Let's Walk Through Ecco: The Tides of Time - City of Forever, and Final Ending

[@MrMeeples]

Thanks for providing some context for then ending. Confused me for 30 years.

[@pixelpawzgaming]

Baffled me too the ending but so glad got some proper conclusion and finally makes sense after so long. Still would have loved an Ecco 3 as pixel art when done right is a timeless classic.

[@austinmorrison6953]

How I’d rewrite the epilogue. “The Queen retreats within her new machine. When Ecco leaves she escapes in the form of a Vortex Larva. The Queen makes her way to the sunken city of Atlantis and the Time Machine. She escapes to Earth’s past where she encounters prehistoric creatures she cannot rule. With no way back to the present, the Vortex have no choice but to integrate into Earth’s environments giving rise to the arthropods and crustaceans. Ecco meanwhile, returns to the City of Forever to destroy the Time Machine. However he has too many questions and so he uses the machine instead. Why were such things left for him to use? He travels to the distant past to meet the ancient Atlanteans. He will have answers”

[@dakrashayashi2796]

actually a good video over ecco 2 w/out broken audio quality thank u

[@TestAcct46]

Huh, I'd always just figured the ending was meant to leave room for an Ecco 3, that was never made.

[@austinmorrison6953]

But why? The whole conflict essentially solves itself when the Vortex goes back in time. What’s there left to do?

[@Jeremo-FD]

It was. The game dev wanted to make it a trilogy of games on the Genesis, but the third game never really came to fruition.

[@RetroFrito]

My dream is some day someone much smarter than me will do fan-made "HD" remakes of Ecco and Ecco 2, with more animation frames on the sprites, improved backgrounds, remixes of the music, etc. And then, do a demake of Defender of the Future, consider it Ecco 3 and maybe even have the "Secret Password" actually do something.

[@austinmorrison6953]

And maybe change the story so it’s actually Ecco 3?

[@adayinforever]

Good game. Frustrating, but good. I just finished it.Thanks for the help!

[@midwestfest426]

Thank you for explaining the ending. I have been playing this game since it came out and I barely paid attention to the story until I just beat the game today and was a bit confused.

[@mileso1762]

I finished ecco 1 and 2 these days. Why ecco didn't destroy time machine??? What does the end means?

[@miamimagicians]

Super hard games