Now I am done posting about this.
HERE IS THE LAST OF IT.
Only three left.
OMINOUS COUNTDOWN.
…. Ha. Horse just freaked right out. Was only half watching the screen and we wandered into a pool. I dismounted to cross it, but then didn’t move. She stood there a minute, then reared up, whinnied, and bolted. Was funny, but also kind of WHY WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WATER THERE ISN’T A GIANT SHARK/EEL/OCTOPUS/CROCODILE/ALIEN IN THERE IS THERE?
Yeah, you better look ashamed, horse.
*swims quickly!* …I’m gonna have to use the dolphin tag for this game, aren’t I?
Ooh! Pretty! :D
… drat. Another small and fast one. More like a lion this time, though.
Okay, that one took me for ever to figure out. I got the, ‘it knocks things over!’ part pretty quick, and I was even pretty good about not falling off the columns (since if I fell on the ground, it’d trample me. That is really good motivation), but getting it to drop the whole platform onto itself… yeah, no. Didn’t get that for a while.
Shadows shadows shadows. ONLY TWO MORE.
I wonder what was with that group we saw. When will we see them again? They’re clearly serving some purpose, or why bother showing us?
MAN, THAT BRIDGE WILL NEVER STOP BEING AWESOME.
D’you know what? I really don’t want to be doing this. I am not sure I have made that clear, what with only miniscule amounts of allcapsing on about how I do not want to kill anything and how I feel bad about it. Ugh.
All the lights to the sky…
The wind out here is brutal.
… you know what? I am tired. Not in the sense that I should go to sleep, but sort of… weary. Nothing to do with me. It is all this game.
It is not common you find games that do that to you.
… eek! Giant gorilla! WITH A GIANT CLEAVER.
IF THEY TELL ME TO FIND ITS HIDDEN VITALS ONE MORE TIME I WILL SMASH THEIR FACE IN.
SOMEHOW.
SHUT UP I KNOW OKAY MORE THAN THREE TIMES IS JUST USELESS SO BE QUIET.
Aaarg, I can’t get to his hand. He keeps trying to hit me and I keep not being able to grab onto his palm for whatever reason.
AUGH ONLY ONE LEFT.
AUGH.
(Though, the good news is, looks like I’ll be able to beat it before I have to wrap it for my brother, eheh…)
THAT IS A LOT OF SHADOWS. A LOT.
Ah, are we seeing the group again?
No, now we’re running so we don’t see the group IN PERSON. Fleeee.
(I don’t want to…)
…. So, I’m looking at these ruined statues, and the first thing my mind provides is, they’d totally hide vitalits in these things. AUGH! DOLPHIN!
…. Horse, my buddy, my pal, I’m nervous. Something’s gonna haaaappen. Dx And it’ll be baaaad. I am sure. Nothing beyond bizarre markings (which, okay, I know, are undoubtedly quite significant, but I don’t entirely and for sure know what they’d be) has happened so far, so clearly something big’s coming up.
… *creates a second save file*
Oooh, pretty field! COME, HORSE. LET US FROLIC MERRILY TOGETHER.
Or I can jump around on the rocks while you drink the pond dry. ALSO COOL. And also she can graze. Horse! ♥
YOU READY, BUDDY?
Eat: X
Drink: X
Be merry: X okay maybe not
AND TOMORROW WE DIE! *is a song and a saying and whatever else*
*saves*
GOING OFF TOPIC A BIT NOW, HERE IS A COMPARISON I DID NOT NEED MY BRAIN TO MAKE. It’s got nothing behind it but the dialogue you can make the player character say, but…
Shadow of the Colossus has “Agro” “Agrooo!” and “nnh”
Haunting Grounds has “Hewie” “Hewie!!” and “good boy~”
And now I can’t get Fiona’s voice out of my head and it is annoying me.
SO ANYWAY BACK TO BUSINESS.
Haha! I was scurrying around doing a few things before I started playing, so the intro went on in the background, and then it cut to my horse running around the field I saved and turned off in while we sleep at the shrine. How cool! Run, horse! Have fun! You are so pretty to watch!
Oh, now she's all done. OKAY TIME TO GO FIGHT AND POSSIBLY DIE A LOT. Possibly for real instead of just boss-death? I MEAN LIKE. Plot-dead, not just “Continue?” dead.
