April 10, 2012
Caine's Arcade
Directed by Fumito Ueda and published in 2001 and 2005 by Sony for the PlayStation 2 console, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus have acquired what passes for canonical status among video games, the twenty-first century’s popular art form. Guillermo del Toro, the director of “Pan’s Labyrinth” and a devoted gamer, told the British magazine Edge in 2008, “There are only two games I consider masterpieces: Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.” Jonny Greenwood, the lead guitarist for Radiohead, as unimpeachable an institution as currently exists in popular culture, has written that Ico “might be the best” video game of them all. And when Roger Ebert, writing at his popular blog for the Chicago Sun-Times, argued in April of last year that “in principle, video games cannot be art,” readers clamored for Ebert to try Ueda’s games. In the more than forty-five hundred responses to the blog post, they mentioned Shadow of the Colossus more than three hundred and fifty times and Ico more than two hundred and fifty times.
No Kitchen Required
Today's Photo:
I think I'm playing "Baby"
What? That song has good bones.
It's just a blues/pop song.
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