The presentation in this game is absolutely beautiful and I could imagine when first releasing this game visually/aesthetically would've been breathtaking for many. I definitely understand why people love this game.

For me, this game gets lost in its own sauce. The gameplay is bottlenecking the aesthetics affecting the overall experience. Things are designed to be long and tedious and killing enemies is just mashing the square button. I know that this is an 'artsy' game, and I can see it, it's absolutely stunning in its presentation but I feel like in order for a video game to be 'artsy' it should at least make use of it being a video game. In that I mean in most of the game I'm just watching my character go back and forth from places, not much is interactable. I feel like this this is a movie experience, not a video game experience. There's not enough to make me care, just enough to make me wish I cared.

In a nutshell: ICO: Lost in the Sauce Edition.