Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean ( Forever Blue フォーエバーブルー with the Japan) is a video game for the Wii, developed by Arika and published by Nintendo. It left on August 2nd, 2007 to Japan, on October 29th, 2007 in the United States and on November 9th, 2007 to Europe.
Presentation
Endless Ocean is a simulation of Plongée underwater. The player incarnates a plunger exploring an imaginary sea ( Manaurai Sea ) in the search of hidden treasures and subaqueous life. He can meet various watery species there energy of smallest fish to largest (Requin whale, Raie manta) while passing by the Cetacea (Humpback whale) and others (Pingouin). Fauna being able to be met is very diversified and varies the most widespread specimens with rarest. The player can also meet a Dauphin which will become his/her companion of diving. Dangerous species can also be cross, without however representing a danger to the plunger. The player has a large aquarium which it can populate during the play according to the species that it will have identified.
The play is controlled primarily with the Wiimote by means of a pointer with the screen being used to guide the plunger. It also makes it possible several players to plunge together via the service Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Akira, the studio in load of the development of the play, already has with its credit two similar productions exits on PlayStation 2: Everblue and Everblue II . These two plays focused same manner on research of treasures and photography. However, whereas Endless Ocean makes it possible to the player to move by using either a sight with the third nobody, or to the first nobody, the series Everblue offered only to one sight to the first anybody.
The play proposes moreover to a fixed sight with the first anybody for explorations in details.
Music
The song Prayer interpreted by Hayley Westenra is present in the bands advertisements of the play, like in the play itself. The singer contributes with several other pieces to the band its of the play, with in particular her resumption of the traditional song Maori Pokarekare Anna .
The player has also the possibility of personalizing the band its by copying his own files MP3 from a memory card inserted in the reader SD of Wii. It is the second play Wii to propose this possibility after Excite Truck , also published by Nintendo.
Reception
The Japanese magazine Famitsu allotted to Forever Blue a note of 35/40, by proposing the liberty of action offered by the play, the extent of the clear area and the quality of the soundtrack.
Recalls
August 10th, 2007 in Japan, Nintendo had to point out the versions left on August 2nd because of a bug present in the play. An exchange was made with a corrected version of the play. The bug caused a planting of the console when one tried to introduce a line-guitar into the aquarium.
External bonds
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Captures of screens on JeuxFrance