The Last Guardian is the the PlayStation 3 game that the people who most want PlayStation 3 games want.
Itās also the biggest Sony title that appears to be in risk of vanishing before our very eyes.
First shown in a pair of trailers in mid-2009, it was a no-show at E3ās 2010 and 2011. Itās lead creator, the vaunted Fumito Ueda whose PlayStation 2 projects Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are modern classics, left Sony last fall. GameStop erroneously listed the game as cancelled.
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āFor any game, I say no one can guarantee all games will come out,ā Yoshida replied, diminishing my own skepticism not a tad. āMaking games is hard. Teams try to come up with something totally unique and ty to prove that they are do-able. There is a lot of engineering involved.ā
But this game, this ambitious game about a boy and a monster he hangs out with, still exists?
āAbsolutely.ā
Follow-up: Is it any good?
āYeah,ā Yoshida laughed. āThe teamās always been making progress, but there are lots of difficulties, especially on theā¦ā He paused. āItās a tough, tough proposition that Ueda-san has come up with, the emotion, the character and AI.ā
Ueda is still on the game, Yoshida stressed, just as a freelancer, Yoshida said. āUeda-san has never left the teamā¦ he just has a different kind of set-up. We have discussed [things] with Ueda-san and made it a bit more defined in terms of his contribution and his creative input. He has been doing the same, great work. He never left the team. Heās is on top of the team.ā
(Iāll have more from my conversation with Yoshida, mostly about the PlayStation Vita, soon.)
