What makes Shadow of the Colossus so special?

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Random_Matt said:
Outside of 16 Colossi, what else do you do?
If nothing, sounds rather boring.

Nothing really. There are places to explore and a couple of secrets, but you basically ride your horse to the next colossus. I think they created it in a way that the Colossus fight is so exciting that once you beat it, the ride to the next colossus is the calm before the storm, I guess. There are traversal area's to get to the colossus, but the meat of the game is the battle with the colossus. 

Atmosphere is great, each new colossus is in a different area of the map and as you approach the area, the mood changes and you can feel something coming. Some colossus are underwhelming, but for the most part the are different and fantastic. I think there is a colossus that is like a Tremor from the movie, pretty cool surprise when I ran into it.