SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS (Zero Punctuation) 

Or when it's Portal. Then it has no flaws

Really? I thought it would be from the fact that he said, and I quote, “it’s just damn good.”

Funny thing is that the two smallest colossi are the most aggressive and their battle strategies are challenging and fairly unique, even to each other. A reminder that even something your size, like a bull, lion, or a wolf, can be just as deadly as a walking skyscraper with a sword.

@@maggieallen5985 Even so, that fiery little cat one can go jump in a lake. Took me forever to find the little "gimmie ledge that made it a cake walk. Before that, it was mount and stab... fall off? Start over because it will stun lock like a jerk. Meanwhile, pillar lion? Best of the bunch!

we should replace all protein shakes with lizard tales then cause god damn!

ilikecookies230 You can't eat a story about lizards. You can only eat the paper and ink it was printed with.

@@DastardlyDistaste I mean if you're a Hakutaku then technically you can eat a story about lizards and make the lizards in said story cease to exist.

Never heard of Hakutakus before though, those were neat.

@@DastardlyDistaste Legendary creature in Japanese mythology. Extremely intelligent and wise. Reportedly informed an emperor of the existence of both good and evil Youkai.

Or Ace Combat 5, Zero, or 6.

davethehostage i want to play it so games aren't art now please lend me a copy of this game

davethehostage I have found a few modern games that stand up to this game and they are all indie games.

davethehostage I completely agree. I personally think Shadow of the Colossus is the best game ever made and no other game has ever even come close. The atmosphere, the scenery, the sense of wonder you feel as you try to piece together what happened to this majestic country and what the future has in store for your character. And the soundtrack is the best thing I've ever heard in a game... full symphony orchestra playing the most epic music I've ever heard. Not to mention scaling incredible 200 ft tall Colossi with nothing but your trusty bow and a small sword to bring that fucker down!

+damaLwa Don't you DARE FORGET 4!

First time I've seen a comment on a Yahtzee video that tries to be witty and actually succeeds.

^comment secretly written by Yahtzee

Three years late, but fun fact...this game is not on his top 5...so idk what you're talking about in the beginning there.

This was like the second time ever that Yahtzee went out of his way to give a game a truly glowing review. So, it's safe to say that SotC was up there when I wrote this comment. And if you mean his top 5 of the year this video came out, SotC didn't come out that year.

Shadow of the Colossus and Silent Hill 2 are literally my favorite games. Both extremely depressing games about broken men refusing to let go of their dead wives/fianceés. Pretty fucked indeed.

Snake.. Snake... SNAAAAAKE!!!

+EdKMusic Jason! Jason! ...Jason!

SHAWN.. SHAWN...

Leon, HEEEEEEELP!

AKIRAAAAA

Oh boy, a time paradox.

Not so much a time paradox as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's almost Bioshock Infinite levels of time/space fuckery

Yo dawg, I heard you were killed to stop an ancient evil. So Imma unleash an ancient evil to resurrect you and show the mob we don't have to worry about ancient evils!

Honestly that sounds like the story of how Anakin became Darth Vader

+KikBlava And its soundtrack kicks up the boss fights another notch.

+KikBlava Could not have said it better,i feel bad for those who never experienced this game.

+KikBlava I honestly have yet to play anything that compares to this game in terms of scale and pacing. Seriously, there are mmorpgs out there that have a smaller sense of scale than this game.

megajoeify Uhh, don't get me started on MMORPGS, went back to the starter edition of WOW and, I'm so bored! I love the world in it but it's so dull when you start up a new character. XD

so, halo 3? I agree

Jacob Vidrine Kow Otani is a genius.

Jacob Vidrine I know right! It's by far the most beautiful music I've ever heard in a game and really elevates the adventure

His voice is noticeably different thanks to several early mics, and he also seemed to talk faster, with the review zipping by as a result.

joyboy232 They planned 48 in the beginning but I'm kinda glad they didn't it's better to have 16 awesome Colossi than 24 or 48 less entertaining ones. Now if they could make a remake with the 48 that'd be awesome.

nah it would be better 32 so they can develop them better

+yahir Lopez *24 I feel dumb now

+yahir Lopez They originally wanted to put 64

Djordje Gusman yeah i know but i say 24 so they can develop 14 new colossi to focus more

It's damn good. Nothing more to say.

There are several games he really likes.

It's shadow of the colossus man

avicenna :/ Sorry, I entirely disagree. Why the heck do you think they're bad?

avicenna It's kind of interesting that your criticism of Half Life and Silent Hill are also things that Yahtzee bring up in his reviews of those games as well.

