Shadows of the Colossus, released in 2005 by Team Ico to the ever popular PS2, is a game that I cherished as I child, playing it on my sibling and I's own console. After procrastinating to find time for a good moment in which to do it, I finally decided that it was time to relive an old game, and it did not disappoint at all. I certainly have some issues with this game such as the controls for Agro being infuriating to the point I would sometimes just walk to places in annoyance, or my complaints on 2 of the Colossi this game makes you fight (12th & 15th) in which they would seemingly elongate the fight beyond what it should've taken by simply not doing the attack they were meant to do for extended periods of time, though this may just be a me issue and something in which my patience or lack there of takes the reigns and makes me dislike the bosses more than they may be experienced by others, however even with these complaints or critiques I still don't believe them to be something worthy of reducing my score on this game or ruining my thoughts, simply because of how easily those 'flaws' can be counteracted by the absolute positives of this game, which include basically everything else: from the amazingly beautiful 'show don't tell' type story surrounding Wanderer and others, an absolutely enthralling atmosphere, and clunky controls that at least to me with SoTC, are quite charming.

Speaking of positives in this game to counteract the negatives, beyond the 2 negative Colossi this game provides, the rest of the boss cast are either of average ranking or something I'd consider good (5th, 14th, and 16th) and even beyond those, one fight in particular stands out to me as being probably one of the best fights I've done in a game before. That boss referenced previous is Colossi 13, Phalanx, a seemingly simple fight of shooting them down to board their wings and stab them down turns into an absolutely mesmerizing fight when taken into account with its beautifully composed melody tunes in as you soar through the sky.

Overall this experience has been an absolutely fantastic one and one I'm happy I got back to replaying.