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Wow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 25
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I honestly cannot believe there are people who like this game. It seems most people who claim to like it generally were impressed by the art (static backdrops) or storyline (ho-hum "outcast child" story). Don't people buy games to play them anymore?

This game is nothing but a frustration simulator. It is as if the makers of the game decided to take all the bad elements of "Resident Evil" (horrible camera angles, repetitive environments, lack of weaponry), remove all of the scary or compelling parts (cool monsters, decent puzzles) and then to further hobble the player by adding an ineffective AI companion. How is this a great game?

Frankly I find the whole experience supremely boring. Most of it consists of trying to convince the camera to pick the right angle so you can see the environmental element that is necessary to advance. In several scenarios it is not in the least bit obvious, and your entire task is to run around rubbing against walls until you trigger the proper event.

The game does start out relatively well, with a decent character who has very responsive controls. Seems he was kicked out of his village because he has horns; since the horns appear to actually be on his hat, I wonder why he didn't just take the hat off. Oh, wait, I'm supposed to be emotionally involved. Because it's tragic, you see.

At first it seems that the game will be a fun, if somewhat boring, attempt to escape from a labyrinthian castle by climbing and solving puzzles. But within the first five minutes of the game you pick up this tiresome, waif-like white princess who is absolutely useless (except for the fact that she has the magical ability to open oddly-placed doors). Each puzzle after picking her up is simply another variation of shepherding this Barney around, trying to avoid the goofy-looking black puddle enemies, until you can make a big enough window of time to push a block or carry a vase from point A to point B. It is simply never fun. You have to coax her up every minor incline and provide steps for her dainty feet. This is gameplay? If I wanted to cater to a woman's every whim, I'd get married.

I can only imagine that the standard, pervasive Japanophilia in the games industry and its fanbase is what causes such slavish devotion to this thoroughly mediocre title. There is no combat; the navigation becomes quickly repetitive; the puzzles are the most basic "push this, carry that" type; and the main element of gameplay is a tiresome chore. There is nothing I can think of to recommend Ico.

Ico; How did this thing get good reviews?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Captivating, epic, amazing...All of these words do NOT apply to the highly hyped, and highly over rated game, Ico. How this game recieved such high marks is a mystery to me, yet I feel it is my duty to warn others about it. Ico brings new definition to the word pointless, since through most of the game you are left wondering why the heck you want to go on, playing a game with a hollow plot, poor character development, and an annoying kid that makes you want to run him off a cliff, just to see him die! The only ray of light that shines through this dull title is the amazing visual effects brought out by the programmers... Unfortunately, graphics do not make the game, and Ico proves this. So be warned, you would be better off investing in airline stock than you would buying this game.

Beautiful atmosphere, good gameplay -- hello, sexism

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...)In the game, the princess is a burden who has to be dragged around by the hand, helped up ledges (despite the fact that she's taller than the main character), protected from attacking shadow monsters, and coaxed to jump across gaps. You even have to call her like a dog to keep her from standing around aimlessly or wandering off.

This won't bother everyone; it's pretty much just a new twist on an old theme -- fighting your way out with the helpless damsel instead of fighting your way in to rescue her. But I wouldn't recommend this game for anyone sensitive to this kind of issue. While much of the gameplay is excellent despite this one problem, that aspect did decrease my appreciation for the game, and if you think you might feel the same way, you might want to avoid it.

Tried a Demo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You can find the demo of this game in the latest summer Playstation Underground Jampack. Unlike what the editorial review states, this game is still to this day displayed in a low resolution. Granted, the game isn't finished yet, however, Sony would only have a month to change resolutions, which may take more than a month to complete. Still, the gameplay is fun, and definately different. Might be worth checking out, but I'm gonna be careful after such sony bombs as Legend of Dragoon and Dark Cloud.

this game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 34
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i think that it takes way to long to get into the game and it seems that every 10 minutes is a cut seen

Ico is Sony's absolute worste project in thier carier!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 37
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hardly find this an enjoyable game. Only about 5hr of gameplay, sloppy graphics and the absolute worst character design, Ico is the worst game I've ever played.

I can't think of this as an RPG game, and the idea of getting the extra small and pale princess out of a particularly small castle(or in my case, toy castle) while completing the easiest puzzles I've ever done, its, well...stupid, and pointless. Another thing is that you have to hold this girls hand while killing evil demon shadow things, with a stick. You don't even have HP, I mean what kind of Adventure game doesn't have Hp?

Take my extremely useful advice and don't waste your money on this useless and incredibly boring game. Get something like Final Fantasy X, Grandia II, or Okage Shadow King. Those are true RPG games

Pretty boring for adults

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 28
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The puzzles are just uninteresting. Cool graphics, but that's not enough.

Promising game, but BUGGY !!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 29
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a neat puzzle/adventure game, and I liked it except for the fact that it seemed quite BUGGY to me. Quite often the game menu popped up spontaneously during game play. It would not go away until I unplugged my controller and plugged it back in! That got old real fast. However, I was willing to live with that until the game CRASHED during a cut-scene. The letterbox view came up and then I just sat there, waiting forever.

In a word.... Unacceptable. Console games CANNOT crash.

Didn't work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 32
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've had 2 PS2's so far and none of the blue discs seem to play in them. The first PS2 I had I tried to play tribes that didn't work. Then my second PS2 I tried to play ICO. The graphics were good i'll give you that, but my PS2 has a hard time loading everything up. I'll give this game 2 stars overall because of the graphis in the cutscenes that I did see. As far as gameplay goes couldn't tell you the thing wouldn't work. I recommend renting this game first to make sure your PS2 is capable of reading the blue discs.

WORST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 83
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game sucked so bad. It was such a waste of my money. The story was stupid. The commands didn't even work. None of it even made sense. I couldn't even get it to do easy normal commands in the first level, so I took it back. Summary: DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!

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