Hmm, if that was the case with Blue World, then I guess I could see them doing the same with Luminous. And it does make sense, given that the main appeal of this series seems to be discovery—much like Tears of the Kingdom, and Nintendo was similarly secretive about many elements of that game prior to launch—so I suppose withholding further details and letting players discover it all for themselves wouldn’t be unusual in that case. Still, I wouldn’t assume anything either way for sure just yet.They are definitely underselling it. Blue World never, in any of its trailers, made any mention or showcase of the story or the npcs, so this just seems like it is how Arika proceeds; At least this time around we got a confirmation on a story before release, so there's that. So since they are so secretive about a bunch of stuff, let's hope the aquarium and the dolphin partnerships are still in. I can deal with the removal of dolphin training, but I still want my own dolphin friends with their names. Randomly swimming alongside a bunch of fish that will probably just end up sight-blocking or terrain-clipping or causing weird glitches when swimming through tight spaces is not good enough for me.
Hmm, if that was the case with Blue World, then I guess I could see them doing the same with Luminous. And it does make sense, given that the main appeal of this series seems to be discovery—much like Tears of the Kingdom, and Nintendo was similarly secretive about many elements of that game prior to launch—so I suppose withholding further details and letting players discover it all for themselves wouldn’t be unusual in that case. Still, I wouldn’t assume anything either way for sure just yet.
Just for reference, this is Blue World's "overview" trailer:
There are technically teases at the story with the sequence right before the title screen, and the last clip with a lot of whales, but that's something you don't actually know it's part of the story until playing it. Also I just realized you can see one of the crew members in the Walrus sequence.
I would honestly be mad if staples like the aquarium or the dolphin partners are gone, or even something as basic as caressing or feeding the fauna. If they are gone, this game should not be called Endless Ocean, to be honest.
They seem to clearly indicate the existence of above-water land, but can we actually explore those islands out of the water or not? It’s just really weird that that hasn’t been shown at all if it really is possible…
Well, that fact that we haven’t seen any of that yet does make me suspect that it doesn’t exist in Luminous… I also saw someone point out that many of the fish models used in Luminous appear to be reused from some mobile fishing game that Arika made years ago, which I assume didn’t have any of those animals in it, either… Doesn’t mean they can’t still surprise us, of course, but I’m not gonna be expecting it (and that way it will be a surprise if that stuff does indeed exist in the game).In Blue World, the maps had those pieces of land too, but then there were others with a pink color. You could only go ashore on those. Hopefully, they just ditched the pink-coloring this time and you can just go ashore on any piece of land visible in the map. Otherwise, that would mean the removal of seabirds, polar bear, marine iguana, and seeing penguins and seals just chilling on land, which is, after all, realistic.
Oh, good catch! So I guess it is likely that they’re just avoiding showing stuff like that in the prerelease trailers for whatever reason. I hope that means that above water exploration is a thing to some degree, though I could also see it being the case that you can only see penguins and seals swimming in the water…there's a penguin and a seal emoji
Oh, good catch! So I guess it is likely that they’re just avoiding showing stuff like that in the prerelease trailers for whatever reason. I hope that means that above water exploration is a thing to some degree, though I could also see it being the case that you can only see penguins and seals swimming in the water…
Huh…so it could mean nothing then, ’cause I certainly wouldn’t expect any zebras in the game, lol. Also, where did you see these penguin, seal, and zebra emote tags? In the overview trailer, I only see a penguin, but that one’s actually not even an emote tag, it’s a rank icon.There's also a Zebra emoji, go figure.. lol.
Huh…so it could mean nothing then, ’cause I certainly wouldn’t expect any zebras in the game, lol. Also, where did you see these penguin, seal, and zebra emote tags? In the overview trailer, I only see a penguin, but that one’s actually not even an emote tag, it’s a rank icon.
Now you gave me the thought of a swimming Zebra and now I am sad that this will never be.There's also a Zebra emoji, go figure.. lol.
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At 6:00 you can see the zebra head above, and a little white seal around the middle of the whole menu. In the reveal trailer that same white seal can be seen as a rank icon of one of the online players, so maybe some of those are shared between both features. For the penguin it was the rank icon what I meant, yeah.