So exactly what dark souls is.

Philip Pruett You say that but Dark souls has a constant stream of enemies that you have to beat before you get to the bosses, SOTC has 16 enemies and thats it.

There's an indie game called Titan souls coming out. You only fight big bosses and it looks unforgiving as fuck. Not completely similar in gameplay to souls or colossus but looks interesting.

sweet thanks for that

I don't know if that'd work. Shadow of the Colossus is more a puzzle game than anything. The fact that you don't take much damage in the game is deliberate, the punishing difficulty of a Souls game would just make starting bosses over and over again more tedious than anything. The action-oriented boss fights in Dark Souls counter the repetitiveness of repeating them because every fight is a tense and fun moment in the game. SotC's more slow paced movement just wouldn't mesh with a Souls game's and fast-paced action. Maybe if Team ICO and From both worked on it and took like, seven years, *MAYBE* it'd work out then but when you combine genres like that, any tiny minuscule thing can break the game completely so it'd probably be an extremely stressful development hell.

Just give me a good Shadow of the Colossus clone but with one hundred colossi! Something that would contrast SOTC, over-the-top anime plot where a kid who wants to be the best has to fight 100 insanely big creatures.

fuck yeah lol

So basically any CoD gamer.

Fixin Good Shots fired

Zenthex Of course I have the attention span of a squirrel on speed. That's why I watch a show literally called "Zero Punctuation."

Zenthex I couldn't get into the game because my character suddenly started doing the Goldeneye 64 shuffle on his horse in midair. Possibly a damaged disc, mind you.

I have the attention span of a flea and I kinda want to play this game. Does this mean humanity is evolving?

Alexander Talm "If there's something that you know about, and it's canceled, we'd say it"- Ueda

Alexander Talm The saviour has returned

It's here!

chstacy33 IT'S HAPPENING!

But it's not being made by Team Ico... :(

Tbh who would have expected him to dislike Shadow? The only people that don't like it are casual gamers, trolls and pricks who hate everything that has a metascore higher than 80.

Love that pun 😆

Sailor Italy hahaha thank you xD

Not a review, a critique. (honestly, it's both, but he identifies as a critic) but yes

Quacktics are Go Heh, colossal. It's a pun.

Better tip, set it to 1.5!

***** Sounds like a disclaimer of a drug commercial.

Wow, 0.5. that was a fine damn good tip.....1.5.. oh my god....

i dont have that option :'( #fuckgoogleplusinyoutube

i dont, i think its disabled for any one not using Google chrome, witch brings me back to my original comment #fuckgoogleplusinyoutube ;)

R'Kdairos Zo'dhyac yup

Dark Souls 2 is amazing. Also, hello from the future.

Avery Cecil WOAH DUDE ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELER.

The Arbitration How did you figure that out? REALITY IS COLLAPSING!

Avery Cecil WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

+Thales Monteiro just watch Judging by the cover, its the same as watching ZP on 0.5

Not "Technically"!! If it wasn't for the last pair of chromosomes out of our 23 pairs we would all be female-like since it all goes like this: 1(XX), 2(XX), 3(XX), ..., 21(XX), 22(XX), 23(X[X or Y]); the "Y" is just an X but shorter x (chromosomes just happen to look like Xs or crosses), however that would get confusing writing it down like this "Xx" depending on the handwriting and/or font.

sion8 uuhm

robin huijbregts I believe this is an example of someone with limited knowledge of biology wanting to educate me on a subject i already know about, hence my initial comment.

phoenixsplash135 I'm sorry your words implied that "men have AN X chromosome" as in singular, while the reality of it all we are mostly X chromosome, that is not a technicality! And I do have a "limited knowledge of biology" is called I'm still going to school for it!!! [You didn't have to pull the "I'm smarter than anyone else" trope we all have "limited knowledge"; yes it can be vast, but, vast does not equal limitless!]

robin huijbregts I'm not really sure what your answer means?

I adore SotC but I detest Dark Souls. With Dark Souls you mostly have to learn patterns so it's just trial and error. Also the hitboxes are buggy as fuck

almost no music? in sotc?

+SanitysEdge Or maybe they took the SH 2 approach in using the controls for immersion, because when you look at it, you're just a guy who stole a sacred-sword, went to a forbidden place, doesn't know who to fight (when you see the attack animation he's just swinging the sword like it was a stick) and is trying to kill big-ass monsters, then having problems climbing a wall doesn't look so stupid

+SanitysEdge well... I played it on the PS 2 and the camera controls really aren't that hot. They're very annoying to handle.

