ICO 2 --> Nico

[chaphack]

yes, alien invasion thing sounds cool, NICO medival mystical socery vs Alien capabilities. Contrasting yin-yang battle.

But i dont like the idea of jeeps and machine guns. Keep them to using swords, mutation and the likes. You can also have them use the Queen powers like thingie too. Keep the machinery off imo. I like to see the light sabre returning.

Hell! The Queen herself might have been an ancient alien who crashed to Kingdom NICO eons ago, and had planned to use the mysterious Yorda to revive herself!

3rd person tactical strategy might not be far off seeing the screens>> 3 powerful champions of Kingdom NICO to take on invading Alien forces!

 

[PC-Engine]

NICO

 

[maskrider]

Screens are up again.

Maskrider, that is fantastic little page. I love that you posted those pictures with filters enabled. I have European version of Ico, but don't know how to run it on my US PS2

Swapping will do for ICO, I played UK PAL ICO on my SCPH-10000 with PAR2 and swapping before I bought my PAL PS2.

 

[marconelly!]

Swapping will do for ICO, I played UK PAL ICO on my SCPH-10000 with PAR2 and swapping before I bought my PAL PS2.

SCPH-10000 is US model? So although the game is PAL, it will work?

How do I do that swap trick?

Is it going to focus more on combat? If so, hell yeah!

Oh God...

 

[London Geezer]

faf... u're hilarious... the fact that chap probably thinks u're serious is even more funny....

 

[chaphack]

 

[maskrider]

Swapping will do for ICO, I played UK PAL ICO on my SCPH-10000 with PAR2 and swapping before I bought my PAL PS2.

SCPH-10000 is US model? So although the game is PAL, it will work?

How do I do that swap trick?

My PS2 is Japanese import.

To swap, you must have a big DVD game, Action Replay/Action Replay 2, and tools to slide the tray out,

1. boot AR,
2. select start game without code,
3. put in the DVD game (e.g. DOA2 will do),
4. wait for the disc to stop spinning (inorder for the PS2 to authenticate the disc),
5. manually slide out the tray with a tool,
6. replace it with PAL ICO,
7. close the tray manually,
8. press "O" (as instructed by AR)

The game should start (I only tried the method with my UK PAL ICO).

And for the opening of the tray, I need to remove the front cover of the tray (with the rotatable PS logo) to leave enough space for a thin stuff to pull the inside lever (white in colour) to force open the tray.

 

[archie4oz]

That shot of the tower reminds me of scenes from Makoto Shinkai's 'Kumo no Mukou and Yakusoku no Basho'... Aside from being a sequel name, 'Nico' immediately conjures up the idea of Ico's younger brother...

 

[marconelly!]

maskrider, that sounds like a prety involved procedure...

I know there is that little plastic thingie you can buy, which allows you to open tray without resetting the console, and it doesn't require to dismount anything. It also comes with some sort of boot disc. I guess that would be worth the try.

Archie, yes I agree. It sounds like a name you'd expect from the same culture (Ico - Nico is like Herman - Sherman, etc). It will very likely be a story that doesn't have to do anything with Ico or Yorda (I'm thankful for that, first game should be left just as it is)

 

[PC-Engine]

That's a drawing of the tower from Y's if that's what you were referring to though I think you were referring to the shot with the horses as The place promised in our early days looks similar. I just thought the art direction of ICO is similar so I posted it. A new Y's RPG in 3D would be so beautiful.

Edit: I just saw a small video clip of The place promised in our early days, and it does have another tower that looks similar to the pic I posted