Moonglow Bay Overview (PS5) | Push Sq.

Beforehand launched on Steam and now ported to consoles, Moonglow Bay is a slice-of-life fishing recreation set in Eighties Canada. After a devastating loss, the protagonist should transfer on with their life and assist revive the city they dwell 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 a wide range of totally different actions. You should utilize the usual rod, line, and bait, with customisation choices for every resulting in many combos 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 directly in case you forged 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 will be cooked utilizing your private home kitchen or on board your trawler. You may receive a ranking out of three stars for every dish cooked, relying on how effectively you full a sequence of quick-time occasions. Getting three stars will make it easier to obtain mastery, unlocking recipes and in the end with the ability to cook dinner a dish completely on the press of 1 button.

Residents of Moonglow Bay will dish out quests that solely you may resolve. Plenty of these quests contain going out to sea, coming again, and typically going out to sea once more. This repetition and fixed forwards and backwards will get outdated fairly rapidly. Typically it is so unclear what must be completed, with quest markers and descriptions being no assist in any way — we frequently progressed a quest out of pure luck fairly than understanding what wanted to be completed.

Moonglow Bay can be completely riddled with bugs to a irritating diploma. Throughout our playthrough, we encountered all the pieces from textures popping in abruptly, NPCs glitching on the spot, and the sport bricking and refusing to avoid wasting. Regardless of how a lot we have been having fun with the gameplay, encountering these points was greater than annoying, dropping a variety of progress on a variety of missions.

Moonglow Bay has a variety of promise; it’s straightforward 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 fulfilling fishing and cooking mechanics don’t make up for basic errors with the sport that basically mar the remainder of the expertise.