twesterm said:
I'm sure I'll get hated on for this, but I'm not a huge fan of Shadow of the Colossus. The boss fight parts aren't bad for the most part (though they get old by the end) but I hated the whole finding and getting to the boss parts. I guess that's the hard part making a game that's only boss fights (though Mike Tyson's Punch Out! did an excellent job of that). |
ROFL. You just compared Punch Out! to SotC... Yeah, the "downtime" of SotC was finding the bosses but I never had that big of a problem finding them. I don't think I ever spent more than 15 minutes searching for the next colossi.
What SotC had going for it was atmosphere... Loads of it. It's one of the most intriguing games I've ever played because it all felt so vastly different than anything I had experienced previous to it. Later, it brought in moral questions regarding your actions, interesting gameplay, and a compelling feel to the game brought by its near silence. Together, it's one of the few videogames I would classify as quality art. There are loads of messages there, most of which are left to the player to interpret for themselves.
Interactivity at its best, IMO. 99% of the developers out there could learn a lot from that game if we ever want this medium to become a respected avenue for artists to convey their work.
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