Reminder: The First Switch Online Event For Endless Ocean: Luminous Is Now Live

Wooo! Will definitely be taking part.

More FOMO and live service?

Oh no…

I hope team Shiver loses.

I want to take part. This will be my first online session in Endless Ocean Luminous.

“Here we are going to give you a 7 day free trial to play the game but we are going to start the event days after the trial runs out.” If I knew that the event was going to start less than three days after the end of the seven day trial ended I would have waited to activate it 🤦‍♀️

This is playing out exactly like Fashion Dreamer - except that game has free online, doesn't look quite as soulless, coordinating outfits is more engaging than scanning things in disappointingly bland environments, and the multiplayer doesn't clash so hard with the general nature of the game.

I didn't think a game could feel less barebones than FD, but if it wasn't published by Nintendo themselves, I'd wonder if they accidentally shipped some early build instead of the full game.

Very strange game this - as a proof of concept I can see its worth, I find it quite relaxing just to while away some time in at the moment but will quickly get bored.
I'm wondering what Nintendo were thinking with this, was this always the goal for the game, or was it a quick dev job to plug a gap that a Switch 2 delay left? I assume not, as its releasing so close the Paper Mario, I imagine if that was the case they would want to stretch out the schedule somewhat. It seems this is the game Nintendo wanted....

I really don't get the negativity around this game. The game does exactly what it sets out to do, creare a relaxing underwater exploration game.

And the short time I've had playing the game yesterday have been great. I feel that this more a game for shorter play sessions.

@ozwally It was developed by Arika, who made all three Endless Ocean games. I'm guessing they didn't want to spend effort and resources fleshing out the game to the same level as the 2nd Endless Ocean, in order to test the waters (pun Nintended). They will probably either update it by adding things like an aquarium to beef up the game, or deem it a failure due to the current reception and only roll out these timed event updates instead.

@LXP8 It would be nice to have additional content added down the road. I strikes me theyre taking a similar route to their recent sports titles, where the biggest emphasis is online with a barebones single player. I love mario strikers battle league for its gameplay and aesthetic, I just wish there was much more meat on the single player bone

@sanderev I'm not sure if you're being deliberately disingenuous but the negative reaction to Endless Ocean: Luminous has been quite clearly set out in reviews and impressions of the game.

A lot of it stems from the fact story missions are unforgivably short and egregiously gated, and that there's a complete lack of gameplay variety in comparison to previous titles.

By comparison, Endless Ocean 2 on Wii had multiple locations, more diverse missions, a far better and longer story, NPC's to talk to and get quests from, trainable dolphin pals, areas where you could explore on land, a homebase you could decorate, various tools to use, more ways to interact with fish, and lots more. None of those things are in Luminous and they're charging more for it.

There's less to Luminous than even the 17 year old Wii original. There's nothing wrong with review outlets and players having some standards and deeming this as regressive, underwhelming, disappointing, and even unacceptable. Hope this clears things up for you.

Really enjoying it until now.. being there with 30 divers doesn't feel like to much since it is a big area... and nice to collectively looking for something..

@folkloner.. endless ocean 2 i'm now 180 hours in this year, so is indeed richer.. endless ocean 1 wasn't that inrteresting if i look back at it now.. just one sea...

after the review i was dissaponted, but now playing it i kind of like it.. (not sure for how long thoughh.. let's see what this event does...

@sanderev
I am playing it right and I think the game is great. Scanning and discovering is alot of fun.

@sanderev I personally think it will turn around a bit.. the reviewers clearly didn't experience the online bit that much since it wasn't out

but if you do a comparison which endless ocean 2: that had a great meta story combining collecting, traininig and exploring on a nice overworld.. you felt like you were living the live... (played EO1 back in the day, EO2 this year when i modded my wiiu, just before this was announced)

@razza1987 but yesterday it was already up if you launched the game ... you activated the trial without the game.. that'sa pity

@Folkloner You may feeel strongly about it, but I disagree. That is not what this game set out to do.

The game is purely based around online diving, and also has pure single player diving. I do feel the "story" mode is an afterthought at best. And could/should have been omitted entirely. In the current form I'd say it is more a tutorial to teach you how to play the game. And it's very fitting for that.

The previous games all were story based games with no online connectivity. So, even though they are in the same universe, they don't compare. It's like saying Pokémon Snap is stupid because you can catch and battle with Pokémon.

@ozwally I love it how people just straight up say “a switch 2 delay” when Nintendo have never stated this is a thing

@romanista I literally activated it like five minutes before I loaded it up. Which is what I thought we were supposed to do with it. None of the reviews I have seen bothered to mention in game events

@razza1987 that is very true and a fair point

@RodSD64

I hope team Shiver loses.

Underrated post, hehe.

@razza1987 indid saw somw in the previews from nintendo itself. But you’re right. The reviews seem to have been offline mostly.

I'm Team Peanut Butter. Team Jelly are godless heathens.

I dont care how much ***** this game is getting im gonna buy it the next payout time for me. Im gonna smoke a big doobie and space out in this game

Yay! Song of the Sea Dragons! Let's go!

clears space

installs Tetris 99

deletes Tetris 99

reinstalls the stuff cleared up

Moral: read attentively, folks.🙄😅

@nhSnork genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about

I bought it and started playing, I like it. I did enjoy the Wii games, so it takes me back! I might even try a couple of these online things, and I never play games online particularly.

@razza1987 Basically, I mistook this post for a Tetris 99 event featuring the Endless Ocean theme - and, at a glance, further misread it as being THIS weekend. Yeah, it takes being me to score such achievements.😅 The biggest irony is that I saw an actual related Tetris 99 event announcement shortly afterwards - except it isn't due until next week either.

@nhSnork that’s ok. I was just confused. I think the funniest part is that you said “read attentively” though 🤣

Mmm yes I’m sure the 4 people that bought this utter travesty of a game can’t wait for it. Spring regards to you all.

@Rozetta
Hehe, thanks for noticing

I'm enjoying the online event, adds a bit of much needed variety. 😀
Still nothing amazing really but if we could have one of these say once a fortnight for a few months, it would keep me coming back like Tetris 99 does with the themes..

Luminous of all games gets NSO icons of random fish, and yet Legends Arceus still hasn't gotten any!