Ico - Final Boss - Ending

Ico: Yorda! You're ok! How did you get to the beach? Yorda: *Hyroglifics*

I love how Ico tries to hop out of the boat the moment he wakes up and ends up faceplanting into the sand. XD

Thank god for that trophy at the end! How could we otherwise have known if our actions amounted to anything.

You should show what happens when you get hit by the Queen's attacks--she instantly turns you into stone. It's amazing and adds weight and gravity to the fight, and also explains the statues in her courtyard.

Since Shadow of the Colossus got a remake/remaster for the PS4, I would love to see Ico get the same treatment. A pipe-dream to be sure, but one can hope.

Your playthrough missed the moment that made my heart leap with joy. When I woke up on the beach, I instinctively called out for Yorda when I could not see her. She responds! I had accepted that she was gone, but that small verbal response brought back hope. I ran down that beach calling to her all the way.

Beautiful... purely beautiful.

Who the hell is cutting onions.

One of the best games I've ever played, absolutely beautiful but so so sad. I'm in floods watching this again, years later. 😢😢

This boss isn't very hard but I love it all the same. The atmosphere is great, the song is one of my favorites, and it manages to be fun despite being easy.

Ico finally sets things right for Wanderer in SOTC.

Best thing ever at 9:52

Massive Spoilers & Speculation regarding Ico and SotC When Dormin/Wander fall into the glowing pool, the end result is that all darkness is removed from the person - thus Wander is turned into an infant, the symbol of innocence. He has horns on his head as a mark of sin for entering the forbidden lands and asking Dormin to revive the dead.Its light energy revives Wander, and he is cursed. Its dark energy revives Mono, and she is cursed. Mono, with dark energy eventually becomes the queen.I like to believe that Ico, who loses his horns during the battle with The Queen, atoned for Wander's sins by saving Yorda and killing the Queen - the broken horns a symbol of that freedom. (In SotC: Emon prays that, should Wander be alive, he will one day atone for said sins.)Unfortunately, I also think that the broken horns mean that Ico dies. Yorda, whos spirit is tied to the Queen, also dies. Yorda's last act is one of respect, as she turns into a shadow and the two escape the castle in a boat. The boat they take is symbolic of Greek funerary tradition, the voyage to the beach is the afterlife, as watermelons don't grow on the beach. The curse is over, but Dormin lives on and continues to influence human hearts with their rich content of light and dark energies.

I like the queens voice though.

I'm pretty sure The Queen is Dormin inside Mono's body.

Love this game so glad it was a part of my childhood growing up(along with Shadow of the colossus). Also does anyone else feel like the mother/queen in this is the girl the wanderer saves in Shadow of the colossus?

At first I thought it was a great puzzle game, but after the ending I was thinking, "Wait, should this be considered art instead of a game?" Presentation is EVERYTHING. I don't like using the label "underrated", as most people misuse the term a lot, but in this case I'd have to say it is.

Yes.. Both Ico and Yorda died and they reencounter in that paradise ;"(

This is so beautifully animated and storyboarded (and camerawork), omg. It would look just amazing as a PS4 remake.

something about this ending sequence in the beach, makes this game haunting