
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| Year: 1988 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Text adventure | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
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A tale of interdimensional espionage featuring fish. There you go.
What? You want me to explain the plot too? Fine… You are an interdimensional spy. Your agency sends you to save worlds at their whim, creating portals for you, called warps in the original version—and since the entire game is in English, we’ll indulge in some anglicisms.
The act of entering a warp, or warping, has the effect of projecting your mind into the body of another living being, somewhat like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap or John Malkovich into himself, except here, you change dimensions…
Your main mission is to apprehend a dangerous group of anarchists, called The Seven Deadly Fins. These perfidious plotters perpetrate plans to puncture a planetary project, pursuing protection of plucky, pint-sized pescatarians, pressed by a puzzling problem of pellucid principle’s dissipation. Read the manual!
Imagine that warps have a second utility: rewarding meritorious agents (like yourself) by offering relaxing vacations in the life form of their choice. It’s precisely on this occasion that the adventure begins. You find yourself at the bottom of your fishbowl, quietly bubbling, in the skin of a goldfish (the ultimate vacation destination reserved for the elite, you lucky devil!), when your boss unexpectedly contacts you through a plastic castle falling from the sky… Yeah, that’s enough, I’ll stop.
This text-based adventure game with very marked British humor, in the same style as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, promises some good moments. It comes with some well-conceived illustrations (and incidentally, a funny voice synthesizer that quickly becomes annoying).
I would be delighted to find a French version, if it exists…
To finish, do you know the pinnacle of refinement? Playing Fish! while listening to Fish by Mr. Scruff.
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