I hope the pretty singing lady from the first one makes a return.

Her name's Haley Westenra, I think she's from New Zealand.

Considering how nice the first one was, this one sounds even better.  I look forward to seeing how it plays.

Linkyshinks, I'm starting to see a trend with you.
You love japanese games.

"@Seedofpower said:

" Linkyshinks, I'm starting to see a trend with you. You love japanese games. "

Why wouldn't he?  I myself prefer Japanese games much, much more than Western ones.  I just wish they would bring out a new Freeloader so I could play my Japanese Wii imports again, as well as importing more. "

Houuu Wii Speak Support. Ha despite this game supporting I don't think i'll get the device, Skype call does the job fine enough.

Haley Westerna is indeed from New Zealand.

I didn't play the first one at all. It seems awesome, but not the kind of game I would get any long term enjoyment out of.

Yeah it is, see if you can pick it up on the cheap, I did and certainly don't regret it. It's easily a 8-9 game, more suited to a patient gamer who has a thing for nature and discovery.  

I usually import from www.play-asia.com but it's kind of steep on there for what I would expect to pay for a Wii game in Aussie dollars. I'll have to keep hunting around on the net. In the meantime on of my local EB's has 1 pre-owned copy of the oringal in stock. I am about to leave work, do you reckon it would be worth checking out the original still or wait and go straight for the sequel.

Yeh play-asia has been good to my in most cases in the past but I feel they might be trying to take me for a ride this time. Might go for a drive to Habortown EB and see if they still have that copy of the original in stock. If not I'll just hang tight and wait for the sequel to become availble. Thanks for the info.

 
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Forever Blue is a way better name than "Endless Ocean".

" Forever Blue is a way better name than "Endless Ocean". "

It looks nice and colourful, but it's hard to compliment the graphics any further when they're so small.
 
Locations look pretty cool and realistic, I like the accurate modeling of sea anemones, corals and seaweeds, It's also nice to finally see the arctic under ice diving, and swimming with Manatees. In Florida I think. I recognize those odd looking mineral formations from the Everglades, those are believed to be the first living organisms on the planet - prehistoric shallow seas were once littered with them. I hope they give users a good run down of information when touched.

Looking forward to the sequel. The big improvement that I would like to see is the plant life documented in the same way as the animal life.

"Houuu Wii Speak Support. Ha despite this game supporting I don't think i'll get the device, Skype call does the job fine enough.Haley Westerna is indeed from New Zealand."

" There are some new images on the website, just click where it blinks "new" two or three times then it will have a couple of half-pages with thumbnails to click and view in a slightly larger size. Good stuff, just too small. "

 
A new trailer has been released: 
 
  

New footage is great, nice to see improvements in the details, like animated anemones and the boat movement with the waves etc.

Soft body physics seemed to have improved greatly over the first game.

"Considering how nice the first one was, this one sounds even better.  I look forward to seeing how it plays. "

A new trailer has been released:

Thanks, I will check it out now.

Had to replace the last 2 vids because youtube deleted them:

The oversea sections look as weak and ugly as they did in the orginal game. The all round presentaion values are OK, but the quality seems to drops in places, like the text at some points.. Aside from both of those things, I think it looks great. I still think this game will be better if Nintendo takes full control of it someday, I think Arika have taken this as far as they can.

Here's the experience video, back:

Commercials:

That experience footage looks awesome, I love the look of the Whale sharks, and the Hammerheads and penguins look cool. If that's prehistoric frilled shark in the video that's cool also.  I would hope there are more rare fish like that included into the game.

Another commercial:

I can't wait for this, I played a good 28 hours of the original and hopefully this keeps me busy for much more time. ^_^

It seems to have more variety in missions, more places to visit (I'm not sure but I think each of the different settings it has to visit is about as big as the whole area of the first game, going by a map snapshot), and more densely populated areas, so yeah, it should last longer :-)

 
 
@Black_Rose

" I can't wait for this, I played a good 28 hours of the original and hopefully this keeps me busy for much more time. ^_^ "

*dies from massive orgasm after watching the pictures*

The dangerous crab is a crocodile icon... The crocodile is in front of him...

O' yea, lol.  
 
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