I love this promotional image because you can see Agro watching the fight from all the way on top of the cliffs. "What are they doing down there?"

I made an updated assessment of this on my website! With new, detailed renderings of all the glyphs. icoshrine.neocities.org/theory/glyph...

ICO Shrine

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The story of the development of Shadow of the Colossus is the story of the Snake II boss getting progressively larger and larger.

This was me testing @pemdasu.bsky.social 's WIP NMO importer for Blender, which supports texture animations (She literally hand decompiled the way the game handles them lol)

ASapphicKitsune@asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 4d ago

The image and where it was taken

Transcribed some of the E3 script for Dormin's instructions for what Wander should do. The difference that has stood out to me the most is the seemingly more direct and violent language E3 Dormin uses to describe what Wander must do to the colossi. 「討ち果たす」(Slay) VS 「倒す」(Defeat)

I think this shot of the #ICO pilot movie intrigues me the most. For some reason the boy is wearing the heroine's helmet and the camera starts to pan towards her, as if to reveal something, but then we don't have the rest of the shot. We can see she's resting on something, possibly a cloth.

Tofu for dinner

At last… the sacred text…

Shadow of the Colossus but Dormin is a very deep sleeper and never noticed Wander enter the shrine

found where you can turn off automatic chapters for your youtube videos

Bought a bike and have been riding around and even getting groceries for my family. It's wonderful and very freeing, especially as someone who doesn't want to own a car. I highly suggest people give it a try even if you never learned!

infinite dollars towards AI to tell me that I spelled 'really' and 'the' incorrectly

Tuna mayo onigiri for breakfast

Today I learned the loan word Japanese uses for 'roller coaster' is ジェットコースター (jet coaster)

Getting emotional at 4am to a version of L'Internationale sung in hundreds of languages. 🥹

ICO's mysterious stage 01a appears to have been called 'cubic'

Sad to hear Naoki Bando, Emon’s Voice Actor, has passed away

Stone Pillar is the Worm of ICO. No, I will not elaborate.

Maybe a crazy idea but I wonder if this actually isn't the Drawbridge Stage (st47a) as we know it. This may actually be the mysterious stage 12 (ICO bridge) that was removed from the game. It would make sense to reuse the concept of a removed stage when they needed to connect stages 4 and 7. #ICO

Various symbols used on the flash website that counted down to the 2004 SCEJ New Work Presentation, meant to be the ICO/Wanda side of the countdown while the sakura petals represented Genji.

Every early version of SOTC has this in the directFiles directory boy_blk.ico

Mystic_Ode@icoshrine.neocities.org · 2y ago

The ICO PS2 Save Data Icon (Viewed through the PS2 Icons Open Database: ps2iodb.com/icon/ico)

Thinking of hosting a sotc/team ico fan forum. Discord is nice but it makes information really inaccessible

game from 2005 featuring a young man taking up arms and invading a place loosely based on Iraq, killing the inhabitants in order to secure a precious black liquid on behalf of a greater power

I sometimes worry that when people speak of "Design by Subtraction", they simplify it too much. It is a form of minimalist design, but its goal is not to remove *everything* except the core concept. The goal is to push the depth of each element included so it can achieve a sense of reality.

Here's all the NICO boys horns I'm not sure if any of them are using cut designs from ICO (Black-shirted boy I've used the hiring poster since there's no good shot of him)

Mystic_Ode@icoshrine.neocities.org · last mo.

This other Q&A thread has additional examples! bsky.app/profile/icos... bsky.app/profile/icos...