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An Artistic Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, but poor framerate. Great gameplay, but poor camera.

While the negatives are fairly heavy, it doesn't keep you from enjoying the greatest game of 2005. Shadow of the Colossus is the must-play game of the year. The artistic aspirations of the gameplay, graphics, and audio are amazing.

Truly a step in the right direction for gaming.

Shadow of the Collosus for PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent and of high quality, but very, very difficult. The world is one where you can get lost in for hours and hours, and the control is excellent, but the overall task of the game is quite hard. Fighting each collosus is a task indeed and after each one, you feel tired as if you have literally been in an epic fight.

Really just a one trick pony

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I heard that the team that created Ico was going to create another game, I was excited. Ico was released years ago near the PS2's launch, and though slightly flawed, it was a wonderful game. Now that the team had time to master the PS2, it could improve the graphics and make an Ico like game even better. Well not quite.

You first start off in a temple, and you have to go after a Colossus. You then ride your horse to the area where the Colossus is. The area where you ride your horse through is expansive, though nice looking, is pretty monochrome. The horse riding is a little annoying, because the camera is sort of half done, meaning that you can move the camera, but it will move back for no reason at random times, and there is no stationary camera angle. Most games give you the option of keeping the camera directly behind you so you can move by the direction of the screen. This does not, and I found it very, very annoying.

Once you reach the Colossus, you face a large lumbering stone giant, and you have to defeat it. It's just like a giant boss battle. You have to climb up it somehow (which is where the "puzzle" portion comes in) and hit the weak spots.

That is pretty much the game. Ride to the Colossus, defeat it, rinse, repeat. After about three Colossi, I was bored to death. This game has a total of 16 of them. Each one takes a really long time. Uh, no thanks.

While the Colossi look great and the music is good, graphically, the rest of the game is fully of jaggies that really shouldn't exist in a game engine these days. The world to explore is really very empty with nothing to do. The camera angle is the biggest obstacle, and I found the controls to be awkward as well. Like all boss battles, there is a lot of repetition in defeating the boss. You get to a certain point, and you either die, or you fall and have to climb up the boss again. So, there is a lot of repeating. And no, you can't save in the middle of a boss fight.

I wanted ambiance, puzzles, thinking, new worlds to explore. I wanted a new version of Ico or Prince of Persia, Sands of Time. Instead, I got this.

If you are the type of guy that only cares about the final boss, this game is made for you. If you wanted another thinking man's platformer, you'd better look elsewhere.

Do for love

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Would you be willing to be in David and Galaith situation?(In this case, more like David and the Goliaths)This guy would.
Pros:
-Artistic graphics
-Excellent epic-battle music
-top nothch sound effects
-A great story(It all comes together in the end)
-Ingenius collossus designs(All of them take diffrent strategies to beat)
-Good ol' Argo(Without him, this game would be too long for it's own good)
-Good thing for in game hints(It really helped me so I wouildn't have to go online for ways to beat collossi)
-An adventure game for the ages(16 boss battles with huge mo' fo's that are pain to find and a pain to beat. Plenty fun)
-Ico fans will definitly have a ball with this.
Cons:
-Sometimes leading Argo around can be frustrating(This horse is scared to jump over a 5 inch rock wall)
-Short game(It only took me 12 hours to finish, and since I know how to find, and beat them down without getting frustrating, the zest for the game easily gets lost, likewse the replay value)
-Why did they even bother putting a useless as crap map in the pause screen?(I don't know how to explain it)
-No names(C'mon, Ico had names, and it's story was unclear, but this one has a decent plot, and yet nobldy has a name)
Neutral:
-The sword light is a very useful device to track collossi, and expose their vital points, except for when it's shadowy, and no light, or when it leads me around in circles when I go where it tells me to.
-I beat down 16, hold on, count em' 16 HUGE ROCKY HAIRY 13@$TARDS to get a weired as heck ending(A bit clearer than Ico's ending, but still murky)

Shadow of the Collossus is the first David and Golaith style game I've ever played, and it is pretty fun. I thought I'd get tired after fighting the same old breed over and over, but as the game went on, I wanted to beat down more and more. They had to save the biggest one for last too.(I'm tellin' you, the last collossi is so huge, that I don't even think the hero is the size of one of his toenails, even if they're clipped) This is a definite must have for fans of Ico, and for those who love adventure games. It keeps the same style of athmosphere as Ico. Tho not a emotional rollercoaster like Ico, but a very worthy follow up, and one unforgettable, one of a kind exerience.

