Shadow of the Colossus: a Retrospective
The Playstation 2 Era was host to a range of original titles that became instant classics, such as Jak and Daxter , Ratchet and Clank , and Sly Cooper , to name a pertinent few. While these games had solid mechanics and memorable characters, they weren’t looking to make a point. They were simply great games. Games were games, and art was art, separate worlds with their own place in the cultural zeitgeist. Even renowned developer Hideo Kojima said as much. But one PlayStation exclusive, while achieving less financial success than the aforementioned titles, managed to revive the discussion around games as an art form, and its influence can still be felt today. Team Ico was a relatively small company in comparison to Naughty Dog and Insomniac, both established developers with relationships to Sony thanks to their smash-hit Crash Bandicoot and Spyro franchises, respectively. These were the, er, big dogs on campus in the PlayStationverse. By comparison, Team Ico was a small, subsidiary de...
