Do you want to know why? I don’t have to listen to poorly acted, poorly written, and awkwardly animated retellings of Romeo and Juliet. Anyway, the woman on the slab is your driving force, your love interest, and the exemplar of the “true love” trope in a game where I don’t mind it. Ok, that doesn’t make it any better, and honestly, it makes it sound like there is a somewhat narrow-minded view of women within the team behind the games. In Shadow of the Colossus, the only woman and only other person within a country mile is laying on her back. There is none of this 2×4 business to protect White women from something big and Black. Shadow of the Colossus doesn’t do any of what I mentioned above because it understands the word context, giving it to you in heaps so it makes as much impact as it possibly can. This is so you know when something is good. I have to draw a comparison between some things that are just a bit crap and that make you want to bang your head against a wall. If you’re starting to think, “ Well, you’re not exactly talking about Shadow of the Colossus thus far, are you ?” No, it is this thing called context. I honestly don’t remember his motivations, I think it was to get some of that sex I hear so much about. You played as an eager young man, go about with a stick in hand, a stupid helmet, and a bit of a cape (or his mother’s tea cloth) wrapped around your neck. I’ve personally never been much of a fan of the first game where you were guiding around Keira Knightley cosplaying as a mute melon smuggler with no clue of what self-preservation is. Shadow of the Colossus is the second game from developer Team Ico, the first game worth about as much mention as the flavor of mint tea at this point. Sure, the raccoon mafia will snap your kneecaps like twigs and mug you for every penny you make from shaking all the trees and selling totally original gingham, but it’s peaceful. My point here is that it’s no wonder why Animal Crossing is always so bloody popular. If you have a split second to yourself, they end up spawning endless hordes of enemies to throw at you like those suicide bombers from Killer7. Something all games seem to be focused on is throwing set-pieces at you like you were an only child to what in America is called a “pageant mom” and in the rest of the world is sectioned under the mental health act.
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