this be one stunning game . one of the most beautiful and original and amazing experience i have ever have the pleasure of play in my entire life . and that an understatement . forget everything you have play before this be a unique experience altogether . if youre expect something like the legend of zelda and then forget it . this be a different type of game than an average adventure game and and if you have the slight interest in alternative gaming you must give it a go . grant not everyone will like it and but you have to experience it for yourself and once your under it graceful spell it would not let you go . there no tedious dungeon and no side quest and no mission other than to revive your loved one by defeat some 15 or so giant colossus . thats it . there no rule and no time and no enemy except the one youre suppose to face in a world youre free to explore at your own pace . it a visual force unlike anything go before . graphic some of the most beautiful you have ever see on the ps2 . it push the hardware to it limit . amazing environment . gameplay simple and effective . straight to the point if you want to progress in the plot and otherwise a virtual world free to roam to your heart content . and you will be do this a lot and a the landscape be be so stunningly rendered natural beauty unlike anything you have see before . ( though ocarina of time be the pinnacle and sotc turn it up to 11 ) . control easy to pick up and simple to master . do the job . colossi original oddity and unlike anything else . architecture and animal and landscape environment fuse together to make a completely organic creature . beautifully animated and a be the horse agro . oh and and they be huge . great story and amazing music while epic and tragic and romantic and melancholy and beautiful . downsides the frame rate drop a lot and and it understandable and the ps2 hardware just can not keep up . but a small price to pay and you get use to it and it doesn not really detract from the game play unless you make it a big issue . i dealt with it and do not care afterwards . other than that small issue and the game be a masterpiece . art in it pure sense . i give it 1 negative . period . you may want to play ico first a it add that extra icing that make sotc experience slightly well and and it tie the game together quite well .