You guys, I’ve had opportunities to play The Last Guardian, and I passed them up. Yep, you read right. This game that so many people are counting down to — this game that we’ve been anticipating for a decade — got itself turned down by this gamer right here. At the Tokyo Game Show, I did not pursue a chance to play TLG‘s demo, because it will be a special game, and I want to go in as fresh as possible. I don’t want to already know that Trico dies in a gunfight with Moon Men — whoops, sorry.
Alex submits that I didn’t do my duty, but I submit that Alex is a doodie head. I played The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda’s ICO in 2001 after I returned some anime DVD for not having enough panty shots. The store didn’t allow refunds, only exchanges, so I just grabbed the first game I saw, knowing nothing and caring even less. I got home and was blown away by this dark world, this tutorial-free puzzle play that treated me like I wasn’t a total idiot, and the story, which somehow intrigued me though half the dialog was gibberish. Save points were couches. This was no ordinary game.

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