Fuck Yeah, Ecco!

A&R Atelier has announced Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, a remaster collection including all versions of Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time, as well as a new Ecco game that “extends the journey into the modern era.” Platforms and a release date were not announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via A&R Atelier:

About

Ecco the Dolphin: Complete is a comprehensive new package that takes players on a journey through time and through the history of one of gaming’s most iconic franchises. In Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, Ecco swims through time itself, from the 8-bit Master System era through the 16-bit Genesis / Mega Drive generation and into a brand-new contemporary game built for the modern era. This is the complete, definitive Ecco the Dolphin experience, created by the people who made the originals. A remaster done as it should be.

Early Preview Access and Community

Ecco the Dolphin invites you for the Earth Day celebration at the official website. To participate in early access, preview Ecco content, and connect directly with the development team, visit the official website—the singular source of information and access to the team building the future of Ecco the Dolphin.

Made by the People Who Made Ecco

Ecco the Dolphin: Complete is built by original members of the Ecco development team, reunited after more than 30 years, and includes original creator Ed Annunziata along with members of the original composition, art, and programming teams. No one else can make this game. The people who created Ecco‘s world, its music, its atmosphere, and its mysteries are the ones bringing it forward. This is not an outside studio’s interpretation. This is Ecco as it was always meant to be—realized by the minds that dreamed it into existence.

Every Version. Every Era. Every Ocean.

The package includes all versions of Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time, the original, immutable games from the early ’90s, preserved and freely explorable. Alongside the classics, a brand-new contemporary Ecco game extends the journey into the modern era, weaving the history of the franchise together into a single, unified experience.

Built for Players, Streamers, and Speedrunners

The correct answer is the augmented orca fight. Which, at 6.4%, was in fourth place. Nothing like this happens in either of the Gens/MD games, though as @silvexus noted, it kind of resembles an unused sprite found in a beta version of the second game (seen here, via The Cutting Room Floor).

I wasn't specifically thinking of it, just trying to come up with something that seemed outlandish enough to fit with the rest of the nonsense of this beautiful series, but I suspect my subconscious latched onto it, haha.

The most popular answer by far, at a whopping 32.8%, was the one about transformations, which really surprised me! This is a major gameplay feature in the second game, Tides of Time. It's on a level-by-level basis, but in certain levels Ecco does indeed transform into creatures such as a seagull, a shark, a sea jelly, an entire school of fish, and - if you screw up in certain levels - one of the invading aliens.

As for the rest of the options, in the order they're presented:

This is from the level "Origin Beach" in the first game. By calling out of the water, Ecco can find a couple of hidden message from land-dwelling protocetaceans, who, hearing him sing in the sea, decide they would like to try it out.

This happens before the events of the games but is revealed when Ecco visits Atlantis and explores their library.

It's called the Asterite, and it's one of Ecco's key allies. (Technically it's not actually DNA - it's a group of globes arranged on a double-helix - but folks who've played either game up to where it's introduced would understand this shorthand description.)

Happens at the end of the second game.

Happens during a set of levels in the first game that involve going back in time 55 million years. (Which is, yes, how Ecco accidentally starts his own species - indeed his entire biological order.)

Happens in the second game. You get to visit them when Ecco's descendant - one of the aforementioned flying psychic dolphins -brings him into her future to do some stuff.

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Played Ecco again so had to make a new plushie!

"The power of our most exalted one would destroy you easily! But you will never know, for I will finish you myself!"

Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future is my most favoritest game of all time, and I've been meaning to do something for the Ice & Fire level foreverrrrr. I just didn't know how I wanted to do it, and I thought going for this look would be a fun little go to see how it would turn out. It was honestly harder than I thought it would be, and maybe wasn't the best stylistic choice for the detail and vibe that I really would have liked, but I still really like how it came out! 

Hardly anyone knows about the game (at least that I know of, lol), but it's just such a gorgeous, unique experience and it was such a big component of my childhood! Honestly this just doesn't do justice to my obsession lol but for now, it's not too shabby.