Amir0x said:
There's so few games that actually do that at any significant degree, or make it a key selling point. The obvious comparisons are going to be made. Not to mention the design of the only boss we've seen so far is like a poor-man's color blind Colossus. Magnitude giving way to fur shading and easily grabbed surfaces.
The game itself may be wildly different, but the first impression it gives is very evocative of SotC. I highly doubt it's all coincidental. It's not like that's an attack, though. I do believe many people liked SotC.
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Heres what I don't understand. . .
How are "huge bosses" that big of a selling point here? Thats only one part of it. . . one bullet that they used. SoTC is all big bosses and nothing else so I can see that being a "comparing poin"t but thats it really. I think they made it a "selling point" because they have alot of big bosses, not to make it seem like some SoTC "rip off".
And here (Wiki and IGN cause Im cool like that
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The game focuses on a young man named Wander who must travel across a vast expanse on horseback and defeat sixteen beings, known as colossi, to restore the life of a girl. The game is unusual within the action-adventure genre in that there are no towns or dungeons to explore, no characters with which to interact, and no enemies to defeat, other than the colossi.[4][5] Shadow of the Colossus has been described as a puzzle game, as each colossus' weakness must be identified and exploited before it can be defeated.[6][7]
And compare that to this. .
http://wii.ign.com/articles/905/905770p1.html
And they just seem too different.
I do feel it is fair to compare what we know about the
bosses to SoTC but I think it starts and stops there. . .at the bosses. Just soo happens that SoTC is all about the 16 huge boss fights so "SoTC like Boss fights" seems like more than it is.
(And, talking about first impressions, my first impression was . . . Dynasty Warriors meet LoZ like world of monsters? Than I saw the boss and thought ". . Ico meets GoW2 like Boss fights?")
Saying this mainly after I did some searching to see what people thought of the game and saw alot of lil SoTC fan-boys bashing this game cause "SoTC iz thz MazterpieCeZ! ThIZ sOMe bULLZhIt RiPP-Off For the WiiZ!" (Lil bastards, can get pretty up set) for no other reason than the boss's size.
Eh, w/e. I think this will resolve it's self once we get some info/ trailers/ interviews and what not.