The Endless Ocean games on Wii!
Endless Ocean 1 and 2 are an awesome duology of Wii games where you scuba dive, learn about fish, and collect treasure. The main gameplay loop consists of exploring vast underwater environments, find hidden treasure, and interact with fish to fill up a fish-dex. Playing it as a kid even encouraged me to try scuba diving!
They look fantastic too, it's like, still the PS2 era graphics, but it's on Wii so it is like, the peak of that. It has that charming low poly look I have seen a lot of people craving.
Most of your time in the game is just exploring and taking in the environment, but there is always something to find. When you interact with fish, you fill up a fish-dex, and you can learn real world facts about them. If you play it, you'll have so many fish facts to share with people. (When they're accurate, the games are old)
They even have a story with pretty good human characters. The environments are fantastical, you visit ancient ruins, ship graveyards, even sunken castles, but the human characters means it always stays grounded and has some pathos.
If you are into older games and you're looking for a shorter length game with low-fi graphics, gameplay that doesn't really resemble anything before or since, and to learn a bunch of cool fish facts, I can't recommend Endless Ocean enough. I think they might be kind of rare these days, but they work great, and are thematically appropriate, on Dolphin, and should work fine with a normal controller, especially Endless Ocean 2 as it had Classic Controller support.
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endless ocean fans how are we feeling today
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Big Man of the sea.
Endless Ocean from the Nintendo Direct?? I played Abzu because i was wondering what EO was like because i never played it before.
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singlehandedly pulled me from a two day depressive spiral
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LOOK UPON OUR HERO
Roughly 4 minutes, 50 seconds in.
This game will have:
Group dives of up to 30 people
Which means that when the owner of this blog finds the coelacanth, there is TOTALLY going to be a group coelacanth dive. Everyone in the pool, we're going coelacanth petting!
Event dives
Since they keep showing the coelacanth in the trailers, there totally has to be a coelacanth dive event, right?
MAY 2ND, EVERYONE. GET YOUR NINTENDO ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS READY.
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Ashore - Gatama Atoll
Endless Ocean: Blue World, Nintendo Wii
i think it would have been cute if you could see the marine iguanas walking around underwater too, since that's a thing they can do irl!
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Endless Ocean continues its tradition of just having the absolute worst Great White Shark models
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Fellow video game whale enthusiasts, how are we fucking feeling about a new endless ocean game
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