Good morning! Did you have a nice rest? The horse had a nice run.
Hm. This one is up high, looks like?
…Or was it just pointing at the door?
Heh. Clearly getting to the end. Here’s another save shrine just inside the doors. And staaairs. And a bridge? … Is that a partially broken bridge? (Or maybe I just can’t see where/how it connects from halfway down the stairs?) OH, THIS IS SAFE.
Who built this stuff, anyway? We don’t know, do we? I’ve spent the whole game thinking about it.
Right, we were finishing going up the stairs. Because galloping up stairs is TOTALLY SAFE ahaha…
….. has… has the horse always been willing to jump if you just go faster? Because I was expecting her to stop. YOU KNOW, LIKE SHE NORMALLY WOULD BEFORE I RUN OFF A CLIFF--------
oh god the bridge
No!! D: MY HORSE! COME BACK! ><
;__;
omg Dx I need a minute to get over my despair.
SO LOOKING BACK, every other bridge and most of the walkway here is broken CLEARLY THIS WAS A SIGN. AUGH AHERWYGHJNG ;_____________;
IT TOOK ME TOO LONG TO FIGURE OUT I NEED TO CLIMB THE WALL.
YOU TOOK MY HORSE AWAY AND NOW YOU EXPECT ME TO BE ABLE TO THINK CLEARLY WHEN I AM DISTRAUGHT THAT IS NOT FAIR AND I HATE YOU.
It’s really windy up here.
(WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL HER?)
Stormy, actually.
… Please tell me that hulking beast (very, very humanoid beast, which I guess isn’t that surprising, as we were running out of animals) over there is not the Colossus.
ARGH IT IS HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HURT THAT? Sword isn’t giving me much to go on for weak spots, either…
Hey, I know this song. Heh.
WAH HIS RANGE IS INSANE.
Stop pointing at me, you’re making me nervous. Dx
Oh, tunnel! …. Tunnel with the rocks shaking and the roof raining debris. THIS IS SAFE.
Ouch. Those blasts hurt. Thank goodness for conveniently placed ruins.
… How far do I have to go to get to thi---oh. Those are his feet, there, aren’t they.
SCENE SAYS YES THOSE ARE, IN FACT, HIS FEET.
Oh, goodness.
At least he doesn’t seem inclined to notice as I climb.
Hey, you’ve got a mark here on your back, Colossus. Not one of the ones I need to kill you, but probably one I need to get to the one to kill you.
AUGH AUGH HAND
HAAAAND
DO NOT SWAT ME OR SQUISH ME
I have to get on the hand, don’t I?
Oh, my. It’s… looking at me.
Uh. Hello. …. This is a bit awkward, isn’t it. *dangles precariously*
Please never mind my climbing your arm and stabbing you a bit, okay, thank you.
OH YOU ARE JOKING ONTO THE OTHER HAND NOW?
Oh, my poor stamina. I’m going to fall to my death any moment now.
… By “to my death” I clearly meant “until I grab onto your … skirtthing again.” CLEARLY THIS IS WHAT I MEANT BY DEATH.
*climbs*
… So, I noticed this a lot in the last fight (maybe it started in the last fight), but when I climb too much, I… start forgetting which button I need to keep pressed. So I keep holding down Triangle and then getting frustrated when he jumps, ooor, the much more problematic one, sometimes I forget to keep R1 down.
Like just now.
*FALLS!*
DAMNIT GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO TO CATCH MY GRIP STAMINA BACK COME ON.
*FALLS AND FALLS AND FALLS OFF THE HAND A MILLION TIMES*
So, on the one hand, I REALLY DO COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UNDERSTAND NOW (the despair part), and that noise (read: shriek of frustration) isn’t one I make a lot, but on the other, I’ve still not thrown the controller, sworn off the game, or been reduced to a gibbering wreck, so Ecco is still winning the emotional torment award. (Plus, some of the fear here has had its roots in Ecco, so.) Different kind of torment, though, so maybe I should start making categories.
