The Last Guardian: the first 40 minutes

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It felt surreal to sit down to play The Last Guardian, a game in development for so long I had started to wonder if I had imagined its existence.
Here we have a game that was announced what feels like a lifetime ago for a console we've all left behind. Back then, The Last Guardian felt exciting, it felt important, and it felt like it would take PlayStation 3 to new heights.
Now, on PS4, The Last Guardian feels like a remaster of an old PS3 game. The visuals, while retaining that trademark washed-out palette of predecessors Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, fail to impress as they did on PS3, despite the odd animation flourish from the unnamed boy you play as and Trico, the giant cat-eagle you spend the game's opening 40 minutes helping out of a cave.
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