A View From The Heitz: What I love about VR games is that they can be 1-2 hour experiences. A Fisherman's Tale is just that, a 1-2 hour story based/narrated puzzle game that is very creative and fun.
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Not knowing what to expect I was pleasantly surprised with an interesting mind bending twist early in chapter 1 that uses VR to it's full potential. You play as a fisherman's puppet living inside a lighthouse. When a storm hits, it's up to you to make it to the top of the lighthouse to shine the light.
In the center of the room there is a lighhouse model that is being built by the fisherman, things get cool when you reach down and remove the roof just to find the roof over your head also being removed. As you look up you realize your in the model and that model is inside another model, which is inside another and another and another.
This is the main mechanic of the game which has you lifting, combining and moving things around to get you to next section of the lighthouse. Reaching inside the small model in front of you to lift a tiny anchor blocking a door means you see yourself reaching in to your house to remove the life size anchor from your door, freeing the way to move on.
The game is filled with creative ways of using those different perspectives to it's advantage and has a lot of fun/quirky side characters that join you along the way.
I found the VR mechanics to work very well as you use buttons on the motion controls to turn you body, the Z button to move from one area to the next and you can also extend/retract your arms with the push of button that makes things that are further away from you or on the floor easier to grab.
I only had a few moments where the move controls got tricky, especially during the last chapter involving a match that needs to be passed through different layers of reality but was never frustrated to where I wasn't enjoying the game.
Overall I think this is a fantastic game to show off to friends and family who are interested in VR and if you enjoy puzzle based games, you will have a great time playing it.
Trophies
Difficulty: 1/10
Time: 3-4 hours
Trophy Guide: Not Needed but can be used if you want to speed up the Platinum.
This is a fun little platinum as a lot of VR games tend to be. There is a trophy for beating each chapter and then a bunch of misc. trophies like: feed the fish 10 things it doesn't want, dust the model, throwing an object out of the window, etc. The two trophies to keep an eye it is for grabbing all 3 hidden pearls in the level (many of which are well hidden, for example: outside a window where you have to really twist and turn your head to see and grab) and a trophy for beating the game grabbing less than 150 items.
You should attempt to get ALL trophies except for "Economy of Means" (grab less than 150 objects) in your first run of the game. Play your second run immediately after as everything you need to do will be fresh in your mind and play the game through only grabbing the necessary items. I beat the game grabbing about 120 items and that was with a few mistakes in one particular level.
That level is one where you have yo use levers for a crane to pull some boat parts out of the water. The reason being is you have to move the crane, left/right/up/down/in/out to get two parts that you need which could make you grab and let go of a lever multiple times. Try to plan it out and keep your hands on levers for as long as you can without letting go.
Get this out of the way and the Platinum is yours!
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Not knowing what to expect I was pleasantly surprised with an interesting mind bending twist early in chapter 1 that uses VR to it's full potential. You play as a fisherman's puppet living inside a lighthouse. When a storm hits, it's up to you to make it to the top of the lighthouse to shine the light.
In the center of the room there is a lighhouse model that is being built by the fisherman, things get cool when you reach down and remove the roof just to find the roof over your head also being removed. As you look up you realize your in the model and that model is inside another model, which is inside another and another and another.
This is the main mechanic of the game which has you lifting, combining and moving things around to get you to next section of the lighthouse. Reaching inside the small model in front of you to lift a tiny anchor blocking a door means you see yourself reaching in to your house to remove the life size anchor from your door, freeing the way to move on.
The game is filled with creative ways of using those different perspectives to it's advantage and has a lot of fun/quirky side characters that join you along the way.
I found the VR mechanics to work very well as you use buttons on the motion controls to turn you body, the Z button to move from one area to the next and you can also extend/retract your arms with the push of button that makes things that are further away from you or on the floor easier to grab.
I only had a few moments where the move controls got tricky, especially during the last chapter involving a match that needs to be passed through different layers of reality but was never frustrated to where I wasn't enjoying the game.
Overall I think this is a fantastic game to show off to friends and family who are interested in VR and if you enjoy puzzle based games, you will have a great time playing it.
Trophies
Difficulty: 1/10
Time: 3-4 hours
Trophy Guide: Not Needed but can be used if you want to speed up the Platinum.
This is a fun little platinum as a lot of VR games tend to be. There is a trophy for beating each chapter and then a bunch of misc. trophies like: feed the fish 10 things it doesn't want, dust the model, throwing an object out of the window, etc. The two trophies to keep an eye it is for grabbing all 3 hidden pearls in the level (many of which are well hidden, for example: outside a window where you have to really twist and turn your head to see and grab) and a trophy for beating the game grabbing less than 150 items.
You should attempt to get ALL trophies except for "Economy of Means" (grab less than 150 objects) in your first run of the game. Play your second run immediately after as everything you need to do will be fresh in your mind and play the game through only grabbing the necessary items. I beat the game grabbing about 120 items and that was with a few mistakes in one particular level.
That level is one where you have yo use levers for a crane to pull some boat parts out of the water. The reason being is you have to move the crane, left/right/up/down/in/out to get two parts that you need which could make you grab and let go of a lever multiple times. Try to plan it out and keep your hands on levers for as long as you can without letting go.
Get this out of the way and the Platinum is yours!
Reviewed on Jun 01, 2022