Shadow of the Colossus

[The Drunken Samurai]

yeah i just got him and the 11th too which i thought was going to take all night because if you miss landing on his back then its forever of getting knocked around the moment you stand

[Llydis]

A lot of them at this stage are pretty much just building up to the last one. The only thing difficult about the last is... getting to him.

[The Drunken Samurai]

i fucking hate the last boss. i hate climbing his gay skirt. i hate the changing of hands. and i hate the shitty camera during said change of hands. fuck this guys seriously

[Llydis]

Iunno, I didn't find him too difficult. But, a lot of people had problems with him in general.

[dmauro]

i fucking hate the last boss. i hate climbing his gay skirt. i hate the changing of hands. and i hate the shitty camera during said change of hands. fuck this guys seriously

Word. Last boss sucks.

[The Drunken Samurai]

took a break from the game today and let my brother play. he killed up to the eiight one and stopped.


i remember someone saying just watching the game is amazing but i found it dull.

[isfet]

man just beat it, it's a breeze.  stab that motherfucker in his stupid fucking hands.

[The Drunken Samurai]

this boss isnt difficult or anythng its just unplayable. everytime i get on his first hand and stab him the wrist just twists and turns,as does the camera, and any sense of direction that i have of up left right or down just gets fucking garbled and mixed around. and im lucky if i get to the second fucking hand.

then my grip goes out.


then i fall.



then its all the way back up the fucking skirt to do it all over again.

[The Drunken Samurai]

oke he's dead now. somehow i couldnt get him to bring his hand to his shoulder last time

[The Drunken Samurai]

final thoughts:this game was a bit melodramatic. the score is great but after halfway through the game with the big dramatic music that comes crashing in eveytime i fight a colossi i just rolled my eyes. apparently i was supposed tp feel bad for killing the colossi but i felt nothing. i didnt even feel bad for the horse when SPOILER: he falls off the cliff, because i had a feeling he would return.(and he did) maybe i would havee felt something more for the horse if he did cute things at times. or i could have been able to feed him carrots or something.

also: bloom lighting is shit. the game is too long (yes! long!) and the final boss was near unplayable at times. and i think i should have picked up MGS3 for five dollars cheaper.


otherwise it was a good game.

[isfet]

comments:

1) fuck you the horse rocks.  BUT i agree it's sort of a cop out that he comes back

2) didn't have many camera issues with the final boss, but these things happen

3) the whole idea that one is "supposed to feel bad" for killing the colossi, as far as i can remember, is an idea propagated in the first few pages of a Select Button thread way back when.  For the most part, the idea/argument becomes pretty invalid after the first few, especially considering that many of them begin attacking you on site.  maybe for some of the colossi that act more like animals and have no interest in you, sure, feel bad a little.

[The Drunken Samurai]

oh ive got nothing against the horse. i just didnt feel bad about his fall as maybe i shoud have.

the realistic movement of the horse actually took me out of it more than in. because looking at him its obvious they did motion capture,and i just cant help but laugh at the though of a bunch of guys trying to get an uncooperative horse into black latex and attach those ping pong ball things all over his body. go ahead, just imagine a horse biting the ping pongs off his back and not laugh. like that one movie (i forget which one) where the guy keep putting a saddle on the horse and the horse keeps pulling it off because he's doing it wrong.


what im trying to say is that it does take a little imagination to fully immerse yourself into this world but unfortunately for me it just goes into another direction i guess.

[The Drunken Samurai]

shanghai noon.


i think it was shanghai noon

[FortNinety]

Count me in ass a person who also loved the horse and was taken aback when he bit it near the end, even though looking back, it was such a cheap story device.

And SoTC is still one of my favorite games ever, but mostly because I've mostly forgotten about that lame last boss battle. Which sounds awesome on paper, but yeah, the actual method of doing away with the thing really sucks. But again, Colossi #2, #3, and #5 more than make up for it.

Select Button

Well, now that those words have finally been uttered (thanks Joe), I can finally ask, and also change the subject: given their penchant for "lonely games", are the people there jacking off to Flower, Sun, and Rain? Since that's about as lonely a game as I've played. But it's actually good... again, heads and tails above Killer 7.

[dmauro]

You should move on to Ico now.