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Ico (イコ, pronounced "Ee-ko"), a horned boy, is taken by a group of warriors to an abandoned castle and sealed in a stone coffin to be sacrificed. A tremor overturns the coffin and Ico escapes. While searching the castle, he meets Yorda (ヨルダ, Yoruda), a captive girl who speaks a different language. Ico helps Yorda escape and defends her from the shadow-like creatures. The couple crosses the castle and arrives at the bridge leading to the mainland. As they pass through, the Queen, ruler of the castle, appears and tells Yorda that as a girl she cannot leave the castle. Later, as they try to escape onto the bridge, it separates and they go their separate ways. Yorda tries to save Ico but the Queen stops her. He ends up falling from the bridge and loses consciousness.

Ico wakes up beneath the castle and returns to the upper levels, finding a magical sword that dispels shadow creatures. After discovering that Yorda has been turned to stone by the Queen, he confronts the Queen in her throne room, who reveals that she plans to start her life over by taking possession of Yorda's body. Ico kills the queen with the magic sword, but his horns are broken in the fight and at the end of the fight he loses consciousness. With the Queen's death, the castle begins to collapse around Ico, but the Queen's spell on Yorda is broken, and a dark Yorda carries Ico safely out of the castle to a boat, sending him drifting towards the shore alone. Ico wakes up to find the distant castle in ruins, and Yorda, in her human form, stranded nearby. She wakes up and smiles at Ico.

Shadow of the Colossus:
The story of Shadow of the Colossus begins as Wander enters the Forbidden Land, crossing a long bridge on his horse, Agro. Unbeknownst to the player, before entering, Wander had stolen an ancient sword, which is the only weapon capable of killing colossi. Led to the massive shrine of worship in the center of the region, Wander carries with him the body of a young girl named Mono. A moment later, several humanoid shadow creatures appear and approach Wander before he easily dismisses them with a swing of the ancient sword in his possession. After defeating the shadow creatures, the voice of the disembodied entity known as "Dormin" echoes from above, expressing surprise that Wander possesses the weapon. Wander asks Dormin to return Mono's soul to his body, which Dormin believes might be possible on the condition that Wander can destroy the sixteen idols lining the temple hall by using the ancient sword to kill each colossus that the idols represent located throughout the land. Despite being warned by Dormin that he might have to pay a high price to revive Mono, Wander sets out to search the land for the colossi and destroy them.

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