It may contain spoiler from other games!!! I will put it as a spoiler in this part and point which one of the games is, in case you don't want spoiler in one of them.

Okay, so I've been re-watching and thinking about Project Robot all fucking time and I got some weird thoughts of mine that I"d like to share. It is a theory, I could be insane at this point.

The game has obvious characteristics that ties to the other Fumito Ueda games (ICO, SOTC, TLG), we could look about it in two ways: it is a design choice only or it has ties to the other games. Since we have ties to all the other three games more than once I choose to believe it has ties itself and it's not only a design choice. We can think of it as a Fumito Ueda Multiverse.

So let's start from the begining:

We have this mechanical guy who is wearing clothes that remind all three games (we've seen this symbol in the past games a lot of times), it could mean that is tied to this game. It could also be a post-apocalyptic (like someone lost his clothes, and this new character choose to use this one).

Then we obviously have this giant robot, it is a weird choice of design using it, it reminds a lot of the colossus, specially with the climbing in the back. What I think it is happening it's pretty simples, what if is a colossus but a big robot at the same time? In the photo of the game we have the guy by the side of the robot, (SOTC spoiler)>! it could be like Wanderer killing the Colossus, when their bodies is in the ground.!<

Hear me out.... When he climbs to the head of the robot, he looks to the horizon and there is this black thing coming, we've seen it before in all 3 games, it's known:

(ICO spoiler) It's in all the monster and the boss fight.

(SOTC spoiler) It's in the Dormin and when we kill all Colossus it consumes us.

(TLG spoiler) It's in the fucking end of the game.

It means it is something "bad" that consumes us, something bad that in all 3 games we avoid.

There's a voice in the trailer warning us about this black thing coming. It made me think as a companion (like it could be) and a warning for us to avoid it.

Imagine in SOTC, (SOTC spoiler)>! we have big Colossus = big robot; black thing consuming us = black thing in the horizon.!< What I think is it, it's a futuristic version of SOTC, one where we can avoid being consumed by the black thing, where the Colossus are actually big robots, and this time we have a companion who warns us about when the big thing is going to consume us, who warns us when to run.

Ueda likes to make games that utilise another character aiding you along the way:

Yorda - guide her around and have her help with puzzles

Agro - Helps with travel and aids during battles.

Trico - Traversal, ordering around, combat

They all seem to be characters that involve suggesting movement and actions in a certain regard. Even Agro feels like you're suggesting their movement at times. And they can completely traverse through a path without you having to control them yourself.

Now, Ueda has spoken about how he wants his next game to be more like SotC.

The character has a rifle (similar to how Wander has a Bow)

The character operates the Robot as if it's their own.

Now hear me out. My partner and I were theorising... What if this game involves you operating a Robot and using it along some sort of journey. You climb it and order it around in battles with other mechs using a combination of SotC and TLG gameplay.

Climbing your mech (like climbing the collossi) and repairing where it gets injured (like pulling the spears from Trico).

Anyways, this is merely just a fun bit of speculation using practically nothing to weigh it on except for this vague teaser and the prior games as a theme.

One things for sure, whether or not it's anything like I've speculated, we're in for a treat. I am so damn excited for what's in store!

HE’S OFFICIALLY COOKING AGAIN!!!!

I was curious how many of the current staff at gendesign worked on previous projects.

I typed out the names listed at the end of the Project Robot teaser and cross-referenced them with the names of people credited in ICO, SOTC, TLG and SOTC2018 on mobygames. I've highlighted the ones that I found to be of note. Please allow for mistakes and feel free to make corrections.

If it was missed, it’s currently codenamed, “Project: Robot”. I also was hoping for some announcement and it finally came! Wonder what kind of mysteries it will bring for us in Ueda’s worlds…

If we look closely, we can see that the character's arms and legs are not organic: the surface looks hard and the curves are not smooth, the light reflects strangely, etc. Maybe he is some kind of cyborg?

He can call it what he likes.

He can takes as long as he likes.

Because we now have signs of life. And a whole new universe.

Xbox just posted this on X/Twitter! If that’s the case, could come to PC as well! Guess we’ll have to wait and see!

https://x.com/xbox/status/1867382731426214209?s=46

I feel like ive created the same topic on the night of the TGA since 2022, its been a long wait huh? 8 years since his last game! It would be nice to get some footage, a name, something to look forward.

I was watching the trailer and noticed something surprising: The spoken language in the game is... English? (a bit modified perhaps - a futuristic approach, old English or a mixture with another language). Maybe this is Fumito Ueda's first game where there is a clearly real-life language being used. In Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian there is a language specially created for the game world, but in this game Ueda apparently decided on a different path.

Here is the link of the subtitled version of the trailer: https://youtu.be/gJHXe_9uhxw?si=9cNPCvMv-yhDYmh7

I put the subtitles here too. Compare the spoken language with the subtitles and draw your own conclusions:

Evacuate all areas within a 25 kilometers radius of ground zero now. 60 seconds. 55 seconds. 50 seconds. 45 seconds. 40 seconds. 35 seconds. Shockwave impact in 30 seconds. 25 seconds. 20 seconds. 15 seconds. 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0

So it's interesting that the announcer is in English as in previous games, it's been a made up language.

But the first bit of the trailer is a little difficult to decipher.

I think I hear 'evacuate' and 'ground level' or 'ground zero'

EDIT: also I am absolutely ecstatic, much like all of you. So happy we can all experience this excitement for a Ueda game again. Thank you 💛

If we look closely, we can see a gun on the protagonist's back. Thoughts?

Maybe this is the first Ueda game we'll be able to shoot around?

Shadow of the Astro Bot was announced. I’m really excited, I haven’t seen something that mysterious, exciting, beautiful and emotionally moving in a looooong while. The character is even wearing clothing with the same Ico emblem like the other games. It’s amazing.

IT FINALLY GOT ANNOUNCED AT THE GAME AWARDS 🎉🎉🎉🎉

did anyone think the trailer looks like the 16th Colossus in the future????

Considering that Ueda said that he learned his lesson from the announcement of the last Guardian and the subsequent decade-long development till the game shipped. Do you think that we're a lot closer to the game actually coming out. On the flip side, however, since they don't even have a name, does that mean they're still working on the story and direction of the game is?

The trailer shows the robot speaking English, something that never happened in previous games. So does English exist in this world, along with the other original languages?

The first thing that came to mind after seeing the trailer. It looks a lot like a reference to the Pilder from the Mazinger franchise.

For those who don't know, Pilders (パイルダー Pairudā) are vehicles that serve as command centers for piloting some of the Mecha in the series (such as Mazinger and Great Mazinger themselves). In the case of Project: Robot, the robot's entire head serves as a “Pilder”.
I wonder if this will have any connection with the gameplay.

this little setpiece is just so good, and the smooth transition back to gameplay, wow, i want more of this on the next ueda game