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An updated, handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters. Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory. An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features: + Gorgeous 3D art + An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode + Exclusive new content + Leaderboards + Total rewrite from the ground up + All new guest fish + BikBok™ Based on Vlambeer’s popular 2013 original, Ridiculous Fishing was lovingly handcrafted over the course of two years by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne), Zach Gage (SpellTower, Knotwords, Good Sudoku, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness) and Greg Wohlwend (Threes, Hundreds, TumbleSeed), and remade in collaboration with KO_OP (GNOG, Winding Worlds). Winner of the Apple Design Award 2013; Nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Awards; Declared Most Important News Story 2011 by industry magazine Control International; Featured in The New York Times Praise for the original *Ridiculous Fishing*: "Ridiculous Fishing is such a complete package that it's an effortless recommendation." ~ Eli Hodapp (TouchArcade) - (5 / 5) "Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store." ~ Chris Reed (Slide2Play) - (4 / 4) "Vlambeer's game is, as its title suggests, ridiculous. In its simple, gleeful rhythms of play, it's sublime, too." ~ EDGE - (9 / 10) "One of the most mechanically satisfying experiences you'll ever find, and wrapped in a dazzlingly cool aesthetic." ~ Eli Cymet (Gamezebo) - (5 / 5) "It makes the mass destruction of innocent sea life absolutely adorable." ~ Andrew Webster (The Verge) "I've come to think of Ridiculous Fishing as the unofficial game of Wes Anderson's movie The Life Aquatic." ~ Rob Hearn (PocketGamer) "Ridiculous Fishing is from an alternate iPhone gaming universe where Nintendo is the production quality standard and action is everything." ~ Robert Ashley (A Life Well Wasted) "A rare pearl amidst the endless sardines of iOS games." ~ Chris Bateman (International Hobo) "I'm hooked up to an IV and playing Ridiculous Fishing. One is medicine, the other is a painkiller." ~ Ben Kuchera (PA Report) "Ridiculous Fishing is something very special." ~ exp. Magazine

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Welcome to the Garbage Patch! Ridiculous Fishing EX presents a brand new level with 10+ new fish, even more ridiculous weapons, and a brand new boss! Unlock the Garbage Patch by collecting Fish in the Pro Fishing Tour (or flip the toggle in the settings menu; just make sure you have the Pro Fishing Tour unlocked as well!) This patch features: - A brand new level with all new boss mechanics - More than 10 new fish to catch and unlock their entries in the Fish-o-pedia - A Trash-o-pedia for tracking all the garbage you've found - New weapons and tools (Flamethrower, Jelly Recycler)

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Ridiculous Fishing EX offers way more explosions than you might expect

By Ed Hardy • 7:45 am, July 14, 2023

Fishing is a sport that requires patience. Ridiculous Fishing EX is a game that requires guns, chainsaws and toasters. Players go on a heroic quest for gills and glory in this action title.

The newly revamped game exploded onto Apple Arcade on Friday.

Ridiculous Fishing EX ain’t like regular fishing

If the name of this just-released game sounds familiar, the original version of Ridiculous Fishing debuted in 2010. But Dutch game developer Vlambeer rewrote it from the ground up for Apple Arcade, adding new content and gorgeous 3D art.

The revamp was a two-year process by Vlambeer ( Super Crate Box , Nuclear Throne ), Zach Gage ( SpellTower , Knotwords , Good Sudoku , Really Bad Chess , Card of Darkness ) and Greg Wohlwend ( Threes , Hundreds , TumbleSeed ).

Gameplay starts out somewhat similar to the usual sport, with players sending hooks down into the briny depths. But what’s available to catch isn’t at all typical, and subduing the fish… some of them are fish… is much more exciting than one might expect. Much more exciting. Here’s where the extreme violence and experimental weapons come into play.

Ridiculous Fishing EX promises hours of fun with the fringes of multiple continents to explore. Plus there’s an all-new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode. Players will need to upgrade their guns (and outfits) to be a success.

Grab your pole and guns and get playing

Ridiculous Fishing EX is now in the Apple Arcade section of the App Store. There are versions for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and game controllers are supported.

Twisting an ordinary sport while also amping it up is a popular game genre. Other examples in Apple Arcade include What the Golf? and What the Car? .

