This game is PURE ART. Music, visuals, graphics, gameplay, everything is perfect. You need to play this game guys. Awesome reaction.

Got this when it was out for PS2 a million years ago! This game is GOLD🔥

This is one of those games which defined my childhood, I remember playing it on my barely working ps2. Good Times.

If video games are ever used as an example for art this is one of the games that should be shown. Its storytelling is incredible and it's one of the most thought through games out there

in shadow of the colossus, there are two out of the sixteen bosses there are two that aren't really "colossus" while the literal tallest is a skyscraper in terms of vertical height. there was also originally gonna be like. 48 different colossal bosses but soon was cut down to 24 then to the sixteen bosses we have in the game

Shadow of the Colossus is an amazing story with barely 5 characters and such a compelling story. It was from a time where all you had was a little spectacle and story and boyhowdy does it deliver. Definitely a game to read the story for. It could absolutely be a book.

So fun fact about this game is it’s actually part of a series. It’s heavily implied to be the prequel to Ico which is made by the same people behind Shadow of the Colossus. I recommend checking out Ico as well, both of these games are absolutely beautiful. Same with The Last Guardian.

I like to think that whoever made this saw that scene in Lord of the Rings Return of the King where Legolas takes down an Elephant and was like “Lets make a whole Game centered around that”😂

The game came out in 2005. This is a remake by Bluepoint games, they do pretty fantastic work

One of the most beautiful and important games ever made, this is the game every gamer would point to when people try to say video games aren't art...this is the gaming world's Mona Lisa.

I can't begin to explain how impactful this game was for me. I can't hear those first few notes in the intro without choking up. I REALLY need to replay this again, it was a yearly thing for me for a while, but it's been a hot minute. This game is something truly special

This game made me tear up multiple times with its beauty and story, not to mention the glorious greatness of its Colossi

"Maybe she's like an evil witch". That was a crazy prediction lmao.

I never got to play this game but I’ve heard it’s got a amazing story and a really good twist at the end. Really just a overall amazing game. Also I’ve missed so many of your videos I’m gonna binge hard

This is a game that is truly art, you play as Wander. He is trying to revive his love interest after she was sacrificed (I think it’s very vague). He steals a magic sword and travels to a forbidden land, makes a deal with a mysterious being known as Darmin. The deal is kill 16 colossi and Darmin will bring Mono (love interest back) also your horse is named Agro

Now to wait for the Gravity Rush 1 and 2 trailers, playing as the nicknamed "Gravity Queen", Kat (who is an amnesiac at the start of the story), with her cat named Dusty, you'll love seeing and I hope, experiencing the joy of falling through the sky, shifting gravity and launching projectiles at enemies! You'll love her other friends as well (A couple didn't start out as friends but you know what I mean), you'll know them by how out of place they look!

I love Shadow of the Colossus so much. Its literally art.

I used to play this game on my PS2 as a kid. It was one of those Games that they really did a lot of fantastic work to make it amazing. What was even more amazing to me, was how I played the Game from start to finish, and my Mother used to sit and watch. She never liked any of my type of Games. 😄

Shadow of the Colossus is one of some games that i would call a work of art. It's beautiful. Everything about this game is beautiful. Even the community, the "14th Colossi hunters". It all just, beautifull. Love them. Edit: 17th. Don't ask me where the number 14 came from.

Quick synopsis, main guy is a determined warrior trying to revive main squeeze. He’s given the task to go kill the colossi that roam the lands in order to do so. Easier said than done as yeah, they are definitely colossal.

This isn't a spoiler, since it's set up at the beginning of the game. Shadow of the Colossus is basically about going to a forbidden land and making a deal with a questionable "god"; slay the 16 Colossi that dwell around in exchange for bringing the girl back to life. It's a beautiful game and story, and I recommend checking it out sometime, either by playing or watching.

Oooh, here's an interesting choice, loooove this game! An absolute masterpiece of minimal/environmental storytelling that is beautiful and moving still to this day. Congrats on 160k, Cheers!!!❤️😁

Yes every battle is a boss battle, the overworld is very much calm, vast and almost empty, you’re just this small boy with his horse going after building-sized creatures, it’s absolutely amazing this is easily one of the best games I ever played

I was horrified to play this game as a kid because I went from Devil May Cry, a game where you can demolish armies of demons with no problems, to this game, where you're fighting a literal uphill battle against creatures the size of buildings

Congrats and it’s nice to see your reactions to Shadows of the Colossus. Can’t wait to see more

This game defined my childhood. I couldn't stop playing this game on the PS2 and i am grateful they remastered it. This game is ultimate fantasy storytelling. This game will always have a special place in my heart. Thanks for reacting. Brings back memories.

