"Simply stunning!"
Shadow of the Colossus is not just a 'fight the big moving thing' type of game, it goes much deeper than that.
The Wanderer brings a girl to a remote sanctuary with a purpose - to restore her. We know not who she is and we know not why he wants her whole again. Indeed, all we know about him is that he is called the Wanderer. All we do know is that the Wanderer will go to any lengths to have the girl made whole again, even to the extent of giving his own life. That he must find and destroy several Colossi to achieve his goal is revealed to him and the bargain is struck. And thus begins one of the most fascinating games you will play this year.
You face the Colossi, each more fearsome than the last, with only your horse - Agro - as your companion and a sword and bow and arrow as your weapons. You must first locate your Colossus, then scale it, find its weak spot and kill it. If it sounds easy, believe me, it's not. Every Colossus is large, angry, cunning, always moving and is trying desperately to fling you off, should you even get passed his huge, stamping feet. Each time you manage to overcome and kill a Colossus something is lost from within and the Wanderer becomes dirty, ragged and more resigned. To what, we do not know.
The action of Shadow of the Coloussus is frenzied and brutal, yet the ending is one of the most moving and beautiful I have ever seen.