Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Ico: Castle in the Mist novel excerpt makes us hungry for more]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/ico-castle-in-the-mist-novel-excerpt-makes-us-hungry-for-more/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/ico-castle-in-the-mist-novel-excerpt-makes-us-hungry-for-more/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/ico-castle-in-the-mist-novel-excerpt-makes-us-hungry-for-more/#comments Avid North American readers won't get their hands on the English translation of Miyuke Miyabe's Ico: Castle in the Mist, a follow-up novel to Ico, the beloved PS2 classic (and soon to be PS3 remaster), until August 16. However, thanks to the Japanese book printer Haikasoru, you can now get a taste of the story online.

The short excerpt gives an excellent sense of the novel's atmosphere, which is to say, Ico's atmosphere. We expect that you already have an inkling of what the setting is going to feel like, considering you should have already played Ico. Heck, even if you haven't, the book's title tells you everything you need to know: There is a castle. It is adjacent to mist.

JoystiqIco: Castle in the Mist novel excerpt makes us hungry for more originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 May 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>bookhaikasoruicoico-castle-in-the-mistmiyuke-miyabenovelplaystationps3Fri, 20 May 2011 21:00:00 EST<![CDATA[ICO novel being translated, coming to the US this fall]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/07/ico-novel-being-translated-coming-to-the-us-this-fall/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/07/ico-novel-being-translated-coming-to-the-us-this-fall/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/07/ico-novel-being-translated-coming-to-the-us-this-fall/#comments 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.

JoystiqICO novel being translated, coming to the US this fall originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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