Project Trico

There is a trailer online in advance of E3 09 of the next Ico project (aka Trico) and it can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3fED8EXl4&feature=related



Critique: Ironically I actually got to the point in my geekdom that I tried to imagine a game that would keep with the basic design philosophies of ICO and Shadows while offering something new and I came up with an idea that is in many ways very similar to this so I feel like I'm already in the 'head space' to think about this trailer.

1st impression: Sad that the creature is so adorable but it is brilliantly animated. I can already see Fumito Ueda saying: "I wanted to place my emphasis on the relationship with the (insert name here....we'll go with cat-rat-bird (CRB))and I felt that the best way to do that was to make the (CRB) likable and feel like a living breathing creature." Well done so far!

2nd impression: If this trailer as as much to do with the finished game as Nico had to do with Shadows of the Colossus then this isn't going to be too much like the finished game with the exception that the player will be human and there will be a (CRB).

3rd impression: I'm pretty excited but if this had been a bit more serious and maybe the kid had been a bit older and less precocious I would be over the moon ecstatic. Other than that? I'm buying it.