The game looks beautiful. Ecco moves fluidly and is a little more realistic looking than in his first adventure, his dash maneuver having a more dynamic feel in particular. Despite the limited colour palette, he looks a sleek and shiny silver grey, standing out nicely from the backgrounds, which often have a moody and suitably dark feel. The rocks and other scenery are also carefully and well made, looking the more realistic end of comic book/cartoon-style art. The inhabitants of the ocean are also nice to look at, in particular sharks in the distance that swim menacingly into the foreground to attack Ecco.Īs well as these traditional methods of graphic presentation are, there are some nice effects here too. The opening screen has the almost trademark Mega Drive wavy effect (it never gets old!), and perhaps most impressively a very subtle 3D-ish effect on the Sky Tube levels. When moving through the wavy water passages that are suspended high over the sea and land, there is mode seven-like movement to the background the higher up you move. I had originally only ever played the Game Gear versions of Ecco and having loved the first one jumped at buying the Tides of Time. Since playing the Mega CD version, you can see how watered down (sorry) the GG version is. Not bad though, considering the hardware and how ambitious some of the levels are. Many years after playing this version, I got the retro bug and decided to revisit the games I loved, and visit all those I missed out on: Cue new Mega CD… The Ecco series was the one franchise I had always wanted to play in 16-bits, and I was not disappointed, especially with this title. I played this version before the Mega Drive outing, which I have yet to fully complete, so this will not be a comparative review, and in most respects, I will be concentrating on its own merits, of which there are many. Genre: Action Developer: Novotrade Publisher: Sega Enterprises Players: 1 Released: 1994
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