Possible leaked Trico footage.

[Feba]

Re: Possible leaked Trico footage.

1- SOTC was hardly a mainstream success, it just made it farther than Ico did. And how much of that is people finding out about Ico too late? How many of us can't find a copy, but would pick up one on day one if Sony would reprint it?

2- Action is not bad. Putting action in your game does not mean you're selling out, especially when the content of the game is as it is.

3- It was a great follow up. What you want is more of that part of the story. There's nothing wrong with that, but don't confuse the two.

4- I haven't had the opportunity to play Ico yet, but the situation you describe seems pretty obvious: They go adventuring out in the world; whether metaphorically or literally. Sometimes you want the story to end on a hopeful view of the sunrise and a face to black.

5- I'm pretty sure there's at least one very concrete link between SOTC and Ico, involving a complex platforming trip on the tower you start in.

6- Given that we know there are links between the worlds, and the game tends to lean towards speaking for itself and being vague, you're jumping the gun a bit on saying its horrible. It's not hard to imagine that the events in SOTC are very important to the rest of the series, and needed to be portrayed before the series could continue. Sorta like MGS3.

The first have Ico facing off with these giants in the Nico vids, so you think he's in it.

For all we know, he is.

[Pai Pai Master]

Re: Possible leaked Trico footage.

There is an extremely solid link. Baby Wander begins the lineage of horned boys that leads to Ico.

[Ziero]

Re: Possible leaked Trico footage.

Whatever the rationale for initially dubbing the games what they did, it was still misleading....*snip*...

It was only misleading to people who made baseless assumptions. It is a spiritual successor to ICO, not a direct sequel. And it was never, never stated as being a sequel. In fact this dev team has made it clearly known that they do *not* want to make direct sequels to any of their games.

And SotC was *far* from a main stream game. It outsold ICO because the developers have already proven themselves to be able to create a great game while sony pushed the hell out of it. There was very little advertising for ICO, but SotC was in every gamer mag, all over the web and even had it's own viral video series featuring people finding Colossi like objects in the real world. It was a massive success, but it wasn't catering to any mainstream audience, it was a completely different type of game then anything ever seen before, including ICO, and that got it so much attention. The only advertising I remember about ICO is it's Toonami review (where it got 5/5), but SotC had a massive push behind it and more people knew about it.

And again, it's a prequel set hundreds of years before ICO ever took place. Ico and Yorda's story has been told, now it's time to learn about the Wanderer who started the line of horned boys Ico is a descendant of. While it was a loose connection at first, the developers outright *confirmed* the relation and rumors that the Wanderer was related to Ico. The world the story is set in is the same world for both games, just different times. And seeing as this team stated repeatedly they don't want to do direct sequels, don't expect this new game to have anything related to either of the first two outside of loose possibilities and a similar setting.