If I had a choice between God of War, Devil May Cry, Maximo, and Ratchet & Clank, I'd go DMC>R&C>MAX>God. However I never finished GOW so I might be missing something.
Shadow of the Colossus is indeed a truly great game, it was the last game I bought on release day before FFXII. Wander is one of my favorite heroes in anything ever. He seems similar to Link on some levels but in the end he runs a much darker course.
They both start their adventures with little more than determination and a clue, both are basically alone, both must rely on little more than their own bravery and resourcefulness. However where Link has Courage and hope, Wander has sadness, anger, and desperation. Where Link knows he has to find the will to do what's right, Wander realizes he has to go against what's right and endanger the old world to make his wish come true. You KNOW that before the end of the game Wander knows something is very wrong and what he's doing will have dire consequences but it doesn't matter to him. For Wander the old world died when his lady was sacrificed, so endangering that world means nothing. His only wish and only thought is her revival, by any means necessary. This barren, empty, desolate world is what the old world became when she died.
The moment Wander kills a Colossus he is returned unconscious to the temple, and the moment he wakes up he listens for the voice and sets off again, he's got a single-minded desperation to complete this quest. The game has no side-quests, the game has no monsters besides the colossi, and almost no spoken dialogue; your only mission (and Wander's) is to destroy the colossi and return your true love's soul to her body. Holy shit. It's ridiculous to think anybody who owns a PS2 might not have played this game. The ending is probably the most goddamn sad thing on the planet because they make you think you can change it, and every time you go to it you try harder to change it but you can't. GOOOOODDDAMMIT this game is good.
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