Ecco Jr. is a video game in the Ecco the Dolphin series, released in Summer 1995. It had the controls and basic gameplay of the other two Mega Drive/Genesis titles, but was very much geared towards younger players, lacking the high difficulty of Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time.

The story was that a younger version of Ecco went to see the Big Blue, completing tasks such as herding seahorses, swimming through rings, and finding lost balls for sea lions along the way. The gameplay is similarly controlled to the original Ecco the Dolphin games, but mainly revolves around using these abilities for solution of simple puzzles and problems. One key difference is that the player cannot die in this game, so unlike in the original games, cannot drown by staying underwater too long. Likewise, creatures that appeared as enemies originally (Such as Sharks and Octopi) now appear in the background, and do not hurt the player. Two other playable characters were introduced: Tara the baby orca (there is also a bottlenose dolphin character named Tara in Ecco: The Tides of Time) and Kitnee the young Atlantic dolphin, who is darker gray than Ecco. They were interchangeable with Ecco and each other at any time.

Platform

Sega Genesis/MegaDrive

Developer(s)

Appaloosa Interactive

Publishers(s)

Sega

Genres(s)

NA Release Date

August 15, 1995

MVGL User Score

6.1 by 9 user(s)

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