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You, the player character, are a professional diver assigned as a "marine correspondent" to the fictional South Pacific island of Manoa Lai (Manaurai in the European release). This job generally involves looking at a lot of fish, and finding out information about them. The only character you actually get to interact with is your marine biologist assistant, Katherine. Along the way, you discover ancient ruins, caves, deep waters, and lots of [[Misplaced Wildlife]] (though they at least made them all real fish).
There's a sequel entitled ''Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep'' (known as ''Blue World'' in the US), which allows players to choose from several dive spots around the world instead of being limited to a fictional South Pacific Ocean, including [[Slippy
Not to be confused with ''The Infinite Ocean'', a fairly creepy point-and-click adventure game about the first [[Artificial Intelligence]].
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* [[Badass Crew]]: While not in the traditional sense of the trope, in terms of diving expertise the second games [[Five-Man Band]] 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.
* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]: {{spoiler|The Grave Creeper is about twice the size of its already enormous friends.}}
* [[But Thou Must!]]: In ''Blue World'', after you and Oceana find {{spoiler|the plesiosaur}}, Oceane decides she's not going to publicize this discovery, and asks if you agree. You can say "I do" or "No I don't," but if you pick no, Oceana will just say "Really?" and ask you the question again. And again. And again.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Leviathan from the second game - an albino sperm whale with a reputation for attacking ships, with one fanatical captain hunting him down in order to get revenge. [[Moby Dick|Sound familiar?]]
* [[Cartography Sidequest]]
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* [[For Science!]]: 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|Friendly Playful Dolphins]]: 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.
* [[
* [[Genki Girl]]: Oceana at times.
* [[Ghost Ship]]: The large brown vessel which transports you to and from Ship's Rest, which you enter via ''the big gaping hole in its hull below the water line.'' In Ship's Rest itself, you can see the wreckage of the exact same boat right in the sand below where it's floating. It's actually really eerie, especially at night.
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* [[Houseboat Hero]]: The first game.
* [[How We Got Here]]: ''Blue World'' opens on the player character interacting with several "strangers" and being guided towards a massive underwater ruin... and then the backstory kicks in for the rest of the game.
* [[In
* [[Last Lousy Point]]: The Yatabai Blenny is legendarily hard to find.
* [[Made of Iron]] / [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Thanatos is completely immune to the pulsar gun. Needless to say, exploring his section of Ciceros Strait is a royal pain.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: Some of the game's detractors say it has a little too much information about fish sandwiched in. Fans say that's just part of its appeal. ''Blue World'' tones down the factoids considerably, but there's still a great deal to learn.
** There are a couple of [[Did Not Do the Research]] 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.
* [[Slippy
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Averted, in as much as time, budget, and disc-space would allow.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Each theme was specifically crafted for one area, and can sound rather silly if you choose to play it somewhere else - for example, filling the cheery little Coral Forest with [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].
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* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: There actually ''is'' an air meter, but it expires too slowly to really matter.
** In the sequel, however, the air gauge is more realistically timed, but can still be lengthened by improving Diving Skill and buying regulators.
* [[Super
** {{spoiler|Thanatos}} plays it straight, but it's implied that he might be more than what he appears.
* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: Ship's Rest turns out to be this for {{spoiler|the Magu Tapah}}.
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* [[Widget Series]]: Boy howdy. Not many gamers knew how to react to a franchise which, compared to other games, really has no ultimate goal, even though ''[[Sim City]]'' has been doing that for years.
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: Any time you discover a new major landmark, you're given a cinematic pan-around to showcase it from the best angles. And of course, then you can explore them at your leisure.
* [[Workplace
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