Fish Food - Dr. Seuss Meets Android

by Yan Matusevich on 4/29/10 8:54 PM

Tested version: 1.13
Latest version: 1.21
Requires Android: from 1.5

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Summary

Certain games are so addictive that you end up spending way more time playing them than you had originally intended. It may not be fun having to compensate for wasted time, but nothing can stop you from playing once you’ve started this cool game. “Fish Food” is basically a version of “Bejeweled”, except with big fish chowing down little ones. I found this combination to be loads of fun! Find out if this is the game you’re looking for.

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Features & Use

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Fish Food is an entertaining little game that reminds me a bit of “Bejeweled”. The aim of the game is to accumulate the most points possible. At the same time you’ve got to make sure your Bubble Bar doesn’t drop to zero or else – game over.
The “Bubble Bar” can be filled up by freeing up space on the playing field. This can be done by eating up fish or getting them to burst. Keep in mind that each fish can only eat the next smaller fish. This means that a big fish cannot eat the smallest fish, for instance. Obviously, the smallest fish cannot eat anybody, the poor fellow. But what can you do: that’s life!
The fish are color-coded and can be easily recognized regardless of their size:

  • Yellow: smallest fish
  • Blue: a bit bigger and eats yellow fish
  • Pink: a bit bigger and eats blue fish
  • Red: the biggest fish and eats the pink ones

To start your eating frenzy you need to click on a fish and move him in the direction of the next smallest fish. Off the fish goes…and it eats up everything available in its path. In other words, the fish eats and swims until it reaches a fish that’s either too big or too small. Once a row of fish is emptied it’s automatically refilled with new ones. You earn bonus points if you manage to eat more than three fish in a row.
As soon as a fish has digested at least three fish, it mutates into the next biggest fish. Red fish, however, pop when this happens. If one red fish bursts, so do all the other red fish around, which creates a lot of free space and a ton of bonus points for you. There are also mines that can blow all the fish straight out of the water and give you extra points.
The more you play, the faster the Bubble Bar depletes itself. So you’ve got to relentlessly gobble up multiple fish to survive in this cruel water world!
You can try two different playing modes with Fish Food:

  • Classical Mode: What I’ve just described
  • Drop Mode: Here fish fall from the sky the entire time and your goal is to prevent them from fillng up the whole screen.

Bottom Line:

I find this game to be amazing. I can’t think of another game with the same game concept off the top of my head. In any case, I had a lot of fun playing this game. So much fun, in fact, that it took me longer than usual to write this test report. Not because I got carried away with playing the game, but because I wanted to describe it in the best possible way.
 


 

 

Screen & Controls

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Fish Food is completely intuitive! Everything is controlled with your finger on the touchscreen. The graphics may be a bit childish, but they are well-done and actually kind of cute.
An ad banner appears at the end of each game. To get past you have to press the menu button and select “Skip”. That can be a bit of a drag, frankly.
You can do the following in your options:

  • Turn background music on/off
  • Turn sound effects on/off
  • Touch Vibration
  • Vibration when you eat three fish in a row

All in all, I give this game a “very good” rating!

Speed & Stability

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I tested Fish Food an a G2 Touch and things didn't always run smoothly. But as you can see on the video, the game runs perfectly on the Nexus One...

Price/Performance Ratio

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 Fish Food is available for free from the Android Market. 

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Tom en

United Kingdom

Solo Indie game developer based in the UK

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Apr 30, 2010 12:39:11 PM

Hm, I like Drop Mode anyway. But it is much harder, though.

Apr 30, 2010 12:05:41 PM

drop mode isn't as much fun as classic imho

Apr 30, 2010 12:02:02 PM

Yeah, levels might be good!

Apr 30, 2010 12:01:30 PM

agree with Ben on this one...NEED LEVELS

Apr 30, 2010 11:49:23 AM

it's a fun game, but i hate that there are no levels. it gets boring to just play infinitely in one level....

personally, i need levels to aim for in order to keep playing a game. otherwise it goes straight into the garbage...

Apr 29, 2010 10:21:07 PM

HTC Sense is responsible. :-/

Apr 29, 2010 10:08:45 PM

Fabien: You couldn't have guessed better. I've got an HTC Hero and YES! it lags really bad :((

Such a drag....

Apr 29, 2010 10:05:35 PM

Yeah, or a HTC Desire! It is super fast on it. I've seen it with a HTC Hero. It was really rather laggy on it.

Apr 29, 2010 10:02:30 PM

way better than jewels, I would say...

the video makes me wish i had a nexus one! now that's amazing speed!

Apr 29, 2010 9:53:12 PM

I like the Dr. Seuss reference :)

I think the graphics look more like Spongebob to be quite honest...

Apr 29, 2010 9:47:23 PM

I love this game! I play it all the time now...

Market Comments

eleina, Aug 19, 2012
Make an unlimited mode Id like an unlimited mode or something please. Or some new mode that's challenging. One game is to fast:( I just re-downloaded this game today, I had it last year and I'm disappointed to say that there's been no significant changes
Renae, Aug 15, 2012
... Didn't use it yet. Ahhhhaaa.
Jo, Aug 14, 2012
Galaxy 3 Fix bug soon for galaxy3 please!
G, Aug 11, 2012
Amazing I love this game
Sarah, Aug 5, 2012
Sarah Great game,played it on my old phone but doesn't work on galaxy s 3? Please fix!
Maram, Aug 1, 2012
The game isnt working I really love this game, I used to have it on my previous phone. However, it's not working on my xperia p :( I am getting a blur when I start playing
Kelby, Jul 24, 2012
Boring Boring and my screen. Was frozen to waste of time
telkompb, Jul 23, 2012
Happy eater Good games,entertaining
Tina, Jul 14, 2012
Galaxy s lll This used to be my favorite game but everything overlaps each other that u can't see what's going on u can only hear the music
Alyssa, Jul 9, 2012
Fun Took me a minute to figure out what I was doing but very fun and the fish are so cute!!!
Anonymous, Jul 6, 2012
Sucks Doesnt work on my sg note! ! !
Jane, Jul 6, 2012
great game. very good game .jm
Green, Jun 28, 2012
Smells fishy Had fun on this but now graphics messed up on sensation
Tara, Jun 28, 2012
Won't work on my Toshiba tablet I love this game please fix for tablets I keep checking hoping its fixed..
Gina , Jun 14, 2012
Fish food Not working. I used to love this game! Didn't work on my tablet either
suha, Jun 13, 2012
So saaaaaaad :'( I loved this game on my galaxy 1 .. but now on galaxy 3 it's not working .. sooooooo bad couse I have to uninstall it
Suchitra, Jun 12, 2012
Saloni Rastogi Nice .....
Tracy, Jun 10, 2012
Used to work on HTC hero. Upgraded to HTC EVO design and it does not work.
Virginia, Jun 8, 2012
No more ... Love this game, but it doesn't work on my RAZR Max. Bummer.
Rhiannon, Jun 2, 2012
Droid Bionic Doesn't show the game properly. Worked finger on my Eris but it looks like a bad cable signal on my new phone. :(
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