Shadow of the Colossus, released in Japan as Wander to Kyozō (Japanese: ワンダと巨像 Hepburn: Wanda to Kyozō?, officially translated Wander and the Colossus), is an action-adventure game published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) for the PlayStation 2. The game's storyline focuses on a young man named Wander who enters a forbidden land. Wander must travel across a vast expanse on horseback and defeat sixteen massive beings, known simply as colossi, in order to restore the life of a girl named Mono.