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Ico Sequel Info
Ico was one of the original innovative games for the Playstation 2, and the sequel is finally nearing its release date. Games.Kikizo.com (via Blues) has an interview, screenshots, and details on the upcoming title. From the article: "There's a young man on a horse, with a girl. You can see that she's unconscious, and this is because she has lost her soul. He takes her to a temple-like area that exists at World's End. He is trying to revive her and recover her soul. In order to do that, he has to defeat the Colossi."
I thought the main character in this one was a female who battled the giant? I believe the game was assumed to be titled Nico, or something similar.
Are they making two seperate games and I'm getting them confused?
Either way, I hope this is good. It's a pity it took them so long to make a second game for this.
What an annoying site. Glad I could see some screens of this possibly-great game there, but I'm never going back.
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I don't know about you guys, but I can't see whether or not people have souls, or have lost their souls. Did I miss the post of some righteous hack of some pair of goggles or something?
Here's a game that could definitely use the visual booster shot a next-gen console could offer.
Thank God I read this entire post before clicking on the link. Sounds very NSFW.
I was recently reading about Ico and its creator in Power Up and then went out and was lucky enough to find a used copy is pretty good condition really cheap. I haven't finished Ico yet (too much time in Vana'diel), but I'm glad to hear that something new from the same creative team is coming out. Ico was/is one of the more creative titles to come out over the last several years. Unfortunately the really interesting titles don't always sell well upon release. But with all of same ol' games coming out over and over on the new consoles, I think many gamers are starving for and are now willing to try something different.
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The first Ico was total shite. A blurry, ugly, unfun mess of a game. Innovative? Yeah, it certainly was. It was the first game to make my eyes bleed from all the fucking fog and blur. It was released to mediocre reviews (rightly so) and quickly disappeared from view because it just wasn't that great. All of a sudden everyone's pants are exploding for this game... WTF? It's like a reverse of Tohshinden. "Oh, this game is the greatest ever! It's so pretty! Yay for Tohshinden!" A year later "Yeah, Tohshinden sucked hard. And it's ugly. And controls like shit."
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It's a shame that (at least in Britain) the original Ico didn't sell too well, though its release wasnt as wide spread as it could have been (I didn't pick it up until it appeared in Game's preowned bin...). I hope that they don't realise this and drop a European release :(.
(I hope more so that sony don't drop the PSP release... which they edge nearer every week apparently).
No I did not RTFA because I've been reading about this game for months. Anyways this is just an FYI Wanda vs. The Collosus or whatever they wanna call it now is not a sequel. It doesn't have anything to do with ICO other than the fact that it MAY take place in the same world. Just think about that so you don't miss out on a potentially excellent game just cuz ICO sucked.
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In TFA the interviewer asks if Wanda will have a "special edition release" like Ico had. What's he referring to there? Is he calling the finished version that was released in Europe/Japan the "special edition"?
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