![]() Half the game is spent exploring underwater locales, while the other half is spent bartering, selling, buying and learning about the story. Or a realtime fish collecting RPG adventure. Or a scuba fish-collecting game with an RPG backbone. Gameplay In truth, Everblue 2 is a scuba-exploration game disguised as an RPG. The rest is for you to discover, my wet and wily friends. As you accept more challenges for individuals, you learn you're cutting in on their business while helping a few thankful individuals, which creates a nice tension throughout the game, but more importantly you it helps you to learn about the mysterious treasure that's haunted Leo's family for hundreds of years. You find there's another group called SeaDross, an "evil" syndicate that charges exorbitant fees to find sunken things for people. The story becomes a little more complicated too. After learning more about the island, you discover many friendly types, villagers and local small business people who learn to like you, to do trade with, or once they find out you're a scuba "expert," compete with you. ![]() The locals ridicule your crappy scuba gear, but a young female islander (Ellis) takes a fancy to you and after a few trials, you become a part of her scuba diving clan, the "Amigos." Cute, the Amigos, and there's three of them (in addition to Ellis). But because Zuccho didn't research the ocean conditions beforehand, your vessel is caught in a devastating storm, forcing you onto a small, nearly uncharted Caribbean island (called Valentir Island). ![]() Taking on the role of Leonardo again, players go sailing with Leo's bald, aging buddy Zuccho (a possible Queequeg reference?). Story The early part of the story works well enough. So, being an open-minded fellow, I dug into what can only be called the world's second scuba-simulation-RPG. I've snorkeled before and I have experienced the amazing sensation of seeing exotic fish and underwater locales for the first time, and I've come to the conclusion that this game is, without any doubt, created by a group of likeminded, fanatical scuba diving maniacs who also happen to make games. And that Capcom has given us the indirect message that it's not one of their, shall we say, AAA titles. Why so cynical then? That's different, right? Mostly because none of the writers on the site who like RPGs wanted to touch it. See, Everblue 2 is a scuba diving-RPG that sends players underneath the ocean waves to explore reefs and sunken ships. I have been very cynical and yet mildly curious about the game since Capcom announced it. Capcom's oft-partner Arika created this game and Capcom, for whatever reasons, has brought it Westward. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Everblue 2 recently struck me as slightly oddball. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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