Casual scroller, similar to Glowfish
The visual quality of this game is decent, owing to its design in Unity. Actual gameplay is your basic fast scroller, with the difference that youre swimming instead of flying or running. This can lead to some frustration to the controls as movement is on a curve rather than simple up/down directional controls. But if you can get past that and like fast scrollers, you might like this game.
That said, it must be mentioned that the concept seems almost like a direct rip-off from Glowfish. In both games you are a fish who must save your little friends from a nemesis who has stolen them (and your girlfriend, in Glowfish), but Glowfish has a much nicer, more polished feel. Glowfish also seems to give the concept more of a storyline, though in fairness I didnt play Fin Friends very much. One key difference between the two is that Fin Friends is designed to have a more "fun" aesthetic, where as Glowfish has a more "beautiful" (perhaps "stunning"?) aesthetic. Think of Fin Friends as more like Mario/Sonic in design style, and Glowfish has more of a Finding Nemo/Ecco the Dolphin feel.
Glowfish is also a scroller, but one in which you control your own speed and that tracks your progress and upgrades. Fin friends is more of a "see how far you can get on a single run" type game. This is fine if youre just picking it up for a few minutes. Glowfish is a better choice if youre looking to sit down for more than 5 minutes and make some progress in a game. 3 stars for implementation and visual quality, but knocking the remaining two stars off for the control characteristics and the obvious concept rip-off of Glowfish.
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