Finishing minigames are the worst minigames and I've waited too long to say it. Maybe I've regressed into an iPad child in my middle age but I can't stomach a day wasted fishing even in Stardew Valley without looking at my phone. It's a boring waste of time always pulling me away from more interesting activities.
Fishing rears its ugly head in all sorts of games, but it's become a plague for me personally now that it's stock standard for all of the many cozy game derivatives of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon. If we were to rebrand the whole lot as "4F games," it would be a critical member: farming, foraging, fishing, and friendship. But one of those things is not like the others.
