Noticia: Así era ICO en 1998

Con motivo del 20 aniversario de este clásico atemporal, ahora podemos ver cuál fue el punto de inflexión en el desarrollo

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Sin duda, uno de los juegos más bonitos e influyentes de la historia (siempre recuerdo conversar con Darkail al respecto).

En el segundo 26 Ico le está haciendo un Teabagging a Yorda .

Fantástico, me encanta cuando pasados muchos años los estudios sacan material descartado o en fase de diseño y nos dan una idea de cómo iban esculpiendo una idea, un juego entero. Hay escenarios idénticos a la versión final y otros que parecen el mismo pero más pequeñitos, imagino que por las limitaciones de PS One. Me alegro que al final el proyecto pasara de generación, la PS2 le sentó genial a este juego.

Por cierto, si alguien quiere un poco más de contexto, un tipo en los comentarios ha traducido el texto de la descripción del vídeo, que amplía un poco la info de la noticia:

Citando a brando themando, de Youtube:
The video description gives more context. Rough English translation:

This video was created in 1998, early in ICO's development, for the purpose of sharing amongst the development team the vision for this title.
Back then, the staff (Ueda included) didn't have much idea of what kind of game ICO would turn out to be. When this video came together, it was something of a breakthrough for the team because it helped provide some clarifying "light", at a time when they were still "in the dark" trying to figure things out.
This video purposefully hasn't been edited from it's original version at all (so things like debug information and sound/noise issues are still there), so hopefully you can get a feel of what the atmosphere was like at that time.

Main points of this video:
- It combines CG with original Playstation footage
- To produce it, SoftImage was used for motion (animation) and Lightwave3D for modeling
- Yorda's design is different than the final released version.
- Ico's horns are different or missing.

About the music:
In those days (second half of the 1990s), using popular or pre-existing songs (instead of creating original music) for games was rare.
ICO's director/designer Fumito Ueda picked music from CDs that just happened to be on his desk at the time.
Two songs served as "turning points" for the project. One was "Summer Holiday 1999" by Momus, used in this video.
The other was Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair", which was used in the first internal presentation video for the game after development had switched from the Playstation 1 to the Playstation 2.
Both songs were good matches for videos created during development, and they helped the developers feel a promising response from this work they were creating, so they have deep memories and emotions attached to them.
Later, for the release version, they were fortunate to have Michiru Oshima working on the music, and a lot of great songs were created, including "You were there", that unique song which really solidified and gave form to "ICO".

Citando a mofling:
En el segundo 26 Ico le está haciendo un Teabagging a Yorda .

Yorda no quería salir del castillo, quería follar.