An 18-minute meaty footage of The Last Guardian, captured at the Tokyo Game Show this week, has surfaced on the internet. This footage, sourced from the Japanese media behemoth Famitsu, offers us the most lucid glimpse yet of what it’s actually like to play this long-awaited PS4 game.
The recorded demonstration showcases an area that wasn’t present in the The Last Guardian E3 build that Wes experienced and wrote about in June. However, we have previously caught glimpses of this area in trailers.
What stands out in the video is the impact of Trico, the colossal cat-eagle. In comparison, you, as the tiny boy, are dwarfed. Trico possesses a considerable mass and emits strange guttural barks. It’s peculiar. It’s disconcerting. It’s captivating. Indeed, Wes was also charmed by Trico.
“Wes wrote, months before The Last Guardian was once again postponed, this time from October to 9th December, ‘This feathered amalgamation of mythical creatures gives The Last Guardian a chance to be something extraordinary, even though its prolonged and troubled development implies that the game really shouldn’t have any entitlement to be.'”
“I can still recall his heavy breathing, the rumble of his movement somewhere beyond the camera, the fear in his distress. There’s something haunting about Trico’s design, his fur swaying in the darkness, his eyes burning brightly with strange hues one moment, menacingly pitch-black the next.”
