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A letdown. Maybe i'm not a puzzle fan.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 37
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't really consider this a game. Yes, it is very different. But, what is good in diffrence is bad in gameplay. The princess cannot climb chains at all. Can't she feel a chain? COME ON! The combat is stupid. Look at me! I'm hitting black shadows with a stick! WOW! The puzzles are interesting, but i hate that call that Ico has when calling for Yorda. SQUAWK! Also, PLEASE TRANSLATE YORDA! Maybe i'm not a fan of puzzle games. Oh well.

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!!!!!!

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.

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.

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

It's not that good, trust me.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 17
Date: June 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, thinking it would be as good as the many reviews claim. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed. This is just my opinion, but, this game is boring as hell. You just wander around a drab-looking castle looking for a way out. Maybe it's because I'm 16, but I need something more exciting. You pretty much just run back and forth opening doors, dragging boxes and fighting evil spirits occasionally. Even when you do that, it's just plain annoying. Trust me, it's not all as impressive as they say.

Not For Everyone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Again, the video game industry has succeded in building up tremendous hype and aniticipation for a game which cannot possibly live up to it. I've heard all the talk that most likely caused you to look up this game: amazing graphics, intuative concepts and deep gameplay which mirrors Zelda. After having experienced this game, I am deeply dissapointed.

The concept is at least original - overcome obstacles and challenges and help a princess follow you to the exit of a castle. Along the way, solve puzzles so the princess can continue to follow behind you. This plays well for the first hour or two, but quickly becomes annoying and repetative.

There are some great puzzles in this game that will leave you scratching your head for hours. However, that's about all the game is - puzzles. There are a few action sequences, but those simply involve pushing the fight button repeatedly. Once you get sick of the same old puzzles - some of which take forever to solve because of the bad control - Ico loses its appeal.

The graphics are somewhat impressive, but they can't show off much besides the inside of the castle, plus there is a lot of fog. Many other PS2 games have superior graphics. Often, intircate parts of the puzzles get lost in myraids of grey and fog, making the puzzle nearly impossible to figure out.

It comes down to this: if you're a die hard puzzle/strategy gamer, check out Ico, but don't expect much more. Calling this an RPG is an outright lie. If you expect variety from a game, avoid this one. I checked it out for a 5 day rental, played it straight through over one night, then returned it the next day out of boredom and went back to Devil May Cry - a much better investment. There are lots of better PS2 games you should look into. Otherwise, just save your money for a Gamecube.

Slow as molasses on a cold winter day

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to like this game,really I did. I love fantasy,books,games,movies etc. And the concept for ICO is a good one. But man, this game is painfully boring,and slow. Its one of the most boring games I have ever played. For hardcore puzzle lovers only.

Technically competent...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: October 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...but extremely boring. Figuring out how to drop things on the companion of the main character is by far the most interesting aspect of this game.

Fantastic artwork, and relatively bugfree. Wait for it to go on sale or buy one used.

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