Well, I finally finished this terrific game. And for a game with almost no story, it sure draws you in. I was amazed at how, even though there are less than half a dozen cutscene/story sequences over the entire game, I was completely enthralled during the ending. The crux of the game is that you need to beat these 16 colossi (basically massively huge monsters) in order to have a wish granted. In between the colossi there are no battles, no gold to find, no items to buy, and no interactions with other characters in the world. Hell, unless you're fighting one of the colossi there isn't even any music. Just the sound of you spurring on your horse. It becomes a very desolate game, and you begin to feel extremely isolated. Yet you keep fighting these battles because they are so damn engrossing. Imagine standing on the back of a winged bird that's got the wingspan of a football field while it's flying around a thousand feet in the air. You try and walk around on its back when it suddenly flips over and starts flying upside down while you hang on to the edge of it's wing hoping the thing will flip back over before you lose your grip and plummet to your death, or standing next to a creature who's toes are taller than you and having to find a way to defeat him, or running away from one of these things while riding your horse, all the while trying to shoot arrows behind you and the thing. The fights are so damn intense that whenever I finished one I would notice that I was on the edge of my chair, and I'd have to slump back and take a deep breath.
The nice thing about the story being so disconnected is that you can go without playing for weeks, even months, and still know exactly what your next goal is. Hell, I bought this game a year and a half ago and am just now finishing it. Now I get to go back and do the "time attack" mode, which lets you fight any of the colossi over again trying to beat a certain time. Which is cool, because I don't remember all of the colossi and am intrigued to go back and see if I remember how to beat them. It's so rare that a game lives up to the hype, and a 9.7 rating from IGN is major hype, but this game was as much art as it was entertainment.
Check out the first colossus:
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I remember the last boss taking a week to beat. I just couldn't get the hang of the part where you have to jump onto his right hand.
The part that tripped me up was getting from the second hand to his shoulder. Once you got there it was pretty simple, but getting there is quite the challenge.
Dude.. I think I should try this game or God of War on the projector some time... make the Collosi bigger! :)
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