Shadow of the Colossus! I just recently bought that game despite the fact that I don't own a PS2! Then I took jaunts over to my friends' houses and played it there! Until they had to leave for college, that is. I believe I made it just past the sixth Colossus.
It is an awesome game. I think riding over the pretty landscape is unnerving primarily because of the lack of music. And then, when you enter into a Colossi's lair, complete with all the shadows and mist and creepiness, it just starts up, and you're like, "Whoa, scary." (Okay, so I'm thinking about the fourth Colossus, which was actually kind of cute - but the crypt setting? Nope, didn't do it for me.)
The music turns very encouraging after you finally get onto the Colossus. Before that, it's just very nerve-wracking.
I really liked the fifth Colossus, even though it took forever for my friend and I to figure out how to antagonize it enough to swoop down. The method seems horribly obvious in hindsight, but honestly - we were having too much fun teasing Wander about his swimming. Seriously, he just kind of . . . flails in a certain direction and swims about a foot a second. So we had Wander swim around the base of the pillar the Colossus was standing on and watched it watch us.
As for Potions: I always figured that Harry was just crap at it, to be perfectly honest. Now, maybe if we had the chance to sit in Hermione's head for a bit; that might shed some light on things . . .
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It is an awesome game. I think riding over the pretty landscape is unnerving primarily because of the lack of music. And then, when you enter into a Colossi's lair, complete with all the shadows and mist and creepiness, it just starts up, and you're like, "Whoa, scary." (Okay, so I'm thinking about the fourth Colossus, which was actually kind of cute - but the crypt setting? Nope, didn't do it for me.)
The music turns very encouraging after you finally get onto the Colossus. Before that, it's just very nerve-wracking.
I really liked the fifth Colossus, even though it took forever for my friend and I to figure out how to antagonize it enough to swoop down. The method seems horribly obvious in hindsight, but honestly - we were having too much fun teasing Wander about his swimming. Seriously, he just kind of . . . flails in a certain direction and swims about a foot a second. So we had Wander swim around the base of the pillar the Colossus was standing on and watched it watch us.
As for Potions: I always figured that Harry was just crap at it, to be perfectly honest. Now, maybe if we had the chance to sit in Hermione's head for a bit; that might shed some light on things . . .