Beforehand launched on Steam and now ported to consoles, Moonglow Bay is a slice-of-life fishing recreation set in Nineteen Eighties Canada. After a devastating loss, the protagonist should transfer on with their life and assist revive the city they stay in: a struggling fishing port.
Clearly, as a fishing-based recreation, there’s a considerable amount of fishing to be completed in Moonglow Bay. Fishing mechanics are easy to comply with and are available in quite a lot of completely different actions. You should utilize the usual rod, line, and bait, with customisation choices for every resulting in many mixtures to attempt. There’s additionally ice fishing — which is unlocked later — lobster traps, and a web, which lets you reel in a number of catches without delay when you solid it accurately.
Your protagonist’s dream is to revive Moonglow Bay utilizing funds obtained from their residence cooking enterprise. You’ll unlock recipes by mastering current ones and purchasing for them, and recipes could be cooked utilizing your private home kitchen or on board your trawler. You’ll be able to receive a score out of three stars for every dish cooked, relying on how nicely you full a sequence of quick-time occasions. Getting three stars will assist you to obtain mastery, unlocking recipes and finally with the ability to prepare dinner a dish completely on the press of 1 button.
Residents of Moonglow Bay will dish out quests that solely you’ll be able to remedy. A whole lot of these quests contain going out to sea, coming again, and typically 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 This repetition and fixed backwards and forwards will get outdated fairly shortly.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 completed, with quest markers and descriptions being no assist in any respect — we frequently progressed a quest out of pure luck moderately than understanding what wanted to be completed.
Moonglow Bay can be completely riddled with bugs to a irritating diploma. Throughout our playthrough, we encountered every part from textures popping in all of the sudden, NPCs glitching on the spot, and the sport bricking and refusing to avoid wasting. Regardless of how a lot we had been having fun with the gameplay, encountering these points was greater than annoying, dropping quite a lot of progress on quite a lot of missions.
Moonglow Bay has quite a lot 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 wish to revisit. The cosy vibes of the gameplay, enjoyable characters, and pleasant fishing and cooking mechanics don’t make up for elementary errors with the sport that actually mar the remainder of the expertise.
