Sony announced The Last Guardian at E3 2009 with a planned release in 2011 for the PlayStation 3. He employed the 'design through subtraction' approach he had used for his previous games, removing elements that did not contribute to the core theme of the connection between the boy and Trico. 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.
