Shadow of the Colossus
PlatformPS2
Year2005
DeveloperTeam Ico
GenreAction-Adventure
About Shadow of the Colossus
Fumito Ueda created a game about loneliness and sacrifice with only 16 boss fights and no regular enemies. Every colossus is a puzzle-platformer-boss hybrid. Over 1 million copies. The ending is devastating. Games as art, the argument starts here.
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