His main attack is to ram into enemies at high speeds with. Ecco swims in any direction with the D-pad. The Tides of Time maintains the same gameplay as its predecessor. As a result, Ecco is referred to as 'the stone that split the stream of time in two.' Ecco must restore the Asterite and vanquish the Vortex Queen again to prevent the dark future from becoming the fate of life on Earth. One possible future for Earth is a bright, happy world of flying dolphins, while the other is a dead, mechanical world sucked dry by the Vortex. The Asterite then tells Ecco that when he used the Atlantean Time Machine to save his pod, he split the stream of time in two. Though Ecco had defeated the Vortex, the Vortex Queen survived and followed him back to Earth, where she killed the Asterite of Ecco's time and now nests and feeds to restore her brood.

The dolphins of the future have also evolved, as they are now able to fly through a combination of internal helium sacs and telekinetic powers.Īfter exploring the future, Ecco finds his old friend the Asterite, who explains the events that had transpired in Ecco's time. In the future, the ocean has developed its own mind and is connected across the planet by waterways traveling through the sky.

She is his descendant, Trellia, who takes him to the distant future to speak with 'an old friend'. Soon after, Ecco meets a dolphin with unusually long fins. His fellow dolphins explain that something has killed the Asterite and is now spreading fear among the ocean life.

As Ecco recovers, he learns that the Asterite's powers have left him (indicated by the return of his need to surface for air). One day, while Ecco is out exploring an underwater cave, a powerful earthquake goes off and causes an avalanche. Still wielding the powers granted to him by the ancient life form known as the Asterite, Ecco has since returned to his peaceful life in Earth's waters. The Tides of Time continues from the ending of the original game, in which Ecco had saved his dolphin pod and the Earth from the Vortex aliens.

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