+cryzero That's what I saw when I played it. Wander (that's the main character's name) is more of an archer/equestrian. It explains is lack of skill with a sword, while being really good at riding and shooting.

Eternal Light whats 1st & 2nd?

John Marco Reyes The Last Of Us and Final Fantasy XII.

Chris Karanassios Which boss are you talking about?

Chris Karanassios you're not grinding hard enough

Chris Karanassios Then you made the common mistake that you didn't create more than one save files in different areas.

Asura R-R No offense but that list is shit

yes

[Furfagging Intensifies] fank u!!!

Tom Hewitt ur not only 1

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Actually, there IS a Shadow of the Colossus HD remaster. You can get a physical copy bundled with ICO HD for PS3, or get it on PSN for $20.

+RandomlyGeneratedUser you've just made my day

+RandomlyGeneratedUser To add to that the collection also has a better frame rate, and is in stereoscopic 3D (if you have a 3DTV,) which looks amazing!!!

Batman thats because you ride a car

Danmarinja The horse is like playing a guitar with oven mitts.

Danmarinja You tap left and he does a 90 degree turn. You tap X and it gallops faster for like a second, then he's like, "I'm gonna take a break now"

Danmarinja Except the horse is an ass who doesn't want to co-operate with you. I shouldn't have to be constantly whipping it. That't not how horses work, and as far as turning goes it's a pretty accurate drunk driving simulator.

Batman You're not controlling the horse(Agro) you're controlling the guy (Wander) controlling the horse, so its obvious it's a bit hard, and the horse is pretty smart, you only need to direct it and it will avoid wall and cliffs by it self, allowing you to do other things, this is necessary to defeat the tenth Colossus.

Wha-..... isn't it- wai- Hold on. Aren't they the same thing? I have it and It plays fine.

>_> I just didn't enjoy it? -shrug-

Dzko So, you liked the first game, but didn't enjoy an exact clone of it with better graphics?

I suppose so. But, the "clone" of the game, for me at the very least did not feel the same. Either it being for a nostalgia factor or just how the overall game ran. It did -not- feel like the same game, and for some reasons it isn't for me. It honestly felt clunky for me. Now, perhaps I am mistaken, and it is amazing and just don't know what a good game is, or perhaps somewhere along the lines the download became corrupted, for me? It just did not feel like the exact same game I plopped into the PlayStation 2.

Dzko Well it was the same. In every way. So yeah. It's just lost it's nostalgia factor on you. The clunky controls were probably there form the beginning. Unless thats not what you mean by cluinky. In which case I still have no idea what you're on about.

Nothing

Croyles Alright, I gave SoC another go yesterday, and wow. Just wow. I was so wrong. I still prefer SH3 to SH2 in atmosphere, but only because you feel trapped in the mall where in SH2, you are mostly in the town which makes me feel like I can get away easily. I've always preferred SH2 to SH3 in the story. Everything was worked to be in James's head, such as Pyramid Head representing his guilt. You can only run away during the "boss battles", and the Pyramid Head twins kill themselves when James admits to killing his wife. Who knows, maybe the fact I played it 6 times to get the other endings made the game seem dull to me.

GamesinaBit hahaha

Congratulations, you aren't. No human being can hate Team ICO, so you aren't actually a person.

But their game are boring as shit. Especially ICO

Why are they boring? Because they have many, deep emotional moments?

Malcolm Streitfeld They're boring because they lack substance. I'm all for artistry in games but having long drawn out walking segments and simple puzzles that barely break up the gameplay does not count as being artistic. It's more like Team ICO hit the deadline and said "We'll just say its supposed to be symbolic." Also the story in both games has been beaten done so many times prior so don't try to use that in your argument.

Bi$harp You argue that it's a lack of substance, and that the long and drawn out segments are not really symbolic, but you can subjectively fucking argue anything. What lacks substance is your argument. Every Picasso ever is just a bunch of shitty colors on a piece of cloth. People say there's symbolism and depth in them, but really it's just paint. It was all an illusion so that he could make money.

The only complaint I have with it is how the bosses end. Every sound is meaty and you feel like a badass but also tiny as you chip away at their health. Then when you make the final stab...there's just a tiny 'tink' and all other sounds cut out. They should have had SOME sort of climax noise.

