Endless Ocean Luminous

"Endless Ocean Luminous is a lovely adventure that lets you play your way, and rewards you with a relaxing feeling few games offer."

"Endless Ocean Luminous is a great return to the cult series of the Wii. Arika presents just the type of experience that that fans have been waiting for almost 15 years."

"Endless Ocean Luminous isn&s;t a game for everyone. The absence of action or challenge for the player, along with a calm pace of play, may not please all palates. But if you connect with its proposal, as it has happened …"

"If you spend a while searching the seabed at a depth of 50 meters for treasures and crabs, you’ll be all the more surprised to suddenly hear a whale’s song and spot an orca swimming above you. Or you might …"

"A really strong title for those who have a love of Endless Ocean’s many trappings. The sealife on show is fantastic and researching them by scanning and cataloguing feels quite satisfying. Storymode presents a fairly expected and oddly structured set …"

"With a little more attention, Endless Ocean Luminous could have been an interesting video game. However, as it is, it is merely a wasted opportunity: interaction with environments and sea creatures is stripped to the bone, while the direction is …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous could be far better in a lot of ways, but as it stands it&s;s good enough to have eked out a decent chunk of my time collecting hundreds of fish and hunting down the elusive mythical beasts!"

"Overall, Endless Ocean Luminous is an incredibly beautiful and immersive aquatic game. Slow loading screens and some monotonous tasks can take away from the immersion some, but for a cozy simulation of underwater exploration, it is a tranquil and fun …"

"Endless Ocean&s;s procedural generation keeps its exploration engaging enough for a while, but its Story mode is poor. As long as you&s;re willing to forgo plot (and any meaningful interaction with the species you encounter) in favour of exploring random …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous is not the dream sequel I always hoped for to Arika&s;s beloved submarine series. The change of direction has favoured the co-operative component, but has mutilated the original experience of many interesting and distinctive features. The purely …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous is a title for those who seek a peaceful experience in a place filled with marine life, where the secrets of the ocean can be discovered in an interactive and educational way. Sadly, the game lacks options …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous&s; highs come early, with a relaxing atmosphere and excitement of seeing new sea creatures and learning about them. Those highs quickly drop off and what you&s;re left with is an often frustrating, bland game that completely abandoned …"

"A lo-fi ocean adventure for those in need of calm, monotonous focus, Endless Ocean: Luminous provides an experience that is entirely low stakes, low risk, and low reward. It&s;s incredibly soothing to dive in and chase down a huge variety …"

"Everything about Endless Ocean: Luminous makes it a particularly Nintendo game: the chunky menu layout, the soothing AI voice, the tranquil music and the laidback vibes. That&s;s emphasised by the notion that this is a deeply unusual piece of software, …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous is not a bad game per se, but not an excellent one either: you should enjoy it in small doses and, if possible, with the right companions."

"Endless Ocean: Luminous’ calming ocean exploration and lovely multiplayer components wear thin due to slow progression hooks that turn every aspect of it into a long chore. With tons of features from previous installments missing, anyone who wants to see …"

"This is a pretty simple game to break down. You’re drifting through a beautiful ocean paradise, scanning marine life. Doing so teaches you more about them, and also saves the world. Getting to this story gets harder and harder as …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous continues the relaxing series, changing a few things but keeping the core mechanics in place. It&s;s easy to lose yourself in this environment, though newcomers like myself might enjoy it moreso. I genuinely enjoyed my time in …"

"I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Endless Ocean Luminous, warts and all. It’s not a game that would be my first recommendation for most, but it is something that I wish everyone gave a chance. There’s a lot to love …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous occasionally has some interesting moments, but it squanders its potential with tedious gameplay and a boring sea."

"Endless Ocean Luminous offers pleasant deep sea exploration on Nintendo Switch, but the fish photography goes from soothing to boring far too often."

"Endless Ocean Luminous caught a lot of attention amongst fans of the series when announced. Those who enjoy long, peaceful diving sessions may well feel at home with Endless Ocean Luminous. It&s;s a formula that, on paper, had a lot …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous is a mildly confounding product. On the one hand, it&s;s still got that very compelling offering of hours spent drifting through gorgeous oceans and coming face-to-face with hundreds of stunning creatures, without complex mechanics or urgency to …"

"Boring in multiplayer and frustrating alone, Endless Ocean Luminous is a tedious, aggravating slog that feels endless in all the wrong ways."

"Endless Ocean Luminous offers a relaxing diving experience, but its repetitive mission structure and shallow story mode limit long-term motivation. While the multiplayer focus and serene atmosphere may appeal to some, the lack of variety and reliance on random dives …"

"At the end of the day, if you&s;re not playing Endless Ocean Luminous to look at and learn about oceanic creatures then you won&s;t enjoy it as there is little else to it. While not necessarily a bad game, it …"

"It’s ironic given everything I have just written above that I would never be game to go scuba diving myself. I can be pretty severely risk averse, and just like bungie jumping, skydiving, and motorsports, I’m not going to be …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous is an enjoyable diving adventure in which you get to know many species of marine animals and the reason for their protection. However, the game quickly becomes stereotypical, and the story is incomprehensibly locked behind a series …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous offers some agreeable laid-back moments, but a lack of depth and complexity, even compared to the 15-year-old Wii entries in the series, waters down the game’s appeal. Endless Ocean Luminous was always destined to be a niche …"

"While Endless Ocean Luminous feels limited as a single player game, it works far better as a communal activity. Whether it&s;s with friends or random players, Luminous is at its best when there are more fish (figuratively and literally) in …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous offers a tranquil underwater experience with hundreds of marine species to scan and admire, especially enjoyable in multiplayer. However, its repetitive gameplay, lack of meaningful progression, and cryptic objectives leave solo players adrift in a sea of …"

"Endless Ocean: Luminous attempts to revive a niche Wii franchise as an online exploration experience, and fails miserably in the process. In comparison to the likes of Subnautica, this is an empty, cold, and boring ocean space to explore, devoid …"

"Endless Ocean Luminous declines to be the definitive underwater experience on Switch with little variety in missions and a slow progression system."

"The lack of threat aside, Endless Ocean Luminous is pretty average. The graphics are fine, the mass multiplayer is cool, and the creatures are interesting. If you like to have a list to complete and a love of the ocean, …"

"The game does include a functional and robust multiplayer mode, where groups of up to 30 online players can dive together, but to what end? As the gameplay itself is so simplistic and the sessions poorly emulate real diving, the …"

"The SCUBA simulator has relaxing chill vibes for a little while but quickly runs out of oxygen."

"Endless Ocean Luminous is a game to de-stress, explore and learn. The scope is small and the approach is contemplative, designed for the player that loves to collect. So don&s;t expect anything more than that."