loqueses57 wrote:
shadow of the colossus was great!!! mmm but now im addicted with project diva 2nd and extend =D osu is great too xD
I don't mean to offend, but I really don't see why shadow of the colossus is such a legendary game. I mean, it has great graphics, sounds and music, very realistic gameplay(though I myself find it sloppy,sort of like the uncanny valley effect where when something becomes too realistic you tend to notice its flaws, but that's a personal opinion, i can't deny they put a lot of work into gameplay and it worked out quite well).
These three are enough to place the game in the category of good, but what else does it have? Let's see it gives you beautiful, large environments that were an achievement for that time, the catch? It fills them with nothing, absolutely nothing noteworthy except you and the 16 colossi. I understand they wanted to give you a feel of hopelessness and loneliness, but that just isn't the right way to do it because it just makes it boring and bland. Next is the story, wait did I forget to mention there's almost none of it at all? They open the game with a cutscene or some other stuff that doesn't give you much info about the world and it's backstory at all, tell you that you need to defeat the 16 colossi to save your princess, then nothing, no more just you and the world.
This is why I believe the game only deserves a 6, maximum 7 out of 10, perhaps I'm just weird since so many others like it, but to give you an example of a game this style done right, look at dark souls. Ye it was a game from last year not very fair comparing it to a ps2 game, but what I'll compare here is only story an immersion, which doesn't depend on hardware at all. In my opinion dark souls did everything sotc did wrong correctly, the loneliness is still there, I would say even more so than in sotc because of the amount of immersion, though there are much more npc's in dark souls. The environments actually matter, the whole world and you all seem connected. Next comes the story, I know dark souls didn't do really excellently in this department, in fact it's the game's only downfall besides technical issues, but it certainly did better than sotc, this time you actually have something detailed explaining the backstory and world around you, and that world actually matters, and affects you as much as you affect it. Unlike sotc where only you, your horse and the 16 bastards actually matter.
/end of rant and personal opinion
Please don't flame me just for expressing it <3
