» Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:00 am
Ico + Shadow of the Colossus pack. I'm not too familiar with the story of the former, but the latter is very good. The minimalistic narrative provides just enough to let you see things as they are while leaving you a lot of room to put your own spin on things. And the ending is especially poignant.
Demon's Souls. I know, I know, Dark Souls is out, but I'm unfamiliar with that and, hey, the OP wanted exclusives. I honestly expected this to just have an excuse plot meant to weakly justify the tromping-around-killing-and-being-killed thing. Boy, how wrong I was. It borrows a lot of pages from SotC's brand of storytelling, using a lot of minimalism, fantastically-designed environments, and the game mechanics itself to get its points across. It hints and implies a lot of things about its world, but leaves everything open enough to let you put your own interpretation on things. That is, assuming you can handle the difficulty.