Woop woop congrats on the 160k!

This is game is a definite mixed emotional bag; the highs are super high, and the lows will punch you straight in the guts several times. It's also lightning in a bottle; the team attempted to do it again several times and it was always a trainwreck for some reason.

YOU GUYS NEED TO SEE EACH TITAN INTRODRUCTION THEY'RE FUN

Congratulations on 100K!

"What she said." - Ken's professional review, 2022

I'm so happy you guys are checking Shadow of the colossus. I love this game so much and this made my day.

I seriously recommend you this! The best Playstation Classic to ever exist (As well as Gravity Rush 1 remastered)! The story is great, even with a limited amount of characters, the remastered graphics are simply beautiful and the music, THE MUSIC THAT HYPES YOU UP WHEN YOU CLIMB THE COLOSSI! It is seriously a massive recommend from me!

This is the top, there will be nothing better than Shadow of the Colossus

And the music and the choir was awesome ❤

I bought this game for the PS2 on a whim because I thought the box art looked cool. I knew *nothing* about it at all. I assumed the box art (a guy on a horse fighting an impossibily huge monster) was exaggerated and the actual game would never live up to it. It did. And more. I was obsessed. I'd stay up until the wee small hours playing. It was the game that made me want to study games academically, it's the game that absolutely settled the question of, "are games art?" I ran to buy the remake when it came out. This game is SO special to me and I'm tickled to see you react to it.

I loved this game as a kid on the PS2. Nice to see it getting love through the PS4 remake. BTW, the second "trailer" was actually the intro cinematic of the game when you actually play it 😁 And congrats on 160K!

Thank you! I recommended this like 3 months ago!

The story is the boy takes a loved one to a forbidden land with these godlike colossuses. The girl is dead and a god/voice in the temple tells you that the only way to resurrect her is to find and kill all these colossuses. The gameplay is how the trailers show: you literally climb them and stab their glowing spots repeatedly until they die and most colossuses are passive until you attack them. There’s a bit more of the story but that’s all you need to know for the beginning

🥂✨️🍾Congratulations on 160K Definitely Not Definitive! Woohooo!✨️🍹

In almost any experienced gamer's memory, THIS is at the top five...most likely at the very top! This is by every definition one of the best, if not THE best videogame ever created. It's a showcase to prove videogames as a true form of art. You owe it to yourselves to play it!

Love you guys

I know you guys probably still have quite a list of games to play already at the moment, but I would absolutely love to see y'all play this one some time, I think you'd both have a blast seeing the beautiful visuals and witnessing the events of this story. And the music! :D

As everyone has said, the game originally released in 2005. Very little characters and the story is interpreted by you. The boss fights are all unique and the mechanics are some of the most unique. You reacted to the remake trailers, which is why I was perplexed when you said there were only 4. Horse's name is Argo by the way.

Congrats Guys you deserve it

Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite ps2 games, I remember when I finished it and I got a lump in my throat, and even more with that spectacular soundtrack, it was 10/10, this remake is impressive, good reaction! !!

Ily guys sm ❤️

That champagne or wine blew out the mic! 😂

I was waiting this game bro😂

I didn't read the comments below, but I'm sure that most of them says that it's a beautiful game, a very unique experience, and that it have a very special place in their heart. That's my case, and I highly recomand it to everyone (and challenge them to not drop a tear at the end). It's the second game from Fumito Ueda. A very particular game creator that left his indelible mark in the game industry with Ico, the Shadow Of The Colossus, and finally The Last Guardian. I can't wait to see his next project, and I would love you to react to trailers of The Last Guardian (you will love without a doubt ;)). Peace !

as a kid, Shadow of the Collossus was my introduction to games as an art form, as opposed to games as just fun. Don't get me wrong, it *is* actually super fun too

I absolutely love this game, Its absolutely a masterpiece

Finalky last year they brought up The Never-Ending Story, i hpstill have the dvd, i play it when we have no wifi in my house, i love it so much.

Americas most famous movie critic, Roger Ebert, apparemtly played the original game and changed his mind. "Video games are indeed art" he said.

