Long-suffering fans of the spiritual successor to "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus" will be ecstatic to hear that "The Last Guardian" is still in development, though work is advancing "under completely new conditions."
That's according to game director Fumito Ueda, who told Dengeki PlayStation (via Kotaku) that the overall breadth of the project continues to surprise him.
When asked what his most memorable PlayStation moment was, Ueda responded: "'The Last Guardian,' by which I mean all the hardships and the unforeseen amount of time required than what was originally thought."
When specifically pressed in regard to a project he'd worked on in 2014, or one that is coming out in future, he once again chose to speak about "The Last Guardian," and his word selection is leading people to believe that this almost vaporware-esque title will be coming to the PS4 at some point.
"Talks with Sony Computer Entertainment on 'The Last Guardian' have been ironed out, and we're making progress under completely new conditions," Ueda stated. "I'm also working on some other things that I'll hopefully be able to show in time if progress is smooth."
Last March, Scott Rohde, Head of Software Product Development at Sony, told IGN "The Last Guardian" is still "absolutely in the mix at Sony Worldwide Studios." The title was first publicized at E3 in 2009 with an anticipated release date of 2011. While 2011 didn't see the release of the game, there were demonstrations of a playable build shown off in March of that year. In 2012 Sony's Shuhei Yoshida confirmed the game was still in development, despite the resignation of the game's executive producer, Yoshifusa Hayama, and the departure shortly after of Team ICO's founder, Fumito Ueda.
