Toro and Kuro Interview the Creator of Shadow of the Colossus
Toro and Kuro, of Japanese fame, recently caught up with Shadow of the Colossus and ICO director and lead designer, Fumito Ueda. The two characters talk with Ueda about his humble beginnings, his future projects, and even how Team ICO got the name, ICO.
At the beginning of the interview, Toro and Kuro show us some of Ueda’s history, such as his start at Warp on Enemy Zero, and then his decision to join SCE in 1997, which allowed him to work on ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.
They then ask Ueda how he starts designing a videogame. He said it usually has something to do with an image video, which he explains is a video that shows a final image of the game. Ueda then shares that he tries to make his games look completely different than any other titles on the market, as his goal is to help his titles stand out.
Moving on, Kuro asks Ueda to share the meaning behind ICO. “ICO’s title comes from ICON,” Ueda simply replied. He then elaborates on Shadow of the Colossus’ early development, which was originally an online game. In the end though, due to the network environment and the specialties of his team, Shadow of the Colossus become an offline only title.
And finally, Kuro and Toro ask about Ueda’s upcoming project (for which you can see screenshots here, and the trailer here). Though, Ueda says only the following: that the project is in production, it’s a PS3 title, and that it may be announced “very soon”.
To read the full interview, you can go click here.
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13 Responses to “Toro and Kuro Interview the Creator of Shadow of the Colossus”
I was just eying that full interview… good stuff.
5/5
Sweet stuff, man. Looking good.
Yeah that full interview style is really interesting, seems like it was taken from a live video feed from the internet then translated to text and screen shots done for the article… To bad we have a different culture here and Hello Kitty is a dirty word…
Shadow of the Colossus could have been online?! mannnnnn
Shadow of the Colossus should have been on PS3 IMO, it came out late enough to be.
SotC Online- with CO-OP it would be a Fantasic Game, but i need my Singleplayer games.
Not every game must have an Online game mode, but this is only my opinion.
If they work on SotC2 later, i hope that they doing the Same what Noughty DOG have doing with Uncharted 2.
ICO and SotC were beautiful games…not only gameplay wise but I really respect all of the art direction and environments in the game.
I was so happy with SotC, I wanted to find ICO…but couldn’t find it anywhere for a good half a year…until someone returned it to a gamestop 30mins from my house….I can’t believe it’s still $20 used! It’s so rare to find! that was a good day though :]
I wonder if Trico will have an online part? he seems to like that aspect of gameplay.
BEAUTIFUL.
I think you missed one of the reasons I tipped this article – look at the last image. It’s a sketch of a large cat collosus signed by Ueda. Not too similar, but similar enough to see he may have been hintin towards the cat-bird-griffin-mouse-dragon from Trico.
The trailer was really awesome. Hope this will be out soon.
Sweetness.
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