It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and shares stylistic, thematic, and gameplay elements with his previous games, Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005). Team Ico began developing The Last Guardian in 2007.
Players control a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creature, Trico. The Last Guardian is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and GenDesign and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4.
