General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

I've just never had any particular interest in FFXV I have to admit. I'll give it a go at some stage, but as a series it departed from the kind of things I'm interested long ago. Whereas time has only enhanced my fondness and appreciation for the peerless achievements of Ico and SOTC, so super interested in seeing what Ueda has to offer after all these years.

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All I ask is that it's not a broken mess of a game (highly unlikely) and if it's anywhere near Ico then that's good enough for me.

I haven't played that masterpiece in many years so I wonder has time been kind to it? What would today's gamers/reviewers think of it if playing for the first time? Will TLG feel like a PS2 era game in terms of your character's movement or have they brought it on a bit. Having said that - I always thought Nathan Drake's movement was a bit crap in any of the Uncharted games I've played.

Fingers crossed it puts a smile on my face like Ico once did.

I've played it more recently and was surprised how gracefully it has aged (in its HD incarnation anyway, although it's the same game). The fluency and cohesiveness of its design still sets it apart, far beyond any control quirks of the era.

Reading a few previews of The Last Guardian, it seems the controls are actually more in line with the previous two Ueda games than more modern titles, which I'm sure will be a sticking point for many. Also from what I've read the creature's behaviour can be frustrating - but unclear yet whether that's by design or AI limitations. It's a brave move to introduce unpredictability as a design choice, but hard to pull off in execution so will be really interested to see how that works.

Still, there's always been something decidedly non-mainstream about these games - niche titles with near blockbuster budgets. Would be no surprise if The Last Guardian is a commercial flop or deeply divisive - whether it deserves that fate is the real question