Not much is known about The Last Guardian, Team Ico's first game for PS3, but PlayStation Blog has posted a short Q&A with Fumito Ueda, the creative director behind the mysterious title, and it offers some insight into the game.

Ueda clarifies that The Last Guardian is not a "pet game," although the player will be protected by Trico, a giant guardian "animal." The player's character is a boy -- with no name ... "yet" -- who must escape from the location seen in the trailers. While Ueda doesn't outright confirm it, he does tease that players could run into other creatures the size of the guardian.

While that might bring to mind the epic boss battles that comprised Ueda's last game, Shadow of the Colossus, he reiterates that "the boy is unable to defeat the enemies on his own." The mechanics of The Last Guardian's gameplay aren't fully in place yet, Ueda explained, but "it doesn't take much time to change the control scheme." The end result is likely to be something more accessible than Shadow of the Colossus, though. "I also want people who are not serious game players to try out this game. So I want the controls to be simpler than before."