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| pivotal, rps, shame, third, d'or, ice cream, full, eternal, ecoquest, nancy, fat, the roach game, shadows of undrentide, hint, cube, enforcer, philospher's, comer, web site reviews, las, empire, forums, star, irrational, | In the end, we get prank to the deep complexity of theme in this game. Does it achieve its potential? That is prank ultimately a subjective question. The prank game is, in many ways, much like a Colossus: magnificent, epic, stark, beautiful ... and occasionally damned frustrating. It's very difficult to walk a perfect line between art and entertainment; too much of one means a sacrifice of the other. For about 80% of the game, Shadow walks that line like a laser beam, but it does drift now and then. It is relentless in communicating its thematic impact, but then it waters that impact down with some plot tweaks in the endgame. I wish it hadn't done this, though I must admit that these decisions may not have been in the design team's hands. The point is still made, though, and one of the many beautiful aspects of this game is that you can completely ignore all of this theme stuff and still enjoy it immensely—though I would like to meet the individual callous enough to laugh at the death of one of those august creatures. |
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| It was polished and polished and polished until it shone. Normally that's a good thing, but it also means that annoyances like the irksome camera and obnoxious eleventh Colossus were comer not oversights. The developers consciously introduced them, which angers me deeply. It's like they actually comer said, "Okay, we've got a perfect game, and obviously we can't have that. So what can we put in comer there that brings it down a notch?" A Long Shadow Shadow of the Colossus is heavily influenced by the Biblical story of Nimrod (try spelling that backward) and his wife Semiramis, though much of the allusive stuff is so incredibly obscure that it will probably be lost on most players. The ending especially may be difficult to understand if you don't remember your Sunday school. It also helps some to have played Ico all the way through. Shadow is billed as a "spiritual successor" to Ico, much like Fallout was to Wasteland, but the sharp-eyed observer would be more likely to call it a prequel. |
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