Shadow of the Colossus — finally, getting some hands-on with a classic

Here’s one of the secrets from my video game pile of shame. I never played Shadow of the Colossus, the hit game that came out in 2005 on the Sony PlayStation 2. But I got a chance to remedy that yesterday at a Sony event in San Francisco, where I played the remake of Shadow of the Colossus on a Sony PlayStation 4 Pro.

During 2005, I remember putting a lot of time into titles like Age of Empires III, Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Guitar Hero, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV, and Lego Star Wars: The Video Game. But Shadow of the Colossus looked a little rough. The graphics were one of the drawbacks, and I didn’t really see the attraction of playing a game with 16 boss fights.