VerdantTome

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solved or not, what games have great detailed mysteries/conspiracy theories that you can completely miss?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I stumbled down a rabbit hole that led to the Shadow of the Colossus fan theory community.

  If you play the game normally, you’ll wander a deserted, forbidden land and defeat the 12 colossi, revealing a little more back story each time, see the finale, and finish the game.

  If you explore every nook and cranny of the world, make careful charts, compare the PS2 original and the re-releases, and even hack the game to take the camera out of bounds, you’ll find an astounding amount of detail that, at first, seems to be wasted. But over the years, fans have turned all of it into a surprisingly coherent possible expansion of the game’s universe, including linking it more directly to the developer’s previous game, Ico.

  For a long time, many people were sure that some hidden secret remained buried in the game, to be revealed if only the right set of actions could be discovered. Most of the community seems to have given up on that now, but looking at what they assembled, it’s hard to shake the feeling that there still may be something to it all.