Don't worry man, I care! So everything is okay. Also for the climatic sound bit, I think having it go completely silent is actually good. All you hear is the colossus groaning in pain while it dies (depending on which one you're fighting some are silent) and the very low pitch music in the back ground. The silence is supposed to have what you just did settle in your mind. Like, "Oh shit I'm a little guy and I just took out the biggest fucker on the planet... damn" it gives you this epic feel as if you accomplished something. Having a big climatic noise when you kill the boss like "WAAAAAH," or "BAAAAM!" It would ruin the entire moment and just be dumb. The silence was meant feel epic and slightly depressing as you slowly learn all of the colossi or kinda cool guys... That's my opinion and if you meant by climactic as in something entirely different. I feel dumb.

Bbmanmegyer I was thinking an explosion drum, Inception BWA, or other such things. But I didn't mean as it dies. I mean the final hit. There's no low tone music or groan until the cutscene that appears AFTER where I'm talking about. Hell, even adding in the normal flesh piercing noise would be fine. Instead when you kill a Collossus, you just get a sound quieter than what you would get from dropping a nail on a tile floor.

***** Of course, but I don't mean them falling to their death. And I understand that the explosion drum was overkill (and mostly a joke), but the final stab is actually silent. At least make that louder than the rest. OR BE THERE AT ALL. You will still get the reflection moment before and during the cutscene. Why is it you guys fail to understand that I mean the final blow, not the death itself?

TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies yeah, that stab could use more sound, especially on the final boss

Absolutely. In general he has three modes: Negative, Extra-Negative, & Extra-Super-Negative. So whenever he says something good about a game, it stands out like crazy. Zero Punctuation is the only reason I bought demon's souls & the deus ex sequel, and I regret neither.

I have never played the game, but I understood him. Maybe it is just because I have seen all the episodes so I get the way he talks.

Sky Snow wait........you never played shadow of the colossus?

He's a critic, not a reviewer.

existenceisrelative Sounds like a piss poor way to judge how to spend your fifty bucks. kierany9 Now _that_ makes sense. He should really reconsider his video titles. ***** Wouldn't be surprised. I have _a lot_ of personal problems.

wait, you are defending star-craft because "it challenges your brain" yet you are using the fact that you cant beat the colossal because it too hard to figure out. your agruement is incorrect because you are using the same reasons to prove to opposite points. you are basically creating two of the same number except one is positive and the other one is negative when you add it up just leave at zero, square one, you did nothing to prove a point other than being a hypocrite. I am not trying to defend SoTC, however i am simply pointing out the flaws upon your statement

tarrker If you had to look up a walk through to work out how to beat the colossi...I don't think you should be trying to review the game.

Well of course you like starcraft more, RTS' are for cowards, and it takes balls the size of a small colossi to kill a gigantic eagle by letting it slingshot you into the air and then using the downward force of your fall to stab right through it's skull and kill it instantly. That's the kinda shit your marines do on the daily while you're clicking them around.

i guess it might be subjective. games have gotten to a point where apparently the more you have, the more entertaining it is? Id like to call bullshit on that. Look at assassin's creed. Nothing is focused, nothing is important, and the amount of power the machine has to put into putting a realistic illusion rarely serves a gameplay function (and certainly not a gameplay pay off). SOTC knows how to be quiet, and rarely do games know how to do that any more. it uses implicit narration, contrasting scale, the use of ambience act, the repetition and rhythm of playing a game, and subtractive design to create something immersive, contemplative, foreign, mature, and ultimately beautiful. Star Craft II is fun, and beloved by all. But is it a game that can expand gaming as a medium? Is it a game that communicate something like beauty, nature, and serene. Nope. It pulls on the same threads of call of duty, of fighter games (which I've come to respect), and most games in general. It serves to create winners and losers, to stroke egos (which is totally fine, but we have enough games that do the same). SOTC plays with your heart. With every victory you feel like you've stabbed a heart. With every progression you feel good about, your character slowly corrupts. It does all this without being obvious, and because of how Ueda does his games with such subtlty, like a reader respecting good writing in a novel, a gamer can't help respect just damn good game design being woven with narratology from this game. To this, is why many games defend SOTC as a piece of art. Even Roger Ebert was presented SOTC by the online public as an argument for art in games. It's a smart game, maybe the pulp fiction of games.

 in the end, i guess star craft can easily be stemming off of the obvious. War and military strategies, chess, Kriegsspiel, aliens vs. predator vs. humans. But what the fuck is ICO and SOTC based off of? Human touch? the Tower of Babel and Nimrod? Giorgio De Chirico's paintings? In the end, instead of giving you obvious answers, it leaves you asking about more about its lore, and more about its world. And look at its environment. Do you see a cluster-fest? No! You just see good compositional skills, good camera work in game, good use of music and sound, amazing animation, and fucking fantastic use of scale.

Glimmcomp a Frenchman? ugh