- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release Date: May 2, 2024
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Jun 25, 2024Endless Ocean Luminous delivers its familiar formula of underwater exploration under a relaxing premise. It does several things right - namely its online multiplayer, which allows sharing discoveries with up to thirty players, and its well written soundtrack that fits nicely with the game's concept. Nevertheless, the single player experience quickly runs out of steam and ends up feeling too repetitive due to a lack of stimulation and repeat of the same objectives and actions. The flaws of Endless Ocean Luminous end up weighing more than its positive aspects, in an experience that runs out of motivation too soon and too easily.
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Jun 3, 2024Once upon a time, Endless Ocean served as a novelty for an at-home diving experience. Now, despite its polished graphics, it is anything but a shell of itself. The fish are so nicely detailed, the soundtrack is chill, and the playthrough may be fun for half an hour. Endless Ocean Luminous is going to have a hard time being someone’s first choice for an underwater simulation experience. To be frank, I think I would just rather go to an aquarium.
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May 8, 2024While I did not run into any bugs amidst my time playing Endless Ocean: Luminous, and it did run at a very comfortable 30fps, it just adds up to an incredible disappointment and doesn’t really have much going for it. It’s a downgrade from the Wii titles in basically every conceivable manner, and I sincerely cannot recommend it, especially for a $50 price tag. If you have the option, please just go find a copy of the second game at a secondhand shop for $15. I promise you it’ll be a better experience.
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Apr 30, 2024My time with Endless Ocean Luminous was endlessly frustrating. Rather than providing a relaxing, undersea escape, Luminous’ repetitive tasks and uninspiring environments are boring and forgettable from the start. The ridiculous, random requirements to advance the story feel inconvenient in multiplayer and nearly impossible if you’re playing alone, and the story I was rewarded with is so brief and shallow that it fails to make any impression at all. I’ve always been mesmerized by the ocean, but Luminous turns the deep blue into something deeply monotonous.
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May 15, 2024Endless Ocean Luminous sells itself as an immense blue expanse, but its developers seem to have forgotten to create enough content to broaden the player's interest in returning to repetitive scenarios with fish that look more like robots than the game's artificial intelligence. The tedious experience is made worse as you progress through the basic story, which doesn't justify the large number of hours spent scanning an exaggerated number of marine animals.
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May 15, 2024If you're looking for a game where you can control a scuba diver and occasionally see a fish, you're in luck. If you're looking for ANYTHING more than that though you're going to be deeply disappointed. A step down from Endless Ocean's original Wii entries, Endless Ocean Luminous has you exploring a version of the ocean depths so boring and devoid of detail that it may as well be the background.
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May 8, 2024Despite its name, Endless Ocean Luminous is frustratingly shallow.
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May 1, 2024Endless Ocean: Luminous could have been a realistic SCUBA sim with all the treacherous hazards that real underwater divers need to consider, a relaxing chill-vibes game that's mostly about finding fish with your friends, or a story-driven game centered around discovering awesome and even extinct underwater beasts. It has pieces of all of those, but it doesn't commit to any of them. Instead, it takes the enormity and glory of earth's largest and most mysterious region and turns exploring it into a dull, repetitive chore.
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May 21, 2024Endless Ocean Luminous is a beautiful adventure under the sea, but a lot of tedious objectives ruin the experience.
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Apr 30, 2024In a time of time-sucking live-service games and open worlds packed with checklists, it’s nice to sit back with something so peaceful and leisurely.