I never played the original so I don't have the extreme nostalgia for it that some seem to have. But after watching a YouTube Video by Jacob Gellar titled "The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret" which I highly recommend you watch, I decided to give the remake a try. I was immediately enthralled by the mysterious empty world, and my first few Colossi fights were a magical experience. The concept of fighting an enemy so large that you have to climb up its body and cling to its fur to stab it in the head was just awesome to me. The puzzle solving aspect of each fight was intriguing and I was genuinely enjoying the experience

However, the gameplay loop is repeated 16 times and somewhere around the 10th or 11th Colossi I began to fatigue of this repetitive loop. The world that was originally eerie and mysterious became dead and devoid of anything interesting. The bosses who were breathtaking and fun slowly became tedious and in some cases annoying.

With that said the game is worth playing and is definitely a unique experience if you are looking for something different. Just be aware that it gets quite repetitive and doesn't give you much in terms of variety in gameplay but I respect a game that is designed with a singular experience in mind, this is the brain child of Fumito Ueda and it definitely doesn't suffer from the "too many cooks" design by committee issue that a lot of triple A games do so kudos for that.