September 27, 2004 -
RurouniKJS
ICO is one of the most beautiful and touching games ever made. But its appeal is totally bound up in how well you take to the protection aspect of the gameplay. If Yorda is just an impediment to the puzzle-solving, then ICO is a game you'll play once and then forget about. But if she's a character you grow to care about, then ICO becomes a masterpiece.
It was definitely the latter for me. It's taken me a long time to do a decent fanart of this pair.