A Look Back At • ICO (Analysis)
Ico is an action-adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for the PlayStation 2 video game console in 2001 and 2002 in various regions. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept. Originally planned for the PlayStation, Ico took approximately four years to develop. The team employed a "subtracting design" approach to reduce elements of gameplay that interfered with the game's setting and story in order to create a high level of immersion.
Special Thanks to:
*Team Ico & GenDesign
*Fumito Ueda & Shuhei Yoshida
*ProjectLongplay
Footage from:
*ProjectLongplay
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj04vK3cA_8Y486cghgJd4g
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MedievalMegaman
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aesiraesthetics
Essays&Espresso:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeb8nyeVXk2is7gVhgcJ2PQ
Ico is an action-adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for the PlayStation 2 video game console in 2001 and 2002 in various regions. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a “boy meets girl” concept. Originally planned for the PlayStation, Ico took approximately four years to develop. The team employed a “subtracting design” approach to reduce elements of gameplay that interfered with the game’s setting and story in order to create a high level of immersion.
Special Thanks to:
*Team Ico & GenDesign
*Fumito Ueda & Shuhei Yoshida
*ProjectLongplay
Footage from:
*ProjectLongplay
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj04vK3cA_8Y486cghgJd4g
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MedievalMegaman
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aesiraesthetics
Essays&Espresso:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeb8nyeVXk2is7gVhgcJ2PQ
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Love your videos aesir.
While i've played Shadow of the Colossus, I havent played ICO. This is the first time i'm actually taking a youtuber's advice on this.
I'll come back to the video once I've played it myself.
I love this game. I still play it once in a while.
The author comes near the legend of the games he cherishes, excellent videos
Ratchet & Jak? Nvr heard ov it 😂
Ico is an amazing game. Great analysis
Where in the game does it state the boy is named Ico?
Looking forward to the Bloodborne review
I think ico is the reborn wander and mono is the daughter of the queen. In some weird way.
The atmosphere, animation, art style, and enigmatic nature made the game truly awesome at that time.
I never heard of that game before, but I can clearly see how it influenced later games- And after watching your video, I'd like to play it myself. Sadly I do not have a ps3 or ps4 so it's not gonna happen very soon.
Coffee: Gotten. Disclaimer: Go away, we can't all afford games.
[But I can afford that coffee if I make it myself.]
Keep making videos. You are good at this. And it is a refreshing take on games I have never- and will most likely not have time- to play.
"No other medium has the audience hold hands with someone", beautifully put.
Ico is one of my top 3 favorite games ever, and this was a good analysis of it, an enjoyable listen. I'm always grateful of those spreading the good word on this gem, which is too often overshadowed by it's successor SOTC, a more conventional game that while it is still one of the best games ever made, is to me the weakest of Ueda's titles.
Of Ueda's titles, Ico takes design by subtraction to it's most extreme, and is such a fine honed game for it. It is the best example of how to implement gameplay-story integration in a video game, and is imo the most important influential work in gaming of this century from a narrative perspective. It opened people's eyes to the strength of the medium as a storytelling device like none other before it.
Since you seemed to imply that you think The Last Guardian is brilliant and it's just taking time for the world at large to recognize this, would be great to see you do a video on it. Most days, I consider TLG to be Ueda's magnum opus even over Ico, a truly magical journey.
Please make one for Colossus and Last Guardian, pretty please!
Just hearing the music just makes me want to tear up man
Ps2 best console of all time
Yes
great video, one of my all time favourite games <3
Watching this video certainly made me want to play Ico again.
It would be cool if there was a direct sequel to this showing what happened to Ico and yorda as well as expand on the world and give a bit more of the origin of things.