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Shadow of the Colossus

Boss Fight Books at its strongest — single-game monograph as personal essay, exactly the register Cartridge Collective is writing in.

Author
Nick Suttner
Published
2015
Publisher
Boss Fight Books
Pages
152
Shelved
Recommended

Suttner’s reading of Shadow of the Colossus moves between close formal analysis and his own grief at the loss of his brother — and earns the second register because he’s done the work on the first. This is what Boss Fight Books exists to publish: short, personal, scholarly enough to argue with. The format closest in spirit to CC’s own house style.