Completed Holly goes to the F*cking Lake

• I think it was a psyduck cry but man that was loud (title screen). Seems like the cries are louder than other sfx and music
• The camera takes a moment till it synchronizes with the ship at the very beginning while fading in
• Camera resets abruptly before the fisherman leaves, and the player assumes control
• "The standard bobber has been equipped" is missing a full stop. Same with great bobber. And all others.

- Shouldnt fishing npcs return to their fishing-facing positions after being talked to? Johnny doesn't. Cave either. Probs others. Farfetchd too.

• Signs say "trainer tip" instead of "tips". Unless that changed in recent gens?
• Each time you talk to shuppet, the camera moves up if you select a wrong answer and ask again (and get it wrong). See attachment
• You can cheat the weed rod by using one of the speedup stages and simply hitting confirm button fast, same for deepsea rod in lower range
• you forgot to replace the "added to pokedex line" after catching a mon
• not a bug but a question: are legendary fish catchable before getting the prompt and/or the maps for them (as soon as you have the right rod)
• I think master fisherman didnt mention what rod you need for the zard, though its easy to guess
• tile bug in bottom left corner as shown in the attachment

- It'd be pretty nifty if we could see what fish are left to catch in each area. I know this is a 3-day jam game, but still. Perhaps categorization/sections in the BBoF? Though they do seem to appear in order of areas, kinda

- The fact that mons can run away is pretty annoying imo, since you get another catching safari minigame on top of the fishing one. Also, I got the super rod quick and didnt leave the first area (only to catch the 5th mon required) and almost every super rod + ultra bobber catch got away. Perhaps reduce the fleeing rate enough. Quickballs help a lot tho.

- Was there a hint for the buoy thing? Cause I can imagine some players not finding it

- better make the encounter rates of mons that can be found from same rods the exact same, so they have50/50 change of appearing, otherwrise the catching drags a bit, particularly in conjunction with fleeing chances

- that wailord is a pain to catch even with a heavy ball. Charizard too. Generally, the high flee rate made the game tedious at some parts - being pretty well-paced otherwise.

It was a much more enjoyable game than I had expected, especially considering the development time. I personally liked the minigame, , though I actually forgot you could alter its difficulty until after I finished the game. There was enough spice surrounding the main mechanic to make it feel fresh throughout, and the general pace didn't feel dragged. The only exception was the aforementioned catch rate and fleeing chance. Also, it could be a bit less meme-y while also being more humorous, but that's a subjective thing.

I'M SO GLAD SOMEONE GOT THE JUNPEI REFERENCE!!! THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY
In hindsight it is probably kinda dumb to make one of the first NPCs that you're going to talk to an obscure reference, but it's a fangame so I'm going to self indulge a little bit at the cost of the common player's experience. :P
But yeah it makes me happy to see someone get the 999 reference, so thank you for mentioning it <3

The fishing game is fun. You fail once or twice (or so) and then you get the hang of a given rod. I didn't mess with speedup or the easy mode but the standard difficulty was in a good place. The dialogue is funny (even if I don't get all the references). I was pretty amused at the Relic Gold being completely useless. I ended up 100%ing the game since the master bobber just makes that a lot more doable. I thought the pacing was excellent. It was nice how I felt like I was figuring out how to get all the fish and the legendary fish myself but also there is dialogue that can point you in the right direction. I love the treasure maps too. One thing I didn't realize is that there was a pc option in the menu so I wasn't able to outdo the Rhydon until the postgame. Not like you really need heavy balls anyway. Especially AFTER completing that quest... I facepalmed multiple times playing your game (this is a compliment). Somehow I aced the Shuppet quiz first try, that was entertaining. Not sure what happens if I got the answers wrong. Man I knew the best fish Pokemon would be Charizard (because Shuppet told me) but the scuba mask was too good. Throwing the buoy was a nice addition as an alternate way to fish (yes I saved the little girl). Also I am a fan of the tiles and gen 3 music so that made it that much easier to enjoy for me. The whole running joke of "this is totally a fish" or the kind of "close enough" vibe was great and made that much more sense knowing this was made in such a short time. It just ended up making the whole game that much funnier :)

The UI edits were all great little touches! I feel like the game manages a distinct atmosphere with the little details like that, plus the tiles, like it's not just "a game in Gen 3's style" but "a game with a style based on Gen 3", if that makes sense?

