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A photo shows Otocky's packaging art, with the game's main character on a blue background, alongside a copy of the Famicom Disk System game.

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A rhythm-based shoot-'em-up in... 1987?

A Shadow of the Colossus screenshot shows a zoomed-in look at the masked face of the boss Quadratus.

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Extended Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido interview

A screenshot from The Last Guardian shows the main character climbing on the back of Trico's head.

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Shawn Layden and others on The Last Guardian's 10+-year dev cycle

A sketch for Takeshi Oga's Shadow of the Colossus artwork shows 16 colossi in the background while main character Wanda and horse companion Agro race forward in the foreground.

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The making of our Shadow of the Colossus cover art