A review by esop
Shadow of the Colossus by Nick Suttner
3.0
I've never fully played Shadow of the Colossus, but it's a game I've been read about and been interested in for many years (and might pick up now after reading this).
This book's structure is fairly interesting, mostly following along the author's playthrough (which reads somewhat like a novel, somewhat like a walkthrough) while certain moments are interjected with related information like interviews with those who worked on the game, interviews and examples of how it influenced games that came later, its connections to Ico, etc.
While I would've enjoyed more of a focus on the creation of the game and those tidbits about its influence on gaming as a whole, I did enjoy and appreciate what was there, and the passages describing the game had a ton of atmosphere and made me itch to play it myself.
This book's structure is fairly interesting, mostly following along the author's playthrough (which reads somewhat like a novel, somewhat like a walkthrough) while certain moments are interjected with related information like interviews with those who worked on the game, interviews and examples of how it influenced games that came later, its connections to Ico, etc.
While I would've enjoyed more of a focus on the creation of the game and those tidbits about its influence on gaming as a whole, I did enjoy and appreciate what was there, and the passages describing the game had a ton of atmosphere and made me itch to play it myself.