So does playing a guitar I think! If there's a corner of this game that isn't the first breadcrumb on another obscure quest to find a giant shark or sunken cache of machine guns, I haven't found it. Hated The Music: Endless Ocean: Blue World will make you a fan of New Age music, because it's only the moments when you find lovely underwater caves and such that trigger the Celtic Woman songs on the soundtrack. These songs thankfully interrupt the otherwise painful, looping game soundtrack ceases.

A man dives underwater so he doesn't have to hear the world's most annoying soundtracks, dear developers. The Main Quest: You can tell that this game is an RPG based on the fact that its main quest is not nearly as interesting or enjoyable as its sidequests.

I'm being overly simplistic in my genre criticism, but trust me that this game's silly and supposedly emotional quest to discover the secret to the Dragon Song merely gives way to annoying cut-scenes of false emotion and frustratingly linear sections of a game that is best played as an open-world explore-anything-at-any-time wander.

That this quest ends with the most unnecessary boss battle since the one in Bioshock is redeemed by the fact that you can keep playing the game well after that main quest is over and focus on the fun stuff. Bad Menus: I thought JRPGs couldn't go any further backwards in their unfriendliness to players trying to keep track of the items they collect and the many quests which they accept, but Blue World proved me wrong.

Keep a notebook handy as you play this game so that you can log your dozens of juggled quests. Otherwise, you will have to abandon your dive spot and sail back to your home island, then go to your "table," then open your notebook, then click a couple more times, just to see your quest-listing again. I'd rather get stabbed by a swordfish. Endless Ocean Blue World is a huge surprise.

Not only does it provide a vast expansion of the interactive nature film format of video game that any of the older members of your family could enjoy, but it offers the depth of adventure and goals that make it one of the best role-playing games I've encountered on the Wii.

That said, the game is as much an eyesore above land as it is a beauty below the sea and some of its menu and button configurations bear the fingerprints of a development team not remembering that Wii ethic of making gamers' lives easier.

Thankfully, you spend most of your time in this game in its virtual aquatic paradises, chasing whales and having a lovely, relaxing time. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Dove for more than 8 hours, played for more than 10, and barely scratched the sea foam of the side quests. Found the dog and the stash of flamethrowers, but failed to complete the quest that unlocks the ninja suit, and, no, I'm not making that up.

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