Endless Ocean Blue World Locations
Bernice Ebesugawa
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The game builds upon its predecessor in many ways, adding many new stages in locations across the world, as well as including updated graphics, a new soundtrack featuring original music and a score by Celtic Woman, new species of creatures, and a much larger overall gameplay experience with dozens of side-quests and hundreds of items to collect.
Endless Ocean 2 has a total of six different stages to dive in, along with six sub-stages, making for twelve locales in total. Each stage is located on a different continent, reflective of the "world-tour" theming of the game mentioned in the developer interview. These stages are:
Another location, Nineball Island, acts as the player's main hub through which they can access the game's other stages, as well as train their dolphin partners, read the marine encyclopedia, and view quests and collectibles.
After you complete your divers' looks, Oceana Louvier, Jean-Eric's granddaughter who was also on the boat in the prologue, arrives on her jet-ski, to see what you have to offer in the department of diving. You start diving in Gatama Atoll's Atoll Gate, where upon leaving, you find a stray Humpback Whale calf. While Oceana panics about what to do, you tell her that you should guide it back to its mother. Oceana calms down and states that the mother should be near the Spring Garden area.
After reuniting the calf with its mother, Oceana drops the pendant that her father gave to her. It makes an eerie sound and the mother humpback whale charges at you, but you dodge it without getting harmed. After successfully resurfacing, Oceana tells you how she lost the other half of the pendant years ago at Deep Hole; however, Jean-Eric tells her not to go. Disregarding her father's warnings, she decides to go by herself and find the other half of the pendant early the next morning. Jean-Eric gives you the Pulsar, a tool that can calm aggressive animals and heal sick creatures, since there's a chance that a tiger shark is in the area.
After calming down the shark with the pulsar, it leaves and Oceana is revealed to be safe. You find the pendant at the bottom, and return to the boat. After getting a stern scolding from Jean-Eric, you and Ocean merge the two pendants, and a mysterious verse is found engraved into the two parts, reading:
The mysterious verse you found on Oceana's pendant hints towards Valka Castle, a long-lost castle rumored to have sunk around Ciceros Strait many years ago. You travel to Ciceros Strait in search of the castle, and when you get there, you're introduced to Gaston Gray (also known as Gary Gray), more commonly referred to as GG. GG is a famous American salvager who has also caught wind of the Valka Castle mystery and is out to get the treasure for himself and boost his popularity. Your team and GG agree to a competition to find the castle first, where the loser must either eat a sea slug or scrub the underside of L&L's boat with a toothbrush, and GG swims away. Jean-Eric gives you a tool called the Multisensor, used for discovering treasures and rocks, to aide you in finding the castle. You dive around and explore Ciceros Strait.
Ciceros Strait is a large rocky strait running between the Cyclades islands near Greece, filled with shipwrecks, sharks, whirlpools and a diverse assortment of Mediterranean sea life. While exploring the area, you find various pieces of lapis lazuli, a rare stone, with the Multisensor. Eventually, you discover a bracelet made of pure lapis lazuli, known as the Triton Bracelet. It contains a map, to which Oceana says:
You then dive at night, following the clues you've been given to discover the Triton Village Ruins, left behind by an ancient civilization, when the dinis/undines (whirlpools) have disappeared. The ruins contain a well that Oceana believes may lead to the castle. However, just as you're about to check, GG arrives, proclaiming himself the victor. Suddenly, though, GG becomes terrified and tells you to swim for your lives. You and Oceana are confused as to what scared him until you turn around and notice something terrifying... approaching you is the legendary man-eating shark Thanatos, accompanied by some Great White Sharks. You use your Pulsar to calm the Great Whites, but Thanatos seems impervious to the its effects, so you escape down the well.
Oceana was right, and you end up in the legendary Valka Castle through the well. The serene, ancient castle is beautiful, with cobblestone structures, various rooms, and many windows. As you explore the castle, you discover two things: a flat, circular map of the earth, a baffling scientific discovery to both of you due to the time it was made in, and the Mermaid's Ballroom, which leads to the king's chamber.
After toggling a switch that lets you into the king's chamber, you explore some aspects of it and find a book-switch that opens a secret chamber. Suddenly, you hear a strange "song", and the chamber locks you inside. Brief panic leads you to discover a switch that lets you out, and as you escape you see a North Atlantic Right Whale that somehow ended up near Valka Castle swimming outside the windows.
Inside the secret room, you discovered something known as an Okeanos Tablet, a tablet of engraved lapis lazuli. You and Oceana escape the haunted castle, and, despite having lost, GG never ate a sea slug nor cleaned the boat.
