Why the developer decided against including such a vital feature is anybody's guess. Yet there's a rather glaring omission: you'll never exactly know what your fish tally is until the very end of the game. Each player may pick from a selection of distinctively unique penguins, and play is entirely handled by one Wiimote.
Not being hampered by AI the game is just like the original, and can provide for a reasonably good time.
We'd suggest to only stick to friends and family because this is where the fun lies: bullying and trash-talking is the order of the day. In multi-player you're freely able to select any of the available boards and play with AI and/or humans. Sure, it's nice to have the option to play by yourself, but single-player is particularly flawed. To note, you're bound to be mind-numbingly bored when the AI takes turns on the bigger boards, as it takes it about fifteen to twenty seconds to make a move in the first ten turns or so, which becomes increasingly horrendous as the number of opponents increase. The only effect the difficulty levels have is that the size of boards and the number of penguins in play increases. The missions single-player mode features the fifteen boards from easy to hard, although the AI, which isn't the brightest to begin with, doesn't seem to ramp up much in intelligence if at all. Making the best of choke points to block and isolate other players' penguins is the key to winning, which may be easier said than done depending on where the fish concentration on the board is.Īs it is a board game, don't even bother picking this up for single-player. While the board game lets you build any old shape for the playing field, Penguins & Friends restricts play to fifteen preset shapes, although the placement of fish is always random. The game ends when all penguins are out of play. If a penguin cannot move it is eliminated from the game. Once a tile has been collected it effectively sinks, creating an ever-shrinking board. Every time you move you collect the amount of fish on the tile your penguin was on. Each turn you may move your penguin as far as you want in any direction from its hexagonal float with the only restriction being that penguins may not pass other penguins or hop over empty spaces. You may only place your penguins on the one-fish tiles at the start-point. The board consists of a number of fish tiles, bearing a yield from one to three. The order of play couldn't be simpler: use your two to six (a max of four in the original) penguins to collect the most fish on the board, while cutting off the competition in the process.
This abstract strategy title delivered in a deceptively cutesy package may appeal to some. What does a short supply of fish, a continually sinking ice float, and a bunch of greedy penguins have in common? They all star in the board game 'Hey! That's My Fish!' which was originally brought to the gaming scene by Phalanx Games and which is now available for WiiWare under the moniker Penguins & Friends.
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