SPOILER: An impossible fishing challenge? (Using PC).

[Chaya7]

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I've never had any trouble fishing. Fishing is my favorite part of the game. While the crimson fish and octopus were real challenges, I've always considered them the most difficult, but I've always landed them with enough patience. And I've played through Mr. Qi's challenges in several saves and never had trouble with any of them. His quest that gives you three days to catch the legendary fishes' descendants? No problem.

But this time I began the quest with Legend II. Now, the original Legend was pretty easy for me., and the Legend II was just as easy. But something was really different this time. After repeating a single full game day three times, and after the consumption of several +4 fishing buffs and a number of bobbers each one of those days, I finally gave up. It was a "lucky" day, too - whether that has anything to do with it. *shrug*

The Legend II bites the same way the Legend does - which is to say, almost never - and it is rated the same difficulty, at 110. But this year it is behaving like nothing I have ever seen before, and out of 6 or 7 hooks, I lost every time. All the way up, all the way down, all the way up, all the way down - there was never a way for me to hold on to it for more than a second or two.

Has anyone else experienced this with the Legend II? For the first time ever, I quit a challenge and lost my interest in the game altogether. Here's the thing: I like a challenge, but I don't like an impossible challenge. It feels like the algorithm has been tweaked.

Or is this just my extremely, extremely bad luck?

 

[Elenna101]

Should just be bad luck (unless your save is bugged somehow I guess), afaik there is no difference in how the Legend and Legend II are programmed.

 

[PerfectionWhaleFarm]

Having fished 100 The Legend in the past, I have to say the behavior of The Legend varies each time. Sometimes the fish was so easy you can get iridium quality without a Quality Bobber (I believe someone in the past has done that). Other times it is very very erratic.

A particular time when you fished up The Legend / The Legend II up may be impossible. I do tend to notice how you position your green bar influences how it moves to a certain degree though.

I find if you had the fish at the edge of the green bar towards the direction it was moving towards, it feels like it is unlikely to erratically move towards that same direction and will likely go the opposite way if at all. It only behaves uncontrollably when you also move your green bar wildly, or you are trying to "catch" the fish in one direction and it's already going the other way.

If the fish is moving too wild, just don't move and wait for it to calm down, otherwise if you keep trying to "catch" where the fish is moving towards, it will just keep going the other direction at a much faster pace than your green bar can move.

 

[Pangaearocks]

Could be just bad luck. I had pretty big difficulties with the Legend, but that was without food. With +3 fishing, it becomes more manageable. I prefer to use the bobber that makes the fish "escape" slower, though, and not the one that increases the bar a little. I find that helps a lot with these incredibly jittery fish that are bumping all over the place like an energised rubber ball. There can also be pretty big variance for the same type of fish. Catfish and pike comes to mind. Some catfish are jumping like you describe, up and down all the way, and right off the bat, so you have zero chance without bobbers or food. While others are a little more calm an don't jitter around quite as much, so it's fairly easy to catch them without food or bobbers (or dressing spinners, which just reduces the time for bites).

Love the fishing mini game too, and it was probably more fun at the very start when the bar is 3 pixels long or something That made even the starting fish difficult, and it was rewarding when you get those few perfect catches.

 

[Pangaearocks]

If the fish is moving too wild, just don't move and wait for it to calm down, otherwise if you keep trying to "catch" where the fish is moving towards, it will just keep going the other direction at a much faster pace than your green bar can move.

The problem with this is that many difficult fish will fly off the handle right away, when you have next to nothing 'invested' in the catch yet, so unless you go after and try to catch it, it will simply escape. The big problem then is if it goes flying up and down like a mental.. err.. fish. If this happens a bit later in the game, it's more feasible to gamble on it going back down (or up) where it was, instead of chasing after it.

 

[PerfectionWhaleFarm]

Yeah I always make the green bar go up a little initially (even for a Carp), if it's a The Legend it's unlikely that at start it won't move at all, so hedging your bet on going up is always safe.
This is more a mid-late advice, as I find that panicking and trying to catch them in all sorts of direction leads to more panicking and disorientation.

Use Quality Bobber to make iridium fish much easier, otherwise I very much agree with @Pangaearocks, Trap Bobber is the go to. At LV14, you shouldn't really need the size to be any bigger, but that slowing will help with the aforementioned suggestion.

 

[imnvs]

As others have pointed out, the Legend's movement type is erratic. It is called "mixed" which means at any given moment it could change its movement type from float to sink to smooth to dart... and going back and forth between dart, sink and smooth is a nightmare. Sometimes it may stick on smooth, which is much easier to catch, but don't count on it.

Also, I still stick to my cork bobber.

 

[LRangerR]

Yeah that sounds about right. Sounds like you just got lucky before (or maybe the Legend was just playing nice), and now the Legend is acting like it normally does.