History VideoGame / TheLastGuardian

%%* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his giant, horned [[MixAndMatchCritters man-eating griffin-dog-cat-thing]]. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%

* AmbiguousSituation: One of the final cutscenes shows that [[spoiler:the barrels you kept feeding Trico are shot out from a sci-fi like construction the Tricos feed human children to. It's not made clear if the barrels are merely rewards for the Tricos, or if they contain ''remnants'' of the human children]]. Fumito Ueda would later confirm, however, that the barrels do ''not'' contain children.

The game is confirmed to be in the same continuity as ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''. However, it's place in the timeline is more ambiguous than how ''ICO'' and 'Shadow'' relate to one another.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The idea of the Nest as a functioning building stretches the imagination. Many of the rooms in it have no clear purpose and much of the architecture seems to be [[MalevolentArchitcture specifically designed for people to fall to their deaths]]. Compare to ''ICO'''s Castle, which was purposely designed to feel like a real location.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The idea of the Nest as a functioning building stretches the imagination. Many of the rooms in it have no clear purpose and much of the architecture seems to be specifically designed for people to fall to their deaths. Compare to ''ICO'''s Castle, which was purposely designed to feel like a real location.

* AdultFear: At night, when everyone is asleep, [[spoiler:an innocent boy is stolen from his bed and presumably eaten by a strange beast]]. Small wonder that MassOhCrap ensues.

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* ADogNamedDog: "Trico" is the name of the species, and it's all the boy calls it.

Team Ico began developing the game in 2007, and was announced at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo with a planned release in 2011 exclusively for the Usefulnotes/PlayStation3. Unfortunately, the game [[DevelopmentHell suffered many delays and a generation jump]]. The development was later hampered by Ueda's departure from Sony in December 2011, along with many staff of Team Ico, effectively meaning the team no longer exists. However, Ueda and other former Team Ico members created a new studio, genDESIGN. This studio decided to finish the game and opted to commit themselves to helping Sony complete it through contract and working alongside Sony's internal Japan Studio.

%%* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his giant, horned [[ImAHumanitarian man-eating]] [[MixAndMatchCritters griffin-dog-cat-thing]]. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%

** One sequence has Trico held back by a pair of the giant evil eye symbols so you take a circuitous route to get to them and smash them so that you can move along. After you knock down the first, though, a huge number of guards show up and the boy is immobilized by them; unlike every other situation where this happens, you won't be able to break out of the trance no matter how furiously you mash buttons and they'll abduct you. [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment Trico overcomes his fear of the evil eyes]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and leaps past them to save you]] ]].

* {{Backtracking}}: At one point, the companions [[spoiler:encounter another Trico that swipes at the main Trico and causes him and the boy to fall back down into a place they'd previously been. Much later, the companions have a third encounter with the dark Trico, upon which the boy succeeds in breaking off its helmet (and with it, its control), after which the boy and Trico end up falling into a place they'd also previously been. When recovering, however, they're able to escape the place much quicker and more upwards than earlier]].

''The Last Guardian'' is an adventure game, and the third work by [[VideoGame/TeamIcoSeries Team ICO]].

The game, which takes place in the same world as ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' and ''VideoGame/{{ICO}}'', tells the story of a young boy who awakens in a dark cavern, with no knowledge of how he got there. To his shock, sleeping next to him is a giant feathered griffin-like beast named Trico, chained to the floor and injured. Though the beast is initially hostile, the boy is slowly able to free it and win its trust - and, eventually, to work together.

* AmbiguousSituation: One of the final cutscenes shows that [[spoiler:the barrels you kept feeding Trico are shot out from a sci-fi like construction the Tricos feed human children to. It's not made clear if the barrels are merely rewards for the Tricos, or if they contain ''remnants'' of the human children]]. Fumito Ueda would later confirm that the barrels do not contain children however.

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his giant, horned [[ImAHumanitarian man-eating]] [[MixAndMatchCritters griffin-dog-cat-thing]].