![]() ![]() Like any remake of a popular title, this one is controversial, and the choices made by Bluepoint Games in the process of "modernizing" the game deserve close scrutiny. This week, more than a dozen years after the original, Shadow of the Colossus has been reintroduced, with all the bells and whistles of a modern remake-4K graphics, easter eggs, and optional 60 frames per second if it's running on PlayStation 4 Pro. ![]() There are 16 colossi roaming this land, says Dormin if the boy kills them, the girl will live. A boy, Wander, takes this girl he loves to the god Dormin, who promises to resurrect her for a price. In a forbidden wilderness, there is a divine being who can resurrect her. A girl has died, a victim of a terrible ritual. Like its predecessor, ICO, it carries a plain premise set in a scenic world, one that would be beautiful if it weren't so alien. Quiet and barren, the 2005 release offered a lesson in the importance of hidden dread and understated compassion. It is also, incontrovertibly, one of the most important videogames in the recent history of the medium. It's a messy story, about hubris, and mortality, and the desperate greed of love that can cause us to do things we know full well will end in disaster. Shadow of the Colossus is a simple story about a boy and his horse. ![]()
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