Fumito Ueda is hard at work on a brand new title which will rival the scale of Team ICO’s previous titles, a Weekly Famitsu interview translated by Gematsu has revealed. Speaking with the famous Japanese publication, The Last Guardian director said that developer genDesign is “working out the core parts first, and from there we’ll make it into a stable product”.
Earlier in the year the organisation posted artwork of a vaguely Yorda-esque character perched on a plinth next to a troll, though it’s unclear if this art is related to the project in question or not. “If larger-scale development becomes of interest to us,” he continued, “then I think we will significantly expand our development system and take it to a large-scale development team to make it a big game.”
That’s, you’d imagine, where a publisher like Sony would come in. Our understanding is that genDesign is a small team tailored towards more creative tasks, while Japan Studio did much of the actual heavy lifting on The Last Guardian itself. Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has hinted that the platform holder would love to work with Ueda again, but time will tell as to whether any deals get signed.
[source ryokutya2089.com, via gematsu.com]
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The Last Guardian is still one of the most underrated games of this generation. I think about it often.
Surely this is a PS5 game.
@get2sammyb Agreed. It's a wonderful game.
I wish Japan Studio would help them out again. If I can get to play his games once every 5-10 years, that's all I care for. I would love it if he continues the extended ICO/SOTC/TLG universe and keeps making these kinds of games forever
Possibly the first PS6 game to begin development. I think Death Stranding can just make it as a PS5 swansong game.
@get2sammyb definitely Sammy! One of the best and original stories I've ever played.
@get2sammyb Yep, loved it. Playing the SotC remaster between bouts of Spider-Man at the moment and every time I climb a colossus I shed a little tear for Trico.
It only took so long because they had to wait for the PS4 to come out anyway. I think it's cool that they refused to compromise the design of the game. It was what it was and they had to wait for new hardware to realise it.
>supported by Kowloon Nights (a game fund), so we’re proceeding with prototyping.
Multiplatform??? -1 exclusive...
@anon666777 Not necessarily. They might just be involved helping fund the creative. When it comes to actually putting this thing into production, if it really is going to have the same scale as Team ICO's previous projects, then it's going to need a publisher.
Late PS6 exclusive.
I still need to finish The Last Guardian actually which thinking about it now is pretty criminal. TOO. MANY. GAMES. Goddamnit!
The Last Guardian was better than Shadow, fight me
If they have any sense they will wait before formally announcing this to make sure that they dont open themselves to the inevitable memes and trolling. Just tell us when its 12 mths out or something. Inevitably it will now get a big reveal at TGS next week...
@Kai_ No, I shan’t fight you! I’m in complete agreement with you 👍.
SotC is still awesome game, mind 😎
It might out at the end of the ps5 life but not holding my breath will probably be a launch title for Ps6
@get2sammyb TLG is one of those game that I bought but for some reason have never played. But seeing all the positive talk I guess I should try it out. A can deal with a few technical problems if its that good of a game.
Anything made by Fumito Ueda will have my attention.
I really miss Team ICO, the three games made by them are among the best games ever made.
It's gonna be a very long wait, but I'm sure it will be another fantastic game.
@get2sammyb I completely agree. The story, music, locations, portrayal of Trico and everything else all honestly completely blew me away. Genuinely one of my favourite games.
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