I've been finding them in areas of around 10-20m deep or if you have the iceberg biome that you can enter, it has some dolphins and whales around the general area.
At this time of writing this comment, I'm around 10 hours in. Luminous is a perfectly serviceable Endless Ocean title. It's rough around the edges, literally as you can see where the certain procedural areas are set in like puzzle pieces, but overall if you likes the other Endless Ocean games or simply like a relaxing swimming game with 0 risk you should pick it up. 50 bucks is a lot for it, so I would recommend a sale. I haven't messed with multiplayer, so I can't say anything about it. If you have friends or wanted to swim around with strangers, have at it. (Judging by the rankings for multiplayer, there's a bunch of try hards three days in at release speed running maps to be at the top of the leaderboards, so be wary of joining in on random dives where people might be speedrunning them). I don't think Endless Ocean needed multiplayer, but if you wanted it, it's there. The story mode seems tacked on, but it short enough and gives you some lore about the Ocean and why are things how they are. It's a weak part sure, but it's fine. There's a bunch of marine life to find, photo, and salvage to collect. It will be a pain to fully 100%, but if you want the challenge it's there. The mystery board challenges are things you randomly have to figure out, such as collecting certain salvage, doing certain tasks via the stone circles, etc. So far I'm around 1/4th done on that, but just like I said before, might be a pain to fully 100%. The game does have event dives which at this point in time the first one hasn't started yet and how many total is yet to be known. Hopefully enough for a year plus or it'll loop around at some point. I say overall the game is above average. If you liked the other ones, you should like this one. Might wait for a discount, but you should be content picking it up full price.
@@solidsnek4902 I got it at a $20 discount with my gamestop rewards so I'm pretty stoked about that 😁 it'll arrive in a few days. Thanks for the heads up about it! I bought it to have a relaxing mindless thing to do so I'm glad it sounds like it'll be a good fit
It's just the AI voice in-game. There are some words that it says that seems a little off if you hadn't read it/heard it before, but overall it's fine and serves its purpose.
Ah, my bad. The game runs well with only some slight slowdown if you scan a lot of fish, although the times that I've noticed it is very minimal. It does also slightly slow down/lag a little when you scroll down the list of scanned fish. Overall, it is perfectly playable with a slight fps drop.
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Where would you find most of the whales and dolphins in the game?
I've been finding them in areas of around 10-20m deep or if you have the iceberg biome that you can enter, it has some dolphins and whales around the general area.
@@solidsnek4902 how many different maps are in the game?
I've heard the game got a lot of bad reviews, how is your experience so far?
At this time of writing this comment, I'm around 10 hours in.
Luminous is a perfectly serviceable Endless Ocean title. It's rough around the edges, literally as you can see where the certain procedural areas are set in like puzzle pieces, but overall if you likes the other Endless Ocean games or simply like a relaxing swimming game with 0 risk you should pick it up. 50 bucks is a lot for it, so I would recommend a sale.
I haven't messed with multiplayer, so I can't say anything about it. If you have friends or wanted to swim around with strangers, have at it. (Judging by the rankings for multiplayer, there's a bunch of try hards three days in at release speed running maps to be at the top of the leaderboards, so be wary of joining in on random dives where people might be speedrunning them). I don't think Endless Ocean needed multiplayer, but if you wanted it, it's there.
The story mode seems tacked on, but it short enough and gives you some lore about the Ocean and why are things how they are. It's a weak part sure, but it's fine.
There's a bunch of marine life to find, photo, and salvage to collect. It will be a pain to fully 100%, but if you want the challenge it's there. The mystery board challenges are things you randomly have to figure out, such as collecting certain salvage, doing certain tasks via the stone circles, etc. So far I'm around 1/4th done on that, but just like I said before, might be a pain to fully 100%.
The game does have event dives which at this point in time the first one hasn't started yet and how many total is yet to be known. Hopefully enough for a year plus or it'll loop around at some point.
I say overall the game is above average. If you liked the other ones, you should like this one. Might wait for a discount, but you should be content picking it up full price.
@@solidsnek4902 I got it at a $20 discount with my gamestop rewards so I'm pretty stoked about that 😁 it'll arrive in a few days. Thanks for the heads up about it! I bought it to have a relaxing mindless thing to do so I'm glad it sounds like it'll be a good fit
You play steam
I use Steam yes, but this game is a Switch exclusive and recorded as such.
AI voice? Hmm... How does it run?
It's just the AI voice in-game. There are some words that it says that seems a little off if you hadn't read it/heard it before, but overall it's fine and serves its purpose.
@@solidsnek4902 cool, but I meant how does the game runs on the switch? 😅
Ah, my bad. The game runs well with only some slight slowdown if you scan a lot of fish, although the times that I've noticed it is very minimal. It does also slightly slow down/lag a little when you scroll down the list of scanned fish. Overall, it is perfectly playable with a slight fps drop.