Team ICO’s Last Guardian Mystery
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Article written by cc_star in Hot, PS3 News, on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:00.
A couple of weeks ago TSA, along with the rest of the gaming world went E3 mad, at the event and during Sony’s presentation we got to see Team ICO’s The Last Guardian in all its glory, the game looked one of, if not the most beautiful games yet seen on a home console, and certainly looked amazingly different from the pre-production ‘Project Trico’ footage which was shamelessly leaked before E3 possibly taking some of the gloss off of Sony’s announcement.
Anyway on with the mystery, most people know that Twitter is pretty useful when you want to know what someone else is having for lunch or more recently for breaking news quicker than Sky or the BBC can, but not everyone knows it’s also good for being a bit of a tease. Yesterday Team Ico Games Magazine – whilst referring to some Famitsu Magazine images, tweeted “The other is of the chain scene. You can see that there are some black feathers together with the grey ones. Wonder where they come from.”
From the footage we’ve seen it’s obvious the creature your character befriends isn’t black, so is there another creature? Perhaps one that isn’t quite so friendly, and would be only too willing to eat your up?
Who knows and we may have to wait some time before finding out, as I believe the Tokyo Games Show in October is where we’ll be seeing far more of the gorgeous looking, infamous ‘BBC game’ The Last Guardian. If like me you can’t wait four months to feast your eyes on it then remind yourself of how fantastic it looks by checking out the trailer again, as always hit the HQ button if your bandwidth permits you to. Let us know your theories on where the black feathers come from in the comments below.
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mcphatty | 24/06/2009 07:59
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cc_star, you’re just as much of a tease! Good spot though, twitter is good for something then. Any rumblings on a release date? Even a year would be good?
BryOnRye | 24/06/2009 12:13
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There was a tweet last week saying Ueda had confirmed it wouldn’t be out till 2010.
hannes_truce | 24/06/2009 08:22
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I spotted this on twitter last night and promptly watched the trailer again. like the idea of a second, not quite so friendly creature…
cc_star | 24/06/2009 08:48
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Despite watching the trailer a gazillion times I just noticed that the creature has usually got loads of spears/arrows sticking out of it.
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Aitrus | 24/06/2009 10:59
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In an interview with Ueda he said something about how you have to maintain your relationship with the creature and that you could be friendly by pulling some of those spears and arrows out of it.
He also mentioned that the relationship aspect should not become a chore or a nuissance, so they should be aware of that potential disaster – GTA IV I’m looking at you.
DarthSharkey | 24/06/2009 08:59
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They tweet a lot of cryptic clues, the one with the horn as well a couple of days ago.
BrendanCalls | 24/06/2009 09:08
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Does anyone know if I would have had to play the previous Team Ico games to understand this, If so i might see if i can pick them up for cheap somewhere
This game looks amazing and I don’t want to miss out on the story because I don’t understand the history
cc_star | 24/06/2009 09:10
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They aren’t cheap
BrendanCalls | 24/06/2009 09:58
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I’ll go have a look at Amazon/Play etc.. now and see
TheDeathAvenger | 24/06/2009 12:10
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It is still unknown if the storyline of The Last Guardian will be related to the first two titles, though from what has been released so far it doesn’t look like prior knowledge will be necessary. Plus Shadow of the Colossus is a prequel to Ico, so i’m not sure where The Last Guardian would fit into the timeline.
Kevling | 24/06/2009 13:20
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Hmm, rewatching that trailer, not sure about the “black feathers” tweet. The creature is two-tone, both light and dark grey. The supposed “black” feathers (can’t make them out on that scan) could just be the dark grey ones…
Happy to be proved wrong though.
BrendanCalls | 24/06/2009 10:02
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Woahhhh!!!, on amazon
£70 for Shadow of Colossus on PS2
£45 for Ico too
How can that be justified seriously, come on!!!!
mcphatty | 24/06/2009 11:03
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On Ebay you can usually get ICO for around £25, I’ve been keeping an eye on it. I’d imagine they’re in good condition too as the owners know they’re special. I’ve also seen SOC and ICO together for £55.
yobrenoops | 24/06/2009 11:36
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I got ico for £12 from CEX a few years ago (the re-release version), and Shadow of the Colossus for £8 from game about the same time. Shadow was missing the art cards but I bought those seperately from ebay!
Also picked up three copies of We Love Katamari as well at £9 each!
Day-o | 24/06/2009 15:34
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I saw 2 copies of SOTC in game pre-wned a few months ago. Both of them were going for £10. Never bought it though, still haven’t played any ICO games. Hopefully i can borrow it off a mate sometime.