The Consequences of a Beautiful World: Shadow of the Colossus (2018)

In Shadow of the Colossus, you spend more time riding than fighting. You play as Wander, a young man crossing a huge, empty land to kill sixteen giants, and nothing stops you from getting off the horse and looking around. When Bluepoint remade the game in 2018, critics said the new version was too pretty for such a bleak story. Marie Silhova takes that complaint seriously and asks what all the added beauty is for.

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Washington State University
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2026-10-27
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https://doi.org/10.7273/3368-4b31
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Digital Games and Media
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The Consequences of a Beautiful World: Shadow of the Colossus (2018)

Marie Šilhová
Washington State University
Digital Games and Media
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The Consequences of a Beautiful World: Shadow of the Colossus (2018)

Marie Šilhová
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Abstract

In Shadow of the Colossus, you spend more time riding than fighting. You play as Wander, a young man crossing a huge, empty land to kill sixteen giants, and nothing stops you from getting off the horse and looking around. When Bluepoint remade the game in 2018, critics said the new version was too pretty for such a bleak story. Marie Silhova takes that complaint seriously and asks what all the added beauty is for.

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