![]() ![]() ![]() Initially Trico is smart enough to not meander, making him a helpful contributor rather than an over-sized escort mission, which lasts until the player is given more direct control of Trico through orders. Because they both have different skills and are only semi-cooperative at the start, Trico will sometimes find a solution to a problem on his own, such as realizing he can make a jump the boy can’t, and that’s the key to progressing. The boy and Trico have to work together, but their communication is limited to sounds and gestures. However, as you’re both navigating through the world, Trico is often unable to get through certain obstacles without your assistance, meaning the boy has to utilize his own talents to help Trico find his way out as well.Īt first, playing The Last Guardian is like playing a cooperative game alongside someone with a language barrier. Trico’s large size means he can traverse great distances and essentially acts as the boy’s bodyguard. As the boy, you’ll have to utilize both your own skills and Trico’s in order to progress through the dungeons and puzzles within the ruin. Instead, the boy and Trico’s relationship evolves from hostility to fierce loyalty through the duo’s cooperation as the game goes on. After nursing Trico back to health and releasing him from his shackles, the two begin their journey to escape captivity.įor the most part, The Last Guardian’s minimalistic story is told without words. Upon regaining consciousness, he meets a massive griffon-like creature named Trico who has been badly hurt and taken prisoner as well. The Last Guardian tells the story of a young boy who wakes up to find himself prisoner in the remnants of a long-abandoned castle. In its earliest hours, The Last Guardian’s premise had me spellbound, but as I progressed through the ruined prisons of its world, I found myself in a near constant state of frustration, only to have a temporary reprieve when the game’s narrative took center stage. While this story of a boy and his beast is heartfelt and portrays a beautiful unlikely friendship with poignant restraint, The Last Guardian’s mechanical and technical issues unmask a game that was clearly meant to be released closer to its original unveiling in 2009. However, the puzzles are less physics based than those games and you quickly begin to recognise different puzzle pieces being reused in different situations.Calling The Last Guardian “a product of its time” may seem like a misnomer, but, considering the game’s troubled development, it isn’t surprising that the long-awaited followup to Shadow of the Colossus feels a bit dated now that it’s finally here in 2016. The mechanics are simple but flexible and at first this seems like it’s going to be more than a match for Playdead’s classics. The cat-monkey also has the strange ability to hypnotise creatures (we didn’t fully understand this bit, but it has something to do with a special device Lana finds) and move them backwards and forwards to do things like activate switches and block solar panels. This strange mixture of cat and monkey is much more limber, and Lana quickly learns to instruct it to move to particular locations and operate simple switches or chew through wires. Lana can’t run very fast, or jump very far, but early on she finds an alien creature in a cage and befriends it. Although you can sometimes backtrack a little, if you feel you’ve missed one of the shrines with clues to the planet’s history, that’s never actively encouraged and instead the game splits itself up into small sections that are just a couple of screens wide, where you have to platform and puzzle your way out, often accompanied by a bit of light stealth action.
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