The Last Guardian

[agoofykindasuperman]

Day 1 purchase for me. I cannot wait. My fave two games on the PS2 were Ico and Shadow. Those I actually had fun with and could BEAT lol... ya, I'm not a huge gamer.

[Shin-Ra]

TGS in a couple of weeks. Gotta be something new there!?

[Foggy]

How are there not as many games about a relationship between, a child and a giant egale-cat-dog-rat creature who likes to eat barrals?

It seems like such an obvious concsept.

[Bizdady]

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Just preordered mine!

[Shin-Ra]

Last Guardian game 'named for US, Europe' - Kobayashi

As a company, Sony has conducted a number of studies about selling products overseas, and Kobayashi used ICO as an example, showing two different sets of box covers developed in different regions. The design for the US market featured a bigger title and clear lead male character, while the box on sale in Japan had a more refined art style representative of the feel of the game.

ICO sold about 270,000 units in the US, but Kobayashi explained his belief that it could have performed better: "If the packaging was designed differently, we think it would have sold more - in fact on the internet many people have said that the Japanese version was better."

And it was then that he referred to the ICO team's latest project, The Last Guardian, and revealed that the name of the game was selected specifically to appeal to the North American and European markets.

He explained that the studio considers a big budget for a PlayStation 3 game as around the JPY 1-1.5 billion mark, while a small budget is around JPY 100 million.

It's good he acknowledges gamers didn't like the cheesy North American boxart for ICO but I don't understand the big deal about naming it for NA and the EU. The Japanese title is still different to suit that region so the only difference is we haven't had to wait months for an official English title.

[Shin-Ra]

Right now, on the Japanese PlayStation Store there's a Last Guardian Behind The Scenes + Trailer along with a bunch of other trailers in the same video.

The first link under What's New
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[Shin-Ra]

If you can't be arsed or can't find all that (it's not the top-most update any more):

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/...and-new-video/

Translated there, too.

And here's the official site:

http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/trico/

Japanese high quality trailer: http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/scej/trico/trico_tgs.mp4

New screenshots coming!

[Shin-Ra]

Might as well post them all out in the intended order:

[Toxa]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Japanese high quality trailer: http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/scej/trico/trico_tgs.mp4

New screenshots coming!

worst compression ever

[Shin-Ra]

Hmm yeah, maybe not so much the high quality part.

The 856MB video from the Japanese store looks the best I think.

[Toxa]

[Toxa]

I guess this is all gameplay:

[Toxa]

Ueda ITW :

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sc...terview?page=1

[Shin-Ra]

Short and straight to the point.

There's a 300+MB version of the English translated trailer, I'll try and see if anyone's uploaded it already.

[kjacobs03]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Short and straight to the point.

There's a 300+MB version of the English translated trailer, I'll try and see if anyone's uploaded it already.

You da man!

[Toxa]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Short and straight to the point.

There's a 300+MB version of the English translated trailer, I'll try and see if anyone's uploaded it already.

Make it so

[Shin-Ra]

Uploaded to YouTube but the video's still processing so no HD just yet. Keep checking every 5 mins or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtaZNScpCY

[AranhaHunter]

Originally Posted by Toxa

Ueda ITW :

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sc...terview?page=1

Very good interview, to recap:

Interesting that it was the only game at TGS without the % complete present and that Miller's Crossing track is only being used for the trailer

[Shin-Ra]

IGN have a video interview

ICO: Little over 20 staff
Shadow of the Colossus: Over 30 staff

The Last Guardian: No number given, increasing compared to previous titles but still relatively small team.

[Toxa]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176239