What makes Shadow of the Colossus so special?

[roadkillers]

mZuzek said:

roadkillers said:
Shadow of the Colossus is a love story. I do not understand the ending of the game, but it is such a noble and simple story of a guy trying to bring back his deceased girlfriend. Kind of like Snow White. That is what makes the story amazing, the gameplay is the scale and finding out how to take down theses beasts.

One thing I never understood is how everyone feels terrible after killing these creatures. Years later, I get a little caught up in the music, but I always put the importance of people before anything else so that part of the game doesn't effect me as much. By the way, did anyone else notice how blurry the original was? I do not remember it being that blurry.

(SPOILERS) You are supposed to feel bad. If you didn't, you didn't just experience the game in a different way, you experienced it in a way that wasn't how it was supposed to be. They gave each colossus distinct voices and sounds of pain and agony when you hit them, made their death scenes really tragic with sad music, and made your character become more and more corrupted by the end for a reason. It's because that's the story - it's about a demon whose body was split into 16 parts and he/she's bargaining you to restore his/her power by making you destroy the 16 colossi who are keeping his/her evil spirit sealed away. That's why every time you stab a colossus, they spill out black blood, because that's Dormin's spirit leaving their body and eventually joining yours (it's what happens with the tentacles after every battle). That's also why you become him at the end, because you were completely possessed. The colossi are supposed to be protectors of this forgotten land, and you're destroying them one by one.

Haha, I don't like that story so I will pretend mine is right. I like simple love stories, they are the best! I do the samething for Metal Gear Solid, the actual story is so confusing so I simplify it for myself ha.