SNES Game Review: Super Black Bass

 When I said every sport wanted a taste of video games, that includes fishing in the 1990's.  Yes fishing was included with a horde of video games overall.  Super Black Bass is a game that Hot B made for the Super Nintendo and Game Boy as well.  This game, well do I really need to say? Yes it is about fishing and goes about with fishing.  What does this game do well? What needed to be better?  

Positives:

1. Rise to the top philosophy- This game makes you start on the local tour, then rise up later on.  So it's kind of a start out small, end up big.  I like that approach, it makes you play well overall and make you want to get out of the local waters to challenge the big anglers. 

2. Graphics- Even in the water, I thought the graphics were done pretty well by Hot B, and that is something that the game could take away as done well.  I felt the game was good on graphics overall and that is something to look at as well.

Negatives:

1. No music- I understand if this was an idea of if they were trying to replicate real fishing but goodness the intro has no music, nothing has music until after the the weigh-in.  It's a video game to be honest, not a shuffleboard committee meeting.

2. Hard to.. catch fish- Yeah if you are going to make a game about fishing.. can the fishing actually happen?  This isn't a Sunday out on the lake just milling around while catching fish.  This is something that is to be a major thing for players.. and it falls short woefully to be honest.  You shouldn't be spending hours maybe or maybe not catching a fish.  That's the main detriment to the game.

3. Limited in scope- There isn't much that can get you major excited about this game to be honest.  It's fishing, you try to find them.  There isn't much exploring unless you explore over the waters of the lake you are at.  It's very limited in scope overall.

Overall Rating/Rank

Overall I can't recommend Super Black Bass to much of anyone.  Sure if you are a diehard completionist you will beat it but otherwise I can't recommend it.  Yes the road to the top is a good idea, and yes the graphics are good but you spend so much time just trying to fish and trying to find fish to be honest.  It gets well too much in the way of what would be otherwise a decent game.

Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 10

Overall Rank: 495th out of 721