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Beforehand launched on Steam and now ported to consoles, Moonglow Bay is a slice-of-life fishing sport set in Eighties Canada. After a devastating loss, the protagonist should transfer on with their life and assist revive the city they reside in: a struggling fishing port.

Clearly, as a fishing-based sport, there’s a considerable amount of fishing to be performed in Moonglow Bay. Fishing mechanics are easy to comply with and are available quite a lot of totally different actions. You should use the usual rod, line, and bait, with customisation choices for every resulting in many combos to strive. There’s additionally ice fishing — which is unlocked later — lobster traps, and a web, which lets you reel in a number of catches directly in case you forged it appropriately.

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Your protagonist’s dream is to revive Moonglow Bay utilizing funds obtained from their dwelling cooking enterprise. You’ll unlock recipes by mastering current ones and looking for them, and recipes will be cooked utilizing your property kitchen or on board your trawler. You possibly can acquire a score out of three stars for every dish cooked, relying on how properly you full a collection of quick-time occasions. Getting three stars will assist you to obtain mastery, unlocking recipes and in the end with the ability to cook dinner a dish completely on the press of 1 button.

Residents of Moonglow Bay will dish out quests that solely you may remedy. Quite a lot of these quests contain going out to sea, coming again, and generally going out to sea once more. This repetition and fixed backwards and forwards will get outdated fairly shortly. Generally it is so unclear what must be performed, with quest markers and descriptions being no assist in anyway — we regularly progressed a quest out of pure luck relatively than understanding what wanted to be performed.

Moonglow Bay can also be completely riddled with bugs to a irritating diploma. Throughout our playthrough, we encountered all the things from textures popping in out of the blue, NPCs glitching on the spot, and the sport bricking and refusing to avoid wasting. Irrespective of how a lot we had been having fun with the gameplay, encountering these points was greater than annoying, shedding lots of progress on lots of missions.

Moonglow Bay has lots of promise; it’s simple to spend hours with it when it’s working correctly. However when it’s not, it turns right into a nightmare you don’t need to revisit. The cosy vibes of the gameplay, enjoyable characters, and gratifying fishing and cooking mechanics don’t make up for basic errors with the sport that actually mar the remainder of the expertise.