THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

By the fourth colossus, most SOTC players will have experienced pangs of doubt or regret about the nature of their mission. At the same stage here you’re halfway through your quest, and will surely feel no such compunction. The story is told so poorly as to be borderline irrelevant: there’s some waffle about an endless winter “choking the life” from the world, your warrior the latest in a line of would-be heroes hoping to reverse this cataclysm. But without SOTC’s personal stakes, or any sense of inner conflict, it’s hard to feel anything for what happens in the cinematics. You’re occasionally aided by a wolf that drags you back to base between bosses: it has a brief cameo in the final fight, but unlike Agro, it’s impossible to care about its fate.