I wanted to live it again, and to hell with my steadfast statements regarding aging tech limiting today's enjoyment of past-gen accomplishments.

And with its reputation, and my previous experience of the game nagging away at me, a palpable emotional resonance, I thought I'd upgrade and buy the HD remaster, released for PlayStation 3 in 2011. It's received several awards and is regarded as one of the most unique games of its generation. In so many ways, Shadow earned its classic status. It's a game of immense negative space, gigantic expanses of nothingness of dust and dirt and grass, but nobody to converse with, to trade with, to just speak to for five minute to prevent you going fully senile as you stab your way through 16 generously difficulty-curved colossi. There's nothing extra added simply because it can be. There are white-tailed lizards to shoot and collect (eat, maybe?) for endurance perks, and fruit here and there to provide a health bar boost but Ueda's design on Shadow is terrifically streamlined. Poke your avatar's nose into a corner in Shadow and you'll just give him a headache. Shadow stands in absolute opposition to so many of today's comparably free-roam affairs, which, to quote Dragon Age: Inquisition's creative director Mike Laidlaw, 'fill each area to the extent where you always something to do, every couple of minutes.' For his game, a critical hit of 2014, he wanted 'a little something special in every corner.' Concept art for the game's first colossus

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