Great vid mate! I personally despite acknowledging the issues absolutely love tears of the kingdom, and my first play through was amazing. In regards to story out of order, I always didn’t understand how so many got it out of order. It would be really hard to stumble upon the tears without the first one with Impa, and that takes you to the forgotten temple which tells you the order. If the player chooses to ignore that, sorry but that’s kind of on you. As for ending, I agree, it could have been more impactful if Zelda didn’t get turned back, but I’m a sucker for a happy ending lol. Honestly, my main gripe with the game is the lack of replayability. While my first play through is great, and I have fun when I replay, I don’t have an urge to go back and play even mid way through game. Also, while technically it isn’t as good, Botw first play through will never be topped, and still my favourite gaming experience oat
I loved this game. It did not freak me out when I played it. But I understand how it could freak a kid out. Castlevania, and some of Adventure of Link came out when I was little, and they scared me.
I played this game when it was released. My cousin's mom rented it for us because they thought it would be a cute dolphin game. Yeah, no lol. It was deeply unsettling, and after a little while I was too terrified to continue. My cousin played a bit longer and got a few levels further in, but she was really creeped out, too, eventually. It was just the often open, lonely spaces with that empty-sounding music, and then BAM! Some predator comes out of nowhere, and you're trying to get away, and your oxygen is getting low, and you can't find a cave to get air.. We picked up Castlevania: Bloodlines a couple of years later, and that hadn't scared us at all.
This game played a role in the creation of Vaporwave strangely enough. Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 by Daniel Lopatin is the origin of the underrated genre
I loved this game even though it was super hard and I never finished it. It was creepy and lonely. One game that scared me was Solstice. Idk what i is about that game, but it made me feel uneasy. I could only play it for maybe 10 minutes at a time here and there.
Whenever I see dolphins 🐬 on tv or in person, talking about them or over hearing a conversation. All I think about for the first 5 seconds is Ecco it’s has stayed with me for about 30 years ish. At a young age it sure made an impression. Resident evil and many others had their time as well till it got silly online. Ecco was an experience like playing the first Tomb Raider game and actually digged it , it was an experience that I learn so much history from at the same time that was all true in our world the myths etc .
Whenever I see dolphins 🐬 on tv or in person, talking about them or over hearing a conversation. All I think about for the first 5 seconds is Ecco it’s has stayed with me for about 30 years ish. At a young age it sure made an impression. Resident evil and many others had their time as well till it got silly online. Ecco was an experience like playing the first Tomb Raider game and actually digged it , it was an experience that I learn so much history from at the same time that was all true in our world the myths etc .
I desperately wanted to play this as a kid, but all I had was SNES & it wasn’t available on there. Honestly for the best, because I never would’ve gotten past the first couple levels anyway. I NEVER would’ve guessed that its storyline was this bizarre though! I always assumed it was just a chill game, swimming around & doing dolphin stuff. This definitely would’ve freaked my already-anxious childself out lol
Ecco was one of my favorite games as a kid, though I never got out of the normal sea area(though I did eventually get a cheat code to try out some further levels). I did beat Ecco: The Tides of Time in one game rental over a weekend though.
I too was a young sprite fixated on sea life with designs on being a marine biologist, and obsessed with dolphins to boot, so I was also the target demographic of Ecco. Unfortunately, I only had the Game Gear version and never made it very far as it was too difficult to play. I hear a lot of people sing its praises though. Thanks for the retrospective.
It's hilarious that there are captions for this. I mean, Scottish accents sound like someone perpetually choking on food but it's still funny, ya wee cunt.
It’s funny how jarring it is to go into a video expecting not a Scott to start speaking and then having to catch up to understand what they are saying 😂
I was born in 1990. Played this on our wondows 95 computer.. got past, maybe the first level back then, lol. same with comic zone.. both i would love to play as an adult though.. also pod and doom and later quake..
Wtf, I always felt this way when I played it. I loved it. But it always gave a creepy real vibe. The Dreamcast version did even worse. Especially when I found that secret cave to the beach locked Megalodon.
LOL I was telling my friends about how this game left me scared as a kid. If i was good during the week my mom would take me to the video store on fridays and this game got me grounded from breaking the controller on the wall lol. I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way all these years later. What a game....
Ecco was my favourite Mega Drive game as a kid (b.1982). How unsettling it was, is pretty much how you described; and the difficulty of the levels was what made it endure, pushing you to complete each level. The “Welcome to the Machine” level is straight out of the mind of H.R. Giger. I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, so the fact that the game referenced a track I knew, and had mental images of, served to reinforce my love of it. What a time to be alive.. the only one we know.
I played ECCO as a kid. From ages 7-12. What a truely scary and fun game. It was terrifying in multiple ways. Now I admit I was never able to beat the game without cheating. My mother played it it and did better than me. More patience and time to play. As an older game now I could crack this gem. I've dabbled in it. It's not nearly as scary not because I'm an adult but because I've played other games similar to it. But it still has the same vibes and fears it's just don't hit me in the same way. But it's a great game. It falls into that like top 150 games of all time but not top 100. But top 250 games of all time are still great games to me. lol
