In the spirit of that singular design, your tools of battle are basic and unchanging. Indeed, it's one of the game's most commendable traits. In other words, don't mistake Shadow of the Colossus' purity of focus for a thin or potentially unsatisfying adventure. But that would have only diluted the experience of fighting these beasts that tower hundreds of feet above you and shake the very earth with their footsteps. The designers could have doubled or even tripled the length of the adventure by placing hundreds of lesser foes between you and your ultimate objectives.
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If all this sounds like a series of massive boss fights that make up an entire game, it's more or less what it is. You'll fight each colossus in quick succession, and you'll finish the game in essentially the same state as you began it. There's no quantifiable leveling up, and no menial combat to get in the way of each encounter. Once you've slain and absorbed the essence of that colossus, you return to the temple in a dreamlike haze so you can repeat the process all over again. You leave the temple in search of the next colossus (under instruction from that disembodied voice), and when you find the beast, you engage it and kill it. Your focus and sole occupation is the defeat of the colossi themselves, and these striking, larger-than-life beings are the real stars of this show. Is the girl your wife, or perhaps your sister? Is she dead or merely injured? What is it about the colossi, exactly, that will confer upon you the power to bring her back? This is all you know as you set out on your quest, and it's all you need to know. According to a mysterious presence that dwells within the sanctuary walls, the only way to save this girl is to hunt down and destroy the 16 colossal beasts that roam the varied lands surrounding the temple. From the introduction, you know that you'll play the role of a young warrior who has brought his fallen love to a faraway temple in the hopes of restoring her to health. There's only a bare pretense of story at the outset. Now Playing: Shadow of the Colossus Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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