Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future

THE BAD:
A difficulty curve that resembles Everest.
A rather anti climactic ending.

SUMMARY:
...That hasn't already been said. Well, how about a review from someone who worked on the game (check page 74 of your UK/EU game booklet).

When I first saw Ecco I was instantly hooked. Everything about the game screams QUALITY and PLAYABILITY. The storyline follows Ecco's quest through 4 different versions of the future, as an enemy called 'The Foe' has captured five traits of dolphins, thus changing history and ensuring that the golden age of man and dolphin doesn't happen. It is up to Ecco to reclaim these gifts and restore the correct timeline. Would have been far easier with a juiced up Delorian car, to be honest .

Anyway, I digress from the topic at hand (or should that be fin!) The Foe creates a temporal vortex to travel back into Earth's past to steal the gifts and Ecco gets caught in the wake of the vortex and gets dragged back through ...

THE BAD:
...to the point of frustration.
Obscure puzzles.

SUMMARY:
Eee. Eeeee. Ee. Eee. Eeeeee. The language of dolphins - hardly the most exciting, is it? Considering they're meant to be one of the most intelligent species on Earth, you would've thought a more diverse selection of words would be in use by now. And what exactly do they say to each other? Surely nothing too interesting given the type of life they lead - swim around a bit, eat some tuna, avoid the occasional shark. Where's the drama? Where's the action? It's unlikely you'll see two dolphins in a drunken punch-up after one found out that the other was sleeping with his wife. But, we shouldn't mock the poor creatures too much. We do owe our very existance to them, after all. That's right - while we go about our daily lives, we remain blissfully unaware of a powerful struggle between an ancient evil and one young dolphin. His name is Ecco, and this is his story...
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