The hookshot, a close relative to the grappling hook, is one of my favorite tools in video games. Being able to pull things towards you, or reach faraway points, is just an aspect that is so compelling to me. Now, the number of grappling hook games being so small in number should not be a surprise ? Kepa of Rocketcat Games says level design for grappling hook mechanics is really difficult. And considering Super QuickHook [$2.99] is so brilliant, and few games have tried to copy it, that makes sense. But there's such potential in a Zelda-style hookshot with a game being centered around it. Legend of the Skyfish [$3.99] is that game, and it uses the core fun of grappling and pulling from a distance inherent in the tool to make for a solid action-puzzle game in the Zelda vein.
Your weapon of choice is not necessarily a hookshot, but the world's greatest fishing pole. Most of your enemies are aquatic denizens now walking the land in service of the evil eponymous Skyfish, and you've got to thwack them with your rod, and use the uncommonly strong line to pull in and stun them, for further thwacking. But your fishing pole has more utilitarian purposes beyond corporal punishment. It can also pull you toward grapple points, and remotely activate switches. There are a lot of puzzles where you have to switch between gate states to advance, or making it from point A to point B in a certain amount of time, and a little bit of box-pushing. But then the game throws some cool moments at y...