>game asks you to kill these random monsters who you have no reason to sympathise with>you do some puzzle platforming, you kill them and then sad music plays>rinse and repeat 16 timesWhy is this game hailed as a masterpiece and as an example of how games can be art again? It’s got nice presentation, sure, but the story is paper thin and the gameplay is so barebones with next to no replay value.
>>750287753ts got aura thats why
Because precisely because of that. Every other game is obsessed with maximalizing content whenever possible so its just nice to play something stripped down and pure
>>750287789/threadit's a purely aesthetic experience with a fairy tale story. Everything else is mid or bad, but that's ok.
I prefer Ico
>>750287753There wasn't a single game like it before and the fact that it ran on a ps2 was like black magicReally, was there ever an open world game like it before where you climb titanic monsters? Even MH wasn't as impressive
