Ecco the Dolphin (Genesis) (gamerip) (1992)

Ecco The dolphin Has A Creepy and amazing Soundtrack! The Game itself is one of the hardest video games I've ever played and beaten. When you beat a stage in this game it feels like you accomplished something unlike Mega Man X6 Or Mario 2 The Lost levels where you just got through your day of torture. Overall Great Soundtrack and a decent game. Soundtrack:8.4/10. Game:5.3/10.
 
Ecco The Dolphin has a decent soundtrack that suffers from the gems sound chip (I'm not saying all gems soundtracks are bad because it can be done right such as Vector Man 1 and 2). My favorites are the opening theme song, Ice Zone, and Welcome To The Machine because it gives me Vietnam flashbacks... The game itself isn't as hard as I remembered it (Besides a handful of stages and enemies). The ice levels suck because of the damn spiders that move very quickly and the trilobites which are the bane of my existence. The trilobites are fast and they follow you around until they kill you. They are also usually placed in cheap spots Making them one of my most hated enemies in video games. I also hate Eccos control because it's stiff as hell and sometimes it can get you Massacred by enemies such as crabs, spiders, and trilobites. The bosses are extremely hard and annoying and for some reason, they don't give you a check point before the boss or give the boss it's own stage. Which will make your angry level sky rocket through the roof. Lastly, that Welcome to the machine level can go f*ck itself. It is five minutes long with crashing painful defeat by either the vortex or the screen telling that you just screwed yourself. After that painful level, you fight the final boss which is time consuming and Annoying. If you die on the boss, that means you have to do the whole level again. Thankfully, you can enter a password that takes you to the final boss, so you don't have to play that annoying level again. Overall, Ecco The Dolphin is a decent with a decent soundtrack and a strangely entertaining story.
Game: 5.5/10.
Soundtrack: 5.8/10.
Note: I beaten this game on the sega genesis and it took me two months. I'm currently Over half way done with Ecco The Tides Of Time (Hard Mode).
 
PuffFilms said:
AVGN drowning in beer
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I didn't like his review because he only covered four stages in the game (which are fairly tame in terms of difficulty compared to the later levels). I loved that scene you mentioned, but the rest of his review is pretty bad. He could've done better with the game he was working with (the machine level could've been a whole segment if he actually cared about the game he was covering).
 
Harpuia said:
Ecco The Dolphin has a decent soundtrack that suffers from the gems sound chip (I'm not saying all gems soundtracks are bad because it can be done right such as Vector Man 1 and 2). My favorites are the opening theme song, Ice Zone, and Welcome To The Machine because it gives me Vietnam flashbacks... The game itself isn't as hard as I remembered it (Besides a handful of stages and enemies). The ice levels suck because of the damn spiders that move very quickly and the trilobites which are the bane of my existence. The trilobites are fast and they follow you around until they kill you. They are also usually placed in cheap spots Making them one of my most hated enemies in video games. I also hate Eccos control because it's stiff as hell and sometimes it can get you Massacred by enemies such as crabs, spiders, and trilobites. The bosses are extremely hard and annoying and for some reason, they don't give you a check point before the boss or give the boss it's own stage. Which will make your angry level sky rocket through the roof. Lastly, that Welcome to the machine level can go f*ck itself. It is five minutes long with crashing painful defeat by either the vortex or the screen telling that you just screwed yourself. After that painful level, you fight the final boss which is time consuming and Annoying. If you die on the boss, that means you have to do the whole level again. Thankfully, you can enter a password that takes you to the final boss, so you don't have to play that annoying level again. Overall, Ecco The Dolphin is a decent with a decent soundtrack and a strangely entertaining story.
Game: 5.5/10.
Soundtrack: 5.8/10.
Note: I beaten this game on the sega genesis and it took me two months. I'm currently Over half way done with Ecco The Tides Of Time (Hard Mode).
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This game actually doesn't use GEMS. Apparently it uses Novotrade's own sound engine, but it's hard to tell the two apart since it just sounds like a modified GEMS most of the time.
 
Harpuia said:
If that is true, I honestly can't tell the difference because it sounds the same to me.
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Yeah. It can be hard to tell because the instruments are very GEMS-like, it's like they modified a GEMS sound driver to sound more atmospheric and warbly. I found out about this here: https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Driver_List

This game's soundtrack oddly reminds me of that trainwreck Fantasia Genesis game for some reason, but this game's music is way better and fits the mood of the game.
 
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