The official Endless Ocean: Blue world thread of pure Joy and Awesomeness

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bmmb1 said:

A question - would this game also suit a smart 7 year old girl with a lot of patience, who likes collecting things (e.g. find/identify all the fish in the game or whatever one does here ) BUT who does not read/speak English? Personally unfortunately I won't have time for this game any time soon, though I'd love to, but can see my smallest girl spending quite some time with this, if it doesn't necessitate juggling skills a la mario and does not need extensive reading (I don't mind translating for her once in a long while some mission, but I would mind having to go over and translate for her something every few minutes).

I'm guessing that would be fine. The whole point of the game is to just swim around and look at things; there's a storyline, but it's quite minimal, and optional. You can play the game just fine without following it, and even of you do, there's very little to read. And if she likes collecting things, this'd be perfect for her. There's a humongous amount of fish to be found, and while all of 'em come with some text, that's only some short background info on them, and nothing you would need to read to understand the game, at all. In fact, I mostly skipped reading these texts in the original myself.

The game's controls are incredibly easy, you just point where you wanna go, press a button, and you go there, she wouldn't have any problems with that whatsoever, imo. I'm not sure how things are in this sequel, but in the original EO you couldn't die, so even though there were some places with sharks and stuff, it's never frightening. I believe in EO2 you can get a 'danger' warning if you come too close to sharks and the likes, but as far as I know you still can't die.

Furthermore, because the game doesn't really have a 'goal' (apart from maybe collecting all the fish and completing the story-section, both of which are entirely optional), it's got basically endless replay value.