16 Insanely Underrated PS4 Exclusives You Must Play

13. The Last Guardian

Despite being on the cards for eight years - or precisely because of that - when The Last Guardian finally released, people were very quick to dismiss its charms, somewhat mislabelling a certain gameplay mechanic as a 'broken feature'. Which is to say - the act of getting the bird-dog Trico to do what you want and listen to your commands is a modular process - one born from saying something, waiting to see how Trico interprets it, and then continuing.

The whole point of The Last Guardian is to drop your unassuming, no-named boy into a pit alongside the beast, before the two of you decide to make a go of it and escape this bizarrely ancient structure you're confined in. Like ICO and Shadow of the Colossus before, that means a lot of physics-based platforming, a lot of shadow-demon fighting, and a sense of scale literally no other developer even comes close to.

It's precisely because of Trico's initial reluctance to heed your commands that everything pays off when he does, or the elation and fist-punching sensation of "F**K yeah! Good boy!" when he bursts through a wall to come to your rescue. Moments like these and many more - which randomly happen based on Trico's immaculate A.I. - help create the best video game creature there's ever been.