And those decisions, yeah, they didn’t go down brilliantly with every admirer of Hideo Kojima’s stealth-action series, did they. Challenging, sophisticated and special, SOTC was remade for PlayStation 4 in 2018, so there’s no need to have an old PS2 still wired up to your tellybox to enjoy this one in 2022, even if the two games aren’t quite the same.ĭecisions were made with Metal Gear Solid 2 - most notably, the switch to a new protagonist in the form of Raiden, with the original Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake character resigned to something of an… introductory performance. It’s all about its mood, its powerful sense of place, the towering beasts that give the game its name and the puzzle-like methods needed to overcome them. The plot, while thin, delivers a mighty twist - but it’s not the story that people really remember Shadow of the Colossus for.
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A lonely, meditative adventure through an open world notable for its lack of distractions, its committed vision of emptiness (although, that is as determined by the hardware as the creative influence of director Fumito Ueda, who we profiled here), it follows a horse-mounted protagonist as he slays a series of gigantic creatures in the hopes of reviving a girl. Shadow of the Colossus is one of those experiences that, if you play it once and it connects with you, it’s practically assured a place in your personal greatest games of all time list.