The Last Guardian review – a joyous meditation on companionship

This is the fairy tale opening of Fumito Ueda's heavily anticipated game, 10 years in the making and only the forty-six year old Japanese director's third major work. But then, of course, the first two – Ico and Shadow of Colossus – are legendary. Film director Guillermo del Toro once described them as the medium's sole masterpieces. No wonder anticipation was so high. Like its predecessors, this is the story of young boy – this time, one whose actions are narrated by an elderly man looking back on his former journey.