**melts into a puddle of gratitude**
From all of us, thank you so much! to see the art, music, level design... all our contributions mentioned here as brining the whole thing together absolutely means the world to us.
And I'm sooooo so so so SO happy you liked the writing!! <3 For this glowing review, Sunken Treasure Tours would like to award you a special appreciation discount... ONE PERCENT OFF ANYTHING AT THE GIFT SHOP, and as a bonus, we'll drop the price of your next tour to 1244$ ... and 50 cents xD
By the way, during the stream where you scanned the baby octopus and got kinda confused and was like "I thought I had this game pegged but I guess not," no you're absolutely right!
!!! Spoilers ahead for anyone just comment scrolling !!!
So yes, most of the fish aren't real. They're plastic battery things with their thoughts encoded. A ploy by Sunken Treasure Tours for creating an "ideal" ecosystem by destroying the real one. But there's also a few real fish hidden throughout (The baby octopus, the hatchet fish... and also a hidden Sea Turtle which is a little easy to miss, and... hehehe... a crab which is currently impossible to reach without being mauled by angler fish. THis will be fixed as soon as the jam is done), but yeah! Their muted color and traumatized dialog hint at what's truly going on :D So there's a blend of real and fake fish going on... but Scubot doesn't want you findin out about that >:)
Thanks again so much for playing!!!
-Sasha