The Last Guardian - aggressive combat and armored enemies confirmed
Fresh details on Sony's upcoming PS4-exclusive The Last Guardian have surfaced via a rating on the ESRB's website, including combat and enemy details.
By Michael Harradence on 26 September 2016
New details on Sony’s hotly anticipated The Last Guardian have surfaced via a rating on the ESRB’s official website.
While not going into any explicit detail on the game’s plot (which is probably a good thing), the rating does reveal a few interesting snippets of info on The Last Guardian’s combat, as well as confirming, unsurprisingly, a lack of maturer-rated violence in the upcoming action-adventure title.
Check out the ESRB’s description below. In case you were curious, The Last Guardian was rated ‘T’ for Teen.
“This is an action-adventure game in which players control a young boy as he explores ruins and solves puzzles with his giant animal companion (Trico),” the rating reads. “Players can command Trico to zap blocked passages or strike enemies with a lightning attack that shoots from its tail. Enemies in suits of armor generally break into pieces when defeated; though soldiers sometimes emit blood-like flashes or red symbols when injured. In some levels, the player’s character can rip the helmets off enemy characters, though no gore is shown. Cutscenes also depict acts of violence and occasional blood: Trico attacked by spears or swords; Trico bleeding from wounds.”
The Last Guardian release date pushed back to December
The Last Guardian was originally set to appear on PlayStation 4 in October 2016, though earlier this month Sony confirmed the game had been delayed to December 6. Not that a delay should really matter at this point, as we’ve been waiting for Trico’s adventure since 2009, when the game was first announced during Sony’s press conference at E3 that year.
The game was initially slated to appear for the PS3 in holiday 2011, although the game was delayed and ran into several production issues, including the departure of creator Fumito Ueda from SCE Studio Japan. Fortunately, he remained to work on the project on a freelance basis, and despite numerous periods of silence on the game, Sony finally re-revealed The Last Guardian for PS4 at E3 2015.
The Last Guardian will be Fumito-san’s first major title since shipping Shadow of the Colossus a decade ago for the PS2. Players can pick up a high-definition version of the critically acclaimed adventure alongside PS2 classic ICO for the PS3 as part of the Shadow of the Colossus & ICO Collection.
Check out The Last Guardian Collector’s Edition.
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