Shadow of the Colossus

Adventure game from Sony. Played on PS2.
The sequel to the massively overrated Ico, and unsurprisingly another overrated title. Again the graphial style is stunning, albeit flawed close up. Again, the locations look beautiful; this time the scale of the explorable world is the most stunning aspect. Riding on horseback is actually really impressive. And again, the game is full of flaws, for example the questionable animation. The main character runs like he has a limp, which is alot of fun to watch seeing as you play as him for the whole game.
It does improve on Ico, however. For a start, you don't have a useless woman following you and getting kidnapped every 2 minutes, although the aim of the game is to revive a useless woman. I don't really know why seeing as the plot is again absolute codswallop; the lead protagonist is called 'Wanda' for Pete's sake. Some argue 'Wander' which is even worse seeing as it isn't even a noun, and to be accurate they should have named him 'limp' anyway. But going back to its improvements, no woman getting kidnapped means no annoying small shadows creatures bothering you every few seconds either. Although you do get a horse to accompany you, so the annoying shouting to get your companion's attention is still present; but at least the horse is some use, and it's absolutely hilarious seeing some bosses beat the horse around while you run away.
Yes, bosses. This game centres around finding colossi and defeating them, although they are essentially big puzzles rather than fights. Seeing as Team Ico suck at combat engines, this is a good thing. However, the initially impressive colossi soon become a tad repetitive to tackle. No problem seeing as there's a huge fully immersive world full of other things to do? Wrong. There is absolutely nothing to find in the game except colossi. Any exploration is a complete waste of time. What a waste of a good environment.
Overall: 7/10. Big improvement over Ico, but less original now and still flawed.