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Vlambeer’s iPhone classic is rejuvenated by a brilliant new daily challenge mode

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Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing — formerly known as Radical Fishing — has already had one unlikely rebirth. The Dutch duo of arcade specialists was still in the process of turning their Flash game Radical Fishing into a fleshed-out version for iOS when they were gazumped by the launch of a hit clone on the App Store … and then another… and then another. One of them, Ninja Fishing , was a big hit. But Vlambeer persevered, turning the fight against clones in the mobile gaming Wild West into a cause célèbre for the indie developer community, and eventually released Ridiculous Fishing into instant-classic status in 2013.

Ten years later, Ridiculous Fishing needed another save. The game hadn’t been updated since 2017 and had compatibility issues with modern devices, but Vlambeer had disbanded in 2020. What to do? Enter Apple Arcade. Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service offered Vlambeer an opportunity to get the band — Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, plus collaborators Zach Gage ( SpellTower ) and Greg Wohlwend ( Threes! ) — back together for one last job: reworking their mobile stalwart in time for its 10th anniversary.

The result, Ridiculous Fishing EX , belongs to that special class of remakes that play exactly as the original does in your memory; only when you compare them side by side do you realize how far advanced the new incarnation is. Wohlwend’s distinctively angular art has been completely redrawn in 3D without losing any of its chunky, irreverent style. The game’s silly world of bizarro marine life and heavily armed sport fishing has been fleshed out via the medium of an in-universe TikTok parody. And there’s an expanded new game plus mode. But best of all, there’s a new, competitive daily challenge mode — the Pro Fishing Tour — that deconstructs, rewires, and remixes the game in a way that’s endlessly refreshing, while underlining the brilliant simplicity at its core.

In Ridiculous Fishing , you fish, ridiculously. The game has a brief, elastic, see-saw gameplay loop that’s hard to put down. Cast your line into the water, tilting your phone to avoid the swarms of fish as it plunges down, sending your lure as deep as you can. When you hit a fish, run out of line, or reach the bottom, the lure begins to ascend — now the aim is to snag as many fish as possible on the way up. When your haul reaches the surface, the fish are cast high into the air, at which point you whip out your chosen firearm (a blunderbuss, perhaps, or twin Uzis) and blast them to pieces before they fall back into the sea. Spend your earnings to unlock upgrades (longer line, new guns, an invaluable chainsaw lure that can chew through fish on the way down, more fuel for said chainsaw, and so on). Then go again. Gradually, you progress to new locations and deeper waters, bringing in more fish with each haul.

The Pro Fishing Tour introduces preset daily challenges, arranged into seasons, and increasing in length and (sometimes) difficulty throughout the course of each week. Every day there’s a different depth, and a rotating set of climate effects: Examples include strong currents that tug at your line, trash that boosts the speed of your hook when hit, a limited number of casts, no reload on your guns, and heavy fish that don’t fly high. There are also effects applied to certain fish: They might inflict darkness when touched, be worth more if hit with the chainsaw, or turn into time bombs that can take out other fish. Finally, there are daily quests that offer extra cash rewards for certain meta-goals.

Combined with two major rule changes — finite ammo for the guns, and finite fish in the sea — these modifiers transform Ridiculous Fishing EX . Sometimes they make the game harder, sometimes they make it more gratifying. But they always make you reconsider your tactics and re-engage with the design of a game that, on the surface, operates at a basic, lizard-brain level. The seasons also have Diablo energy in the way they periodically reset all your upgrades and ask you to earn them all from scratch. There’s a newly strategic angle to choosing your upgrades each time, as you respond to the new parameters set each day.

Oh, and all the cash rewards have been dramatically increased, so you can earn millions of dollars from a single cast, rather than just thousands. It’s meaningless, because all the upgrades cost more, too, but it’s a fun bit of overkill.

Ridiculous Fishing EX ’s Pro Fishing Tour is designed around competitive leaderboards, but to be honest, I’ve never looked at them. It’s enough for me to log in and find a decade-old, classic piece of game design twisted into an exciting new shape, each and every day.

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Ridiculous Fishing is back, and it is still very ridiculous

A new and updated version of the mobile classic is available now for apple arcade subscribers..

By Andrew Webster , an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

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Some video game experiences are simply timeless, whether that’s matching up blocks in Tetris or blowing away fish with a shotgun. Good news for fans of the latter: Ridiculous Fishing , a mobile classic, is back in an updated form on Apple Arcade. And it’s just as obscenely engrossing and silly as the original.

