Theres no wii speak!

Same! People always gave me shit when I said my favorite game was just scuba diving and discovering fish.

Yes finally 🎉 But i think they got rid of the Photo commissions, Dolphin Training and the Aquarium which you could use in the Wii Version. I will get it anyway.

What year was Everblue 2 released on PS2? That’s how long I’ve been waiting for another Arika diving game (without motion controls)

There are *no goats* in the ocean. Go to school.

Same, it also looks really cool

it looks like a no stress game, but what about sharks and other dangers ??

I am looking for some kind of zen game. I have tried with No Man Sky, didn’t work for me.Last zen moments I had in Botw

Maybe a ref. to Zebra Turkey fish? lol I have no clue beyond that.

It does have a story for 1 player, but I am not sure if it is as detailed as the first 2 games.

Story mode's confirmed, yeah. It seems like we'll be swimming in one area again like game one. Also, just looking at how our diver's entire body is obscured by the goggles and helmet, I suspect we won't be spending significant amounts of time on shore (since it seems like none of the customization focuses on what we the person in the divesuit look like.) We'll have to see how in-depth the story mode itself is... but hey, less than a week to find out!

So the ESRB rating ONLY mentions references to wine and alcoholic beverages in the context of salvaging, no signs of violence like they flagged for Blue World with the animal attacks. We also see a shark that's CLEARLY either Thanatos, Magu Tapa, or a new shark in the same vein as them swimming non-hostilely around the coral reef in a couple different trailers with divers clearly close by. All together, I think we're safe this time around. If it is Thanatos he has acquired chill.

Physical copies definitely seem to exist, since you can order them on Nintendo's website. No clue about the size. I'd ASSUME it's all on cartridge except whatever bug patches they do, but who even knows these days. I've assumed there's going to be an oxygen meter just because it would mean surfacing to change up the map every so often, but we have seen very little of the game's UI. Likewise, we have no clue about what if any upgrades there are that aren't aesthetic. But as annoying as an oxygen meter is, it's probably necessary for a game with randomization as a factor to periodically force a reset of some sort so it can refresh its memory. (For example, the blood moons in Zelda are an in-story justification for the fact that the game needs to reset its state every so often to keep running smoothly. Annoying if you're doing something right as/before one hits, but it's worlds better than the game getting laggy or crashing because of memory issues.) My guess is that there MIGHT be slower oxygen loss over time as we increase our dive rank (or whatever the skill is called here that allows us to swim with the animals,) but that there won't be the "you lose oxygen faster in X environment until you beat story section Y" situation we had in the second game, based off nothing concrete. I think the primary limiting factor in unlocking things is that we won't be able to access every biome every dive - that if you get a shallow coral reef setup, you're probably not going to be able to go into glacial waters or the deep sea in that same dive. I also suspect that the story mode is going to introduce at least BIOMES in a set order (so you'll get shallow coral reef, and then icy waters, and then ruins, or whatever the order is, and it's the same every time,) and possibly fully pre-designed maps. I have absolutely no evidence there because we don't know anything about the story mode beyond "it exists, it's solo player, and it focuses on 'saving the World Coral'," but that's what I'd assume is the case based off there BEING a story mode separate from solo dives.

Yeah, that's my big question with the customization - do we get to choose frame, or is our featureless diver gender-neutral (using a traditionally "male" rig)? Guess we're going to have to see for sure, because honestly it's not a close enough look for me to tell one way or another.

Well Subnautica launched in 2014, and Endless Ocean came out in 2007. So technically Endless Ocean would like a word with Subnautica.

We've seen some areas with a more greenish tint to them and what I think were arapaima (in at least the first trailer) that make me think that there's at least SOME kind of freshwater biome, presumably with whatever handwaving gets us glacial and coral reef dives in the same region yet again. But we haven't had it confirmed as yet. At the very least, if they DID cut the freshwater biome they replaced it with something like 150 more fish than existed in the second game TOTAL, which would suggest a deeper dive into the saltwater biomes they include. (I just looked at the wiki to confirm - 2 had 352 encyclopedia entries, 26 of them legendaries, 340 if you only count each unique creature and exclude the young/mature and male/female variants for certain species.) So over 500 is good!