It is official: “a number of” new Ecco the Dolphin video games are in growth.
Final summer season, the creator of Ecco the Dolphin happy many followers by asserting that not solely had been remakes of the unique video games underway, however a “third” instalment was additionally in growth. Ed Annunziata — the unique creator of the famed and fiendishly troublesome action-adventure video games — was interviewed about elevating consciousness of ocean conservation, his life as a developer, and, proper on the finish, he dropped his bombshell revelation.
California-based developer A&R Atelier, at which Annunziata works, revealed in a press launch that it’s remastering Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time, in addition to that all-important third sport.
“It has been years in the making, and we’re honored to convey Ecco again,” Annunziata stated (thanks, Gematsu). “Ecco has all the time been greater than a sport about a dolphin — he’s a bridge between worlds.” Sadly, that is basically the place the main points cease, however the developer stated to control each its website and the official Discord for extra data.
Ecco the Dolphin initially launched in 1992 on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and was adopted by a sequel, Ecco: The Tides of Time, in 1994. Ecco Jr. and Ecco Jr. and the Nice Ocean Treasure Hunt had been launched in 1995, though they had been “edutainment” video games and primarily developed as studying instruments.
You play because the titular dolphin, your underwater world now devastated by a swirling gust of air and water. You could assist him navigate again by treacherous tropical reefs and freezing polar ice floes to reunite him along with his dolphin pod. There have been a few remasters since: we thought the 2000 remake was okay, writing: “Ecco the Dolphin is a traditional from SEGA, however generally classics ought to keep in the previous,” and of the 2007 remake, we wrote: “For individuals who have performed Ecco earlier than, there’s actually no motive to come back again to it.”
The final Ecco the Dolphin sport — ostensibly the “third” sport, though Annunziata wasn’t concerned — fared a lot better, nonetheless, getting a 7.6 in IGN’s Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future evaluation. An additional sequel, Ecco 2: Sentinels of the Universe, which had been written as a direct sequel to Defender of the Future, was cancelled.
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