Ecco: The Tides of Time. SEGA Genesis. Walkthrough

[@yaphetbruce9321]

The game that gave me nightmares.

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Why?

[@BOX_corporation.]

Why?

[@Mmouse_]

You're probably the same age as me, and we probably played this when we were the same age. It made no sense and was kinda boring. At the time I don't think we were the demographic.

[@jimbeaux89]

Dude the sentinel from X men 2 gave me nightmares. When I finally made it up and the sentinel’s face was revealed with its mouth open wide, I screamed and shut my genesis off lol I was probably 5 or 6

[@DaKewlDood]

Same.

[@jimbeaux89]

I was 5 when I first played this. Of all the hundreds of games I played on the genesis, this was by far the most captivating to my young mind.

[@TheEscariet]

An amazing sequel with a great soundtrack. It's just a shame that we never got to use the secret password because the third game wasn't released :'(

[@crunh]

The third game is ecco jr

[@carbunclepuyo]

@@crunh no its ecco: defender of the future

[@Brosie_Osie]

@@carbunclepuyo link?

[@carbunclepuyo]

@@Brosie_Osie it's a game for the dreamcast

[@hinaru77]

@@carbunclepuyo Ecco defender of future was made but by a different team as the creator had no Involvement with that game. Ecco jr, came after tides of time because the how hard the game was so they were force to make an easier game. But no, there was suppose to be 3rd game after tides of time to finish the game as Trilogy. The creator tried to make another game to Ecco the dolphin through Kickstarter but it wasn’t successful because sega has the rights to Ecco, the creator even tried to talk to sega about getting the right back but it seems that sega still own it.

[@LchanOtakudom]

I loved this game so much when I was a kid, even though I never beat it.

[@AceLive_]

English isn't my first language so I remember my dad just translate stuffs with me when I was kid. I don't understand the game at all and lost on the second part of the map with crystals cause I can't read lol but now rewatching this.... 25yrs later.... wow, that's how easy it is. I wish I have my old sega genesis. I love going back to all my games.

[@philipbrazill2155]

Who else grew up playing this on a genesis console back in the day? I love this game even though it was quite difficult to play.

[@dmmvfurtado6133]

It's really difficult, I started playing two months ago, and I'm still on Tubes of Medusa

[@jokkemursula8731]

​@@dmmvfurtado6133The Medusa level is really annoying. I sort of just wait for it to move towards the right side and then try to swim up the left water path thing as fast as possible. Medusa usually gets in the way after that too, but if you fight against it for a bit, it might let go and move away a little, which gives you a chance to progress. The hardest part is probably controlling Ecco precisely enough, because it's really easy to slip up with the d-pad and fall off because of that. It also doesn't help that you can't immediately retry beacuse the game sends you back to Skyway. That's when I reset the console and input the password for the level (obviously you could just save state at the start of the level on an emulator), which gets very annoying very quickly.

[@silvcyllanjomena2478]

I played it in games 360 It has a lot of games and also fanmade ones

[@kelligirl1210]

I played Ecco when I was around 17 (I think) and I loved it 🩵🐬

[@popstarzombie]

The little mini levels with the rings have always freaked me out. Hell this whole game was scary lol

[@milesr4609]

Pfff...stop spreading bs. This game is amazing sci-fi.

[@aaronboothproduction]

The faux 3d sections blew my mind as a kid.

[@CalletaMoth]

I never beat this as a kid, even with Game Genie. I would always get lost and confused as to what I was supposed to do. Watching you do the sky tubes gives me horrible anxiety lol. I NEVER got past those. Edit: this soundtrack is still damn good a couple decades later.

[@gm112]

That's basically been my experience lol. Ecco is a brutal game to play. Its interesting what inspired the game. Check out this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2PWh62frdqWh7c its actually really informative on where the inspiration of Ecoo came from!

[@mortithedog8088]

I didn’t remember how difficult these games were until I purchased a Sega genesis and some original games. A lot of games from those times were really difficult, really difficult to play or figure out as an adult. I can’t imagine how it would be for a child who didn’t have access to the Internet and the massive amount of information out there. All I know is that it brings back a lot of memories because we didn’t have the Internet then, or it was very slow and in its infancy, all we had was a controller and a small TV and a cool game to play for as long as our parents would let us.

[@scottttym]

it's kinda just ridiculous cuz some of the ways through aren't even puzzles to solve.

[@sc0tticus]

I beat this game when it came out, and I don't know how I did it... maybe it was a crumpled gamepro mag. But I do remember some games that were just insanely difficult... like Maximum Carnage, pretty sure I put some dents on my controller with that mess.

[@normanred9212]

They had strategy guides you could buy

[@kero232]

oh come on, I don't get this "how can kids play hard games reeee" meme. Dude, you're an ADULT wity LOT OF OTHER STUFF TO DO. a kid has all the time of the world to play, master and play these ganes. of course you don't have the time to tighten up your skill, to know the game and all its alternatives, strategies, etc all retro games were naturally hard and we all grew up with all those, so what's the big deal

[@thaneros]

@@normanred9212 They had whole maps of stages in even the basic mags like Sega Vision

[@CRStoller]

One of my favorite games back for Sega Genesis back in the day.

