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wafflefonfabre's review
4.0
This book is pretty well written for not only a translation but an adaption of a video game. If you want to read a well written interpretation of Ico, I would recommend. I think this book would even be enjoyable to someone who hasn't played the game.
fran_ryougi's review
3.0
L'ho iniziato a leggere, aspettandomi un tributo al videogioco...
E ho sbagliato a farmi delle aspettative così alte. All'inizio, per questo motivo, il libro mi faceva storcere il naso e l'ho abbandonato per un po'. Poi ho iniziato a leggere senza aspettative e l'ho trovato gradevole. Un bel what if/fanfiction del capolavoro di Ueda.
E ho sbagliato a farmi delle aspettative così alte. All'inizio, per questo motivo, il libro mi faceva storcere il naso e l'ho abbandonato per un po'. Poi ho iniziato a leggere senza aspettative e l'ho trovato gradevole. Un bel what if/fanfiction del capolavoro di Ueda.
ribbonquest's review
2.0
The story starts out fairly interesting, filling in Ico's backstory and taking him through the castle. Eventually it switches to Yorda to cover a lot of the same castle wandering material, with flashbacks to her backstory. And it drags. And drags. Finally I realized I didn't really care to finish this story.
ethers_elixirs's review
4.0
A very interesting and worthwhile adaptation of one of my favorite video games. The author takes huge and necessary liberties with the original narrative, mostly to good effect. The prose is translated into beautiful language and imagery. The plot is pretty epic and sweeping. There’s a whole mythology here, a lot that wasn’t in the original. Some sections drag as the author fails to translate video game gameplay of beating monsters with a stick and solving puzzles into a compelling narrative. But the book gets most interesting where it deviates strongly.
If you love Ico the game, I really recommend reading this.
If you love Ico the game, I really recommend reading this.
caelizha's review against another edition
4.0
déjà j'ai appris par goodreads que le livre est écrit à partir d'un jeu-vidéo, donc j'ai lu le T2 d'ico en ayant ça en tête et j'ai trouvé ce livre remarquablement bien fait pour un livre qui retranscrit le lore d'un jeu-vidéo ?? ensuite, le ton du livre est très plaisant à lire, on a l'impression de lire un conte et c'est très facile à lire, pas besoin de trop se concentrer pour comprendre ce qui se passe, les mots rentrent naturellement dans la tête. les personnages sont tous très réussis, pas besoin de décrire leurs traits de caractère pour comprendre leurs personnalités. certains apparaissent peu et pourtant on réussit quand même à compatir avec eux. le livre prenant un pov plus "éloigné" comme dans un conte, on entre dans l'esprit de beaucoup de personnages mais c'est pas dérangeant et c'était même très bien fait. ma partie favorite reste le début du T1 avec les pov différents et un mystère très épais, qui se dévoile dans le T2 qui est excellent en traitant de questions plus profondes que je pensais pas forcément voir dans ce roman, mais du coup ma partie préférée reste quand le mystère était encore là. pour éviter les spoils je développerai pas plus sur le T2 mais les révélations, le dénouement et la fin étaient satisfaisants. ce n'est pas le type de livres que je lis habituellement mais j'ai quand même dévoré le T2 d'une traite donc il mérite bien son 4/5 !! aussi c'est un livre très japan vibe, ça se ressent beaucoup dans les grandes lignes de l'histoire, je trouve ça ressemble un peu à du ghibli presque (je suis peut être insultante.........) tellement c un univers à part avec des codes similaires !!
wildfaeriecaps's review
2.0
This book was not for me. The first have was incredibly dull. The second half picked up but.. even when it was interesting I was still bored. I think it's probably a great puzzle/exploration game. But as a novel.. not my jam.
coeurdesamurai's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
2.0
Read it with my bookclub girlies. My edition separated this novel in two books. Who knows why??? It started well but was so boring (for many reasons) I have no interest in finishing the story. Meaning: reading part 2 of my edition.
I knew it was a novelization so it wasn't going to be character driven. Yet, the plot wasn't interesting. Ico has the depth of a carrot and I couldn't care less about Yorda and her mother. The world-building confuses me and the time jumping and constant pov changes don't work well here. The writing style is okay, at best, but it drags the story. And if I weren't doing it for my reading buddies, I would have dropped it earlier.
I have technically read only half of it so it's a DNF but gotta put it through Read-it because the French publishing industry is a mess. Maybe that was the truest enemy in the Castle...
I knew it was a novelization so it wasn't going to be character driven. Yet, the plot wasn't interesting. Ico has the depth of a carrot and I couldn't care less about Yorda and her mother. The world-building confuses me and the time jumping and constant pov changes don't work well here. The writing style is okay, at best, but it drags the story. And if I weren't doing it for my reading buddies, I would have dropped it earlier.
I have technically read only half of it so it's a DNF but gotta put it through Read-it because the French publishing industry is a mess. Maybe that was the truest enemy in the Castle...
neddasai's review
4.0
イコ - 霧の城
a story of an unknown place,
.. told in an unknown age.
I haven't played the game, but I still loved this beautiful book, gorgeous descriptions and characterizations ~<3
lkmreads's review
4.0
This was such a wonderful story, it really brought back a lot of memories of playing the game, and it was full of descriptions of familiar places (that probably would have meant a lot less had I not played the game before), to have more of a background on the happenings of the game was really nice.