The Last Guardian has spent an unbearably long time in development. After nine years in production, the PS4 game will finally be coming out next month.
The Last Guardian is the brainchild of Fumito Ueda, who also created the PS2 games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Soon after the huge success of his previous games, around 2007 Ueda started working on The Last Guardian.
In interviews, Ueda discusses how he almost lost hope that the game would ever be released. He said that development wasn't as smooth as he'd hoped. He and some of his team thought at times that The Last Guardian was going to be cancelled. What invigorated them was their receiving a lot of positive feedback for the PS3 releases of the HD remasters of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Ueda mentioned that never in his wildest dreams did he foresee that The Last Guardian would take nine years to finish. According to Forbes, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus also took a long time to complete so he and his team had the frame of mind that they would attempt to produce the next game as quickly as they possibly could.
Whatever he does next, he doesn't want it to take as long as The Last Guardian. He has several ideas for his next projects but since creating video games is challenging, he is still waiting for the right idea to come along that will make it worth the effort to overcome those difficulties.
Ueda also commented on the added pressure of living up to expectations that were building up for a video game that had been highly-anticipated for nine years as a result of the acclaim that his previous games received. He said that he tries not to think about the pressure but he thinks that not all pressure is always negative. Pressure can act as motivation which helps his team as well as Sony and its partners to be more confident in their product.
Ueda did not provide any information regarding why it took so long to make The Last Guardian, however those questions can wait until after the launch since, at this point, a successful release is the only thing that fans are concerned about. According to Forbes and the tabloid newspaper Daily Star, The Last Guardian will be released on December 6 for the Playstation 4.
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