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Editor's note: It's ten years today - *gulp* - that Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus came out in North America (we had to wait a few more months for the PAL release), and to celebrate the somewhat disturbing anniversary we're returning to Craig Owen's wonderful piece on a group of players in search of the game's secrets, originally published in 2013. Here's hoping that by the time the 10th anniversary of the PAL release rolls by next February we'll have something approaching a release date for its successor The Last Guardian... There's a rocky outcropping right at the edge of the world.
It's not hard to find, though you must trot through caves and gallop across a desolate grass plain to reach it. The real question is why would you want to? There's no colossi to be found perched on this craggy jut at the southernmost tip of Shadow of the Colossus' Forbidden Lands. There's just a stunning ocean view, a thin grassy strip to walk upon, and a flock of seagulls quietly wheeling their way through the air below. It's peaceful, certainly, but so are dozens of other beautiful, tucked away corners of Team Ico's evocative landscape.
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