Ueda: The Last Guardian Fully Retains Our Original Vision, Though I Feared It Would Never Come Out

It'south most hither. Fumito Ueda'due south The Last Guardian has been in evolution since 2007 and it'due south set to debut worldwide in early on Dec 2022, exclusively for Sony's PlayStation four.

At present that the game has gone gold, Ueda started his printing bout to promote The Concluding Guardian. To begin with, he was featured in an interview with Gamespot where he clearly stated that the concluding game is a full expression of the team'due south original vision.

I'll give you the brusque answer: information technology's the latter. Nosotros carried out what we fix out to do, and it's the original vision that we at present run across in this completed game. Sure, over the course of years, a lot of things have changed. Merely we knew from the very commencement that we wanted to create something that was timeless, something that was going to last a very long time--that was going to hold up for "10" corporeality of years. I recall Sony as a whole understood that from the very outset. It really did matter for the Terminal Guardian that we've remained truthful to the original vision and carried that out.

However, speaking in a video interview with Geoff Keighley, Ueda admitted that at that place were times when he feared the game would never come up out.

Certainly in that location were times when I felt that could happen. All the same, we were very fortunate to exist seen equally a title that was desired by fans and the audition, so manifestly with that comes an enormous amount of force per unit area simply in the terminate it became a very healthy cycle for usa, to take that pressure and to put it into the game itself.

When asked about the about hard mean solar day in development, Ueda mentioned when he and his team decided to motion development from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4 and that'southward considering they knew information technology would still take a long time to release the game. However, it may accept paid off equally at present The Final Guardian volition even get PlayStation 4 Pro support with upscaling to 4K, HDR back up and modest operation improvements.

Will The Last Guardian be as widely acclaimed as Ueda's previous works (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus? Stay tuned on Wccftech in the next few weeks to observe out.