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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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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turns out I am less mature playing this game as an adult
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Now that we're getting an entirely new Endless Ocean game, I wonder if they'll port the first two games over to the Switch
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I just realized I can’t call my dad to tell him about the new endless ocean game coming out
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I feel like none of my followers are gonna understand this but I don't care I wanna talk about Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean: Blue World is such a sad game for me personally because you spend the entire game looking for an ancient ruin and then you finally go into the ancient ruin where there is an entire room filled with coelacanths, but then the whole place gets closed off and you gotta wait forever to reopen it because it costs so much money, so I'm basically blocked off from seeing my favorite animal for a really long time unless I put it in the aquarium
It's very sad
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Nineball Island
This small island is only 100 feet in diameter. Surrounded by miles of coral reefs, the island is a perfect getaway spot. Jean-Eric won it from a friend in a game of 9-Ball.
🌴 x 🏝 x 🌴
🌊 x 🏖 x 🌊
🌴 x 🏝 x 🌴
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Above the Ice - North Coast of Canada
Endless Ocean: Blue World, Nintendo Wii
harp seals are so cool... i want to hug them and tell them how much i love them, but i know they probably wouldn't understand
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MY INNER FIVE-YEAR-OLD IS CRYING TEARS OF JOY RIGHT NOW
AND SO IS MY CURRENT SELF
I NEVER THOUGHT WE'D GET A THIRD GAME
AND IT LOOKS AMAZING
YES!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Which penguin is the tallest and which one lords it over the others? I'm aware these might be one and the same, but maybe they aren't.
If you're talking about OCS then it's Takumi!
If we're talking about canon characters....
Jet pack guy. Mostly because I thought it would be really funny to reference endless ocean 2 and the emperor penguin big bobby with JPG
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Mediterranean Monk Seal - Monachus monachus
Length: 8 feet 2 inches
This seal was once found all over the Mediterranean, but its numbers have gradually dwindled because of changes in the environment, and now they can only be seen in a few places. A similar species lives off the coast of Hawaii, but it is also at risk of extinction.
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_monk_seal
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