Bodhesatva said:
Brain Age has SPECIFICALLY been found to increase neurological function. Directly and explicitly. In this case, the adult value is in it's intellectual activity, not in it's purely aesthetic quality. "Research has shown that reading out loud and performing calculations quickly are effective for training your brain." Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and Okami are very good, and you know I liked Shadow of the Colossus a great deal. But their "art" is largely just visual, unlike "The Sims" or "Civilization," whose maturity is in the gameplay directly. And please note that these are three games in a library of 1,500 Playstation 2 games. It's dismally low. And again, my main concern is for something to be intellectually stimulating, the way Picasso's Guernica, or Robespierre's The Spirit of the Laws are. I do agree that aesthetics matter -- it's just not my main goal here. |
In the case of Okami I can see how you say the art is largely visual. But in case of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus if you think it's mainly visual then you definitely missed the point of both games and need to go back and play them and get into them more closely because there is so much in such simplicity. Ico has to be the most beautiful story I have encountered in a game, so simple and so compelling that I can only describe it as beautiful.
That's the kind of game that I think even people who hate traditional games in general would admit is art.
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