What, a spoiler tag in Shadow of the Colossus? xD

I loved this game. It's so epic and magnificent. I would have died to get a shot at composing the score to this. The battles are amazing and unbelievable, and they stretch the limits of imagination. In each of the last few battles I would die at least once just staring at the colossus. It's like Myst plus magical boss fights. God those fights are insane.

Running around the world is the other half of the joy. I was never much into video game immersion but it was impossible to resist with this one. The visual detail is so amazing. And there are a few little sidequests to help you out as well, although on Normal difficulty its not really necessary to win. But the sheer thrill of riding on the back of a galloping horse and rotating the camera ever so smoothly and seamlessly to view with wide eyes the vast landscape was priceless. It was the perfect prelude to my hiking adventures.

I heard absolutely no hype about this game at all. Necronopticous let me borrow the demo, and he was raving about it but I dismissed it because he's a loony bin, but turns out this time he was right and I loved it.