Chest Hero Part 6 - Fishing

Well, I finally unlocked the Fishing section of Chest Hero after about 3000 clicks.  I don't know why so many games have a fishing module.  That's weird to me.  I have been fishing in Minecraft (with many mods that add even more fish), Black Desert, and a number of other hero-based games.  It's an odd phenomenon, especially when the fish give you magical buffs and boosts.  But there's also a lot about collecting groups of things in games, and fish provide an almost inexhaustible variety of things to find.

For Chest Hero, the fishing area is a lot more detailed than we were expecting.  

Your fishing gear has a few components that can all be upgraded: Pole, Bait, Line, Sinker, and Hook.  You use pearls to upgrade them, and get pearls from completing Orders as described below.  You can hide that main stats display by clicking the fish-shaped pull at the bottom left.  

Click the pond to fish.  Pull in fish.

And of course, the fish fall into different categories: small, medium and large fish plus aquatic life for other creatures.  You can also reel in junk items like bones and broken swords.  You can choose to put any fish in your aquarium or sell an item for fish tokens.  Many of the things you pull up have smart-aleck comments, which I appreciate because it keeps some humor in the game.  My favorite junk item so far is that you can reel in an empty chest, with a comment saying roughly, "Where did you think all those empty chests went?"

You get an Aquarium which starts with a capacity of one of each type of fish.  You can upgrade the aquarium with 5 permits costing 300 fish each.
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The Banquet icon shows ongoing quests, and when a red dot appear next to it, click it to claim the loot for whichever milestone you hit.

An important item is the little list of Orders.  You fulfill these orders to get the pearls you need to upgrade your gear.  My first orders were: 3 seahorses, 3 large fish, 3 sardines.

There is a Collection icon that has pages showing the ton of different things you can find, and this is for each location you fish at.  From the Collection pages, you can click to get little blurbs of real-world information about each creature you found.

Finally, click the very last icon to see all the different fishing locations, which unlock as you complete various tasks.This is a very thorough and fun implementation of fishing, with a lot of milestones and goals built into the process of leveling up the gear and reaching new locations.  Wow.  The game at first gave the impression of a redundant click-forever app that will eventually unlock fishing, to a fishing app that you have to click a lot to get to.  Nicely done.