Oh. Huh. Well, never mind. That’s actually pretty simple. JECCA: MISSING THE OBVIOUS SINCE ALWAYS. (YOU CAN STAND ON HIS LEFT ARM and hitting the right hand makes him stop and just look at you so you can stand there and rest / find weak spots!)
One more hit’ll finish this, and I feel so awful. I don’t want to kill him, didn’t want to kill them. But I want this to be over, too.
AUGH. Dx
It’s dead.
Poor kid’s falling the whole way down now. Ouch.
OH HERE ARE THE OTHER PEOPLE.
Crossing the beautiful bridge.
Hey, dude, your mask reminds me of Seem’s. SORRY, BUT IT DOES. If I’d played this game first, I’m sure it would have been the other way around. (HEY SEEM YOUR FACE MASK REMINDS ME OF THIS GUY’S)
He’s quite distressed by the statues. (Or, uh. Lack thereof.)
Heap on the ground. We’re quite a mess, aren’t we.
BACK TO THE TEMPLE. The … priest guy is chanting over the girl.
MAGIC! I AM HERE. And my sword goes flying and the shadows are crawling….
LOOKING BACK, THIS: “(Here I will say, my first reaction was along the lines of, “DARK EECCCCOOOO.” Will I turn pale and grow horns now? SORRY, JAK, APPARENTLY YOUR PAIN IS HILARIOUS.)” IS SUDDENLY BOTH LESS AND MORE FUNNY.
SERIOUSLY, I CAN DEAL WITH THE TURNING PALE BUT NOW YOU’VE GOT HORNS AND THE DARK ECO CRACK WAS A JOKE OKAY STOP
At least you have those weird markings see, you are different.
Oh, they are the dead? I had been wondering. That was one of my guesses.
My eyes are glowing….
And… oh. D:
I’ve been killed.
AND I SPOUT BLACK LIKE A COLOSSUS OH GOD THAT’S CREEPY (though perhaps a bit obvious, too…)
Not as dead as I should be, though, it seems…
Oh, this is so sad. D: D:
Dormin. It is huge,
They took my sword… They’re gonna use it against the Dormin/us/me/whatever, aren’t they?
Indirectly, I guess. SWORD INTO WATER.
They/we shrink back into me-size. And then I fall into the water, too.
I TOLD YOU THAT WATER WAS OMINOUS AND BAD NEWS DIDN’T I?! DIDN’T I?!
NO!
MY BRIDGE!
Everything is gone now.
… oh! She’s alive! I guess… I don’t know if that makes things worth it, but I’m glad at least, for everything, that we succeeded…
Though now she’s trapped here, isn’t she? The bridge is gone… the walls can’t be climbed to leave (NOT THAT I TRIED).
…. Ohmigosh my horse is alive ♥ SHE’S HURT but she’s okay! Oh, poor horse. Horse, your boy is gone…
And we pan over all of the fallen Colossi while the credits roll, the music plays (I NEED THIS SOUNDTRACK) and I wipe at my eyes because I’m pathetic like that. SHUT UP NO OF COURSE MY EYES AREN’T TRYING TO WATER GO AWAY.
I am glad everyone made it off the bridge safely.
She really seems to glow, doesn’t she?
… oh man, horse, issat little me? The horns are there, but the red hair is back.
… um. there’s nothing up those stairs, now, you know. Aside from a lovely view.
(U bet there are a million typos in this thing - I am typing without looking at the screen. I will edit them out later…)
(I left the only typo in the above paragraph - U instead of I - because I was amazed at how few there actually were. THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE ONLY ONE.)
Oh, we’re going up here. I guess that works, too.
Deer!
Somehow baby deer makes everything … not entirely better, but at least better.
And here is the hawk from the opening….
THE END!
…It’s not like this was a completely major downer ending, so kindly stop crying, self.
Geez, that was bizarre. The end title came up and I started sobbing. Quietly. But with the whole shaking and everything.
This game has put me through the emotional wringer. Which is slightly bizarre given the total lack of any sort of dialogue or even hints of what is going on. (I think I got most OR AT LEAST SOME? of it, but who can say?)
(ALSO: LITERALLY JUST IN TIME, while the ending was playing, Mom told me they were leaving to go get my brother.)
