Summary: Shadow of the Colossus is without a doubt the best game I personally have ever played. It is, to put it simply, perfect. The graphics are pure genius. Sure the backgrounds skip a little sometimes, but who cares?! My conclusion is that this game was simply too good for the PS2, if this game had been made for the PS3, I'm certain the beauty of it would have actually imploded it's players minds.
I guess I have to justify myself in this, so.. yeah. The realism is amazing, the height you can jump is realistic, movements are realistic, the details of the world are realistic. When you shoot down a fruit from a tree (That, may I add, actually looks like a tree.), it still has the arrow stuck in it. It seems simple logic, but detail like that rarely happens in games. You can run around and eat the tails of lizards. You can shoot birds out of the sky, or, if you're lucky, grab onto one. Things like that are what makes this game pure genius. You can climb trees, gaze out over beautiful landscapes, swim through and dive under realistic water, be dragged over waterfalls by currents, and run along to bizarre shrines posing as save points. Your horse, Agro, moves like a real horse. It's hard to control, doesn't run head first into things if you tell it to, gets scared when the colossi thud around near it, runs away when you aim an arrow at it, and does it's own thing when you leave it.
The gameplay and plot are simplistic and wonderful. You fight 16 enemies. That's it. You ride Agro to find them, and then work out how to kill them, be that tricking them with their surroundings, or attacking their huge, huge feet, and that's fun! The first time I played the game, I spent an hour finding and beating the first colossi. But as you learn, you can do it in minutes. As for replayability, I'm only on my second run of the game, but I'm itching to do more! I mean, don't you really wish you could grip long enough to find out what's at the top of the shrine? Don't you really, really want to get onto that huge bridge that you came across in the opening cutscene? Speaking of cutscenes, they're brilliant. The almost complete lack of dialogue is perfect for the atmosphere of the game. The ridiculously nonsensical language they do speak, but only when it's necessary, is also brilliant. Don't you hate it when mystical places not known to man speak pure unadulterated English? For the best part of the game, the only words you hear are you calling your horse.
Put purely and simply, go and buy this game right now, if you don't love it, then there's something wrong with your head, see a doctor.
If you enjoy simplistic games with impressive graphics and secrets galore, this is the game for you.
I bought this game for £8, and it's already far surpassed that in worth. I would have happily handed over £30 for this frankly amazing game.
Lucky you can buy it for £20, huh? :D
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