Once again The Last Guardian
is delayed. You will now have to wait until December to play with our dragon-like
friend. The Last Guardian was announced in 2009. With many delays it seems no
one was surprised by this announcement.
Sony announced On Monday that The Last
Guardian’s release date will be moved from October 25 to December 6. But
Everyone doesn’t seem surprise by the delay, in fact they would rather wait for
the PS4 Pro and play it with better graphical power. This is now a joke around
the gaming community. This long in development and with so many delays, gamers
have made a joke out of the announcement. Maybe joking about it distracts
players and lessens the impact on the delay.
In the announcement Fumito
Ueda (Director and Lead designer) shared the reason for the delay. “We have encountered more bugs than
anticipated while in final stages of development.” “To ensure that the game
delivers on the experience that the game’s creators have envisioned, we need to
take the extra time to work on the issues.” Taking extra time to work on
polishing a game will always benefit the game. Team Ico (developers) has been working on this
game for nearly eight years and for the development time they had, that extra
time might be the downfall of The Last Guardian.
The last two games Team Ico
released were critically known. Their first game, Ico was released in 2001
(PS2) and Shadow of the Colossus in 2005 (PS2). Both games were released in the
PlayStation 2 generation. They skipped a whole console generation to make The
Last Guardian. That creates a lot of pressure on this development team.
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