Then he's an outright fucking liar since there's still an article of him floating around where
he openly despises Ico and says it's okay to say the game's bad
He never liked team Ico's games and that's okay.
To the point, i'm surprised he's kind of defending this. How can one be so adamant about lacking early access but then brushing massive studios off for something that is so obviously lacking, in a game already full of holes here and there. Out of everything, story should at least be the one thing they'd need to have ready and people who already played through the game now had an incredibly bad experience. You can't patch your first run through a game.