i used to think i was getting so far in the game, turns out i swam around the same place for about 5 hours of gameplay

I've learned a ton of new things from this I never knew back when I actually played the game.
1. Ecco needs air
2. There is a legitimate storyline and quest
3. Those crystals are not decoration

Like so many others I could never figure this game out. Never knew what to do or where to go. But the graphics, music, art style and atmosphere were so engrossing I would just swim around doing nothing for hours.

I was always scared of this game and I could never jump over the first island.

Fun fact: This was based on the conspiracy theories of an acid-head marine biologist.

back in the day when an 1 hour gameplay game took you almost the entire childhood to beat up :P

Who would've thought that a game about being a dolphin would be so... Unnerving?

Dolphin: Swim closely in front of me and I will follow

Ecco: darts away at Mach 4 speed

Could never figure this game out for the life of me when I was younger.
Thank god I never made it to the final boss. I would've been fucking traumatized!!

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE. Childhood nightmare fuel.

Always remember the atmosphere in this as being calm but also incredibly eerie like there's something not quite right about things. Bubbling under the surface no pun intended.

Ecco was a dolphin. A time-traveling dolphin. Aliens stole his family. That's too bad.

So you fight a giant alien mantis/locust/whatever by yelling at it and headbutting it in the mouth while it tries to throw balls at you. Trippy.

5:50 That jellyfish just phases through the wall and Ecco's like "aight den"

Scariest video game ever. I felt so scared for ecco and his pod, I never wanted to start the quest. Then seeing the last levels from cheats never helped. This game still scares me 20 years later.

hardest game i've ever played

I was scared of this game everytime but it never got out of of my mind, i felt the sensation of being lonely idk why

This game... I just shed tears watching this. One of the best (and my first game) in my life! First time playing it as a kid, I got scared when the sea animals got sucked into the sky. And first time that I felt loneliness in a video game as I scramble deep into the undersea cave.

For me, this is simply THE best game of my life. And salute to the guy who did this longplay! I never finished this game, and my Sega console is broken now :/ yeah my heart also bleed atm :/

Anyway, I hope some guy made a remake of this game, will make my happiness meter soaring to the galaxy! But I know some good indie devs do have awesome side scrollre
games, and that makes me happy too!

56:13 wow that part matched so well with the background music

1:33 Scariest moment in my life when I was young....

Ingenious way to start off a game to since it basically gives you free reign to explore and get comfortable with the game before you start your quest.