"The Last Guardian" will make you bawl your heart out and you know it.

[Mirai Gen]

This is no different than any other way that bloom and white has ever been rendered in daylight scenes in all of Ueda's games. Look even on some of the kid's horned-helm thing and the scarf, looks very similar (although obviously it is more vibrant on the PS3). It looks like the art style I've naturally gravitated towards in the whole series, and this does not disappoint.

It is also worth mentioning that this kind of brightness only applies with outdoor scenes, so white outside becomes 'snowblind' white. The vibrancy pops the white as central-focus of your eyes and really makes the rest of the world feel very empty and desolate (because the only things that look like that are the main character and the "erme" as Wikipedia says. I dig it.

Having said thus, this game will make me buy a PS3. And I am so not joking, the minute this comes out I'm going right over to Gamestop.

[bluestarultor]

Here we go. Thank you Mirai. This is going to help me explain myself intelligibly.

Look at the picture on the left and compare to the one on the right. The one on the right is fully self-shadowed. The kid on the left is not, where other things are. This is what most bugs me about the style of this game.

[Kaneda]

Originally Posted by Bells

Don't bash the trailer... just focus your anger on the fact that it's 90% likely that by the end of the game Trico dies or something like that... I belive we all learned our lessons with Shadow of the Colossus.

Well of course.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Here we go. Thank you Mirai. This is going to help me explain myself intelligibly.

Look at the picture on the left and compare to the one on the right. The one on the right is fully self-shadowed. The kid on the left is not, where other things are. This is what most bugs me about the style of this game.

It's a working visual demo. The erme is perfectly shaded whereas the kid looks like he isn't finished yet - I sincerely doubt that this is what they're going to go with for the final product.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

It's a working visual demo. The erme is perfectly shaded whereas the kid looks like he isn't finished yet - I sincerely doubt that this is what they're going to go with for the final product.

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Okay, I'll bite. It just strikes me as a bit strange that they'd save the kid for absolute last when he's one of two main characters and so much else seems to have been done, but I'll bite. At least everyone knows what I'm talking about now.

[Mirai Gen]

Honestly solidifying what you were talking about I do agree in that it looks very very odd, and if it were out in the finished product that would certainly be a complaint I'd have. This is, however, a minor complaint about outdoor in-sunbeam graphic in (what I am sure will be) an otherwise artful and fantastic and enthralling game.

Team Ico is making it. I am going to buy a PS3, and it. I am already sold.

On the Penny Arcade; the comic is without a punchline but yet I can't help but chuckle despite my uncomfortable acceptance that not only is it true but it will absolutely emotionally destroy me all the same, as did the others.

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by FenrisWolf

Hey Bit, gonna quote a post for ya.


Do you know what you did in the post immediately following that one?

Please don't do that.

Sorry, the game's quite old now. I thought I was past the statute of limitations. And to be fair, I can hardly be expected to actually READ everyone's posts. I believe I've clarified in another thread elsewhere that I am an important man who does important things that are far too important to let myself be distracted from them by whatever you guys are talking about.

I'll add tags this time:

Don't bash the trailer... just focus your anger on the fact that it's 90% likely that by the end of the game Trico dies or something like that... I belive we all learned our lessons with Shadow of the Colossus.

Agro lived, and Wander was reincarnated without actually dying. Also the girl survived. And all the tribal guys (seriously, you can't kill those fuckers). In fact, the only guys who died in SotC were the collosus....es.....i.....os. Whatever.

Having said thus, this game will make me buy a PS3. And I am so not joking, the minute this comes out I'm going right over to Gamestop.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw it.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

Agro lived, and Wander was reincarnated without actually dying. Also the girl survived. And all the tribal guys (seriously, you can't kill those fuckers). In fact, the only guys who died in SotC were the collosus....es.....i.....os. Whatever.

Yeah, and neither of the two main characters in Ico died either. Why are people expecting the worst here?

But yeah, this game looks fucking awesome. I honestly could care less about some slightly odd lighting here and there, I'll be having too much fun with the Giant Pet Griffon for that.

[Mirai Gen]

Because the game is all about heartrending moments and everyone is secure in the knowledge that the bond we're witnessing in just the trailer is going to be torn asunder by the end.

Plus I know that being baby-ified doesn't count for Wander but that's about as close to dying as you can get.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Because the game is all about heartrending moments and everyone is secure in the knowledge that the bond we're witnessing in just the trailer is going to be torn asunder by the end.

And yet Ico was the same way when we first saw that...

Plus I know that being baby-ified doesn't count for Wander but that's about as close to dying as you can get.

What, being born again and forced to live two lives?! Pretty sure that's the exact opposite there dude.