Though I won’t be posting this until after Christmas, JUST IN CASE MY BROTHER SOMEHOW READS THIS AND THEN KNOWS I GOT HIM Shadow of the Colossus…
NAMES:
I started thinking about using them about halfway through, but by that point I was challenging myself to see if I’d go the entire way without names. HERE THEY ARE NOW:
I am not sure if Dormin/Voice From Above is what it/they is/are or who it/they is/are, or if it’s both, so that one did get used.
Our Hero/Me/Him: Wander - who is never actually named in game, by the way
Horse: Agro - named almost every time I hit X instead of Triangle (which was an embarrassing amount, by the way I DON'T KNOW WHY I THOUGHT X WAS JUMP I JUST DID) (Also, Agro is female, but I just randomly used "he" most of the time. I don't really know why, it just sort of happened.,)
Dead Girl: Mono - who is also never actually named in the game
Priest Guy who has a mask - Lord Emon - who is actually named in game!
EVERYONE ELSE: NO NAMES.
And my very, very short list of deaths. Not very exciting.
First Colossus
Stepped on: 2
Sixth Colossus
Electrocuted: 1
Eight Colossus
Zappy Breath: 1
Ninth Colossus
ZAPPY BREATH: 3
Squished: 1
Twelfth Colossus
More lightning? Really?: 1
FALLING: 3
TOTAL: 12
(PROBABLY MY LOWEST DEATH TOTAL EVER excluding replays of games - especially those from the old Sega Genesis that I only replayed approximately ten million times and could probably still run through in my sleep without even being hurt - obviously.)
So that is over and posted now.
HEY. Shadow of the Colossus is freakishly pretty and also just a good game in general, so I RECOMMEND IT. Just, you know. To conclude things.
(Nnnnot that anyone ever listens to my recommendations, because I suck at pimping things. But most of the time I recommend something, someone else comes along and recommends it and then people listen to them? SO PERHAPS I AM TRYING TO CONVINCE SOMEONE ELSE TO REC IT TO ALL OF YOU.)
UNLESS YOU'VE ALL PLAYED IT ALREADY IN WHICH CASE NEVER MIND I AM JUST BEING SLOW TO THE BANDWAGON AGAIN~
Only three left.
OMINOUS COUNTDOWN.
…. Ha. Horse just freaked right out. Was only half watching the screen and we wandered into a pool. I dismounted to cross it, but then didn’t move. She stood there a minute, then reared up, whinnied, and bolted. Was funny, but also kind of WHY WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WATER THERE ISN’T A GIANT SHARK/EEL/OCTOPUS/CROCODILE/ALIEN IN THERE IS THERE?
Yeah, you better look ashamed, horse.
*swims quickly!* …I’m gonna have to use the dolphin tag for this game, aren’t I?
Ooh! Pretty! :D
… drat. Another small and fast one. More like a lion this time, though.
Okay, that one took me for ever to figure out. I got the, ‘it knocks things over!’ part pretty quick, and I was even pretty good about not falling off the columns (since if I fell on the ground, it’d trample me. That is really good motivation), but getting it to drop the whole platform onto itself… yeah, no. Didn’t get that for a while.
Shadows shadows shadows. ONLY TWO MORE.
I wonder what was with that group we saw. When will we see them again? They’re clearly serving some purpose, or why bother showing us?
MAN, THAT BRIDGE WILL NEVER STOP BEING AWESOME.
D’you know what? I really don’t want to be doing this. I am not sure I have made that clear, what with only miniscule amounts of allcapsing on about how I do not want to kill anything and how I feel bad about it. Ugh.
All the lights to the sky…
The wind out here is brutal.
… you know what? I am tired. Not in the sense that I should go to sleep, but sort of… weary. Nothing to do with me. It is all this game.
It is not common you find games that do that to you.
… eek! Giant gorilla! WITH A GIANT CLEAVER.
IF THEY TELL ME TO FIND ITS HIDDEN VITALS ONE MORE TIME I WILL SMASH THEIR FACE IN.
SOMEHOW.
SHUT UP I KNOW OKAY MORE THAN THREE TIMES IS JUST USELESS SO BE QUIET.
Aaarg, I can’t get to his hand. He keeps trying to hit me and I keep not being able to grab onto his palm for whatever reason.
