Whew. This is a toss-up between three scenes, and two of them are basically tutorial levels.
Three: God of War II, fighting the Colossus of Rhodes
So the first God of War ends with you becoming, *gasp* the god of war. So at the beginning of the game, you are ludicrously powerful, and because your loyal Spartans ask for your help in destroying Rhodes, you head on down from Olympus to help with some total destruction. Then, an unknown god brings the under-construction statue of Helios to life to attack you. You are still Kratos, the god of war, though, so you accomplish both the destruction of Rhodes and of the colossus. the key note, though, is that this is the first goddamned level.
For a sense of scope, this is the most complete picture of the colossus fitting in the screen I could find.
Then you fight the colossus from the freaking inside, where you walk across balance beams while you fight soldiers. "I normally do one of those at a time," you say, because you are lame. But this game really just set the tone for what was coming even a console generation later.
Two: Shadow of the Colossus. The Whole Game.
Shadow of the colossus was just made epic. And it had a very minimalist approach which made it all the more epic. The fact that you know so little about the Forbidden Land, the hero, and the princess he's trying to save gives you a deep feeling of the present; this is who I am, and this is what I am doing.
But God DAMN were those boss fights epic!
Oh, this is a fair fight.
It's you, a no-name little guy with a sword and a bow-and-arrow set, vs these centuries-old guardian monster things from the Forbidden Land. Every encounter with a colossus is a battle for your life, and that's before you can even start attacking! Unfortunately, I didn't get to the end of the game before my roommate had to move away, but that's what the upcoming HD remake is for, right?
Now I'll be fucked in high definition.
Again, tutorial level. You are climbing Olympus to seize the gods along with the titans you have saved, and Poseidon decides that you've made it far enough. He jumps down into the ocean, and turns into that thing in the picture. Each of those tentacle things: giant horses with crustacean arms. Click on the image. see those little gaps in the crustaeous parts? on the end of those scorpion-stinger looking claw-things? You are about the size of one of those gaps. You also have to fight these as they pierce Gaia's hands and arms while you are on the side of the mountain that the gods make their home on.
Then, when you defeat this form of him, you enter a first-person view of Kratos killing Poseidon. It's another quick-time event cutscene, and it is brutal.
It's also from Poseidon's point of view. So yeah. Great way to intro a game.
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