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'''Fumito Ueda''' is a [[video game|video]] [[game designer]] born in [[Tatsuno]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], [[Japan]] in 1970. Ueda is director and lead designer of the [[PlayStation 2]] video games ''[[Ico]]'' and ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''. '''Fumito Ueda''' is a [[video game|video]] [[game designer]] born in [[Tatsuno]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], [[Japan]] in 1970. Ueda is director and lead designer of the [[PlayStation 2]] video games ''[[Ico]]'' and ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''.
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 +[[Fumito Ueda]]'s critically acclaimed [[Playstation 2]] game ''[[Ico]]'' (and also its sequel, ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', in a less direct way) was strongly influenced by de Chirico. Ico features children wandering though huge, ancient and otherwise uninhabited buildings, are predominately yellow and green in colour and use music only for cut-scenes, enhancing the feeling of space and sparseness. The box art for ''Ico'' used in Japan and Europe is particularly imitative of de Chirico's ''[[Melancholy and Mystery of a Street]]'' and ''[[The Nostalgia of the Infinite]]'' (both 1914).
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Fumito Ueda is a video game designer born in Tatsuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1970. Ueda is director and lead designer of the PlayStation 2 video games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

Fumito Ueda's critically acclaimed Playstation 2 game Ico (and also its sequel, Shadow of the Colossus, in a less direct way) was strongly influenced by de Chirico. Ico features children wandering though huge, ancient and otherwise uninhabited buildings, are predominately yellow and green in colour and use music only for cut-scenes, enhancing the feeling of space and sparseness. The box art for Ico used in Japan and Europe is particularly imitative of de Chirico's Melancholy and Mystery of a Street and The Nostalgia of the Infinite (both 1914).




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