AUGH ONLY ONE LEFT.
AUGH.
(Though, the good news is, looks like I’ll be able to beat it before I have to wrap it for my brother, eheh…)
THAT IS A LOT OF SHADOWS. A LOT.
Ah, are we seeing the group again?
No, now we’re running so we don’t see the group IN PERSON. Fleeee.
(I don’t want to…)
…. So, I’m looking at these ruined statues, and the first thing my mind provides is, they’d totally hide vitalits in these things. AUGH! DOLPHIN!
…. Horse, my buddy, my pal, I’m nervous. Something’s gonna haaaappen. Dx And it’ll be baaaad. I am sure. Nothing beyond bizarre markings (which, okay, I know, are undoubtedly quite significant, but I don’t entirely and for sure know what they’d be) has happened so far, so clearly something big’s coming up.
… *creates a second save file*
Oooh, pretty field! COME, HORSE. LET US FROLIC MERRILY TOGETHER.
Or I can jump around on the rocks while you drink the pond dry. ALSO COOL. And also she can graze. Horse! ♥
YOU READY, BUDDY?
Eat: X
Drink: X
Be merry: X okay maybe not
AND TOMORROW WE DIE! *is a song and a saying and whatever else*
*saves*
GOING OFF TOPIC A BIT NOW, HERE IS A COMPARISON I DID NOT NEED MY BRAIN TO MAKE. It’s got nothing behind it but the dialogue you can make the player character say, but…
Shadow of the Colossus has “Agro” “Agrooo!” and “nnh”
Haunting Grounds has “Hewie” “Hewie!!” and “good boy~”
And now I can’t get Fiona’s voice out of my head and it is annoying me.
SO ANYWAY BACK TO BUSINESS.
Haha! I was scurrying around doing a few things before I started playing, so the intro went on in the background, and then it cut to my horse running around the field I saved and turned off in while we sleep at the shrine. How cool! Run, horse! Have fun! You are so pretty to watch!
Oh, now she's all done. OKAY TIME TO GO FIGHT AND POSSIBLY DIE A LOT. Possibly for real instead of just boss-death? I MEAN LIKE. Plot-dead, not just “Continue?” dead.
Good morning! Did you have a nice rest? The horse had a nice run.
Hm. This one is up high, looks like?
…Or was it just pointing at the door?
Heh. Clearly getting to the end. Here’s another save shrine just inside the doors. And staaairs. And a bridge? … Is that a partially broken bridge? (Or maybe I just can’t see where/how it connects from halfway down the stairs?) OH, THIS IS SAFE.
Who built this stuff, anyway? We don’t know, do we? I’ve spent the whole game thinking about it.
Right, we were finishing going up the stairs. Because galloping up stairs is TOTALLY SAFE ahaha…
….. has… has the horse always been willing to jump if you just go faster? Because I was expecting her to stop. YOU KNOW, LIKE SHE NORMALLY WOULD BEFORE I RUN OFF A CLIFF--------
oh god the bridge
No!! D: MY HORSE! COME BACK! ><
;__;
omg Dx I need a minute to get over my despair.
SO LOOKING BACK, every other bridge and most of the walkway here is broken CLEARLY THIS WAS A SIGN. AUGH AHERWYGHJNG ;_____________;
IT TOOK ME TOO LONG TO FIGURE OUT I NEED TO CLIMB THE WALL.
YOU TOOK MY HORSE AWAY AND NOW YOU EXPECT ME TO BE ABLE TO THINK CLEARLY WHEN I AM DISTRAUGHT THAT IS NOT FAIR AND I HATE YOU.
It’s really windy up here.
(WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL HER?)
Stormy, actually.
… Please tell me that hulking beast (very, very humanoid beast, which I guess isn’t that surprising, as we were running out of animals) over there is not the Colossus.
ARGH IT IS HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HURT THAT? Sword isn’t giving me much to go on for weak spots, either…
Hey, I know this song. Heh.
WAH HIS RANGE IS INSANE.
Stop pointing at me, you’re making me nervous. Dx
Oh, tunnel! …. Tunnel with the rocks shaking and the roof raining debris. THIS IS SAFE.
Ouch. Those blasts hurt. Thank goodness for conveniently placed ruins.
