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Proto:Ecco: The Tides of Time (Genesis)/Ecco II Beta X11/Early and Unused Text
This is a sub-page of Proto:Ecco: The Tides of Time (Genesis)/Ecco II Beta X11.
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Contents
Level Names
| To do: there are more level names that may or may not actually correspond to used levels in the final, and i may have mixed some up as i cannot easily compare levels without sonar maps available |
Almost every level name is different from the final in some way, barring Home Bay, The Eye, and Gravitorbox.
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| Corall Reefs | Sea of Green |
| Deep Horizont | Deep Ridge |
| Collect | Sea of Birds |
| Spiral | Secret Cave |
| Shark | The Hungry Ones |
| Globeholder | Globe Holder |
| Between A Times | Two Tides |
| Broken Glyph | The Lost Orcas |
| Medusa Tube | Vents of Medusa |
| Four In A Row | Four Islands |
| A-Maze-ing | Maze of Stone |
| Dark Stage | Sea of Darkness |
| Medusa Entrance | Trellia's Bay |
| Upstair | Skyway |
| Asterite Cave | Asterite's Cave |
| Bird Walk | Eagle's Bay |
| Flying Bird | Fin to Feather |
| Giant Medusa | Tube of Medusa |
| Autocamera | Aqua Tubeway |
| Fastcamera | Sky Tides |
| Csigaboss | Moray Abyss |
| Asterite Ide | Epilogue |
| Atlantis00 | Atlantis |
| Big-Bug | City of Forever |
| Fishmorph | Fish City |
| Entrance | Vortex Future |
| Vortex on Earth | Lunar Bay |
| Vortex Entrance | Dark Sea |
| Autovortex | New Machine |
| Second01 | Inter |
| Second02 | Innuendo |
| Second03 | Trans |
| Stomach | Inside |
| Sarlac | Vortex Queen |
| Big Whale | Big Water |
| Attack | The Pod |
Trellia's Message
There are two versions of Trellia's message in the prototype: a near-final draft, and an unused variant found earlier in the ROM. Interestingly, elements of both managed to sneak their way into the Game Gear port.
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| I AM TRELLIA AND YOU ARE ECCO, MY ANCESTOR. |
I AM TRELLIA AND YOU ARE MY ANCESTOR. |
Trellia figures Ecco already knows his own name in the final version.
Trellia's Other Message
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| I AM TREILLA, I AM BEAUTIFUL, YOU ARE MY ANCESTOR. |
I AM TRELLIA AND YOU ARE MY ANCESTOR. |
In addition to being vain, Trellia in this unused text cannot spell her own name right.
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| I AM WHAT YOU WILL EVOLVE TO WHEN THE EARTH IS MUCH OLDER. |
N/A |
Some extra exposition that was trimmed out.
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| I EXIST IN THE FUTURE OR ONE POSIBLE FUTURE. |
I AM FROM THE DISTANT FUTURE, OR ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE... |
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| THER IS ANOTHER POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR EARTH, A MUCH DARKER FUTURE... THE VORTEX FUTURE. |
THERE IS ANOTHER POSSIBLE FUTURE: A DARK FUTURE, THE VORTEX FUTURE. |
Grammar and punctuation fixes.
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| YOU ARE THE STONE THAT SPLITS THE STREAM OF TIME IN TWO. |
I AM HERE TO TAKE YOU TO MY PRESENT, YOUR OLD FRIEND WISHES TO SING TO YOU... |
Trellia reveals the consequences of reckless time travel to Ecco. In the final game, the Asterite says this line instead.
Asterite Restored
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| LET'S GO TOGETHER AND DESTROY NEST OF EVIL VORTEX... MY FORCE BE WITH YOU. |
YOU AMAZE ME AGAIN, LITTLE ONE... NOW THAT I AM WHOLE AGAIN, I CAN GIVE YOU THE POWER YOU NEED TO STOP THE VORTEX QUEEN AND... I WILL sing A POWERFUL SONG TO SUMMON YOUR BROTHER SINGERS... they WILL help you with the MANY VORTEX DRONES go now and stop the Vortex menace. |
The newly-repaired Asterite's call to action got greatly expanded in the final version, though the final version of this dialogue is also present in the prototype itself.
Vortex Queen
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PLEASE DO NOT KILL ME ECCO.
The Vortex Queen pleads for her life after Ecco defeats her. This message is also present and unused in the final game.
Vortex Defeated
| Early | Final |
|---|---|
| YOU ARE GREAT. WE ARE FREE. THE TIMEMACHINE IS OUR PROBLEM. |
Once again you are the hero of the sea... You have saved your kind... you have saved the asterite... and you have saved the earth's future. songs of your courage will echo in the waters of the earth forever. I am proud to.be your pod mate. |
The touching message of Ecco's victory from his fellow dolphins is a lot cheaper in the prototype, nor is it followed by the credits. It's also another case of something the Asterite would tell you in the final being attributed to someone else in the prototype.
