Shadow of the Colossus TOONAMI (Review)

[rbSteelers86]

!!!!???? what beat????

[rbSteelers86]

What beat is this????

[MaceH1ndu]

Short, it's 10 hours. Most games nowadays are 8 hours long...

[viraticwars]

This review made me plug up my PS2, put in Shadow, play it again, and then play ICO again. Man, wasn't this show/segment great?

[mgabr1]

Why can't I find the Toonami Review of ICO! :'(

[skpmd4186]

wow, didn't realize toonami reviewed this game! Awesome meets awesome

[pkkthetiger]

correction,10 out of 10

[hawkeyefan878]

9/10 is bullshit, it should easily be 10/10

[8BITTS]

I miss toonami!

[hawkeyefan878]

im 16 now and i remember when i was like 7 or 8 when i first saw toonami. it was honestly the coolest thing ive ever seen on cartoon network and most networks. now it fucking sucks, my sister watches it and i was curious to see how its progressed throughout the years. its become SO MUCH WORSE since i was her age. i wish they could bring back the good stuff when i was a little kid watching it. plus the guy who talked was pretty badass

[Kite117]

@hawkeyefan878 Toonami doesn't exist anymore, man, unless when you say "now it fucking sucks" you are directing it towards cartoon network. Yeah, I don't understand WHY they closed Toonami, it was in the middle of several series, and all of them were just cut short like that. At least at that point, everyone realized that those same shows began being put all around the internet. Still, getting rid of Toonami was one of cartoon networks BIGGEST mistakes.

[Th3s3nt1n3l9]

I miss toonami... Lol wen I was little, I felt cool wen I watched it cuz Tom was on.... Now cartoon network is jus retarded... Sad rlly..

[R1dicul0use]

even tom agrees this game is good

[VanMedia]

isn't tom voiced by the same dude who voiced spike in cowboy bebop?

[WolfKill01]

@VanMedia Steve Blum, yes

[FeefXD]

I like how just a few years ago, "short" games where "only" 10 hours...

[darkninjaonizuka]

if any game gets a 9.0 on toonami ITS A MUST BUY LOL!

i miss toonami i wih they brought it back :[ wiff the old tom and a bunch of old and new anime like DBZ rurouni kenshin (Y~Y)

[NightShadow2013]

I was really lucky to find this game at gamestop. I will treasure it for a long time :)

[neoman289151]

This is the best type of review ever.

It's short, simple and gets the point out

[futurel0b0]

Toonami gave reviews? wtf lol

Man they showed a few spoilers in this one though. Like in the beginning of the review they showed Wander getting shot in the leg with an arrow, and they showed how to defeat the 10th colossus. Other than that, pretty good review.

[kitchenman345]

DBZ all day baby!

[ILMxKenny]

@kitchenman345 SoTC > DBZ =)

[ratmanrussell]

This is how I originally found out about this game when I was 9 or 10 in 2005.

One of my favorite ps2 games to date, and sooo many good memories with toonami. They shoulda done more game reviews.

[poivaloiv]

Toonami?! Oh heeelll yeaahh

[futurestoryteller]

WTF Toonami was still around?

[Rachman1337]

How?

How was Toonami this fucking awesome?

[AMVGFan]

A 10 is more like it featured the best graphics for the PS2 at that time, it was simple gamplay with a story that was really good, and it won Adventure game of the year in 2007.

[GamMan93]

Back when tv was good. I miss waking up and watching great cartoons (which actually had violence back then) and had great comercials. Now the government fucked everything up. They changed the cookie monster to veggie monster! Seriously, wtf. And i cant see them promoting video games on a cartoon channel now cus it will "currupt" kids. I remember to this day when tonami was stopped airing, it pissed me off.

[TheGoldmail]

who is the bastard that disliked the video

[colie577]

9 is not enough for this game.

[Starwind18020]

Did't they pimp the shit out of this game in that one Adam Sandlier movie where he plays a guy who's family was killed on 9-11

[keshasebertorg]

i still remember to play this game from the playstation magazino demo's in 2006, and it scared me to death to kill them, i loved this game.

[SuicideBirdie]

I remember seeing this review, I was like "this is awesome looking".

[legefy]

my main problem is that it is so hard to find! i have been looking for months now and still havent even seen it

[SuicideBirdie]

@legefy You can order the game from any retailers website. Good luck finding Ico though.

[70062]

I remember watching this review in the past and I remember him giving this game a 10 out of 10.

[LrdVnm]

"Not much of a story"

Look further than your average 'story' and you'll be impressed by what a story hides behind Shadow of the Colossus. Not words, but images and ideas that form a tale.

