Combine Ico‘s vibe with an “ultimate boss monster marathon” and you get 2005 PlayStation 2 game Shadow of the Colossus.
Melding David-and-Goliath combat with incredible panoptic scenery, designer Fumito Ueda nailed the balance between challenge and gratification, serving up peerless, knuckle-gnawing action gameplay.
The game offered 16 towering colossi you actually fight by climbing, defeating each by figuring out its carefully hidden weakness.