This is...different | Endless Ocean: Luminous [2] 

Hearing them talk so nostalgically about their time on Nine Ball Island just makes me wish they’d go back there. Grumps, nothing is stopping you from going back to it! Please consider picking that series back up. I think we’d all have a way better time!

18:00 Dan enthusiastically spouting facts about how Coelecanths are still alive today (they are) and then immediately resigned and disappointedly, “this is a dinosaur…” when the Nothosaurus shows up. XD

Daniel has one ball. Daniel is The Cyclops of Nine Ball Island. It's all coming full circle.

You know what else is different? My life after my son Matthais died. THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP!

obviously it’s up to them but i think they should finish endless ocean 2, it just has so much more character and charm and was just so funny to watch them play through

The fact that the grumps can take a game so beige and dull and make it so much more with a few childish jokes astounds me every time.

Daniel: check out that large sunfish specimen Arin: that one over there? Daniel: (loads spear gun) yeah that one just keep looking at it

The devs clearly didnt watch game grumps play endless ocean 2, because they would have brought back jean eric louvie and peewee deedee for another batch of hilarious. I give this a 7 episode season and they move on Edit: the reason i say 7 is because normally when they do recording sessions, its a 7 episode stretch of videos unless the game is shorter than 7 episodes. i understand like Endless ocean 2 came out in.... 2009!? geez.... but they still could have watched their videos or their kids brought it to the games devs and said "make jean eric come back!" regardless the entire thing behind 7 episodes is because thats their normal recording session numbers.

"oh remember that cute game with the strange old man, his quirky granddaughter going on an adventure, researching a castle underwater? FUCK ALL THAT AND LET'S MAKE IT BORING AF!" Actually, it was scary too. My heart dropped 3-4 times. I can't believe Dan never felt uncomfortable. Swimming in the dark cave or when it was nothing but the Endless Ocean™ and a fish slowly appeared.

3:49 That is the most "we wanted to have an in-universe explanation for a game mechanic that most people would easily have assumed was something only visible to the player if none of the characters had brought it up" explanation I think I've ever heard.

Fun fact: zebra shark babies have stripes! They fade and spot over time in adults, which is why scientists originally thought they were two different species!

It's sad this game doesn't hold the same magic as the others did but the grumps make it enjoyable all the same!

3:50(ish) - they tried to game-explain the "indication light" that unscanned fish have ('luminous bacteria that are repelled by the electromagnetic scanners')... all they had to say was "if a fish is Shiny, that means you havent Scanned it yet!" ...but then again, all they had to do was make an Endless Ocean game that was like the OTHER Endless Ocean games, yet apparently THAT was too hard, as well...no wonder Matthias is never coming back-- he's dead, just like this series of games, thanks for reminding me...

crazy how they completely sucked the joy of exploring the ocean out of this game compared to the previous ones

Best part about this game is that it makes Endless Ocean 2 look better. This series needs more soda and OJ.

This isnt endless ocean anymore, its endless scanning simulator

5:30 Dan: The coelaecanth has returned from coachella! Me, out loud: Coachellacanth? Coachaelacanth? (6 seconds of silence pass, where I wonder if either of them is going to make the joke) Arin: I would be excited, but i'm a robot. i don't have feelings. Dan: it's back from Coachaelacanth! Me: there we go.

Sunfish are surprisingly massive. Photos don't do them justice (and early Animal Crossing games made them look smaller than some actual small fish).

"That's a whole clip of bullet tuna" is the 10/10 fish joke content I came here for

ALRIGHT HERE GOES IT! Ive played through most of the game so far and here's my review and tips. I feel like I'm extra qualified since I've played both previous endless ocean games which literally inspired me to become a marine biologist which I am in my last year of schooling for. If I'm being honest, this game is not great...its boring without much plot. I feel like I'm one of the very few people who find it fun but thats purely because I enjoy seeing how they render the fish, and because I try to identify the fish myself. This game is all over the place but not in the fun goofy way of they other 2. They have freshwater fish in the ocean? Extinct fish and literal dinosaurs just roaming around, I've found coelacanth just chilling in shallow reefs. This game tries to be educational often presents weird plot as fact. They try to make it "realistic" by coming up with b.s scientific SOUNDING explanations. I could go on and on. This game is great to just chill out to, I like playing it at night while watching other stuff or listening to music. Its definitely not worth $50. Also story mode is not fun... Actual tips and tricks! If you need to scan more fish to unlock chapters, go on a solo dive and try to find a reef, go to the corals because they will have a bunch of little schools. Also finding large schools which tend to hang out closer to the surface is good too. Ignore the weird sidequests like the anomalies or disk puzzles, they're annoying and half the time don't work. Also when scanning, hold down the button and look all around, that scans more. You can also hit the b button before the meter fills up so you dont have to go into the individual fish camera. You also don't have to go down the list of each individual fish to make it count towards the fish goal. Hopefully this is helpful? Overall, if you are really wanting a chill somewhat educational experience you may enjoy the game, specifically the solo dives. Take all the educational content with a grain of salt tho because they do not make it clear if the fish is actually freshwater, extinct, or straight up a mythical creature. I will say the designers and artists outdid themselves the game is absolutely beautiful! Its very clearly a Japanese developed game as a lot of the fish are found there along with the salvage. I enjoyed that part since I’m Japanese and grew up seeing a lot of these fish. If you are a Japanese marine biologist who just wants to chill, you'll probably enjoy the game? But I wouldn't really recommend it. Just replay the originals. Its sucks its so bland. I was literally counting down the days until its release and it is a definite disappointment. Thanks to anyone who made it to the end through all my yapping! Love you

