Shadow of the Colossus, Again

I wrote about this game a while back after I played the demo disc. I finally played through the whole game, and it's forced me to use a word not normally in my vocabulary:

This game is awesome.

The focus of the game is fairly simple: in order to bring your girlfriend back to life, you have to find and kill sixteen giant colossuses (or colossi, if you want to get technical). Each one has a weak point that you need to attack, usually at the top of its head. The challenge is to figure out how to reach the weak point.

Shadow of the Colossus offers one of the most unique gameplaying experiences ever. There have been big bosses in other games, but to climb up one while it's running or flying or swimming around is a lot of fun. The game totally sucked me in; more than once I let out a "oh sh*t" when some of the colossi revealed themselves, and I actually felt bad when I killed them.

The details in the backgrounds are amazing, the music is great. The whole atmosphere this game creates is unlike anything I've ever seen. I have to stop gushing about this game before I drool on myself. Oops, too late.

In my list of favorite video games, this game has secured its place. Totally awesome.