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* JustHereForGodzilla: A literal example, the announcement of ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' DLC while the King of the Monsters was riding high on two successful movies in recent months led to a NewbieBoom of players interested for the game just for the big lizard.
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* CommonKnowledge: It's frequently claimed that the game is an indie game due to having a pixel-art artstyle, when it was made by [[Creator/{{Nexon}} a subsidiary of a massive Korean game publisher]]. Even the game's director has had to dissuade this misconception.

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* CommonKnowledge: It's frequently claimed that the game is an indie game due to having a pixel-art artstyle, when it was made by [[Creator/{{Nexon}} a subsidiary of a massive Korean game publisher]]. Even the game's director has had to dissuade this misconception. This came to a head when the game was nominated for "Best ''Independent'' Game" at the 2023 Game Awards, leading to waves of confusion from fans.

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* GoddamnedBats: After a certain point, all small predatory fish (such as Red Lionfish and Titan Triggerfish) become this, as the damage they do is negligible but they can still harass and interrupt you at very inopportune moments while you're trying to do something else.

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* GoddamnedBats: After a certain point, all small predatory GoddamnedBats:
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fish (such as Red like Lionfish and Titan Triggerfish) become this, as the damage can be a nightmare. While they do measly damage, they're hard to hit due to their size and LOVE to give chase, which can make you take multiple hits before you get enough distance to harpoon them. If there's two or more, harpooning them is negligible but very risky cause one of them can attack you while you try to harpoon the other one, doing damage and making you drop the harpoon, which means the one you were just harpooning is free to contribute to the pain. Some of them, like Longspine Squirrelfish, move in schools; while one of them is nowhere near a threat, ''twenty'' of them [[DeathOfAThousandCuts can shred you into chum with the quickness]]. And since hey can stun you, they can still harass and interrupt straight-up get you at very inopportune moments killed when they attack you while you're trying to do you have something else.like a Longnose Sawshark on your tail.
** Tuna. Yes, friggin' '''tuna'''. Tuna travel in groups of three or more, [[LightningBruiser are insanely fast AND hardy]], and will plow into you like no one's business. Unless you have a gun that can paralyze them or put them to sleep, being able to take one of them down is most definitely a challenge.
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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with fans of ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'', given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJotJDU0no crossover collaboration DLC]] was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.

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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with fans of ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'', given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in --in both contexts - contexts-- for various types of fish[[note]]Also worth noting is the surprising amount of overlap in fish species that can be caught in both games[[/note]] to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJotJDU0no crossover collaboration DLC]] was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.
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* CommonKnowledge: It's frequently claimed that the game is an indie game due to having a pixel-art artstyle, when it was made by [[Creator/{{Nexon}} a subsidiary of a massive Korean game publisher]]. Even the game's director has had to dissuade this misconception.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the middle of the story, for seemingly no reason, the player is forced into a dream Duff is having about being at a VirtualCelebrity concert which doubles as a RhythmGame. The only reason this scene seems to transpire is so that there is any justification at all for unlocking the "Leahs RUN!" phone minigame, and it's literally never addressed again.

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In the middle of the story, for seemingly no reason, the player is forced into a dream Duff is having about being at a VirtualCelebrity concert which doubles as a RhythmGame. The only reason this scene seems to transpire is so that there is any justification at all for unlocking the "Leahs RUN!" phone minigame, and it's literally never addressed again.again.
** Randomly in the Glacial Area, there's a chance for an event to trigger of a Bowhead Whale swimming past Dave. Normally this would seem to be an event keying the player in to look for a photo spot or a side quest, but no such thing happens, making it confusing as to why it even happens.

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* ThatOneAchievement: "Leadership", which requires you to train an employee to Level 20. Not only will the game's story be long over before you can do such a thing, it costs hundreds of thousands of your hard-earned sushi money to do so, as [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts the later employee training costs skyrocket exponentially]]. Hopefully you'll be able to get this one while doing other postgame activities alongside it.

