A granular, gameplay-focused, grab-bag retrospective on the majestic sophomore effort from Fumito Ueda/Team Ico: reviewing Nick Suttner’s Shadow of the Colossus (Boss Fight Books).
Ico
“What is a Game You Always Wanted to Play but Never Got To?”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein