{"id":546,"date":"2006-03-01T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:05","slug":"shadow_of_the_the_colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/03\/01\/shadow_of_the_the_colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of the the Colossus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought and finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowofthecolossus.com\/\">Shadow of the Colossus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/shadow.jpg?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an incredibly engrossing experience and easily the best game that I have played in a long time. The art direction is top notch and the gameplay is fluid and innovative.<\/p>\n<p>The entire game is focussed on seemingly impossible battles with a series of giant creatures of ambiguous composition (they look ancient, spiritual, animal, and artificial all at the same time).<\/p>\n<p>The battles are confrontingly visceral and really communicate the mindset of the main character. Because of this, I actually found the game a little hard to play at first. However, I perservered and it was very rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>My only real criticism of the game is the difficulty and pacing. Most of the colossi were incredibly easy, but the final few were quite difficult. I spent around 3.5 hours on the first dozen or so, 2 hours on the second last one, and then 2.5 hours on the last one. That&#8217;s not very balanced!<\/p>\n<p>A possible spoiler (but not really) after the jump.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: <strong>Highly, <em>highly<\/em> recommended<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that I am giving anything away for saying this, but it looks like it could actually be a prequel to ICO. (Anyone who has finished the game should see why.) If so, I like that they didn&#8217;t market it as such. It&#8217;s very different in style and may have been misinterpreted if thought of as <em>just<\/em> an ICO prequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought and finished Shadow of the Colossus. It was an incredibly engrossing experience and easily the best game that I have played in a long time. The art direction is top notch and the gameplay is fluid and innovative. The entire game is focussed on seemingly impossible battles with a series of giant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/03\/01\/shadow_of_the_the_colossus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shadow of the the Colossus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-8O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}