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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
MrSmartGuy 01/24/21 10:29:59 PM #229:	#43 - Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, 2005) I tend to remember games based on their high points, rather than their low points. That swings heavily into Shadow of the Colossuss favor, because its low points sure are low. A good 80% of the game is spent wandering (hehe) around an expansive, completely empty world, with nothing but your horse to keep you company. But when you finally reach a colossus, there are few other examples in gaming that can make your heart race quite like they do. The tussles with these beasts are less like fights and more like solving puzzles. He is 5000 times bigger than me, how am I supposed to kill this thing?! Luckily, the protagonist has possession of a holy sword that can locate and obliterate the colossis weak points. The primary issue is that you still have to get up there to it. They are typically on their head, and needless to say, they are well out of reach. You may have to lure them into an attack, or get them to lower their guard before you can get to a point where you can start climbing for it. Each colossus is dealt with in a different manner, and. ohhhh, Id say 15 of the 16 of them are truly satisfying to defeat. Just having this gameplay loop of figuring out where a colossus is, getting over to it, and then taking it out would be enough to crack my list, because that final step is just so much fun. But Shadow of the Colossuss story is expertly told to boot. You play as a young man with nothing but a sword, a bow, and a horse, hoping to revive some other young woman. He finds an immaterial being that promises to revive her for him, if he can take out the 16 massive beings that walk this land. Very little else is ever told to you explicitly; like it is never explained who the humans are, who this being is, or any of the related details about any of them. Instead the game gives you context clues in between boss fights to give you a vague idea what is going on. It isnt until the very end that everything becomes clear, and what a glorious ending it is. SotC isnt a game I would recommend to someone who needs constant interaction that demands their attention, but if you can look past that, youre not going to find a much more fulfilling gaming experience anywhere else. COLOSSUS RANKINGS #13 (Airsac) > #10 (Snake) > #8 (Lizard) > #5 (Bird) > #3 (Tall Guy, club attached to arm) > #7 (Electric Eel) > #6 (Beard Guy) > #11 (Little Cat/Bull) > #14 (Aggressive Dog) > #1 (First Guy) > #15 (Last Guy) > #16 (Big Boi) > #4 (Zebra) > #2 (Turtle) #12 (Water Temples) > #9 (Geyser Fucker) --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif <cite>MrSmartGuy posted [p:949885482] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#43 - Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, 2005) I tend to remember games based on their high points, rather than their low points. That swings heavily into Shadow of the Colossuss favor, because its low points sure are low. A good 80% of the game is spent wandering (hehe) around an expansive, completely empty world, with nothing but your horse to keep you company. But when you finally reach a colossus, there are few other examples in gaming that can make your heart race quite like they do. The tussles with these beasts are less like fights and more like solving puzzles. He is 5000 times bigger than me, how am I supposed to kill this thing?! Luckily, the protagonist has possession of a holy sword that can locate and obliterate the colossis weak points. The primary issue is that you still have to get up there to it. They are typically on their head, and needless to say, they are well out of reach. You may have to lure them into an attack, or get them to lower their guard before you can get to a point where you can start climbing for it. Each colossus is dealt with in a different manner, and. ohhhh, Id say 15 of the 16 of them are truly satisfying to defeat. Just having this gameplay loop of figuring out where a colossus is, getting over to it, and then taking it out would be enough to crack my list, because that final step is just so much fun. But Shadow of the Colossuss story is expertly told to boot. You play as a young man with nothing but a sword, a bow, and a horse, hoping to revive some other young woman. He finds an immaterial being that promises to revive her for him, if he can take out the 16 massive beings that walk this land. Very little else is ever told to you explicitly; like it is never explained who the humans are, who this being is, or any of the related details about any of them. Instead the game gives you context clues in between boss fights to give you a vague idea what is going on. It isnt until the very end that everything becomes clear, and what a glorious ending it is. SotC isnt a game I would recommend to someone who needs constant interaction that demands their attention, but if you can look past that, youre not going to find a much more fulfilling gaming experience anywhere else. COLOSSUS RANKINGS #13 (Airsac) > #10 (Snake) > #8 (Lizard) > #5 (Bird) > #3 (Tall Guy, club attached to arm) > #7 (Electric Eel) > #6 (Beard Guy) > #11 (Little Cat/Bull) > #14 (Aggressive Dog) > #1 (First Guy) > #15 (Last Guy) > #16 (Big Boi) > #4 (Zebra) > #2 (Turtle) #12 (Water Temples) > #9 (Geyser Fucker) --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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