ICO novel being translated, coming to the US this fall
by Griffin McElroy 
on Feb 7th 2011 4:40PM
You might classify our position as "ornery," but we're finding it difficult to get excited about the HD
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection that's due out on the PS3 this Spring. Sure, we're excited about reliving the magic of
ICO, but we'd actually prefer some
lower definition graphics. Like, way, way low. Like, non-existent, so that we have to draw up our own visuals using our mind's eye. In fact, if someone would just adapt Miyuki Miyabe's 2004 novelization of the game for English-speaking audiences, that would probably -- wait, they're actually doing that? How serendipitous!
The novel,
ICO: Castle in the Mist, appeared on a recently release
Simon and Schuster release calendar for the summer and fall of 2011, and is tentatively dated for August 16, 2011 on
Amazon. We look forward to getting our hands on it, but we're also willing to bet that a large portion of the text therein is composed of
unintelligible beckoning.
