The second Legend of the River King game on N64 is quite a bit different to the first, pulling back on some areas of the game to focus on the fishing a lot more. The sprites are also a lot more zoomed in, but I think the added detail makes the game look cluttered and messy instead, I’m not a fan of it at all.

Some of the non-fishing elements have been stripped out, which in a way is a good thing, as they were just a bit odd. Grabbing insects and picking flowers is now a case of walking into them and selecting yes from a pop up menu, although this makes walking past a bunch of flowers a pain, as it pops up as soon as you scrape a flower (it would be better if you needed to press A). The strange animal battling system is now completely removed, including the random encounters, so you just talk to the animals and they’ll make a noise.

The fishing is just as immensely difficult as the first game’s, and now made more complex with the addition of different kinds of fishing and lures that work in different ways. Some hook automatically, while others require you to move the lure around a lot in the water to get a bite. As a result, I wasn’t able to make it past the first island.

While you can still choose between different characters, they all have the same story (just with slightly different reasons): to go on a quest to find a special fish, located between some islands that you would get to explore later on.

Ride the Salt Sea Wind is likely a pretty good game, if you could understand it better.

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Remake or remaster?

It would be nice to see a more modern take on these games, even using these stories.

Official ways to get the game.

There’s no official way to get Legend of the River King 64: Ride the Salt Sea Wind