I would adore if they went back to endless ocean 2

My dead son Matthias was a huge fun of the Hartford Whalers...THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP

The AI saying 'Daniel must be feeling competitive' gave me a horrible flash forward to a dystopian future where you'll have an AI assistant that reads other peoples' facial expressions and body language to tell you how they feel.

At first I thought “maybe they’re freaking out over scanning 500 things, confusing a side goal/achievement with the main game” then I saw THE NEXT CHAPTER IS LOCKED UNTIL YOU SCAN 500 THINGS. Wow, what garbage. How did they decide to bring a decade-old series back from the dead, only to make it the most aggressively cheap and padded thing possible? Edit: okay…so free dive counts toward the goal, and schools of the same fish count individual fish…that’s not as bad? Still pretty bad…

💧Hush, lay down your troubled mind 💧 🌅The day has vanished and left us behind🌅 🌬And the wind, whispering soft lullabies 🌬 🌊Will soothe, so close your weary eyes🌊

Sunfish: Okay, here's my plan for evolution. I'm going to take the entire half of my body that controls propulsion in this three-dimensional environment, and I'm going to cut it off as if I've barely survived an industrial workplace accident.

This game: "Here's an ocean full of fish!" Also this game: "DINOSAURS!!"

8:14 So, Daniel was the odd man out on 9-Ball Island?

me, a shark enthusiast, screaming "BLACK TIP REEF SHARK!!! BLACK TIP REEF SHAAAARK!!!!!"

"Isn't this giant prehistoric fish cool? Go scan 500 regular fish 😐"

I really hope they finish Endless Ocean 2 instead of playing this. I miss it.

NGL now that they're just scanning fish, I'm more into it. I'd love to watch y'all scan more fish to get to the next story!

500 SCANS JUST TO UNLOCK CHAPTER 2?! WERE THE DEVELOPERS OF THIS GAME HIGH?!

Keeping my fingers crossed that they decide to revisit Endless Ocean 2 after this cause it’s a much superior game and they have yet to see the crazy stuff that happens there

I would honestly watch them do solo dive mode and just swim around the ocean, scanning fish and talking about god knows what. Very "powerwash simulator" level of relaxing

THEY LOCK THE GAME BEHIND 500 SCANS, AFTER HALF AN HOUR?! this game is Matthias to me...

I want to know the dev experience on this game, cause it feels like a lot of compromises were made or none of the original team worked on this new one. That said, very pretty fish models 🐟

I thought the pixelation was done by the editors, since it happened immediately after Dan asked if they could show that fish on RU-vid.

GameGrumps Lunch Break Chronicles, Day 137: I made me some hot dogs. Also enjoying some kimchi. It is in fact bussin. 10/10.

Episode isn’t loading but I swear if Arin starts with “LETS GOOOOO” and Dan starts talking about the Hartford Whalers I’m gonna lose it😤😤😤😤

"I'll send those to the editor. We can put those up on the screen." And then the editor never did. Ok, whatever, I guess. There's nothing inherently wrong with just straight edits with no extra bits, but I kind of miss the fun, old edits that early GG had. Just once in a while would be fun. "Barry! Put a picture of Burgie sliding slowly across the screen!"

15:44 Endless Ocean: Plop Me Back in Middle of the Ocean, Motherfuckers!

Don't worry, Dan. I laughed at the Lawnmower Fish! I got your back

Endless Ocean Luminous is the best commercial for highlighting how awesome Blue World is

So Daniel is the “dude who had a MAJOR incident” on Nineball Island! It all makes sense now! CASE CLOSED!

Love it when they say "We'll send ____ to the editor, they can put it up on the screen." and nothing appears on the screen.

I love how there’s no voice acting besides that TikTok ai voice. I’m sure that won’t get annoying.

8:04 Seems we finally learned the lore on who the 5th guy in Nine Ball Island was!

Despite it not living up to the previous game, there will always be something special sbout game grumps in the endless oceans

They really dropped oil into the endless ocean with some of those game design choices

DANIEL IS THE CYCLOPS

Incredible work from the devs to take such a rich source material and make a game that is a completely horrible soulless grind. It's borderline impressive how bad they've made this.

