Dark Cloud 2

To breed a pair of fish, you will first need an aquarium. You are required to have an aquarium about halfway through Chapter 4, but you can make one as soon as Chapter 1. To make it, you will need pictures of a fountain, a window, and a wooden box. Refer to Tinkering Away if you need a reminder on how to invent things.

Once you have the aquarium, you will need a pair of fish, obviously. You will get your fishing rod about halfway through Chapter 2 as a natural progression of the story. There are multiple places you can fish, and any one of them will do for this trophy. You will get your first fishing rod for free. To use this fishing rod, you will need some bait. Bait can be obtained through a few different ways. They can be obtained from monsters, found in treasure chests, or bought/made from Fabio once he is recruited.

Once you have all of your bait ready, it's time to go fishing. To fish, first you need to equip the fishing rod. The fishing rod equips just like weapons do. Press , go to "Item," select the fishing rod, and finally, select "Equip." You will also need to put bait on the fishing rod. To do this, while in the "Item" menu, select a bait, and select "Put on Fishing Hook." Once you have your fishing rod out, you will be able to fish at most bodies of water.

You will know you can fish at a particular body of water when you have the fishing rod out. There will be a small message in the lower left corner of the screen that says ": Start Fishing." Press and you will see a little marker our on the water. This determines how far you will cast. Use the to move the marker. Once in the desired position, press to cast. When a fish starts to nibble on the bait, the controller will vibrate. Once the buoy is beneath the water, an exclamation point will appear above Max's head. Pull back on the to begin reeling the fish in.

Once you are reeling the fish in, the HUD will change. On the right you will see a meter that goes from safety, on the bottom, to danger, on the top. This meter indicates line tension. There's another, smaller meter right next to it that shows how close the fish is to your position. To actually reel in the fish, you have to hold . As you do this, the tension meter will go up towards danger. If it gets to the top, the line will break and you will have to try again. The heavier the fish (but not necessarily the length), the faster the tension meter goes up. I recommend not letting the tension meter go past the halfway point. On top of all that, occasionally, an arrow will appear next to the buoy of your line. This indicates that the fish is trying to move in that direction, and you need to tilt the in that direction to reduce tension. Once the fish is around 1.5 meters away, you will have caught the fish.

When you have caught a fish, a message will appear telling you the breed of the fish, how long the fish is, and how many Fishing Points you got. Fishing Points let you upgrade your fishing rod. The fishing rod has stats that can impact the size of the fish and how easily they can be reeled in. The fishing rod stats are here:

• Flight - How far you can cast the line
• Strength - How far the fish is reeled in when you press
• Resilience - How quickly the tension meter goes up
• Grip - How much the controller vibrates
• Luck - How big the fish can get

Of these stats, flight and grip aren’t too important, but the others make fishing much easier.

There is another rod you can get later on called the Lure Rod. This rod takes lures instead of bait, and works differently because of it. It also tends to catch heavier fish. If you're having trouble getting the fishing medal in a dungeon, try this rod. You can make the lure rod as early as Chapter 2, but you won't be able to use it until you have won at least one Finny Frenzy and have recruited Olivie as an ally.

To use the lure rod, equip it the same way you equip the normal fishing rod, and attach the lure you wish to use the same way you would attach bait. Once you are ready to fish, cast the line the same way you would cast the fishing rod. This is where things get different. Each lure has a different method of working. Instead of just waiting for the fish, you need to move the line to make the lure move like it's real world counterpart, so tilt the in the direction and press to reel the line in. Here are the different lures and how to move them appropriately:

• Fork Lure - This lure is only used to catch a Baron Garayan. See A Class of its Own for details.
• Frog Lure - Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, hold for about a second, wait for about a second, repeat.
• Minnow Lure - Left, Right, tap , Left, Left, tap , Right, Left, tap , Right, Left, tap , repeat.
• Spinner Lure - Same as Minnow lure, but hold for slightly longer (but not as long as the Frog Lure).

Once an exclamation point appears over Max's head, tilt the back and begin reeling it in. Reeling in the fish with the lure rod works exactly the same as with the normal fishing rod. Also note that any Fishing Points earned with the lure rod can only be put to use on the lure rod, and same with the fishing rod.

After you catch your fish, press and go to the "Item" menu. From here, find the fish, press and select "Put in Aquarium" from the drop-down menu. Next, go to your aquarium and select "Examine." Here, you will see your fish swimming around. Press and you will see a list of options. Select "View Fish Parameters." Now you can see the stats of the fish. For this trophy, you will need one male and one female fish. If you have two of the same gender, you can feed one of them a carrot to change their gender (go back to the menu, select "Feed Fish," select "Carrot," and press to drop it in). The species of your fish doesn't matter, as all fish can breed with any other fish.

Once you are ready, go to the list options and select "Move to other tank." Select a fish, and then select "Breeding Tank." Do the same for the next fish. Next, go to the list of options and select "Look Into Other Tank." Select "Breeding Tank" and you will be taken to the tank. You will see the two fish start bumping each other, and then a bright light will appear. Congratulations, you've just bred yourself a new fish and netted this trophy!

It is also worth noting that a fish's stats (See Finny Frenzy First) will never decrease through breeding, so it is safe to breed a fish that you just caught with a fish that you've been building stats for since the beginning. Once you have bred a fish, that fish will be unable to breed until you have fed it 5 times.