Yeah, I thought I was finished with the MECC games as well (I'm not going to ask for eXplore Yellowstone here because it's well there's no plot to it really), but I think this might be the last one, so I figured this should get a review too, it’s ones of my favourites 
 
Gameplay and story: This is a bit of a sequel to Odell Lake except instead of choosing whether to eat the fish or dive to avoid being eaten, you basically have to go around a portion of the Great Barrier Reef (that’s why it’s called Odell Down Under), though there are three ways to die if there isn’t enough of the fish that is part of your diet or if you eat something poisonous (like the sea wasp, or the Anemone) or you can starve to death. The worst that can happen is if you click on the giant clam that normally hangs around ,You can also die from an infection if your health goes south but that’s what the cleaner fish are for, you go up to a blue streak cleaner wrasse and they bring your health back to normal, and there’s the banded coral shrimp they can clean you too, though you can also eat them. Basically, the main object of the game is to survive, gain the points you need to upgrade to a bigger fish 
 
Graphics: Well, they are what they are considering this was a game released in the 90s, the Blacktip shark actually looks pretty good and actually looks like a shark, most of the fish there are fish I had never heard of before playing this game (though the barracuda doesn’t really look like a barracuda) I don’t know if there are certain points in the reef that have names but I know it’s bigger than those nine scenes we are given 
 
Soundtrack: A good chunk of it is rather tropical sounding, it has a nice opening tune when you are at the title screen, though it plays during the gameplay as well, it has a very nice variety (when I share a gameplay here I will show it) however they’re not exactly something I would set to a multi hour loop on YouTube, but of course this is from the 90s, so like most games this consisted of a MIDI soundtrack 
 
Addictive: I used to play the demo version of this a lot (yeah that’s how I first played this game like many of the games I have reviewed I had previously played them as a demo) but even there you were only given a handful of fish to play as like between the Achilles Tang and the Bronze Sweeper and given only two pieces of the soundtrack, back then I would pretend I was running a seafood restaurant and the fish that were participating were dying via simulation then I serve the actual thing, though granted I had no idea a place like that existed at the Disney parks so I guess props to me for mentally taking myself to the Living Seas without knowing it 
 
Depth: There are four different modes of play: There is Practice mode where all the fish are playable and you can practice and see which fish you can eat and which ones you can’t, Create-a-fish is exactly what you expect you can create your own fish and experiment to see which fish it can eat (I know that because there’s a FAQ online for this that describes a certain type of fish you can create that can eat anything and everything) The tournament is where you play as every fish from the smallest Silver Sprat to the largest Great White Shark, yes Great White Shark, however even when you die in the game they give you an opportunity to continue on to the next fish up rather than start over. Championship mode you are given four fish to play as, from smallest to largest (it’s random you might not start with a silver sprat and end with a great white shark you could start with a Bronze Sweeper or end with a Giant Grouper....why do they say they can eat Turtles if there are no turtles in the game?) 
 
Difficulty: Well, it depends on the fish, there are some fish where you can advance from easily, usually the ones where all the eat is algae and grass or Coral (like the Achilles Tang) and since there is an area with all that that’s an easy five bites to the next fish, though sometimes I actually like the fish where you can eat the sponge best because you get to watch the sponge go away....and regenerate, yeah I don’t think it can regenerate that quickly in real life, basically I like the fish that can eat the items that we can’t eat like the sponges or the anemone or the hard shelled invertebrates, or the pufferfish. However sometimes I have problems moving the fish around they can sometimes be slow moving, and the only way to get them to move faster is to eat something even if it’s something that’s too hard for one to eat or isn’t on your menu 
 
Post review follow up: So this game is playable on Classic Reload (heck I’m the reason the game is on classic reload, I saw Troggle Trouble math on the site and I asked the site owner if they could put Odell on the site and they did, and I told them they were amazing of course that was back when an actual person was running the site and the facebook page) you know some to think of it, this game walked so the Feeding Frenzy Duology could run, except the latter isn't educational but still has a survival theme

This concludes my review I will have another review coming up later so stay tuned