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* ThatOneAchievement: ThatOneAchievement:
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"Leadership", which requires you to train an employee to Level 20. Not only will the game's story be long over before you can do such a thing, it costs hundreds of thousands of your hard-earned sushi money to do so, as [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts the later employee training costs skyrocket exponentially]]. Hopefully you'll be able to get this one while doing other postgame activities alongside it.it.
** "God Of Lightning", earned for completing the deceptively simple task of killing a fish with [[ThunderHammer Mjöllnir]]. The only problem with this is that Mjöllnir has a relatively low spawn rate and can spawn in several places around the Glacial Area (including ''inside the Glacial Caves''), requiring you to either comb the map on every dive you make into the area or [[LuckBasedMission camp a specific spot over and over until you finally get the weapon]].
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* UnderusedGameMechanic: Tiger Sharks have a unique riposte attack you can perform on them by escaping their GrappleMove which does extremely high damage. The only other time this comes up in gameplay is during a single PressXToNotDie moment during the Giant Gadon battle, which is disappointing as it's a fun way of getting some high-risk damage in on dangerous targets if you're trying to kill them.
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* ThatOneAchievement: "Leadership", which requires you to train an employee to Level 20. Not only will the game's story be long over before you can do such a thing, it costs hundreds of thousands of your hard-earned sushi money to do so, as [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts the later employee training costs skyrocket exponentially]]. Hopefully you'll be able to get this one while doing other postgame activities alongside it.
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* ThatOneBoss: A ''lot'' of players have trouble with Klaus the Great White Shark, to judge by Steam comments. He's big, fast, turns surprisingly quickly, and leaves little room to maneuver. He even sports a ranged whirlpool projectile attack that's initially easy to dodge, but when he TurnsRed the whirlpools zigzag when they move, covering a deceptively wide area. While he's much easier with the Sniper Rifle, he is absolutely no pushover and probably the hardest of the super-bosses. Klaus used to be easily encountered as a possible first super-boss when you don't even realize that those exist and [[EarlyBirdBoss when your equipment is likely to be weak]], but fortunately he now appears only after both the Truck Hermit Crab and Mantis Shrimp are defeated.

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* ThatOneBoss: A ''lot'' of players have trouble with Klaus the Great White Shark, to judge by Steam comments. He's big, fast, turns surprisingly quickly, and leaves little room to maneuver. He even sports a ranged whirlpool projectile attack that's initially easy to dodge, but when he TurnsRed the whirlpools zigzag when they move, covering a deceptively wide area. While he's much easier with the Sniper Rifle, he is absolutely no pushover and probably the hardest of the super-bosses. {{Optional Boss}}es. Klaus used to be easily encountered as a possible first super-boss OptionalBoss when you don't even realize that those exist and [[EarlyBirdBoss when your equipment is likely to be weak]], but fortunately he now appears only after both the Truck Hermit Crab and Mantis Shrimp are defeated.
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* ThatOneSidequest:
** Completing Dave's Marinca collection by collecting every fish in the game is notorious for being this, as it means you have to seek out all the possible Photo Spots (some of which randomly appear in certain parts of the map) in addition to a number of particular {{Last Lousy Point}}s, including the Ruby Seadragon[[note]][[LuckBasedMission Only has a rare chance to spawn after you fully mine a Ruby Deposit, which is itself a rare find in the Hydrothermal Vents]][[/note]], the Young ''Anomalocaris''[[note]]Can only be obtained either by grabbing one in a Steel net during the final main story mission or at a ''single crab trap'' in the Divine Tree Control Room at the end of a deadly gauntlet of fiery geysers[[/note]], several Shallows fish[[note]]Many of them are small enough that they elude vision or blend together with schools of other fish[[/note]], etc. and on top of all this, it's capped off with a fight against the {{Superboss}} Lusca, who is about as if not more difficult than the hardest bosses in the game.
** Fully completing the Ecowatcher ranking requires you to collect TwentyBearAsses over ''thirty times'', with some of the items you need to collect either very rarely spawning or being found in remote corners of the map.
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* ScrappyMechanic: Serving cocktails. They're unquestionably the drink that takes the longest amount of time to prepare and requires a fair bit of precision depending on the mixture and the shape of the glass, meaning cocktail orders have a habit of slowing down your serving efficiency, especially since ''even employees with the Drink Serving ability can't prepare them, only Dave.'' This only gets worse if several people order cocktails at once, as it all but guarantees that somebody's going to get fed up and leave and deny you of that perfect 5 Artisan's Flames.
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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJotJDU0no crossover collaboration DLC]] was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.

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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, fans of ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'', given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJotJDU0no crossover collaboration DLC]] was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.
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This is a massive stretch of apophenia.


