The game's storyline focuses on a young man named Wander who enters a forbidden land. Wander must travel across a vast expanse on horseback and defeat sixteen massive beings, simply known as colossi in order to restore the life of a girl named Mono.
From TheGamer: "It's hard to believe Ico will be 20-years-old later this year. Fumito Ueda's 2001 masterpiece was my introduction to thinking a little more critically about the intersection of play and how we process and engage with stories. Ico presents a stripped-down tale of childhood love and loss but asks that we engage with it a little differently than other games of its era. I regard Ueda's painfully emotional trilogy as some of my favorite games, and even if Ico isn't at the top of the three, it introduced me to themes and design choices that shaped my understanding of what games could be."
Indeed. What a great game. I still think about it and how different (In a good way) it was. My oh my I'm getting really old..... Twenty years on.
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Great read! Ico is still my favorite game. Of course I loved Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, but Ico holds a special place in my heart.
I bought it day one. It was amazing. As a 45 year old man with a wife and kid I'm not even a little ashamed to admit that I had tears streaming down my face at the end.
Shadow of the Colossus is still my favorite from them, and still one of my all time favorite games.
Agreed! I beat every version. The PS2 version. The PS3 version twice. I beat it on the hardest mode. That was a proud accomplishment for me. Then I beat the recent version on PS4. Such a classic game!
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The creature still won't lower his tail through the whole in the ceiling so I can climb out in The Last Guardian. It's been a year. I watched game guides on Youtube. I've tried everything imaginable. The game is broken.
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SotC and until dawn are my 2 favourite PS4 exclusives. It was a real treat to play this one for the first time. Great game
To have TLG and SotC in the same gen was just such an awesome time. Want to get back to both and try to Plat them, but so many games to play, my backlog is ridiculous! Bluepoint did such an amazing job also on SotCr
Its funny, i sometimes press 8 when i mean to press 10 :)
Hands down, my favourite game on the PlayStation 2.
one of my favourites too :)