🎮 Platform: PS5
⌚ Time played - 8h
⭐Score: 4/5
🏆Trophy completion - Game requires multiple play throughs and time trials. I generally don't try to plat such games.
📚 Full Review:
I never got to play this on the ps2 and went straight to remaster in ps5. I can only imagine that when this came out on ps2 it was unlike anything at that time. i wonder if god of war got inspiration from this because the only other game i played where you are scaling gigantic beasts is GOW.
Overall it was a fun game and I really enjoyed it. The boss battles are tense not because you are getting your ass beat, but because of the mechanics of having to crawl and grab large areas of fur clinging on to dear life while the beast tries to get you off. How to defeat each boss is a puzzle. Most are pretty intuitive once you think about it which I appreciated. There are some obscure ones but the clues they give help alot.
Music is great, tense, and immersive. The world is beautiful too as you traverse it.
The controls are clunky but i didn't have too much trouble with it. The camera unnecessarily pans also didn't bother me. I know for others these were show stoppers.
Definitely experience this game. Meet the different and varied colossi that show up. Leave thinking about the touching and simple story. The game has this fine balance of telling you just enough but not everything to leave you with a sense of fulfillment yet wonderment. Its really interesting how they did that.
⌚ Time played - 8h
⭐Score: 4/5
🏆Trophy completion - Game requires multiple play throughs and time trials. I generally don't try to plat such games.
📚 Full Review:
I never got to play this on the ps2 and went straight to remaster in ps5. I can only imagine that when this came out on ps2 it was unlike anything at that time. i wonder if god of war got inspiration from this because the only other game i played where you are scaling gigantic beasts is GOW.
Overall it was a fun game and I really enjoyed it. The boss battles are tense not because you are getting your ass beat, but because of the mechanics of having to crawl and grab large areas of fur clinging on to dear life while the beast tries to get you off. How to defeat each boss is a puzzle. Most are pretty intuitive once you think about it which I appreciated. There are some obscure ones but the clues they give help alot.
Music is great, tense, and immersive. The world is beautiful too as you traverse it.
The controls are clunky but i didn't have too much trouble with it. The camera unnecessarily pans also didn't bother me. I know for others these were show stoppers.
Definitely experience this game. Meet the different and varied colossi that show up. Leave thinking about the touching and simple story. The game has this fine balance of telling you just enough but not everything to leave you with a sense of fulfillment yet wonderment. Its really interesting how they did that.
Reviewed on Sep 29, 2022