Death and All His Friends

User Rating: 10 | Shadow of the Colossus PS4

There is a great truth in saying that we die many little deaths along the way before the last big death.

There may be no example in video games of a vision more epic in its feel and majestic in its environmental scale than Shadow of the Colossus (2018/PS4). A good many of these serial executions of forsaken colossi will be among the most awe-inspiring and unforgettable boss battles that a player can ever find.

The emptiness of the world in Shadow of the Colossus is strangely comforting even amid the suffocation of its aloneness. For nearly the entire run, there's the young warrior, Wander, who you play (a David-figure pitted against several more handfuls of Goliaths), the horse Agro, the colossi that you eerily must intrude upon and send to meet their maker, and some critters here and there, and that's all the life there is at the end of this world.

One of the most mysterious modern masterworks, Shadow of the Colossus towers among the heights of video game artistry.

P.S. Special applause to the work done on this restoration; it very well might be the best video game remake yet.