The amount of detail in Trico’s behaviour is simply staggering. Trico is probably the best AI character ever in a video game. The Last Guardian definitely gets my recommendation. There are also camera issues and other graphical glitches, but nothing that makes the game unplayable. I hope this doesn’t become a trend with new PS4 releases. If you can afford it, I would strongly recommend upgrading to the PS4 Pro before playing The Last Guardian. It isn’t without its technical flaws I was most disappointed with the frame rate drops on the original Playstation 4, sometimes dropping into the low 20s in outdoor areas, whereas on the PS4 Pro it apparently runs at a mostly consistent 30fps. Not everyone will agree with this perspective, but I hope The Last Guardian sets the bar for how games can be presented as experiences that are lived, rather than merely solved. It’s quite unlike anything I’ve played before, yet if you have the patience (a lot of it) you’ll feel richly rewarded by what has been experienced by the end of your journey with Trico. The feeling I got from completing this journey was that I had to grow a solution, rather than simply find the right combination of button presses. If I could only use one word to describe The Last Guardian, I would choose ‘organic’, as opposed to the mechanical gameplay of most of modern games. Yet, without spoiling anything, the genius of The Last Guardian is in its imperfection. All this trouble has gotten me EXTRA hyped. So here I am, with two broken Playstations on the way(that I probably spent more on than if I just bought a new one), no idea if I could actually get them working, and a preorder for collector’s edition of The Last Guardian that I spent as much on as I did with each of the consoles. Turns out, it was happening NINE DAYS from that date. I decided I might as well check if TLG got a release date since that was one of the only reasons I’d have bothered to go for the console (outside of spite). I was miffed enough to buy some broken ones off ebay so I could do repairs to make up for the deal. However, I showed up second in line after a guy who drove 300 miles to get it. The day after, Black Friday was happening here and I realized a small shop around here was selling ONE PS4 for under $140USD. It was an absolutely spectacular experience. We played bits of it before, but didn’t want to get into it without some serious time set aside. Last Thursday, I sat down with a friend and dedicated the entire day to legitimately play Shadow of the Colossus. I’ve been very excited about this game but wasn’t planning to get it on release.
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