I really hope there’s a sequel where the entire game focuses on this aspect. The last level is one of the best, as you have to switch between all four fish on the fly to solve puzzles. As some of the levels can take a while, that’s quite the tall order. There’s even a difficulty mode that doesn’t offer checkpoints. So, there’s some replay value here, especially for anyone that wants to get 100% completion. These are in hard-to-reach places, and doing well on these levels will take many players more than one try. Yes, it’s the bread from I Am Bread, still. If you want to unlock I Am Fish‘s bonus level, you’ll need to obtain not only 40 stars, but 40 of the game’s collectible: bread pieces. The piranha, on the other hand, obviously bites things. It controls like a plane, and you have to be quite careful with it.
The flying fish is fun too, although its controls are a bit on the finicky side. I especially love the pufferfish, which rapidly rolls down slopes. As such, their levels all feel quite different from one another. The goldfish can’t do anything of note, but the piranha can bite things, the pufferfish can turn into a spiked ball, and the flying fish can glide. Three of the four fish have unique abilities that their levels are built around. You can either control the characters via yet another convoluted, tricky setup, or you can use a ‘normal’ style, wherein the analog stick or keys move the fish directly instead of having to carefully positions its tail. As for controls, I Am Fish can still be played like other Bossa Studios games, but there’s a choice now. On my AMD card, I had some crashes that shut my entire computer off on more than one occasion, further causing me to regret not buying Nvidia. The game runs quite well too, although it can be fairly demanding at times. Initially, you play as the goldfish for the first three levels before unlocking more for the other three. It’s a cute setup and the fish themselves are all adorable.
But, missing their friends, they all decide to escape and meet back up in the ocean.
Shortly after, the four are sold to new owners. They’re totally normal fish at first, but then the store owner inadvertently gives them some of the magic bread from I Am Bread and they become hyperintelligent. I Am Fish starts out with four fish living in a tank at a pet store. Between its wonderful visuals, fantastic art direction, tight controls, clever premise, and strong level design, it’s hard not to get swept up in its current. I Am Fish can be rage-inducing and questionably designed in spots, but it’s honestly a strong release. Would it be another trollish title, or is it a game that people could actually, y’know, enjoy? The answer is somewhere in between these two extremes. With I Am Fish, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I don’t always like them, mind you, but I appreciate them. This is worth knowing because Tianjin-based Koi developer Dotoyou is the first Chinese studio to have something published in the West on the PlayStation 4.I generally appreciate games made by Bossa Studios. In Eastern mythology, the koi fish travels upstream to challenge or subvert a convention or assumption (like that swimming upriver is a no-no), becoming something greater in the process. If I’ve done my homework properly, the transliterated word “koi” references the Chinese character for “carp,” but also something more.
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What lies between those points are bits of exploration informed by some light puzzle solving and object collecting in a series of lakes, rivers and ponds. The worries are that it’s too thematically reminiscent of indie studio Thatgamecompany’s Flower, another environmentally themed odyssey about guiding something from innocence through industrial tribulation on to something like cosmic transcendence. My worries about Koi, an elegant downloadable PlayStation 4 game available April 19 about piloting a tiny fish up a tainted river, aren’t enough to suppress my affection for it.
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