[XenosapienOfMegiddo]

THIS WAS THE GAME I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!!! I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA.....Thanks Toonami, really looks like a great game.

[Koshea2]

@XenosapienOfMegiddo It's not a great game...It's a fantasic game.

[CrappSlayer]

so nostalgic- i remmember after seeing this review- i bought the game

[TheNomade5]

I miss toonami!!!!

[atl1503]

0:58 i was saying that myself lol

[119matburn]

if tom says 9 its a 9

[xxHazyShadowsxx]

Oh TOM, you were far too good for us.

[animenut08]

wow the funny part about it's almost a nock off of zelda but still looks good

[anticlimatic21]

@animenut08 Hmm. The only thing it has in common with zelda is the sleeping "princess" and the fact that you wield a sword.

Beyond that, it has absolutely nothing in common with any other game.

[AlexLococo]

@animenut08 how come?

because zelda is only based on boss fights, right?

[ImperviousMason]

Lol i remember this review. Toonami was the shit back then.

[GamMan93]

toonami used to be so badass

[yousheng]

great and funny review~

[systofadown1]

toonami was the greatest i dont see y they can put uncut dbz and others with a few new anime on adultswim b/c aside from fam guy and few others its programing doesnt compare

[Bizzer10]

wow

why have i never played this game?

[theprocess04]

toonami was the shit what happened.

[Cafeer24]

Wow. They showed so many spoilers in this review....

[chingvang559]

just uploaded "Shadow of the Colossus 2" NEW trailer. Download it from 1up, nobody believes me. come see for yourself

[MalusTheFurious]

I agree 100% Cartoon Network was great back then, and they should never have taken away Toonami, let alone change it

[Dialgadude]

If Toonami reviewed MadWorld, it would have been funny if Tom said, "This guy sounds familiar!" because he and the character Jack share the same voice actor!

[SSBr0z]

@Dialgadude That would be hilarious but wouldn't madworld be too bloody for CartoonNetwork?

[dudewat212]

I moss Toonami !!

[whodoyothink]

who doesn't

[dudewat212]

I agree, Cartoon-Cartoon Fridays were the bomb...along with Toonami & Dragon Ball Z & Thundercats.....but overtime, Cartoon Network got gayer with its Fried Dynamite crap!!...BRING BACK the OLD Cartoon Network!-lol

[manoniceandfire]

frying dynamite counts as suicide in real life. i guess thats why the show is called that

[000DW0]

@dudewat212

Boomerang comes to mind to what you said. Thats your only choice for older cartoons.

[bemyhun113]

ahh the god old dbz days good times

[rwmovies]

there is a minipack of this game on little big planet

[Itouchangels]

does anyone know the background song that's being played in the review?

[gmltui]

who does tom's voice

[sdws17]

steve blum

[DewiFin]

i used to like these kid shows when they reviewed all games but now all they show are stupid wii games!

[narutofan9423]

toonami doesnt even come on anymore.

[xTHExFALLx]

Did Toonami really do reviews, or is this just entirely fan made?

I was a Cartoon Network kid up until about the... Toonami "upgrade" or whatever it was, but reviews are the last thing I would expected. EPSCIALLY for Shadow of the Colossus. xD

[GameGuy360]

it's real, i remember watching this on tv awhile ago.

[videochemist]

it's called promotional advertising. they get paid to plug the game on the show.

[MInuhanyouM]

they did do a helluv a lot of em

[ScrubsKlub]

i remember watchin toonami back as a youngin. i miss it and Tom. i think hes the robot dude :)

[devious222]

this is a bad review of an amazing game.. they talk about it as if it's halo or unreal tournament or some crap. the review style should reflect the game and not have those loud beats and guy with a douchey voice. ign did a good job imo.

[forlornhope638]

Given that this aired on TV in a limited commercial time slot, I think it's a pretty decent review. It informs the viewer about the story and it's objective. What more can you do in 1:30 minutes? And Steve Blum's voice is bad ass. :P

[outlawz1351]

Yeah, Toonami reviews were always straight to the point.

[devious222]

fair enough, but I still dislike it on the point that it is full of spoilers. they show almost every colossi (if not all of them) in this vid.

[forlornhope638]

Well, no disagreement there. This vid is extremely spoilerish XD

[sevenringsinhandno1]

This game was awesome!

[thesighingshoe]

i cant stand the new tom

this is how toonami is ment to be

[SPRSniper]

that guy is what made Toonami good. his voice just draws u in. but now they have a train, what up with that? it looks like Tommis the train. guess there trying to take on a younger audience a REALLY young audience.

