Yesterday I started playing Shadow of the Colossus again… I haven’t played it in over a year. Unfortunately I couldn’t find my saved game, in which I had defeated 10 or 11 of the giants, and so now I’m back down to 6. Fortunately the game does at least of some replay value. Even when trying to defeat giants I had already defeated, the music and the visuals make redoing such things remain fun. Visually, it is probably the best console game of all time. Its controls and interface are also minimal and intuitive, and the orchestral soundtrack is brilliant… it’s too bad video game albums don’t seem to have a market here in the USA like they seem to in Japan. I’m sure there’d be a market for them if Americans weren’t forced to buy expensive imports. Not having a decently priced album available for such music just encourages piracy. Oh well, maybe that will change when and if American orchestras shift their target audience away from old people.
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