The Last Guardian

The third game by Team ICO; their third Playstation exclusive that I was desperate to play.
I bought it myself in 2018, thinking I'd be able to play it on a friend's PS4 if I didn't end up buying my own. Borrowed Shane's on two occasions, finishing the game in early July 2018.
I for sure really liked it. I loved the gameplay, being the useless weak boy and having a big dum creature as my ally. The setting is the usual awesome setting from Team ICO, with little explanation and no dialogue. I didn't have many problems with controlling the beast, as others whined about online - for me it was pretty easy to see how it worked: you just pointed where you wanted it to go and give it a few moments to figure out how to orient itself, and if it didn't listen then move it somewhere else and try again from another angle, until it figures it out.
My only real gripe was that I think it was too long, and repeated the same beats too many times. Could have been tighter. For example, there were multiple occasions where the beast was all injured and needed barrels to get better. There were multiple occasions where you were falling as if to your doom but the beast catches you. And they weren't really any different to each other.
Anyway, definitely a 1, would probably have been 2 if it had been a bit shorter.
Category:2010s video games
Category:Video games played in 2018
Category:Video games with 1 rating
Category:Playstation video games