Shadow of the Colossus is a great a really great game it has awesome graphics one of the best on PS2 and the music is just fantastic. And the games boss battles are really the highlight of this game and very well done provide a very good and a unique experience. All that being said SOTC is not without its problems first of all the game's story is not that good you would expect a game like this to have a better story the game just throws things at you in the beginning without any knowledge of whats happening no background of the characters and their story which is very important in a lot of games. You bring your dead girlfriend to a place where Dormin a Demon or Entity tells him to kill 16 Colossus to revive his girlfriend which does not make sense first of why would the main character believe Dormin so quickly and how can be trust that Dormin is doing this to help himself and just listens to him and agree to kill the 16 Collosus. Sorry to say but the story could have been presented better the player should have been let in more in the background of the characters and even the Collosus and why they need to be sacrificed it would have just added to the game's story and made the players understand the story better and get into the characters but the lack of backgrounds and information just kills that connection. The controls could have been assigned better as well the controls for riding the horse and running around is fine but when it comes to climbing the collosus and using the bow arrow the games controls are just messed up and they cause some problems and frustrations during the boss fights which kind of hurt the overall experience. My main problem with the game is the long travelling to find the Colossus all that could take really long and get boring using your sword to find your destinations does not work so well and it could be misleading just increasing the amount of time you spend looking for the Colossus it would have been so much better if the map was just marked with the destination. I would not have had the problems with the long travelling if the place had some life forms in the areas that could have made those long rides less boring and fun to an extent. Since this game is marred by these problems it is not perfect so therefore I do not think it deserves the reception it got it is being called an amzzing master piece, greatest game of of the last generation, greatest game of the decade. I do not think this game deserves any of those merits because it is just not that amazing or mind-blowing it is not even the best game on the PS2 but that is just my honest opinion. Still in the end I would like to say that SOTC is a great game which provides a very different and unique experience which no game can be compared to it was nice to see the developers try something this brave and different not worrying about falling flat of their faces and getting negative criticism but just trying it sure the concept of this game before it came out sounded really tedious but its nice to say that the developers managed to take this different and unique formula and made a great game out of it.

This is my favorite game of all time. The story was amazing, no other game back then had a deep story other than metal gear solid. The graphics are amazing, the best on the Playstation fully detailed models and textures. This has the best voice acting ever, The characters never sound bored and the vocabulary is amazing. And the music fits the area you are in and has the best main theme I have ever heard. So the gameplay, I love adventure games which this does. I also love action and puzzle which this also has. It is so much fun to explorer the secrets of Nosgoth and kill your brothers in their dungeons. And If you like something new with good story and adventure, go buy it. It is the most underrated game and franchise in the world in my Opinion. And does it hold up Today. I played this in 2014. Fifteen years when it came out and I say yes it holds up

Ghost of Tsushima is a competent open world game, and the high point of the game is definitely the sword play and combat. The most fun I had playing the game was when I was surrounded by enemies, switching furiously between stances and beating down a bunch of mongols. The scenery and camera mode are also notable: I imagine GoT’s camera mode will be the gold standard for the next decade. Gone are the days where you take a single still. The camera lets you track shots, move from point to point, change the focal length and depth of field. The scenery is beautiful, too, so capturing exceptionally good shots is a breeze. The rest of the game is pretty average. The story tries to embody the samurai films that inspire it, but is mostly filled with classic video game cliches and forgettable characters—it even feels really forced and overly simplistic. The quest and level design are both competent, but not something to really write home about—the camps are all reasonably the same, the quests all have the same trajectory (and normally two or three fights) with different characters and stories that are almost entirely forgettable or interchangeable. Even the main quest lines conclude with a siege. Twice. In a row. It felt like they ran out of ideas. The biggest disappointment is the stealth component. In a game whose story purportedly attempts to pit the honor code of the samurai against “dishonorable” stealth tactics, you’d think they’d actually put some time in the stealth mode. The AI is just awful—to test it, I one time walked back and forth across the view cone of a guard from one patch of tall grass to another. 20 times. Never once did they look through the grass. The terrible AI really makes the middling level design feel a lot worse than it really is. It’s just plain boring. I found myself just wanting to stick to the samurai honor code because the combat is so much better than stealth.