The Last Guardian Trailer
June 10, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Games & VideoI’ve been mildly obsessed with the folks over at Team Ico and their leader and brainchild Fumito Ueda ever since they released the video game Ico back in 2001. The game definitely revolutionized the idea of what a video game could and should be, simplifying the controls to their bare minimum and giving the overall experience an extremely cinematic feeling.
Since then they’ve released one other game, Shadow of the Colossus, a puzzle game of sorts where you must destroy humongous roaming colossi in order to save the life of a girl. This game was epic in it’s storytelling, as you traveled around the land on horseback, eventually reaching these giant beasts, and finally climbing onto many of them to destroy them.
It’s been nearly 4 years since Shadow of the Colossus, and thankfully Team Ico has a new project out now, titled The Last Guardian. There was an older video showcasing the game, at the time called Trico (which is now the name of the creature in the game), but since then they’ve redone the trailer and it looks absolutely beautiful. I really need to buy a PS3 now.
Bobby
Comments
If you've got something to say, keep it positive.I love and agree with Penny Arcade’s take on this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/8/
Regardless, I am drooling to play it.
You’re my hero right now! I’ve been dying to hear an update from Team Ico but didn’t know where to go. Luckily since I frequently visit your blog, I didn’t have to look very hard.
I really need a PS3 now too.
As soon as I saw this on the screen at E3 I was mesmerized. I will definitely be buying this for my PS3 but I am pretty sure I am going to cry like a little baby if the guardian gets hurt/dies in the story. It reminds me of my young mastiff.
This game looks absolutely phenomenal, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
I’m so excited for this. We finally got ourselves a copy of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus was fantastic, although I’m terrified that they’re making a movie of it. . .
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this. I absolutely loved Shadow of the Colossus, and I still need to play Ico. But I’m very excited for this.
Absolutely mesmerizing. I’ve never been a “gamer” in my life, but I might just lay down the dough for my first console just for this. I can barely reconcile the epic scale of the emotional range with the fact that the Last Guardian is a video game and not a film or a fantasy.
super looking forward to this game, it’s going to be something special.
Fumito Ueda and team ico have made two of the most influential works for my own growth as an artist.