I loved the little quips Holly wrote in her book, it was a great way to repurpose the dex and give her more characterization!

Holly sprites are all really nice! The backsprite especially has a really clean animation!

The minigame was a lot of fun! The different movements for the rods was a fun touch, and the difficulty options were really nice! The pacing of it was great, too - between having the rods registered and the Safari Zone battles not taking too long anyways, it's real easy to get into the swing of things! I And I loved the music change and little crown for the legendary fish, haha, it was a great way to make a simple UI like that still exciting!

I feel like there should have been a background when displaying Holly's trainer sprite in the intro cutscene, it was a little visually cluttered to have her directly above the map. (Honestly, I'd even say you could just skip naming her entirely - she's enough of her own character that I don't think anyone would mind not being able to rename her - but with no trainer card, this is the only time to show off her trainer sprite, so I get it, lol)

I think it'd be a fun touch to change the Run button to Toss, and the "Got away safely" message to "(Player) threw (Pokemon) back in the water!"

The treasure maps all have the same item description, so there's not really any way to tell which is which. I was (very mildly) inconvenienced scrolling through them to see which was which when going for the legendary fish, and I think a bit like "A treasure map depicting a beach", "A treasure map depicting a forest", etc. would make that just a little bit easier.

Speaking of scrolling through items, I think it'd be useful to have the key items pocket use the autosort, and put all the rods together, all the bobbers together, etc.

Since there's only key items and the occasional item pocket item, you could probably even make the Relic Gold (and the Mystic Water Castform holds) into key items and just get rid of the other pockets entirely, if you wanted to toy with the bag UI more.

The maps kind of feel a little static? With the exception of the bay, there's no moving autotiles anywhere, even as the ship docks, and all the NPCs stay in place, too.

Echoing Sipondo's point about seeing which bobber is equipped, and adding that I think it could be handy to register the bobbers as well. (Honestly, if you could figure it out, I think automatically registering every item could be pretty nice)

I think this game would do better to just have two fast forward toggles, so it's just on/off rather than scrolling through fast/faster to reset before fishing again.

I kind of think it'd be nice to have some indicator for when you've caught all Pokemon in an area? I dunno, though, the only options I can think of are the habitat list of Gen 5 or separate regional dexes, and both are kind of a lot of effort just to narrow down four locations for a Pokemon.

I kind of feel like Dune should have been a little more surprised at Holly finding one of the legendary fish rather than just saying "very impressive, but you still need more!", especially after his reverence at the end of the game.

"Holly received a The Best Rod" feels a little weird - you can actually tweak the script to change the word in front of it, like how Leftovers will say "Player received some Leftovers" instead of "a Leftovers".

This is probably more because of time constraints, but I was expecting some more dialogue updates as the story progressed, like the brothers realizing Holly had taken their maps, or that attendant at the dock finding out about her achievements.

After playing the quiz game with Shuppet, the BGM that resumes isn't the Sambo Woods BGM.

When catching a Pokemon, the message still says their data was added to the PokeDex rather than to the BBOF.

The top border on the Info page is still red when displaying the info after catching a Pokemon -


Lumineon, Dragonair, Sharpedo, and Wailord still have their normal dex entries.

Is Wooper's dex entry supposed to be just "this"? Wasn't sure if that was a gag or not.

Pokemon that are usually floating in the air - Geodude, Mantine, Kyogre, etc - are all on the ground. (If you used the auto-position script, I think that just looks for any non-transparent pixels and uses that to set the species metrics, so that's probably why?)

The yes/no for the ice cream quest is displayed in the upper-left corner rather than above the message box - it's probably not directly after a text command.