I have yet to play The Last Guardian, but it's been out for a few days now, and I have to assume some of you on here had finished it, or are going through it now. What I am curious about, and please without spoilers, what would you say is the best, the second best, and third best, or worst if you will? If that doesn't necessarily apply, are they equal in greatness to you, none of them are good at all to you, or have you simply not played them so you can't say? Since I can't say what my thoughts are on The Last Guardian right now other than from what I've heard and seen so far, I won't make that judgement right now, and simply say that I loved Shadow of the Colossus, and loved the art and minimal sound design of Ico.
The atmosphere was decent in Ico, but I wasn't into the game really. I didn't think, even by today's standards, that it felt archaic. I think these games simply have a style and feel, so not for the reason of it being archaic, but for another: the game was somewhat frustrating in a few spots (just figuring out where to go at times), and the relationship between the boy and girl as well as the setting was not interesting enough to me to make up for that. The game many times would make me want to fall asleep, and that's one of the worst things I can say about a game.
I didn't hate the game however, simply because of the few things it does great (few in my opinion). Shadow of the Colossus was, and still is fantastic to me; the only thing that annoyed me was the final boss. That said, I've only finished it once, and tried multiple times to get through it again, but only got five or so Colossi in before I lost motivation to keep going. So, I'd definitely say Colossus is the best to me, and Ico is second. If The Last Guardian is as I've heard, and as it looks like, where it's a mixture of both the former games, I'd probably put it as Colossus as best, The Last Guardian as second best, and Ico the third best. That said, if they get across that Trico is a believable animal, and it makes me care for it, then that may put it over the edge.
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