Can The Last Guardian live up to expectations?

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The short answer, before I lead you on any further, is yes. Despite an impossible amount of hype heaped up over the course of a decade, of hopes sparked by those all-too-intermittent trailers and by the glorious yet dimming memory of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian can live up to expectations. It can even surpass them and surprise you with its brilliance, as it did when I sat down to play it for just over an hour last week.
There are, though, a few caveats.
The Last Guardian does not look or play how you'd expect a high profile PlayStation 4 exclusive console game to in 2016. As Wes discovered when playing it at E3 earlier this year, its PlayStation 3 roots frequently become apparent in the occasional murky texture or dipping frame-rate. It's a cumbersome game, too, the camera lurching this way and that, while the controls don't always seem reliable. Neither, for that matter, is Trico, the hulking catweagle you slowly grow closer to, and he's a companion that's consistently disobedient.
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