Shadow of the Colossus - The Spiritual Symbolism | Video Essay
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This is a video essay digging into the mythology and symbolism behind the visuals and archetypes in Team Ico's masterpiece Shadow of the Colossus.
Video Chapters
00:00 - Title Card
00:12 - Intro
02:14 - Wander
05:20 - Mono
07:45 - Emon
10:57 - The Colossi and Dormin
19:18 - The Message
29:10 - Outro
Music from the Shadow of the Colossus OST by Kow Otani
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"What is the wanderer's name?" "It matters not. His efforts were not for the cause of creating a legend for himself." What a fantastic answer to the question. Nice job on the video!!
Awesome video bro!
Loved the video, definitely deserves more attention!
Just a little side thought. As Dormin is “Nimrod” backwards, Emon is “Nome” backwards, or gnome, implying the Colossi are in fact normal humans and it is the villagers who are small. This is also proof that Emon, or Emong as I will now call him, is the boy from The Last Guardian, because boy was small, and thusly Trico was normal bird-cat size. Or perhaps Emong was Ico, implied by his head wrapping covering what were once his little gnome horns. Either way, Wander travels to the land of giants and becomes a big and strong boy to save Mongnome.
Interesting
Awesome vid Dutch.
Thank dude
Great video man
Thanks dude!
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I don't think of Dormin as Satan. Satan would never have told Adam & Eve "should you eat this fruit you may pay a heavy price". Satan is too manipulative to ever take such a chance that his own warning might foil his evil plans. You could say Dormin manipulated Wander, but Dormin also warned Wander of the heavy price he may pay, plus Dormin kept his word & brought Mono back to life. It really seems like Dormin just wanted to be free again. Whether or not it's for reasons of pure evil is left up to us to decide. Nice review/discussion.
It's not a perfect metaphor, and yes I do think you are correct. I just thought it worked in the context of larger symbolism and the archetypes that come with it. I was more referencing the root of those types of symbologies.
@@dutchritz I understood it was a metaphor. I just felt the need to comment. Dormin gets a bad rap & I'm not so sure it's warranted. However, should Dormin actually be evil, then your belief that Mono becomes the Queen in "ICO" would make perfect sense. Dormin could have foreseen what Mono would become, & therefore was more than happy to grant Wander's wish. It's just nice to still be discussing this game 19 years after it's release. Agro, not Argo. :)
It is really nice to still be talking about it... I had somebody correct me as far as agro's name in an earlier comment... It's just the way I always heard it with wander's accent, should have paid attention to the spelling a little bit better because I know I'll get a lot more shit the more people watch this 😂
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