Peace

Best PS2 game ever!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Probably the most unique gaming experience to have ever graced the PS2 platform. The emotional feeling throughout this game (loneliness basically) is really well done. The graphics in this game push the PS2 to the limit and the music......FINALLY an orchestrated score for a video game!!!! I know Final Fantasy does it sometimes but it was nice that they actually performed ALL of the pieces in this soundtrack and not a select few like other games tend to do. The downside is some of the music can get repetitious during colossi battles. I really enjoyed the puzzle nature of the 16 boss battles. The story develops very slowly and does a good job of keeping you in the dark for a good portion of the game. Overall...this game is just an incredible experience. Its ending is quite unique and the desolate traveling you must do to reach each colossus is just breathtaking at times. I only wish this game could have been done on a next-gen platform because it is truly a cinematic experience that is unrivaled at the moment. A MUST HAVE for any PS2 collection!!

Imagine "Zelda" minus the quest, dungeons, items, fun.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The "WOW" factor of this game stops the minute you try to battle the first Colossus." Jump on back of right leg, stab, climb up thigh, to belt, up back, stab in head, find next Colossus.

The surreal, dream-like land and stunning, difficult battles are not enough. This game leaves you with a hollow, pointless feeling. The package puts you in mind of "Fable" or "The Legend of Zelda" but the game is neither. It reminds me of a throw-back to the arcade-style platform games of the original NES and PS, when you could defeat all the levels and then just fight the boss-battles, that's this game, boss-battles and cut-scenes. This is not action, adventure or role-playing, it's boss-battles and animated cut scenes.

Why create so big a game with so little to do? Could have been such an amazing game with 16 quest, quest items, caves, dungeons, mountains to explore... but no, nothing but vast, vast, emptiness. That's what you'll feel when you're done.

You be David...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

...and kick the butts of a lot of Goliaths!

Over Christmas, my thirteen-year-old cousin was playing this game. I said, "What is it?" and he said "You got to kill these big monsters to bring your dead girlfriend back to life." Having now played and finished it, I know that his statement was a simple breakdown of a strange game. You do get to kill big monsters. There's a fair amount of puzzle solving to figure out how to bring them down. Each monster has it's own weakness and half of the fun is getting to the monster then figuring out how to kill him. The story surrounding it is a little "out-there" but the gameplay and the graphics are what this game is really about!

This game won't change your life but it will provide great escapism and hours of fun climbing the backs of massive monsters and stabbing them in the head!

Challenging "Classic"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I couldn't beat it. So I forfeited my right to continue. I don't cheat (also known as strategy guides).

-PabloG.

Shocked.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, I'm shocked at all the 5-star reviews for this worthless game. Well, I shouldn't say shocked seeing as nearly everything on amazon is rated 4-5 stars no matter how terrible the product is. . .proving that amazon users just ain't that bright.

Seriously though. . .I got bored with this game so quickly. After reading numerous great reviews on it, I thought it would be a 'can't miss' buy. I was wrong. The game-play is awful, there are no enemies besides the colossus' to bring down, and quite frankly it's just dull.

Mind you, this isn't really my genre' of game, so I let my brother (whom is an avid fan of all role-playing and fantasy type games) take a crack at it after I grew disinterested after killing 4 colossus'. He got about just as far when he returned it saying it sucked. That was all the more proof I needed to renew the fact that I wasn't going nuts and everyone else was for rating this game so highly.

I strongly do not recommend this game. Watch paint dry or sort socks for a more enjoyable experience.

Don't see what the appeal is/was...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: April 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so I saw all of the reviews claiming this was one of the greatest games. Bought one of the greatest hits versions, tried it, and to be honest, yes...the graphics are excellent, but the game itself is rather boring. There's just nothing appealing about the gameplay itself. There are many other fun games out there. If all you care about are fantastic graphics, this game is for you.

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