The new version is called Ridiculous Fishing EX , and for the most part, it plays the same as the one that launched way back in 2013 and inspired an army of clones . If you haven’t played before, the game is basically divided into three segments. First, you drop your line into the water and tilt your phone back and forth to avoid the various fish and other sea creatures swimming around. The goal is to get as deep as possible before you hook a fish. Then, you go the opposite direction, and as your line goes back up, you attempt to snag as many sea creatures as possible.

Now comes the ridiculous part: all of the fish you caught are tossed into the air, and you have to destroy them with a gun before they drop back into the water. The exploded fish earn you money, which you can use to upgrade your gear. You’ll get better guns, lines that can go deeper, and oddball tech that keeps the fish in the air longer. This, in turn, lets you capture more and different fish, which will earn you even more money for better gear and eventually unlock new seas to ransack.

It’s a cycle that makes it hard to put the game down, particularly as upgrades come pretty quickly. It won’t be long at all before you’re wielding a shotgun and using a fishing lure equipped with a whirring chainsaw blade. And each round of fishing is fast enough that you can squeeze them in whenever — ideal for a mobile game — while also constantly telling yourself you’re just going to play one more round, even though you’ll definitely play more.

There are a few changes in the Apple Arcade version. The graphics have been overhauled with a more 3D look, there are more fish to collect destroy, and for some reason, there’s a bizarro world version of TikTok — called BikBok — so you can watch short clips of people mumbling things about fish. There’s also an endgame mode called Pro Fishing Tour, but I haven’t gotten that far yet.

Essentially, the update makes Ridiculous Fishing feel a touch more modern without messing with any of the parts that made it such a hit in the first place. In fact, this might be even more ridiculous — which is saying something.

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An updated, handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters.

Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory.

An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features:

Gorgeous 3D art

An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode

Exclusive new content

Leaderboards

Total rewrite from the ground up

All new guest fish

Based on Vlambeer’s popular 2013 original, Ridiculous Fishing was lovingly handcrafted over the course of two years by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne), Zach Gage (SpellTower, Knotwords, Good Sudoku, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness) and Greg Wohlwend (Threes, Hundreds, TumbleSeed), and remade in collaboration with KO_OP (GNOG, Winding Worlds).

Winner of the Apple Design Award 2013; Nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Awards; Declared Most Important News Story 2011 by industry magazine Control International; Featured in The New York Times

Praise for the original Ridiculous Fishing :

"Ridiculous Fishing is such a complete package that it's an effortless recommendation." ~ Eli Hodapp (TouchArcade) - (5 / 5)

"Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store." ~ Chris Reed (Slide2Play) - (4 / 4)

"Vlambeer's game is, as its title suggests, ridiculous. In its simple, gleeful rhythms of play, it's sublime, too." ~ EDGE - (9 / 10)

"One of the most mechanically satisfying experiences you'll ever find, and wrapped in a dazzlingly cool aesthetic." ~ Eli Cymet (Gamezebo) - (5 / 5)

"It makes the mass destruction of innocent sea life absolutely adorable." ~ Andrew Webster (The Verge)

"I've come to think of Ridiculous Fishing as the unofficial game of Wes Anderson's movie The Life Aquatic." ~ Rob Hearn (PocketGamer)

"Ridiculous Fishing is from an alternate iPhone gaming universe where Nintendo is the production quality standard and action is everything." ~ Robert Ashley (A Life Well Wasted)

"A rare pearl amidst the endless sardines of iOS games." ~ Chris Bateman (International Hobo)

"I'm hooked up to an IV and playing Ridiculous Fishing. One is medicine, the other is a painkiller." ~ Ben Kuchera (PA Report)

"Ridiculous Fishing is something very special." ~ exp. Magazine

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Ridiculous Fishing EX now available on Apple Arcade

Posted by Dennis Sellers | Jul 15, 2023 | MacTech News |

Ridiculous Fishing EX is now available on Apple Arcade, Apple’s U.S. $4.99/month or $49.99/year game streaming service that has over 200 games. Apple Arcade is also available as part of the Apple One bundle.

Ridiculous Fishing EX is available for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV set-top box. Here’s how it’s described: Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory.

An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features:

+ Gorgeous 3D art

+ An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode

+ Exclusive new content

+ Leaderboards

+ Total rewrite from the ground up

+ All new guest fish

Ridiculous Fish EX is a single player game for ages 12 and up. It has gamepad support.     

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