[@lsadin2457]

Epic nostalgic music & graphic

[@Shatamx]

1:04:39 man when I first got to this level I was so hyped as a kid. I knew Blue whales were in Ecco after months and months i finally got to see them!

[@arnold66]

Gave me,good memories about an epic game. These games are hard to play..🤯however, this is the first time that I have the opportunity to see it with the English text, since one of my friend could only buy it for me with Japanese dialogue, which made the game even more difficult.❤️

[@megamanx2293]

Thank you for the game play with you had slowed down on the text but still very clean

[@richterbelmont8532]

I had this game in the 90’s and couldn’t figure out what to do for the life of me and neither could my dad so we never got passed the beginning.

[@jessicajacobs8164]

This was a great sequel, and I could pretend it was homework by playing it in French. Fuck that Globe Holder level though, got crushed so many times!

[@hermanthetosser4219]

One of the early levels... I wonder why there was one of them random alien things... then never to see them until the machine level

[@Onionman77]

I often wondered that too!

[@michaelrainerii3547]

The game i never could beat growing up lol came here to watch it through

[@B1ack_Manta]

51:12 at that moment, most players knew they fucked up LoL

[@meghanmcclamma1662]

Sea creature vs Space invader. 🐬⚔️👽

[@dmmvfurtado6133]

That's literally it

[@Majora404err01r]

im not sure what song plays during the hunt for the globes, but im putting a timestamp here: 1:03:00

[@nightwarden]

Masterpiece of MD console!

[@maximustitan8171]

Novotrade did the game justice. The color on this game looks far beyond 128 colors.

[@NiGHTSaturn]

The MegaDrive/Genesis had 512 colors for a 9bit RGB color palette. Unless Novotrade had limitations on colors for better performance?

[@leoorthodox8866]

Maybe the developers knew how to use the genesis shadow hi light mode . In this graphics mode de colors on screen increase by 3 times . 1536 palette colors and about 180 colors on screen .

[@VandelayH]

This game is one helluvuh trip.

[@milesr4609]

This game is amazing, ever since i was a kid this get me fascinated. Beautifull game and really cool Sci fi. P.S: 38:55 is funny, if you fail in followin Blackfin several times he will be grow tired of leading Ecco and will give him the shatter stone sing after asking if is the real Ecco.

[@caibra88]

The music was 🔥

[@wimbusbert1249]

The soundtrack goes so hard in this game for no reason

[@Wil_Dsense]

False, they knew exactly what they were doing with the soundtrack… like all good game developers should know, sound and especially music is vital for the atmosphere of any game….

[@CDbiggen]

You made Medusa look so damn easy 😂, the whole game infact

[@LJLMETAL]

I love this game!

[@matrix26uk]

Ecco is basically the sea worlds Dr Sam Beckett!

[@DanielGomezmix]

I don't know something that must be simply but I can't move crystals/glyphs. What can I do? What must I press? Thks, I am in the first level, wood boat in the Deep.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Dont think i ever made it passed sky lands 😂

[@Dembitess_Blu]

I . don't know which version do i have, but after helping the orca i went to "four islands" not the maze of stone pwp

[@InvertedWIng]

Maze of Stone is only available on Hard mode. If you play on Normal or Easy, you skip it completely.

[@Dembitess_Blu]

@@InvertedWIng i see, thank you so much!

[@claytonsouza9548]

Which filters was used?

[@AlexKorotkovRetroGamingChannel]

Hq2x

[@Verikoolguy]

4:18 catto boi reference

[@kawaiipop07]

How did people beat this game without saving? Lol what's the total number of levels even? Seems like it takes forever!

[@OGYouTuber05]

Right? I never knew not one person from my youth who can honestly say they beat this game legitimately.

[@kawaiipop07]

@@OGKZbinr05 right? Especially if you rented it. Lol I remember only having 3 days to keep a game rental.

[@Shatamx]

Passwords. I used my 4th grade notebook and this game took up 4/5 pages 😂😂

[@normanred9212]

Ecco One is still the better game, Tides of Time has WAY too many locate others missions. Especially finding the Asterite's body

[@dreamsdeep1076]

Ecco jr is the best. Ecco jr has a secret hard mode that unlocks more levels and there’s a option to combine all missions into one giant level

[@talkstocomets]

1:18:04

[@uhu4677]

How are you supposed to know what to do in this game? 😆

[@AlexKorotkovRetroGamingChannel]

Spied on a friend's video)

[@uhu4677]

@@AlexKorotkovRetroGamingChannel Yes sure. Nowadays you can just learn about it on KZbin. But back then, when we were renting it as childs, there wasn't even internet available.

[@AlexKorotkovRetroGamingChannel]

In the 90s, many games were played for hours or days. Passwords helped.

[@milesr4609]

Use sonar and intiution...common sence buddy.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Trial and error. Mostly error. This guy is further in 20 mins than I managed in 30 years

[@SHMUPS]

this game is confusing as shit

[@examiningdata7952]

I just quit

[@jakethesnake0192]

The Ecco games are the reason I hate dolphins

[@Mista808]

Guess who sampled this amazing soundtrack 10 years ago and made a hard slap trap song with it? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWjYo5Z3prCioa8feature=shared #MISTA808