Yep, the PS4 version is a remake of a PS2 game. The game was an incredible technical achievement back then, just for the sheer scale. The reamke is all of that plus 10x the pretty of the original. It's amazing. Story wise, it's very VERY minimalist. The game gives you almost nothing, leaves a lot of it up to you to decide. The protagonist never gets a name, only referred to as "Wander" in material (Japanese title of the game is "The Wanderer and the Colossus). The girl is Mono, and she's dead. The second "trailer" you watched is actually the pre-title cutscene that takes you to the main menu. Starting a new game continues from there into the Shrine and the scene where he places her on the altar. From what is said and shown in game you learn that Mono died for reasons not said (she's only said to have had a "cursed fate"). Legends say that Dormin, an entity of unknown nature that resides in those lands, can revive the dead. So now Wander is there to have her revived, despite the people where he is from believing such is evil and unnatural. Dormin tasks Wander with killing the 16 Colossi that roam the lands, in exchange for bringing her back. What's interesting about the Colossi is that many of them won't attack you until you attack them, first. And one of them never attacks you even as you're trying to kill it. A lot of people who play actually start to feel bad for the Colossi as a result. But yeah, that's basically all we know of the story. Mono dies, Wander wants to bring her back, and seeks ancient god-like entity to do so in defiance of his own culture.

This is absolutely a game you MUST play. It's a short one too - it should be only about 5-7 hours max, so it's suitable for a few streams. The story is "barebones" as it's told through the actual gameplay and the imagery. Everyone speaks a fictional language and most of the dialogue is prophecies you hear. The Colossi are indeed bleeding this black smokelike energy. They are the only enemies in the game - 16 in total - and you have to search for them out in the world in a specific order. Each one is like a giant puzzle you have to solve rather than a monster you have to kill. I won't go into any details about the story. This is not a game, it's an EXPERIENCE.

"The pretty music is gone" Oh, don't you worry my friend. In this game when a pretty music leaves, another one takes it's place Definitely among the best soundtracks ever in a game

This game was a joy from start to finish

The original game was one of the only games that I've played to completion over and over again. The remake is probably one of the most gorgeous remakes of a game, but it's so hauntingly beautiful that I think it holds up as a PS2 game. The only other remakes that come close are probably the Final Fantasy 7 and Demon's Souls (also remade by the same development team, Bluepoint) ones. As you mentioned, it has an incredibly isolated and lonely atmosphere due to the fact that the only characters throughout most of the game are Wander (you), Argo (horse), the comatose (dead?) lady friend of yours, and the 16 Colossi that you face are contrasted with such a vast, yet empty environment, consisting of deep valleys, expansive wastelands and plains, and mountainous ranges. The accolade of "Masterpiece" is well deserved, considering how it drew so many fans to search for over a decade, almost up until the actual remake in 2018, for what they thought was a final secret in the game. The storytelling is akin to how Dark Souls tells its story, but EVEN MORE obscure and that drove so many people on that mad, blind hunt for more, long past the original game's heyday. A lot of people doubted the existence of anything special, but the ones who did look looked not because they knew there was something, but because the act of it was alike to religious faith, believing in something even if they had no proof. Ultimately, it did end in failure because there was nothing more, just content that was omitted, but when the remake finally happened, the developers were so inspired by that journey that they actually added one final secret as a tribute to the fans. The man who originally started that search unfortunately passed away just before the remake was released and it was such a tragedy that he never got to experience it. It's almost fitting to the theme of the game. My apologies--I don't think most of what I said had anything to do with the actual game or gameplay, but my gosh, the nostalgia is hitting really hard haha. Fond memories of this game. I really hope you guys get to actually play this one some day. It's quite the experience.

This was one of the first big games,when I started having time for gaming. I remember seeing "Adam Sandler playing it in a movie and people went crazy,and really wanted this game so badly. This game is definitely legendary and cool. Very calming deep and fascinating. Very good good video guys. ✨️👏

A lore reaction would be lovely to see a reaction to.

Shadow of the Collosus, one of THE go-to games for displaying that games can be a form of art. While not as graphically impressive, they managed to make a huge empty open world supwr engaging, because it fits the theme so well. The loniness you get is intentional, but oddly drives you forward. The plot is complex enough to wonder about, but not so much so that you lose its meaning. Its just an amazing game.

You have to play this immediately.

Three games, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian: Art, tremendously immersive, unbelievably emotional storytelling, and all basically as you saw here. All three are minimalist excellence in action, and dialog. They must be experienced. Unfortunately, ICO never made the move past the PS3, maybe someday via PS+, but the remaining two are available for the PS4/PS5 and more than deserve a place on anyone's To-Be-Played pile. The games exist in the same world, but, most likely decades. or centuries, apart. There really is nothing like these games, or, at least, nothing this well done, like these games. A truly unforgettable experience, to play, or watch being played.