… How far do I have to go to get to thi---oh. Those are his feet, there, aren’t they.
SCENE SAYS YES THOSE ARE, IN FACT, HIS FEET.
Oh, goodness.
At least he doesn’t seem inclined to notice as I climb.
Hey, you’ve got a mark here on your back, Colossus. Not one of the ones I need to kill you, but probably one I need to get to the one to kill you.
AUGH AUGH HAND
HAAAAND
DO NOT SWAT ME OR SQUISH ME
I have to get on the hand, don’t I?
Oh, my. It’s… looking at me.
Uh. Hello. …. This is a bit awkward, isn’t it. *dangles precariously*
Please never mind my climbing your arm and stabbing you a bit, okay, thank you.
OH YOU ARE JOKING ONTO THE OTHER HAND NOW?
Oh, my poor stamina. I’m going to fall to my death any moment now.
… By “to my death” I clearly meant “until I grab onto your … skirtthing again.” CLEARLY THIS IS WHAT I MEANT BY DEATH.
*climbs*
… So, I noticed this a lot in the last fight (maybe it started in the last fight), but when I climb too much, I… start forgetting which button I need to keep pressed. So I keep holding down Triangle and then getting frustrated when he jumps, ooor, the much more problematic one, sometimes I forget to keep R1 down.
Like just now.
*FALLS!*
DAMNIT GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO TO CATCH MY GRIP STAMINA BACK COME ON.
*FALLS AND FALLS AND FALLS OFF THE HAND A MILLION TIMES*
So, on the one hand, I REALLY DO COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UNDERSTAND NOW (the despair part), and that noise (read: shriek of frustration) isn’t one I make a lot, but on the other, I’ve still not thrown the controller, sworn off the game, or been reduced to a gibbering wreck, so Ecco is still winning the emotional torment award. (Plus, some of the fear here has had its roots in Ecco, so.) Different kind of torment, though, so maybe I should start making categories.
Oh. Huh. Well, never mind. That’s actually pretty simple. JECCA: MISSING THE OBVIOUS SINCE ALWAYS. (YOU CAN STAND ON HIS LEFT ARM and hitting the right hand makes him stop and just look at you so you can stand there and rest / find weak spots!)
One more hit’ll finish this, and I feel so awful. I don’t want to kill him, didn’t want to kill them. But I want this to be over, too.
AUGH. Dx
It’s dead.
Poor kid’s falling the whole way down now. Ouch.
OH HERE ARE THE OTHER PEOPLE.
Crossing the beautiful bridge.
Hey, dude, your mask reminds me of Seem’s. SORRY, BUT IT DOES. If I’d played this game first, I’m sure it would have been the other way around. (HEY SEEM YOUR FACE MASK REMINDS ME OF THIS GUY’S)
He’s quite distressed by the statues. (Or, uh. Lack thereof.)
Heap on the ground. We’re quite a mess, aren’t we.
BACK TO THE TEMPLE. The … priest guy is chanting over the girl.
MAGIC! I AM HERE. And my sword goes flying and the shadows are crawling….
LOOKING BACK, THIS: “(Here I will say, my first reaction was along the lines of, “DARK EECCCCOOOO.” Will I turn pale and grow horns now? SORRY, JAK, APPARENTLY YOUR PAIN IS HILARIOUS.)” IS SUDDENLY BOTH LESS AND MORE FUNNY.
SERIOUSLY, I CAN DEAL WITH THE TURNING PALE BUT NOW YOU’VE GOT HORNS AND THE DARK ECO CRACK WAS A JOKE OKAY STOP
At least you have those weird markings see, you are different.
Oh, they are the dead? I had been wondering. That was one of my guesses.
My eyes are glowing….
And… oh. D:
I’ve been killed.
AND I SPOUT BLACK LIKE A COLOSSUS OH GOD THAT’S CREEPY (though perhaps a bit obvious, too…)
Not as dead as I should be, though, it seems…
Oh, this is so sad. D: D:
Dormin. It is huge,
They took my sword… They’re gonna use it against the Dormin/us/me/whatever, aren’t they?
Indirectly, I guess. SWORD INTO WATER.
