Gripping the sides or climbable parts of a colossi allows you to move up it – but at a cost. Beyond a life gauge, you also have to keep an eye on how much you’re exerting yourself. This turns the game from exploration into a mixture of puzzle, platforming, and pure combat with some resource management thrown in for good measure. By lifting your sword high in the air, you can get a signal of light as to the rough location to go and then venture out to do battle.
Beyond having to solve the riddles behind how to defeat them, you also have to search the world to find them.
Shadow of the Colossus (SotC) has no regular enemies and is a large-scale boss rush from beginning to end. There isn’t much of a narrative, but this one goal is all Wander needs to set out on his task and embark on one of gaming’s most epic boss rushes. He rides into the shrine with her in tow on the horse and lays her onto a slab before being told by a spirit that he must defeat colossi in order to save her. His tale begins with a horse named Agro, a woman, and a shrine. The game was always rumored to have a successor named Wander – which wound up as Shadow of the Colossus, starring a character named Wander.
Ico was a landmark puzzle-adventure game and one of the best and boldest entries in that genre since Prince of Persia. Team Ico’s work was the stuff of legend on the PlayStation 2.
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