You call Nancy, asking for assistance in deciphering the mysterious tablet found in Valka Castle, and although Nancy is unable to decipher the tablet herself, she does recognize the writing and relates it to an ancient civilization known as the Okeanides. She recommends that the Diving Service travel to Japan and speak with Professor Hayako Sakurai, a genius young oceanographer who holds many degrees and is considered a fantastic marine biologist. You travel to the Aquarium in Japan where she works and meet her.
Hayako says she recognizes the Okeanos Tablet and would be able to decipher it given time, but is interrupted by her boss, Ken Kaimoto, who tells her that she cannot work on it due to required research on Polar Bears in the arctic. Oceana suggests that they go and do the work instead while Hayako works on the tablet, to which Mr. Kaimoto agrees.
You travel to the North Coast of Canada to gather info on polar bears. Along the way, you are ambushed by a Greenland Shark, who you successfully deter with the Pulsar. Once you reach land, you observe the polar bear trying and failing to hunt for seals, after which you can return to the boat and to the Aquarium.
She summarizes this message as proof of the Okeanides; the Song of Dragons is the key to the legendary treasure of the Okeanides, the Pacifica Treasure, which is said to be lost in a tomb under the seas. She mentions that there are increasing reports of the song being heard, namely in the Weddell Sea near an iceberg known as Special Iceberg A-sm16p.
Before anybody else can say anything, Jean-Eric interrupts. He is angry over the idea of pursuing the song, because his son Matthias, Oceana's father, was killed in pursuit of the song's mystery as well as the Pacifica Treasure. You and Oceana convince him to help find the truth, though, and Hayako joins the team to help search for the truth behind the Song of Dragons. With that, the team sets off for the Weddell Sea.
Upon arriving in the Weddell Sea, you get a brief explanation between the differences of ice floes and icebergs; ice floes consist of frozen seawater, whereas icebergs are chunks of Antarctic ice that have broken off. Jean-Eric mentions that hypothermia may be an issue, but Hayako presents a solution: AAP Wax, which helps prevent hypothermia when applied before diving, even in sub-zero temperatures. Jean-Eric quips on how times have changed.
You dive into the sea from the northeast and travel southwest towards the Special Iceberg, where the main source of noise is reported. Upon discovering Lower Ice Cave 3, you and Hayako hear a loud noise, a sort of wailing/grinding noise, coming from within. Hayako says that the cave must go deep into the iceberg to produce such reverberations and you travel inside, where you are taken to the Iceberg Cavern.
You discover a small chamber containing a leopard seal and a closed-off entrance to a greater area. With the aid of the whistle, you anger the leopard seal and cause it to ram into the blockade stopping you from accessing the rest of the Cavern. You discover the beautiful, serene Hall of Radiance, a chamber filled with tiny ice formations, leopard seals, schools of fish and gleaming ice stalagmites. Within, you notice a Spectacled Porpoise crying for help, presumably having been trapped within by accident, and realize that the ear-splitting noise heard earlier was not, in fact, the Song of Dragons as previously presumed but the cries of the porpoise amplified and distorted by the unique structure of the Iceberg Cavern.
Hayako suggests you Pulsar the porpoise to calm it down, and upon doing so, it takes a liking to you; you befriend the Spectacled Porpoise. Suddenly, a noise is heard, not like the previous screech, but more of a definite song, with a familiar melody and tune -- could this be the Song of Dragons?!
It's coming from outside the Cavern! You rush out with Hayako, ready to face the unknown, and out of the blue appears -- a blue whale? A rare sight, according to Hayako. The Song stops after meeting the whale, and you're left perplexed as to what happened at all. Yet another surprise when Oceana radioes you urgently, saying that conditions have severely worsened above water, and the radio cuts out with one final, eerie message:
You and Hayako return to the boat as quickly as you can, unable to contact them, and discover the source of the trouble: an immense blizzard has come over the Antarctic, reducing visibility to essentially nothing and causing danger, as the boat could capsize and leave them stranded. All hope seems lost, with no chance of truly safe escape, when suddenly, the Spectacled Porpoise you befriended in the Iceberg Cavern pops out of the water, chirping. Oceana asks if it's trying to help them, to which it nods fervently, and you decide to listen to it. It goes off in one direction and you follow suit, keeping a careful eye out for the Porpoise as it leads you through the twisting maze of icebergs. Eventually, it leads you out of the iceberg zone and into clearer waters, where you are safe.
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