* HilariousInHindsight: The base game has an NPC named Sato, who is clearly a middle-aged {{expy}} of [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]]. The ''VideoGame/{{DREDGE}}'' DLC update would later launch the exact same day as the "Indigo Disk DLC" for ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet''.
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* GoddamnedBats: After a certain point, all small predatory fish (such as Red Lionfish and Titan Triggerfish) become this, as the damage they do is negligible but they can still harass and interrupt you at very inopportune moments while you're trying to do something else.
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* [[AwesomeBosses/VideoGames Awesome Bosses]]: Seriously, the boss fights in this otherwise peaceful and relaxing fishing simulator did not need to be this ''unbelievably high-octane and badass'', but it is [[BestBossEver so great that they are]]. From [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome the amazing 3D models]] and [[AnimationBump higher-quality animation]] to some pretty genuine SurpriseDifficulty with some of them, each and every one is a treat to fight and [[AwesomenessWithdrawal defeating them all makes you wish the game had ten or twenty more]].
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The Sea Blue subplot is very unsubtle in its messaging that smaller businesses and single divers don't contribute all that heavily to overfishing and harming sea life, but that large corporations do.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the middle of the story, for seemingly no reason, the player is forced into a dream Duff is having about being at a VirtualCelebrity concert which doubles as a RhythmGame. The only reason this scene seems to transpire is so that there is any justification at all for unlocking the "Leahs RUN!" phone minigame, and it's literally never addressed again.
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* DemonicSpiders: For some, the Shortfin Mako can be this. Whilst most sharks tend to swim towards you slowly, making it easier to evade their charge attacks, the Mako swims just fast enough to catch up and damage you if it does so much as tap you. Unless you have an underwater scooter, it can be very tough to get away from. Not helped by the fact that unlike most other sharks, it has a tendency to [[SuperPersistentPredator keep pursuing you no matter how far you get away from it.]]
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misplaced, moving to the correct tab. Trivia trope.


* AuthorsSavingThrow: The ''VideoGame/{{DREDGE}}'' DLC update [[https://youtu.be/PWXLQFY3VSo?si=0fPEMHE1UALbBe6- also brings some improvements to the base game]] alongside some bugfixes following fan feedback:
** The loading times on the Nintendo Switch version have been reduced.
** The Beluga taxi in the Sea People village will wait outside of a building after paying the fare and pick you up for free until you leave the village, saving you money from repeatedly summoning it.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The base game has an NPC named Sato, who is clearly a middle-aged {{expy}} of [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]]. The ''VideoGame/{{DREDGE}}'' DLC update would later launch the exact same day as the "Indigo Disk DLC" for ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet''.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The ''VideoGame/{{DREDGE}}'' DLC update [[https://youtu.be/PWXLQFY3VSo?si=0fPEMHE1UALbBe6- also brings some improvements to the base game]] alongside some bugfixes following fan feedback:
** The loading times on the Nintendo Switch version have been reduced.
** The Beluga taxi in the Sea People village will wait outside of a building after paying the fare and pick you up for free until you leave the village, saving you money from repeatedly summoning it.
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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' DLC was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.

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* FriendlyFandoms: There's a good overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' DLC [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJotJDU0no crossover collaboration DLC]] was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.
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* FriendlyFandoms: Small, but there's a bit of an overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory.

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* FriendlyFandoms: Small, but there's There's a bit of an good overlap with some ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' fans, given both games' nature of trawling the ocean - in both contexts - for various types of fish to make profit to get upgrades to make a bigger profit, all the while trying to solve a mystery of the ocean they operate in. Both games also have contrasting tones, with ''Dave the Diver'' being much more lighthearted compared to ''DREDGE's'' CosmicHorrorStory. And then, a ''DREDGE'' DLC was announced for the game, making the fandom connections even greater.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can add captured seahorses to your team for the seahorse race and cheer them on as they race to victory...as well as cook them up as an recipe ingredient for the various meals at the restaurant.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can add captured seahorses to your team for the seahorse race and cheer them on as they race to victory...as well as cook them up as an recipe ingredient for the various meals at the restaurant.
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** Duff's favorite Anime, ''Stra Stella'', is also real, though it is in a different medium; it is based off the now defunct mobile game "[[https://www.mmogames.com/game/master-of-eternity Master of Eternity]]", which was published by Mintrocket's parent company Nexon. Leahs is one of the starting units in that game, and the song that plays during Duff's DreamSequence is the games intro music.

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** Duff's favorite Anime, ''Stra Stella'', is also real, though it is in a different medium; it is based off the now defunct mobile game "[[https://www.mmogames.com/game/master-of-eternity Master of Eternity]]", which was published by Mintrocket's parent company Nexon. Leahs is one of the starting units in that game, and the song that plays during Duff's DreamSequence is the games game's intro music.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made specifically for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song made years]]'' before the game was made.

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"Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made specifically for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song made years]]'' before the game was made.made.
** Duff's favorite Anime, ''Stra Stella'', is also real, though it is in a different medium; it is based off the now defunct mobile game "[[https://www.mmogames.com/game/master-of-eternity Master of Eternity]]", which was published by Mintrocket's parent company Nexon. Leahs is one of the starting units in that game, and the song that plays during Duff's DreamSequence is the games intro music.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made especially for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song made years]]'' before the game was made.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made especially specifically for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song made years]]'' before the game was made.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made especially for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song]] made ''years'' before the game was made.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: "Hot Pepper Tuna" sounds at first like it was just a fake rap song made especially for the game to stick with the constant sushi theme that runs throughout it. But it's actually ''[[https://youtu.be/QLCY2cub8Ho a real song]] song made ''years'' years]]'' before the game was made.

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