Cloggable? Cloggable! Soon enough, you're searching for more ways to raise the water level just enough for you to hop out of the window.īut yes, sometimes stringing together these moves in I Am Fish can be incredibly frustrating. Then you might notice the toilet and nearby stacks of loo roll. Quickly, you might realise that you can chew through some plumbing to flood it a bit. As the piranha you might find yourself in a bathroom sink and it's up to you to figure out how you're going to chomp your way out of what's otherwise a very dry place. Roll into a ball and a fallen log will make the perfect ramp. Market stall tents might be home to pockets of water you can glide between. Perhaps the most interesting is the piranha, who can latch onto marked objects with its jaws.īossa Studios have done a brilliant job designing their levels around these abilities and making their usage feel natural, not forced. The puffer can inflate itself into a big ball that can roll down hills or bounce off furniture, while the flying fish can leap out of water, pop its long fins and glide a short distance. I enjoyed the escapades of the other fish a lot more, as they each have a special ability to draw on. You'll need to navigate plenty of trickier, alternate routes to nab them all, though.Īnd although I liked my time with the goldfish, it serves as an intro to these key concepts. In a neat little throwback to the game's predecessor I Am Bread, there's collectable chunks of bread scattered around each level. Stay out of water for too long and your little heart will stop beating, leading you to restart from a checkpoint. You must scan your environment for safe passages and think outside the tank if it seems like there's no way out. In many ways, I Am Fish is a puzzler as much as it is an adventure. Success also means trading your round mobile home for a mop bucket, or a river, or even a glass of water to twist and turn and slide through Barnardshire. Your sphere of H2O is fragile, after all.ĭon't get too comfortable, though, as the bowl is merely a temporary vessel with which to navigate the toxic outside world. Stairs and shelves were not designed with daring fish escapes in mind, which makes every roll of the glass an absolute nerve-shredder. In your quest for freedom, you must nudge your see-through home forwards - but carefully! This is when you come to realise that human constructs are both annoying and incredibly selfish. Right from the get-go, you play as the goldfish trapped in a restrictive orb of glass. I say, "short", but I guess it depends on how you take to the bowl. This is Finding Nemo: Distilled, with genuine laughs and yelps and moments of profound happiness to be had in its short run time. The game's Pixar looks aren't a ruse, either. The scaly protagonists of I Am Fish can't be living without their pals, so they straighten their fins and set out to reunite in the glistening surf. That is, until they're forcibly separated and flung across the far reaches of Barnardshire, a fictional county that captures the West Country ideal so perfectly that I'm gutted it doesn't actually exist.īut that's besides the point. They're best buds and live blissfully in a bowl together. It's a tale of four fishy friends: goldfish, puffer fish, piranha, and flying fish. In fact, it may have elicited more emotion from me in a single sitting than any romance anime I've watched, which is really saying something. This isn't to say that I Am Fish lacks emotional depth. In a west country accent, he bellows, "Swim, you fool!" He is peering into your googly, goldfish eyes. Now imagine Ian Mckellen with the same gravitas as he had playing Gandalf in Lord Of The Rings, except with a farmer's cap on.
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This isn't a grim tale wrapped in layers of metaphor, or a walking simulator that guides you slowly through a field of feelings. Like a splash of cold water to the face, I Am Fish is a wonderfully refreshing physics platformer. A fun physics platformer with clever levels, a bit of puzzling, and a terrifying man wearing a farmer's cap.
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