Shadow of the Colossus 2018

Is it still worth playing?

Bluepoint Games' 2018 remake for the PlayStation 4, made with Japan Studio, of the 2005 Team Ico game. It follows Wander, a young man who enters a forbidden land seeking the power to revive a girl named Mono, which means destroying the sixteen colossi spread across it. The gameplay is nearly identical to the original apart from the controls: you start at the central Forbidden Lands, find and defeat a colossus, return, and repeat. You ride the horse Agro between colossi, leap on and climb them with a stamina bar, and fight with a sword and a bow. The remake adds 79 collectible gold coins, and a Mirrored mode unlocks after finishing. An empty world with a single task each time, where every colossus is its own climbing puzzle, keeps it worth playing now.