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It is recharged by eating fish by charging into them with, singing to clams, or later in the game, singing to special statues or glyphs. It is depleted by enemies or when his air meter runs out. His health is measured by a separate meter above the air meter. If the air meter runs out, Ecco loses health rapidly, which represents drowning. His air is fully restored upon breaching or slowly and incrementally replenished by sticking his nose out of the water. Others give information, replenish health and air, or give Ecco temporary invulnerability.Īdditionally, being a mammal, Ecco must surface periodically for air or find an air vent. Some block paths, and a 'key glyph' must be found in such cases to pass. Several levels contain enormous crystals called glyphs, which respond in different ways if Ecco touches or sings to them.

Ecco can also use echolocation to generate a map of the area by holding to cause the song to return. Ecco can perform a purely aesthetic spin in the air by pressing after jumping out of the water.Įcco has the ability to sing with sonar by pressing, allowing him to speak with other cetaceans and interact with certain objects. Swimming can be made progressively faster by tapping, and the speed can be maintained by holding it down.

He can attack enemies by ramming into them at high speeds with. Upon leaving the bay, Ecco swims around meeting other marine life including other dolphins who tell them they have felt the storm and the entire ocean is in chaos.Įcco must investigate what happened to his pod, which starts him on a adventure that takes him to the Arctic to seek Big Blue, an ancient blue whale revered by marine life for his age and wisdom to the Asterite, the oldest life form on Earth to the sunken ruins of Atlantis, a lost city where Ecco learns about an alien race called the Vortex and eventually back in time to restore the Asterite and gain the powers necessary to defeat the Vortex.Įcco can swim in any direction with the D-Pad. When he is in the air, a giant vortex forms and sucks up all marine life in the bay except Ecco, leaving him alone in the bay. A podmate challenges Ecco to a game to see how high he can jump into the air. One day, he is swimming in his home bay with his pod. Ecco is a bottlenose dolphin with marks on his head that look like a constellation of stars.

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