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ICO on PS2

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ICO is a game available on the PS2.

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Soulful Gamer review Fri, 21 Aug 2009

Going back to a critically acclaimed videogame many years after it was released is always something thats filled me with trepidation and concern. My worry is always the same - will I see it for what it was at the time of its release? Or will the ever-increasing technical improvements in graphics and accessibility ruin what is lauded as the most acclaimed and artistic videogame ever made?

My feelings as I started the game were squarely in the latter and it brought me back to earth with a bump at how spoiled and spoon-fed our games have now become. There was, of course, no tutorial to teach me the controls and no overt plot exposition to show me where I am in this oddly haunting world. It must be the first time in many years I stopped five minutes in to open the manual and actually read about the game I was playing.
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