It was the first game I beat mainly because I was too lazy to finish a game before playing shadow of the colossus on ps2 and it was so awesome. It was so cool finding out so much about the game from finding out small things like the fact that the horse you ride on is female from a developer interview or something years later, to finding out on the that you could upgrade your health bar which a ton of people seem to look right past it or don't care about it but that's whatever

This game is a masterpiece it was way ahead of its time when it first came out in the ps2 i hope that you do a gameplay of it one day

A true classic, a unique game.

OOOOO you guys should totally check out the Zenless Zone Zero trailers! theyre by the same people who made genshin and they recently showed a bit of story and gameplay off on theyre youtube channel as well!

Good times, certainly one of the best games I've ever played.

For a little context this is a PS2 game that came out in 2005 and was remake, the story and plot im not gonna spoil it just in case, but is simple that y'all might think. Anyway love your videos.

Play it on your channel and find out what the story is behind everything. You can finish it in a few hours put it on top of your gaming pile you'll get it out of the way pretty quick but it is one of those games that you will never forget.

The scale of this game is just breathtaking. just as Honkai impact animation shorts

Fantastic game. Love it!

Good times from this.

You guys should play it someday 🤔

As everyone said this game is Pure Art,my discription of the game without spoilers is,a game about self sacrifice,and a huge epic journey of pure discovery to bright back the hero's beloved.

The game is a masterpiece, first played it on PS2 (still do) and to this day is a really fun and emotional experience. One of the best ever made, I hope I can play the remake some day.

So what I know about the story is that the girl he placed on the altar is a girl he's in love with and she was sacrificed by the tribe he's in because they said she was cursed so he travels with her body to the forbidden lands to try and get this entity maybe a demon named Dolmen to resurrect her but he says he won't do it unless he kills all 16 colossi.

Even the original holds up today. I can't believe the game ever functioned on a PS2 in 2005

This game was just as beautiful on the playstation 2. The basic story is that you bring a dead girl (mono) as seen in vid to the shrine in attempt to revive her. You end up getting sent to kill the colossi around the land but I won't spoil why or what happens at end

This game is about... "equivalent exchange".

If my record of this game is that this game came out in 2001 with early or late or PlayStation 1 era of gaming thar branch out big open world game. As it gotten a remake by hearing and witness gamers wanting to play their classic game in more detail approach. Also a fellow KZfaqr name Jacksepticeye played both versions on his channel and had a blast playing the game. 😄 I hope you both give it a try and have fun.

This game made history

They should have sent you the ads that acted as fake videos. There was one where they make it look as if a news crew discovered a real colossus at a beach.

On nice this is such a cool game I loved it when i played years ago its one of those games that leaves the interpretation mostly up to you're imagination to the point where hundreds of people made it their mission to find all sorts of glitches into hidden lvls trying to find alternate/secret endings I highly recommend that you guys play it aswell as The last guardian which is its spiritual sequel.

Fumito Ueda master piece!!!

Love it ❤

I am writing this to help out ken and Bethany and this video and this channel with the algorithm ✌️❤️😚☺️

You should also check out ICO and The last Guardian. They all take place in the same universe

Yeah, so they did this all back in the PS2 era… I know, it’s crazy

i think you guys might have reacted to the full story its too short and this is my second favorite play station game i played it when i was a kid, pure art

You guys should play it! :)

This is my favorite game ever made! It’s truly a compelling and powerful story accompanied by outrageously fun and intense gameplay! Strongly recommend the PS4 remake, it takes the graphics and optimization to a whole new level. Truly incredible experience (I also strongly recommend the other games created by team Ico, which are Ico and The Last Guardian. Ico came out before SotC, and TLG came out after SotC!)

This game is one of many favourites, it's beautiful and story is pretty small but very good. He brought her to this temple to save her. And yes, there is no other interactions, exept for the horse and the enemies colossus. This young man have a sword that can kill a colossus. "The black smoke" is pretty much their "soul" sipping out I do recomend playing it. There is no other eneimes in the game, only the colossuses.

I bloody loved this game as a kid. my only complaint is that it felt empty because I never saw any wildlife while exploring the map but it's only a minor problem for me. other than that, it tickles all the right spots. an amazing story, giant boss fights, gorgeous architecture, etc

The ending to this game is heartbreaking. A terrible slaughter of innocent creatures, all for a reunion that never truly comes to be.

Dude. I remember I played this on a demo disc for the PS2 I got from a cereal box and it was the best. Unfortunately I didn't get the full game but stunning game nonetheless.

One of the best games that ever made

Did you guys play it yet?

I played this game