Game Intestine

Cinematic: They run up the stairs. General Panda gets the sword and throws it down the vulva looking hole (sexual imagery). A light shines and an atomic blast goes off like the end of every other anime and Japanese game.

I get sucked into it. I become a kid. You can control the kid/shadow beast as he is sucked in. Try pushing the jump button, it just makes the whole scene that much more pathetic. The super highway bridge starts breaking. This is going to be a huge bond measure to replace this. We just stopped having to pay tolls too.

The Maiden wakes up (remember, this was all for her), gets down to walk, and hears my dead horse. He has a broken leg which means he will be shot even if he does survive all this. God, this game is just cruel to everyone involved.

Film stock again and the credits roll.

Wow what a game. At least it was not that long which is good. It lacked personality. I understand the need to make things mysterious and open for interpretation, but, it is at the expense of emotional attachment? Even if there is no back story there is never has any emotion in the present. Does he hate the Colossi? Does he fear them? Are they bad?

The credits are still rolling and there is someone listed as "Animal system Programming - Kazutomo Sasaki." I think that means that he added those lizards and squirrels you saw running around.

More cinematic: The troop is running across the bridge. They all make it. Wow the panda mask guy had a beard.

The poor horse hobbles around some more to try and wrench our heartstrings a little more

I turn into a baby with horns. If you played ICO you know the horns mean he was a marked boy. Either that or his horns represent his schizophrenia.

The girl picks me up in a motherly way. This girl is my mom, I killed my father(s) (the colossi). I totally called the oedipal theme at the second colossus.

Cue Vegas lounge music and we all go on a little walk around the castle. Stop making that horse walk. Note the baby deer. Total symbolism there - soak it up. Your guess is as good as mine what this all means though. Just enjoy Kazutomo Sasaki's animals.

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So what did you learn?

- Lasers make things harder.

- If something glows in general or blue in particular, stab it!

- Genocide is for losers.

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