Return

Hello everybody, in case you have missed out I have been gone for a little while. If you havnt noticed, then you probably don't come here often enough, which is not surprising. But I have neglected writing because my life has recently developed outside the living room where my ps3 is, so my gaming has been reduced to nothing but fruit ninja whilst waiting for people (scary, right?)

But as the title suggests, and the fact that you are reading this, I have returned with the intention of doing a weekly blog post, even if nothing new in terms of gaming has come about. This is my claim and I will hold to this, and should I fail, I will alllow anyone who feels necessary to throw a burning bag of any substance at my house. Your call. And as all of my blog posts will, this contains so spoilers to whatever I'm talking about, because I dont feel like talking around it. Deal with it.

Anyway, instead of bore you with my personal delevopments, I'll talk about something which you would care about slightly more...which is the only real video game I have played since Portal 2. The recent remake of Shadow of the Colossus and Ico for the ps3 has found its way into my posession and I am so glad it has. I have only played Shadow thus far, but this past weekend I finsihed the game, and holy crap this game was way undersold. I paid 40 dollars for the two games, but I would have paid the full 60 just for Shadow, despite the 6 hour game time. Shadow of the Colossus is wonderful, and probably has everything I want in a game. Beautfiul scenery, great gameplay, and above all, fantastic fights. The game only gives you about 16 real fights, and each one is masterfully engineered to make me drool over it. The other thing I like about this game is that it's really straightforward and has almost zero plot development throughout the game, but by the time you get to the end you are bawling. Or at least I was. When Agro fell... I thought my life was meanignless and I contemplated crying for several hours in a dark room and/or shower. But I managed to channel my sadness/anger towards the final colossus, who after a good time of puzzle solving was defeated. Game Beaten! Yeah!

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What happened next actually made me go and cry in both a dark room and take a long shower afterward, because it was at this point when team Ico raped me of my bliss. All the fun I had of enjoying life in the 5 months prior to this game was removed in a matter of minutes. The ending of Shadow of the Colossus was fantastically crafted and played out, which only exemplified the grief I felt, but was also what brought me out of the darkness that I was in. But I think it is too soon for me to actually talk about it, the same way it's too soon to make a Steve Jobs joke/reference (whoops).

Anyway, for those of you that are mentally damaged enough to enjoy this post, I'll just say that thank team Ico for dragging me out of my happy life and back into the realm of deamons and colossi and dieties that trick u into doing their bidding. But I'll also say email me your thoughts, comments, complaints or questions should you have any. My email is charles@averagplayermailbag.com so feel free to spam me. Unless if your a robot trying to sell me stuff. Well, if it's something cool then I'll consider it. But usually it's just crap.

Until Next Week...