A livestream of The Last Guardian has been captured so we can all watch nine minutes of CatBirdDogRat and his human pal do some puzzling. SIE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida and PR Yasuhiro Kitao were on hand to present, but do bear in mind this is captured from a livestream so the quality is not perfect.
Source: YouTube via Dualshockers
double-o-dave
That CatBirdDogRat thing is disturbing – It needs putting down. Maybe thats the point of the story, you’re taking it on an epic journey to the vets so you can rid the world of the strange winged beast.
Andrewww
Looks good to me, except of course for the fall just after 7min. in, where the kid should’ve been dead seven times.
Tuffcub
Well at least he limps.
ron_mcphatty
After seeing that I’ll definitely be waiting for a review before I buy. The interlacing issue must be a stream thing but the up and down frame rate is quite bad, I’d prefer to see it locked at 24 then at least they could play the ‘cinematic’ card. The gameplay shown is nothing new, basically more ICO. I hate to be grumpy and I’m sure not understanding the narration doesn’t help but after all this time I’d’ve loved to see a deluge of glorious, emotive trailers with some gripping and endearing gameplay clips.
Sammy
They need to stop showing the game IMO.
We’ve seen so many trailers of what looks to be exact same footage, and whenever they show something relatively new now, it just looks the same and makes you feel like the actual game doesn’t really have a lot of content or environment variety.
I’m assuming that the finished product has a lot more going for it than just scaling castle walls up and down, but they’re not showing it to us. After 10 years of seeing a boy scaling castle walls and an odd creature saving him, I have no desire to see any more of this game until it actually comes out and is on the shelves.
Sitorimon
At 32 years old I have no shame in basically begging my parents for this to be my Christmas present :D
double-o-dave
In all honesty, if your parents say no, with a trip to your local dog kennels & Pets at Home (or somewhere similar), a scalpel & some stitches, you could make your own CatBirdDogRat.
Tony Cawley
Is it just me then that thinks this looks utterly rubbish? Ico and Shadow of the Collossus were a long time ago, gaming has moved on so much since then. Producing another new game in a similar format, I don’t think it’s going to be well received at all. It’s certainly not one for me, anyway, looks frustrating!
ron_mcphatty
It’s not just you. There’s no way of showing it in a single gameplay trailer but the magic will surely be in forming a relationship with the CatBirdDogTrumpPence thing. However with delay fatigue setting in these little clips do more harm than good, we need reviews!
MOVE
I certainly hope it’s just the two of you…
bunimomike
There’s plenty of people who don’t understand the franchise or do understand it but know it’s not for them. The emotional connection (in all of them) is key to enjoying the game the way that Fumito Ueda wants us to.
Thing is, you’re smart enough to know it’s not for you so there’s no money to be wasted.
For the rest of us – albeit a small slice of the gaming community – there’s little to even touch games like this.
ico
Totally agree but also have some nagging concerns. I got both Ico and SoTC on PS2 and forked out for the remasters but I’m not preordering this but hope to dive in and if reviews ‘complain’ about the similarities between this and the former games then I’ll see this as a positive in a world of SSDD shooters and RPGs. Please please please don’t let us down Ueda!
bunimomike
So many people who have professed concern have nothing to go on. I don’t mean that at yourself…well, I do, but we have to have faith! :D
Ueda hasn’t let us down thus far and nothing in the trailers looks out of place. If it doesn’t review well, so be it, but I really think it’s going to be a lovely experience for everyone who’s embraced the franchise so far.
If not, mass suicide! :D
ico
Harsh. But fair! You’ve (semi) restored my faith and I’ll await the launch with eager anticipation. Ico still entertains and touches me and inspires awe in me and it’s an old game. Bring it on Sony!
The Lone Steven
A few years ago, I would have cared but the fact that it’s been almost a decade in development and barely any footage(beyond what seems to be the same stuff shown over and over again with minor differences) shown it kinda kills all my interest in it. There has been two other decade long games. Both of them sucked. Though, Doom, which was previously Doom IV did live up and surpass expectations so hopefully, it’ll be more of a Doom type decade long development then a Duke Nukem Forever crashing and burning on arrival type decade long development.
I think it may get 7/10 on here, good but falls short of being excellent ratings else where. Kinda getting that vibe from it and well, whilst Team Ico has a proven track record of delivering superb games, they don’t excatly have that much of a library to back it up. 2 games, both superb. This? It could make or break them. It turns out to be rubbish and they are likely to have people turn their backs on them and wonder what the heck were they doing for 10 years, if it turns out to be excellent, it will cerment their status in the industry.
But speaking of PS3 exclusives turned PS4 ones, where or what the bloody hell happened to AGENT?