26th January 2013, 4:08 PM
I wasn't aware of any "wizard's edition", but that's fine. I just walked into a store and snagged it without much thought. I will say I think I picked up the last copy they had, but can't be sure there. Yeah, demand is pretty high.
If you don't have a PS3, it's a shame. The game is locked as a Sony exclusive, so it is unlikely to see a 360 or Wii U port any time soon. I will add this though. The PS3 has had a LOT of really solid exclusives (after a pathetic first year) to more than justify owning one, and it also functions as a blu ray player, my only blu ray player, so there's that too.
I've been looking forward to The Last Guardian for some time now. Unfortunately, I keep hearing about major trouble in development hell. This worries me. Supposedly the project is back underway, but wow has it been delayed a long time now. As it stands I've gone ahead and picked up the Ico/Shadow HD remaster. The game case has a reversible cover which has the unblemished original box art for both games on it (one per side). As a result, I can finally see the original Ico box art, before they butchered it with the US box art. It looks great. The games themselves really benefit from the HD too. They looked amazing to begin with, and more so now. Better still, when Ico was first released, they released the US version first. The US version was missing a few features from the "final product" released in Japan. Among those features was a two player mode. This HD version has those extras in it, as can be expected from a remastered version. Some people were very annoyed at leading an NPC around literally by the hand through the game, and a two player mode makes that far more fun to do. Unfortunately, one must beat the game in single player to "unlock" this mode. This is one of those annoying things some Japanese developers do now and again. Such a mode as that should really be unlocked from the very start.
If you don't have a PS3, it's a shame. The game is locked as a Sony exclusive, so it is unlikely to see a 360 or Wii U port any time soon. I will add this though. The PS3 has had a LOT of really solid exclusives (after a pathetic first year) to more than justify owning one, and it also functions as a blu ray player, my only blu ray player, so there's that too.
I've been looking forward to The Last Guardian for some time now. Unfortunately, I keep hearing about major trouble in development hell. This worries me. Supposedly the project is back underway, but wow has it been delayed a long time now. As it stands I've gone ahead and picked up the Ico/Shadow HD remaster. The game case has a reversible cover which has the unblemished original box art for both games on it (one per side). As a result, I can finally see the original Ico box art, before they butchered it with the US box art. It looks great. The games themselves really benefit from the HD too. They looked amazing to begin with, and more so now. Better still, when Ico was first released, they released the US version first. The US version was missing a few features from the "final product" released in Japan. Among those features was a two player mode. This HD version has those extras in it, as can be expected from a remastered version. Some people were very annoyed at leading an NPC around literally by the hand through the game, and a two player mode makes that far more fun to do. Unfortunately, one must beat the game in single player to "unlock" this mode. This is one of those annoying things some Japanese developers do now and again. Such a mode as that should really be unlocked from the very start.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)