Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Yuuki's Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

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Yuuki here again to do my review of Shadow of the Colossus. The game is made by SCEA and from what I can tell looks like a prequel to ICO. Basically though the game is Kill Giants!

Gameplay: The game handles beautifully. Controls are simple and easily learned. The object is to get form point A to point B, B being a giant monster of one form or another. Then climb this giant beast and drive you glow in the dark nail file of a sword into their brains. 5/5

Story:
This is thin at best, your given little backround about the mystic lands where these giant rule other than its cursed. Your backround is unimportant cause you don't even have a name. Your horse has one but not you. Your trying to bring your dead girlfriend back from the dead and you made a pact with the sun god. Uh yeah that's it. Basically its just an excuse to kill giant monsters. 2/5

Graphics:
These are beautiful the map is huge and filled with vivid little details. Your character and horse are done nicely but can be glitchy. Colossi seem to be where all the graphics went, probably because its about them. They look awesome, hair, eyes, fingers, all done magnificently. This game looks great. 4/5

Sound:
The audio is excellent like pretty much everything else. The quick changes from soft easy toned to the suspenseful "wheres this thing gonna appear from and what will it look like", to the "Holy crap look at the blood!" The talking seems to be done in some strange tongue or japanese I don't know. But the only decernable words I ever got was "Argo" which is the horse.
None the less the voice were done well. 5/5

Replay:
Ok the game is kinda short even with 16 colossi the time attack, hard mode, and hard time attack add a little bit. Though I still got 100% in about a week and 30-40 hours of gameplay. 3/5

Overall:
Overall the game rocks my socks. I wouldn't buy it new though. Buy it cheap used or wait for it to cheapen up a bit. It's worth buying or renting once or twice. I'd buy it though because you never know when you'll get the urge to kill a giant monster. So pick it up I really recommend this one it's pretty, fun, and good to watch your friend play afterwards. 5/5

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