History VideoGame / EndlessOcean

* ForScience: It is implied in the Anomalocarus article/trivia that the one that GG and the player character encountered at Castle Valka was revived in a genetic experiment, but somehow was released into the wild.
* {{Friendly Playful Dolphin}}s: The games naturally feature dolphins and larger cetaceans from various locations. You can befriend certain dolphins. When players get to nine ball island in ''Endless Ocean Blue World'' they can teach tricks to a dolphin.

* NatureSpirit: It's hinted that some of the legendary animals are more then just animals. Thanatos [[spoiler: and the Ancient Mother]] are the prime examples of this[[spoiler: , but the Blue Bird also seems to be more then it appears.]]

* BigCreepyCrawlies: [[spoiler: The Grave Creeper is about twice the size of its already enormous friends.]]

* BadassCrew: While not in the traditional sense of the trope, in terms of diving expertise the second games FiveManBand is perhaps the best in the world. Consisting of a retired adventurer with more years of experience then the rest of the crew put together, one of the world's leading marine biologists, a world renown salvage expert, and two life long pro-drivers one of which has abilities that are nearly super human.

* ScienceIsBad: Averted ''hard''. The mysterious and perhaps Godlike [[spoiler:Ancient Mother]] is [[spoiler:captured and taken to the Manoa Lai aquarium]] without anyone raising a ruckus. You can [[spoiler:release it]] later, though.

** Blue World is ''obsessed'' with albinos. A good chunk of the legendary creatures are albino, as is the bottlenose dolphin partner.

** There's also the (fairly realistic) explanation in-game: [[spoiler:her father Patrick died while on a dive when he got tangled up in kelp and eventually drowned. Seems fairly reasonable that she might have an aversion to diving after that.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Giant squid enjoy the abyssal trench areas in both games.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Even with special equipment, the limit for diving is about 500 feet in real life. And that's probably with the rigid-type dive suits. Also, the lack of need for decompression after deep dives in both games, which was probably cut because it would have been too boring.

** There are a couple of DidNotDoTheResearch moments, though. They're few and far between, but they're there: for example, the false killer whale you befriend in Blue World can apparently find items with its "keen sense of smell". Cetaceans have a highly-developed sense of taste, but they have no sense of smell in the conventional sense, as their nostrils are closed off most of the time.

* EpicSong (with shades of OminousMusicBoxTune): The Song of Dragons is an in-universe example: humanity obsesses over its meaning and origin, and it's become known as a harbinger of doom wherever it is heard. [[spoiler:It's actually a musical key known by all whales that guides people to and unlocks the Okeanides ruins... and subsequently drives the whales within mad to seal it up again.]]

* [[GaiasVengeance Gaia's Vengeance]]: Thanatos' trivia wonders if his emergence is Mother Nature's revenge for humanity's DisproportionateRetribution against shark attacks.

* MagicRealism: The incredibly varied wildlife, all of the sea's animals being tame and friendly to humans, and the Manoa Lai artifacts and legends all seem to be best explained by something other than science.

* WidgetSeries: Boy howdy. Not many gamers knew how to react to a franchise which, compared to other games, really has no ultimate goal, even though ''SimCity'' has been doing that for years.

* AmateurPhotographer

* BigCreepyCrawlies: [[spoiler: The Grave Creeper is about twice the size of it's already enormous friends.]]

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: Lots; you can even make them your pets. The sequel has freshwater dive spots, so naturally adds a South American river dolphin as a pet as well.

* {{Playful Dolphin}}s: The games naturally feature dolphins and larger cetaceans from various locations. You can befriend certain dolphins.
** When players get to nine ball island in ''Endless Ocean Blue World'' they can teach tricks to a dolphin.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ironically, Kat is severely aquaphobic.
** There are some (admittedly very complicated) theories involving the game's internal mythology and specific bits of dialog/mail that suggest that she might either [[spoiler: turn into a mermaid or cause some sort of catastrophe]] if she ever enters the sea. WildMassGuessing at its finest.
** There's also the (fairly realistic) explanation in-game: [[spoiler:her father Patrick died while on a dive when he got tangled up in kelp and eventually drowned. Seems fairly reasonable that she might have an aversion to diving after that.]]

* PaintingTheFourthWall: When in third-person mode, a strand of kelp, small fish, or similar object may occasionally be ''pushed aside by the camera''. Kat [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this by saying that it's her unmanned remote-controlled minisub following you.

*** YourMileageMayVary as to whether this one is a good thing or not.

* TheCatfish: [[spoiler:Magu Tapah and the Ancient Mother]] in the first game; ''Blue World'' has '''many'''.