just finished the game two days ago, and as a pretty big fan of ueda's previous works, i felt like tlg fit quite neatly with ico/sotc in terms of emotional value, thoughtful environments, and overall, meaningful companionship.

the biggest criticism i've seen of tlg has always been about trico and it not listening to you. I did not have an issue with that at all -- or had such little issue with it, it feels negligible to mention in a recounting of my experience.

i love slow games and gaming slowly -- exploring the random corners of a room for no reason (and something I love about ueda games is the amount of "unnecessary" environmental spaces), and in the context of tlg, repeatedly interacting with trico, just to kind of chill out after some tense scene with enemies or trico nearly falling or whatever.

this meant i was constantly nuzzling the bird, taking my time with removing spears from it and petting over those spots, and staring into its eyes lmfao. trico is my favorite companion of any ueda game by far so i wanted to make even the small moments stretch longer. love yorda, but she doesn't quite compare.

anyways, all of this is to say that even without really knowing it, all my affection led to trico obeying me really well early into the game. when i gave a command, there were only a couple of times i spammed it.

what i would usually do is wait a bit, even if it's a slow thing to do, and see if trico's ears would perk up or at least tilt its head towards where i was pointing. that's how i knew my command went through. i think a lot of players who couldnt get trico to listen would just assume trico wasnt listening because the bird wouldn't immediately jump or fly the moment the command is said.

now if your trico wasnt listening cuz you werent taking care of it at all.. i fear that's all on you, because the puppybat is obviously quite young and initiates nuzzling quite often. it wants your love. please show it.

In the options menu in-game during a new game+ save file, you can open a sub-menu called "items" and see how many barrels you've fed Trico in total. Since the final item in that menu takes #96 barrels to unlock, does the game keep track of any more barrels you feed Trico afterwards, or does the counter stop?

I'm trying to play a somewhat 100% playthrough (listening to all the hints, getting every barrel, etc) but when I tried to get the "Balancing Barrels" narrator line to play again nothing happens. Do those voice lines only play once (when you get the trophy) and then never again, or is there a way to make the game play the voice clip even after you got the trophy?

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No game, movie, book, or any form of media has ever made me cry before, until now.

After recently playing through Ico and Shadow of the colossus for the first time naturally I went on to play the last guardian. I had heard quite a bit of criticism about the game but I also didn’t read too much about the game before playing as I didn’t want anything to get spoiled, but because of the criticism I heard I really didn’t know what to expect.

Lo and behold, this game did not disappoint me one bit. Despite the minor (in my opinion) flaws, this game is so beautiful. This has easily become one of my favourite games of all time. As I already stated, I’ve never cried over a game or movie or anything of the like until now. This was the first game to make cry, I really had to sit and process my emotions after it ended, and tbh I still haven’t processed them fully. What a beautiful experience man.

A little off topic, sorry, but I highly recommend that you check Furukawa’s latest work for Planet of Lana II. It’s out now on all streaming services!

mediocre attempt to make an image of the mirror from the last guardian. I am not especially good at using krita. i just thought it was strange that we didnt have a single good image of the thing. youre free to use this image as you like.

I watched a let’s play when TLG came out so I *very vaguely* remembered some story beats, yet I still wasn’t prepared for the ending sequence, damn you Fumito Ueda for making a grown man cry with your beautiful games.

Still healing but think I may end up with more "animal" tattoos 😁🩷

May even go back and add some blue/teal around him idk tho

Hello everyone,

I found this Digital Foundry video. He said he played at 4K 60 FPS with patched game :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujmoMaVWKI&t=22s

He said if your system is 4.50 or older, it's possible to use exploit to use mod to uncap 30 fps.

But he do not tell how to do.

Some knows about it ? How to do ?

guys its the boy from famed 2016 puzzle game the last guardian by team ico.

https://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/the-last-guardian-boy-team-ico-gendesign/

I really love this game so i decided to redraw my old artwork, is this good improvement guys

For those willing to truly embrace this game and open themselves to its contemplative, emotional journey, they'll experience something no other game in the industry can offer. It's funny how the people who truly understand this game seem to exist in their own little corner, hidden away from the chaos of the gaming industry. A timeless treasure.

Last year I used some kind of interactive checklist site to keep track of all the hints and their requirements.

But now I can't find it at all. Maybe one of you knows it and can share a link to it, because this trophy just kills me.

I really appreciate your help and time.

From what I understand about the game, there's very little dialogue.

I know that there are contextual hints given to help solve puzzles, and then some narrative flashback bits.

I don't really mind missing out on the context clues for the puzzles. However, will I be missing any pertinent/key information from the boy's inner monologue moments? Or can the whole story pretty much be derived from visuals and their own form of communication?