[autosaver]

ROFL! Your right

[HevekReekel]

the ico team really has to pick up the pace.

THEIR GAMES ARE AMAZING!!!!

[Heartless216]

lol, yeah i heard a nickname for them was the "olympic team" cause it took four years to make Ico, and another four for SotC! which means thier next project will be probably be revealed soon!

[GamerX89X]

is it me or does the guy who is reviewing the game sound like Jack from Madworld?????

[Kite197]

God I remember when Toonami was good

[Master116155]

@Kite197 God, I remember when Toonami was around... T~T

[danielawsome7]

@Kite197 god i remember when Toonami existed

[mealex6013]

@Kite197 god i remember when cartoon netowrk was good...

[KingOfRedOxen]

@Kite197 And when it was still in existence.

[ThePunisherSpider]

what's the song in the background???

[00blackbullet]

You know the guy that does the voice of that robot dude that reviewed the game seriously has an entertaining robotic accent. Too bad these reviews aren't longer, cuz he's pretty fun to listen too.

[Nemesis40k]

The Voice Actor would be Steven Blum.

He did the voice acting for The main characters in: Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Shamploo, Vincent Valentine in FF7 advent children and a whole bunch more Anime/movies/games.

[Sperium3000]

He's right, what the Colossus ever did wrong? The first one, Valus, doesn't even attack you until he actually notices you're trying to KILL HIM. And Phallanx doesn't even fight at all! She only keeps on flying over and under the desert to shake you off!

[leon47]

Dormin is a mysterious, disembodied entity. Its physical form was severed into sixteen components many years before the beginning of the game, and became sealed within the colossi for unexplained reasons. In legends of the game's world, it is said that Dormin has the power to revive the dead, and it is for this reason that Wander enters the forbidden land, seeking its assistance in reviving Mono. Dormin offers to revive her in exchange for Wander destroying the sixteen colossi.

[Sperium3000]

I... Already know all of that, and that doesn't make me feel any less guilty for the colossi.

[Vaan618]

It made me sad killing the first one :(

[trulynot]

@leon47 Soooo......you kill the Colossus for purely selfish reasons..great.

[LaymanX]

@Sperium3000

Actually you don't have to attack the first one for it to attack you.

[streetz23]

wow toonami actually did a decent review!

[31robot]

uh no this is the best game ever and it is rated t duh

[edge1000]

isnt this game m rated?

[PHILRYABKIN]

Yeah this is toonami first M rated game review.

[Itachi096]

this game is rated T

[niedude]

I can't believe they gave this game a nine with ten max hours of gameplay, and FFX that they said was short and maxed out at 70 hours (bunch of n00b reviewers) they gave an 8.

This game is only fighting bosses and stuff, I am not saying it sucks, hardly, but FFX kicks its ass all the way into the new moon.

[Hitorijime]

More play time does not equal the better game.

[BeyondAMV]

you can't compare the games its two different styles, Collosus is for the less hardcore gamers who dont wana deal with all the side quests and grinding levels and gear...they are two different games, collosuss is a short game but very fun, FFX is short by ff status. new tactics is atleast 120+ hours and its for the ds..

[darknessofevil]

its just a ff noob that think the greatest game in the world is the ff series i mean its good but people have other oppions

[alextc08]

lol final famtasy might be good but this game woops ff little ass XD

[smashbros75]

they showed the final boss.

Thats rare.

[OrderofXIII]

Every Toonami review I;ve seen so far showed the final boss. :/

[spyduhmon]

the bigger they are the cooler sound they make when they fall

[lord101646]

so true.........so true............

[skoolsuxbigtime]

is that steven blum narrating?

[Colintabulous]

That game was awesome

[TheLastSpartanMC]

i wish tom was still here right now.

lets give a moment to lord awsomness aka tom

[KeyHero21]

sweet. to the point. basically - THEY LOVED IT!

[Kennashi]

its eeco, not eye-co, tom.

[loopydoug]

its pronounced I CO

[SuggestionsWatcher]

The pronounciation is "ee-ko" although it is spelt Ico.

[hateharrypotter]

i co dipshit

[hateharrypotter]

i co dipshit

[FumitoUedaFan]

Are you clueless? It's pronounced "ee-ko" but it is spelled Ico. Or are you confused about that?

[loopydoug]

well, it is Japanese, so it could be that way, but not im America.

[blalabwan]

the story is awsome not soft. good reveiw

[OrderofXIII]

What he meant was that the story isn't really made clear to the player. They mostly left it up to the player to figure out what was going on for themselves.

[salem424]

I wish I could find Toonami's Ico review.

[unicasatan]

lol