They do a good job injecting any amount of personality into these only 2 characters lmao I feel like the solution is to just go back and finish Endless Ocean 2

Man i cant describe the feelings i felt when i saw the grumps were going to be doing a new endless ocean series after all this time. And now after watching the first to episodes... well i dont think i can describe these feelings either...

With how underwhelmed the guys were by the game, I hope they go back and finish Endless Ocean 2 after this, that'd be so fun!

I hope that because this new one is so much less plot-heavy than the old game that this will push them to finish playing through Blue World. It was one of my favorite childhood games and I want to see their reactions to the end!

When they looked at the whale tail in the beginning and talked about what they saw in it, I also see the helmet of Griffith 😂

8:15 really come full circle with the missing testicle jokes since 9-ball island guys 😂

Playing a game about fish and Arin doesn't _once_ do the Hell's Kitchen "fiiiish" impression... Especially when they found John Dory.

This game feels like an AI looked at the other games in the series and spat this out. Also,one review says "...instead of feeling like a big ecosystem, it feels like a big underwater bus stop." Nothing to do with it being AI but it made me laugh.

25:08 what in the subnautica Also every time they're scanning something that isn't a fish, all I can hear is "THIS NO FISH"

Just in time for lunch

As a 30 year old who was there for the OG Endless Ocean series, this is just sad. I propose we strike it from the cannon and revisit the first 2 games.

Arin- What the heck?! I scanned like 50 fish that last time. Gimli- That still only counts as 1.

Dan mentioning the Hartford Whales took me back to the mario maker episode where Arin said he'd let carvel bukkake him.

This endless ocean would benefit from having more soda and OJ in it.

It may not be the most entertaining game to work with, compared to the previous Endless Ocean, but it's kinda great that the NPC companion is named friggin DANIEL

Dan: “Operator, operator” DDR: “Please hook me up to my lover at the end of the line.”

Oh my gosh they have to do the solo dives to complete the scans. Did they figure it out?? I'm in the middle right now. Oh thank God. I hope they keep playing, I am enjoying

8:14 Daniel is the one guy who had a major accident on 9 ball island. He is the Cyclopes confirmed

I loved playing as the Hartford Whalers on the SNES NHL game (Stanley Cup I think?)!

Game Grumps can make anything funny

I feel like a return of Endless Ocean 2 is in order as a pallette cleanser

Dan, you almost made me drop a case of liquor with the Lawnmower Man reference. It was so stupid, but for some reason I found it so funny.

I'm enjoying the exploration of the free ocean! Please keep playing, guys!!!

I'd definitely love to see more of this. Love the calm vibes and stuff.

1. Dan has absolutely brought up the Hartford Whalers logo before, he's even worn a shirt with it on it in Power Hour 😂 2. I NEEEEEEEEEEEEED them to play Abzu in its entirety now please!!!

I hope they do more, it's a nice chill time swimming around looking at sea creatures

The button mashing to skip cutscenes is very relatable

i would love to see you guys play another crab's treasure!! arin would love the gameplay and dan would adore the visuals♥️♥️

I feel like kids that have the ocean/fish hyperfixation would absolutely love this game

9:00 “that’s insane” *kickstarter ukulele music intensifies*

I liked the one where they scanned fish for a loooong time 😂

Endless Ocean: The Search for Fun

"Hey, where are the white women at?" Not Arin making a Blazing Saddles reference😂 10:20

We've gone from a game that's contemplative and even a bit meditative, to a game that feels autofabricated by an AI, by some guy working from an iPhone.

8:16 We call him, The Cyclops!

Also 20:52 happy to say that at least I got the lawnmower man reference Dan

i’m a simple paleontology student. i see a prehistoric creature, and i am filled with whimsy beyond comprehension

Daniel is where the name for 9 ball island came from!!!

I’d be down for them to go back to Endless Ocean: Blue World, I know there’s plenty more for them left to do there

The Grumps are working overtime to make this fun for us, i respect it.

Danny is a real one for recognizing the Hartford Whalers. Brass Bonanza for DAYS

Fun Fact: Zebra sharks got their name because they have black and white stripes when they're babies. Back in the day, scientists actually thought the babies and adults were separate species.

Yes, Arin, Danny has absolutely mentioned the Hartford Whale thing before.

You guys NEED NEED NEED to play Animal Well, feel like it’s the perfect game grumps game!

Dan and I both thought up the "Coachellacanth" joke at the same time!

It really is so depressing that the developing company made this series so soulless with the most tone-deaf and oblivious thing they could've done: making it an AI guide with an AI generated voice. Props to Arin and Dan for being such good sports about it.

Just Daniel and Arin, swimming around in the ocean.

you know its a bad game when Arin has to improv a nonexistent Seinfeld episode to keep him amused