Fish Fillets 2: Puzzles Video Game Review

Ratings: Graphics & Audio: 20/25, Gameplay: 25/25, Creativity 24/25, Fun 25/25
Total: 93/100

Fish Fillets 2 is the fantastic sequel to the puzzle game from Altar Games where your two fish and other friendly helper has to solve puzzles to get out of rooms. Fish Fillets 2 uses a unique story line very reminiscent of X Files where you use two fish moving objects to mostly get out of rooms.

In some of the more unique puzzles you not only have to negotiate your way using the two stars of the game, Max Flounder and Tina Guppy, but you get to rescue another character who helps you out with your puzzles. Mostly using logic you need to move items around in the maze like rooms to find your way out. Each fish and the crab you get later will have unique abilities like Flounder can move pipes while the smaller Guppy cannot.

The story line is cute and can be really funny at times. The game is interspersed with comedy and the voices are very well done. The story line has the two agent fish trying to solve some mysterious disappearances among the aquatic community. Using your superior human intelligence you need to lead the two fishy agents through the puzzle rooms to find the culprit of the disappearances, Jack the Fisher.

After solving several puzzles you find the latest victim of the kid, no fish, no sea life nappings in the form of Virgil Crab, brother of King Crab. The F.I.N. agents, I have no clue what F.I.N. stands for, find out soon enough that the Fisher is not the culprit but the mystery lies deeper. The game involves a lot of logic puzzles, 112 rooms to be exact.

In some of the rooms you will find not only your main objective of getting out or rescuing your third helper but these cute little starfish to get to. If you get to enough starfish during your solving you earn wildcards that can be used to unlock any room you find too hard to solve. There are 80 starfish throughout the game so finding enough to unlock several rooms that are just stumping you is not very difficult.

Many of the puzzles are simply difficult to figure out because there are so many ways to use the different fish and you need to utilize them all. You also have a very good help in the way the game remembers all your moves and you can back up through them one at a time. You can also reset the puzzle to the very start if you want to just start over.

The games graphics and scenes are very well done and the game has a decidedly different flavor to it. The game follows and makes use of lots of X-Files analogies but also brings other very funny parts with the characters. Using the underwater scenes with so many objects and the characters always being able to make comments about bad moves or giving clues is very helpful and fun.

In a lot of puzzles if you make a move that means you will never solve the puzzle the characters will comment on this. Many times you are given hints that you are getting somewhere by the characters giving you a new line to the story or just one you have not heard yet. The storyline is very well done and the games voice acting is superb with excellent actors lending their talents to an exceptional game.

While the two voice actors playing Tina Guppy and Max Flounder do not sound very much like Dana Scully and Fox Mulder they have done an excellent job on this act. The other voice acting is just as good and they have done an excellent job of bringing the story line to the puzzle rooms and making you want to continue the game. The puzzles of course get harder the further you get but they are not so hard that you cannot eventually figure them out. I have heard on the forum at Altar games of several people who have finished the game completely getting not only all the rooms solved but retrieving all the starfish.

Fish Fillets 2 is a fantastic puzzle game and is very addictive, easily as good as the classic game Tetris. I highly recommend Fish Fillets 2 for anyone even remotely interested in puzzle games.