The Zebra Turkeyfish. Is it a Zebra? Is it a Turkey? Is it even a fish?! But I bet it's at least delicious!I wonder if the zebra is a reference to a zebra fish.
Jesus fucking christ people, I did not know nor care about Josh's political ideologies, I just watch him because I find him funny.
Why so aggressive?
Jesus fucking christ people, I did not know nor care about Josh's political ideologies, I just watch him because I find him funny.
You don't care about sharing a monetized video of a well-known white supremacist on the basis that it's funny?
No, I don't care, why should I let what a random youtuber thinks affect me? I've unsuscribbed from his channel, if that means anything. Now, can we please let bygones be bygones? I was jus trying to help a fellow user with info and I'm tired of politics.
From what I’ve seen other people point out, Ancient Mother has already been confirmed, as she seems to be present in this screenshot on the game’s Japanese website, and presumably you can use that Ocean ID to visit her yourself. Apparently a number of other returning legendary creatures have been spotted in trailers or screenshots, too, but as someone who hasn’t actually played the Wii Endless Ocean games, I’m not really familiar with them myself.I wonder if any mythical creatures from previous games will make an appearance? I'd figure they'd find a way to fit at least the Ancient Mother in there somewhere, probably, since it was in the first two games. Also it would certainly be an easy creature to implement, considering it is more or less a re-color of a blue whale.
There are some fun ones in Blue World, but none I'd consider super iconic. Maybe the Singing Dragon or the Okeanos's Guardian?
Considering Blue World had 26 Legendary/Mythical creatures... and Luminous has about 200 more species total than Blue World did, I'd say we're probably looking at at least 30-40 mythicals? Especially since there has been a consistent focus on it in the trailers.
Nice catch, I must have missed that!From what I’ve seen other people point out, Ancient Mother has already been confirmed, as she seems to be present in this screenshot on the game’s Japanese website, and presumably you can use that Ocean ID to visit her yourself. Apparently a number of other returning legendary creatures have been spotted in trailers or screenshots, too, but as someone who hasn’t actually played the Wii Endless Ocean games, I’m not really familiar with them myself.
I’ve also seen observations and speculation based on information from screenshots and trailers that some of the 578 species have variant forms, and that legendary creatures appear to be listed as variants rather than separate species (kinda like how alternate forms of Pokémon aren’t counted as separate Pokédex numbers), so it would seem that that 578 number does not include legendary creatures—those would be in addition to that count!
Why so aggressive? No one was accusing you of knowing about it, in fact I assumed you didn't know, because why else would you post a video from him on famicom of all places. You absolutely SHOULD care about his far right views, though, because in the past he used his reach to propagate them and influence his overwhelmingly young viewers. We are at a turning point in history, there is a war being fought between progressives and moderates on one sides and literal nazis on the other, in which social media platforms are used to spread lies and brainwash people. And it works, because many, many people are gullible and don't factcheck anything. This may sound dramatic to you, but in the last few years we have seen how far right leaders have dismantled or weakened democracies in Poland, Hungary and the US for example and Putin is using those far-right parties all over the world as his mouthpiece to gain power and weaken the global West. I am fucking terrified about the future.
I know who you're talking about. Please don't bring his name up.Sir this is an Endless Ocean thread, what is this post lmfao.
This is like the time a certain YouTuber (don't know if I can say his name on here) started talking about his republican family in the Switch 2 Discussion thread.
Haven't been following this at all, so this is probably answered, but what's the ID on that map?
I assume that that map is randomly generated and the ID acts as a seed for others to play it, but is that right?
or use yourself, to revisit that specific ocean layout; just need to have filled in 80% of that ocean's map to unlock the ID.
Kids these days would rather play with PAPER than THE OCEAN smhwait, they did previews for a game that's been out for twenty years and skipped them for something new?
Gotta show Paper Mario fans that "partners are back" and that the new game is "a return to form".wait, they did previews for a game that's been out for twenty years and skipped them for something new?