{"id":99216,"date":"2019-08-27T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/legend_of_the_skyfish_really_wants_to_be_zelda"},"modified":"2019-08-27T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T14:45:00","slug":"legend-of-the-skyfish-really-wants-to-be-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/legend-of-the-skyfish-really-wants-to-be-zelda\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend Of The Skyfish Really Wants To Be Zelda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b78eb7fa47944\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b78eb7fa47944\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b78eb7fa47944\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZBseKX4SF4w?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Given <strong>Zelda&#8217;s<\/strong> stature in the pantheon of video games, it&#8217;s to be expected that many other games will seek to emulate the look, feel and atmosphere of Nintendo&#8217;s seminal series \u2013 and that certainly seems to be the case with the upcoming eShop game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/legend_of_the_skyfish\">Legend of the Skyfish<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between Ratalaika Games, Crescent Moon Games and Mgaia Studios, Legend of the Skyfish is described as &#8220;a beautiful level-based adventure puzzler&#8221; based around a &#8220;unique weapon&#8221; \u2013 a fishing rod.<\/p>\n<p>The rod can be used both as a weapon and as a grappling hook, and can be upgraded as you battle your way through 45 &#8220;hand-crafted&#8221; levels, solving puzzles and defeating bosses as you go.<\/p>\n<p>It all looks pretty jolly if you ask us, even if the Zelda references are a little on the nose. &#8220;Skyfish&#8221; sounds awfully close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">&#8220;Windfish&#8221;<\/a>, and the fishing rod is, of course, an item in several Zelda adventures (although admittedly, it&#8217;s being used quite creatively here).<\/p>\n<p>Still, Legend of the Skyfish looks like it could be much more than a clone of Zelda. It launches on Switch on August 30th in both Europe and North America, and will cost 7.99\u20ac \/ $7.99. Let us know if it takes your fancy by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZBseKX4SF4w?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Given Zelda&#8217;s stature in the pantheon of video games, it&#8217;s to be expected that many other games will seek to emulate the look, feel and atmosphere of Nintendo&#8217;s seminal series \u2013 and that certainly seems to be the case with the upcoming eShop game Legend of the Skyfish. A collaboration between Ratalaika Games, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}