Art Game--Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus did some perfect work on the visual part.

I think buil a mysterious land is far more difficult than we think. not to mention it looks so real.

I make a very simple mind map to show the visual part of the game

 From the context, we can see that it's a game about Hero's journey in a mysterious land who is fighting for his girl.

 Love is the power to make people be brave. How to show the brave? And i think to fight with the huge monster is always the best idea.


We all afraid of the thing that out of our control or imagination. Especially in real world, we dare to fight the "giant" things. 

I forget the important thing in the context, that's the "Giants". Giants is the key role to make the game special. 

A hero's journey must be lonely and far away from daily life, so a vast and unpopulated peninsula gives a better imagination.

I think they use the way of regionalism is trying to make the scene more real and make people take it serious. Although it's a game, it also leads us thinking lots of questions about our real life.

From this game, I know a artist----Andrew Wyeth

From the wiki: "Andrew Newell Wyeth (/ˈwaɪ.ɛθ/ wy-eth;^[1] July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style."

Here I would like to show 2 pics of both realist and regionalist:

Regionalism

Realism

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And let's see Andy's work: