If I had a nickel for every time I found a rhythm game on this jam... You know the rest.
Gameplay is quite unorthodox for a rhythm game. Normally you press your keyboard like DDR, but when you're close to reeling in the fish (as indicated on the bottom) you mash A to finish the deal. For some fish you have to do it more than once. While unique gameplay is always a plus this comes with an issue where you miss out on the rest of the music.
Mash input for the reel-in phase of the Bass-off could have been more clear. Not everyone reads the instruction manual. I kept losing to the first fish without really knowing why and turns out I had to mash when that big A appears on the screen. I thought I had to time the press when the circle closes in. 

The lack of transition between scenes and phases kinda makes everything feel abrupt. I ended up missing parts of the note because there's no downtime for when the mashing phase ends and you're sent back to the ddr phase. Also ended up missing the last piece of dialogue because I was still mashing A after catching the King Bass (I think that's what it's called)...

 
Very awesome, quite the eye-catching entry for sure!

OK I love bass guitar and the concept of a "bass off". Audio wise, it has me wondering if it's possible to implement within the Game Boy audio limitations. I think maybe, by using wave channel via sample playback or with some kind of initial pitch sweep to create a "pick" transient. LSDJ has all kinds of wave channel tools that could potentially shape it into a bass guitar, probably involving the low pass filter. Some of the drums/hats sound lightly bitcrushed, and LSDJ is definitely capable of reproducing something close to how these sound.

Rhythm game is pretty fun, gets decently challenging by the end. And I'm sure game jam time limitations played a role, but I wonder would it have been more fun if it followed the syncopation of the music (pretty much just in the final stage). I played twice, first time just followed the visuals and second time I instinctively tried to input with the syncopation. What do you think? I can see reasons for and against.

It's possible to cheese by spamming directional inputs, since there's no penalty for wrong inputs. No big deal in a game jam. Maybe that can help someone who wants to see the ending but isn't great at rhythm games.

I LOVE the sprite art. There's so much personality. Restrained use of dithering worked well.

Like someone else, I also mashed my way past the ending screen message, so I played again to check it out. Might've been cool if the guarded treasure was a memento or message from Dad. 

All in all, a great jam game. Pun unavoidable.

It is very polished! Love it! Though the rythm part seems a bit unresponsive. Great job!

I absolutely love this! Looks and sounds very polished, and the theme interpretation is great. Marvelous!

Yeah! I love it :) Slap the bass! Thank you - great game!

I am absolutely the worst at this kind of games, couldn’t even beat the first fist. Brain just gets overloaded way to much. Although I dig the music, I’m pretty sure you cannot get such clean sounds for the gameboy.

Graphics wise the game looks love, has an awesome style to it. Music is lovely and the theme interpretation and the idea are quite unique! Well done!

Love the groove!

Great sound and visuals. An interesting idea to catch fish by playing bass. I found I could just mash the direction buttons without penalty hehe.

it's rare to see a rhythm game in a game jam, and even rarer to see one that works well like this! it would have been nice to have sound effects play on the arrow key presses for some extra feedback on perfect, hit or miss, but appreciate that could be a bit of a pain to balance with the music at the same time.  i really like the art in this, and the music was mixed cleanly so it was easy to catch the beat. the html version worked for me sync-wise, and the layout was clear as well, so it felt like everything lined up in that respect!

Has a unique quirky setting and tone set right away and kept throughout. Music is top notch. And the animation is great too.
I'm curious if you tried to do anything with the music/sound like the gameboy does? (I'm not sure, like limited audio channels, sampling frequency?)

I really liked the game. Although, due to the limited number of buttons on the GB it was very confusing to me to play, I'd love to play with a more "Guitar hero" approach, or at least 4 keys in order. Not the fault of the game of course, just the limitations of the jam. Good thing, failing your strokes did not punish you, so I could just mash all keys around the same time in the difficult parts. 

Graphics and music are 10/10, would recommend! 

As a guitar player, this game made me want to get a bass someday lol

Honestly implementing a musical game for this game jam was a genius move. I really loved the music integration, the art was beautiful, I really enjoyed over all. Great Job  

Beautiful game, unique story, love the pun of the bass king. Art is beautiful too. Really really great job

Yo, this is art. ❤️

There is something 'fishy' about the jokes, but I had nothing but trouble trying to play it.  the arrows were out just that little bit out of synch with the music when I tried to play.  the A thing at the end made absolutely no sense to me and I forever remained stuck at the beginning.  

More information on how to play this might be a good idea, but I'll still praise you for the effort.  It is clearly there!

I love the "bass" pun, the start screen is already a banger. Also I really like the font you chose, can I ask which one it is ?

Small detail, but you can bind controls to physical keys so that WASD becomes ZQSD for AZERTY keyboards (It's ok I played with the arrow keys).

I didn't get you had to mash A several times once you reeled the fish. But the minigame art is banger too ! However the idea to keep the level from the first mashing into the second one is great !

At the end I think I couldn't get the last dialog (it was skipped) because I was mashing A.

Excellent game ! You should really add a thumbnail because you game is worth the detour but with no thumbnail you will get less reviews than you deserve