They/we shrink back into me-size. And then I fall into the water, too.
I TOLD YOU THAT WATER WAS OMINOUS AND BAD NEWS DIDN’T I?! DIDN’T I?!
NO!
MY BRIDGE!
Everything is gone now.
… oh! She’s alive! I guess… I don’t know if that makes things worth it, but I’m glad at least, for everything, that we succeeded…
Though now she’s trapped here, isn’t she? The bridge is gone… the walls can’t be climbed to leave (NOT THAT I TRIED).
…. Ohmigosh my horse is alive ♥ SHE’S HURT but she’s okay! Oh, poor horse. Horse, your boy is gone…
And we pan over all of the fallen Colossi while the credits roll, the music plays (I NEED THIS SOUNDTRACK) and I wipe at my eyes because I’m pathetic like that. SHUT UP NO OF COURSE MY EYES AREN’T TRYING TO WATER GO AWAY.
I am glad everyone made it off the bridge safely.
She really seems to glow, doesn’t she?
… oh man, horse, issat little me? The horns are there, but the red hair is back.
… um. there’s nothing up those stairs, now, you know. Aside from a lovely view.
(U bet there are a million typos in this thing - I am typing without looking at the screen. I will edit them out later…)
(I left the only typo in the above paragraph - U instead of I - because I was amazed at how few there actually were. THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE ONLY ONE.)
Oh, we’re going up here. I guess that works, too.
Deer!
Somehow baby deer makes everything … not entirely better, but at least better.
And here is the hawk from the opening….
THE END!
…It’s not like this was a completely major downer ending, so kindly stop crying, self.
Geez, that was bizarre. The end title came up and I started sobbing. Quietly. But with the whole shaking and everything.
This game has put me through the emotional wringer. Which is slightly bizarre given the total lack of any sort of dialogue or even hints of what is going on. (I think I got most OR AT LEAST SOME? of it, but who can say?)
(ALSO: LITERALLY JUST IN TIME, while the ending was playing, Mom told me they were leaving to go get my brother.)
Though I won’t be posting this until after Christmas, JUST IN CASE MY BROTHER SOMEHOW READS THIS AND THEN KNOWS I GOT HIM Shadow of the Colossus…
NAMES:
I started thinking about using them about halfway through, but by that point I was challenging myself to see if I’d go the entire way without names. HERE THEY ARE NOW:
I am not sure if Dormin/Voice From Above is what it/they is/are or who it/they is/are, or if it’s both, so that one did get used.
Our Hero/Me/Him: Wander - who is never actually named in game, by the way
Horse: Agro - named almost every time I hit X instead of Triangle (which was an embarrassing amount, by the way I DON'T KNOW WHY I THOUGHT X WAS JUMP I JUST DID) (Also, Agro is female, but I just randomly used "he" most of the time. I don't really know why, it just sort of happened.,)
Dead Girl: Mono - who is also never actually named in the game
Priest Guy who has a mask - Lord Emon - who is actually named in game!
EVERYONE ELSE: NO NAMES.
And my very, very short list of deaths. Not very exciting.
First Colossus
Stepped on: 2
Sixth Colossus
Electrocuted: 1
Eight Colossus
Zappy Breath: 1
Ninth Colossus
ZAPPY BREATH: 3
Squished: 1
Twelfth Colossus
More lightning? Really?: 1
FALLING: 3
TOTAL: 12
(PROBABLY MY LOWEST DEATH TOTAL EVER excluding replays of games - especially those from the old Sega Genesis that I only replayed approximately ten million times and could probably still run through in my sleep without even being hurt - obviously.)
So that is over and posted now.
HEY. Shadow of the Colossus is freakishly pretty and also just a good game in general, so I RECOMMEND IT. Just, you know. To conclude things.
(Nnnnot that anyone ever listens to my recommendations, because I suck at pimping things. But most of the time I recommend something, someone else comes along and recommends it and then people listen to them? SO PERHAPS I AM TRYING TO CONVINCE SOMEONE ELSE TO REC IT TO ALL OF YOU.)
UNLESS YOU'VE ALL PLAYED IT ALREADY IN WHICH CASE NEVER MIND I AM JUST BEING SLOW TO THE BANDWAGON AGAIN~