___ _ _ __ _ _ / __| |_ __ _ __| |_____ __ __ ___ / _| | |_| |_ ___ \__ \ ' \/ _` / _` / _ \ V V / / _ \ _| | _| ' \/ -_) |___/_||_\__,_\__,_\___/\_/\_/ \___/_| \__|_||_\___| _________ __ \_ ___ \ ____ | | ____ ______ ________ __ ______ / \ \/ / _ \| | / _ \/ ___// ___/ | \/ ___/ \ \___( <_> ) |_( <_> )___ \ \___ \| | /\___ \ \______ /\____/|____/\____/____ >____ >____//____ > \/ \/ \/ \/ ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those who do not wish to have the boss strategies instantly given away, clues are available, both ambiguous and specific, at the top of this guide. ______________________________________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Author: A I e x | | Began: October 21st, 2005 | | Completed: October 23rd, 2005 | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________ |~\/~~~~~~~\/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\/~~~~~~~\/~| | || CT.TS || Table of Contents || CT.TS || | |_||_______||____________________________________________________||_______||_| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | - Table of Contents.....................CT.TS | | - Ambiguous Boss Clues..................0A.00 | | - Specific Boss Clues...................0B.00 | | - Walkthrough...........................01.00 | | - First Colossus..............01.01 | | - Second Colossus.............01.02 | | - Third Colossus..............01.03 | | - Fourth Colossus.............01.04 | | - Fifth Colossus..............01.05 | | - Sixth Colossus..............01.06 | | - Seventh Colossus............01.07 | | - Eigth Colossus..............01.08 | | - Ninth Colossus..............01.09 | | - Tenth Colossus..............01.10 | | - Eleventh Colossus...........01.11 | | - Twelfth Colossus............01.12 | | - Thirteenth Colossus.........01.13 | | - Fourteenth Colossus.........01.14 | | - Fifteenth Colossus..........01.15 | | - Sixteenth Colossus..........01.16 | | - Legal & Copyright.....................LE.AL | | - Credits & Thanks......................CR.DS | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +============================================================================+ | Ambiguous Clues 0A.00 | +============================================================================+ | #01 - Use the light of the sword to determine where the weak point is. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #02 - It's got something to do with his feet. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #03 - The bracelet he wears prevents you from climbing, eleiminate it. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #04 - The solution involves those four doors elsewhere on the field. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #05 - You need to get his attention somehow from a distance. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #06 - If only you could manage to hide yourself... | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #07 - The trick is to get a hold on his tail. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #08 - Perhaps if it were higher off the ground... | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #09 - You won't get anywhere fighting him in the cave. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #10 - It'll come to you while running around on the horse. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #11 - The boss has a deadly fear of fire. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #12 - You need to get to higher ground for this one. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #13 - He's a flying creature, sounds like a job for the bow. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #14 - Lay waste to the stone ruins. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #15 - There's definitely some way to get up the wall on the side. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #16 - When it doubt, look for another hidden weak point. | +============================================================================+ +============================================================================+ | Specific Clues 0B.00 | +============================================================================+ | #01 - Stab the symbol on the back of his left leg. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #02 - When the boss is up on his hind legs, the answer is clear. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #03 - It's something to do with the stone circle on the field. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #04 - Hide down in the tunnels and wait to see what happens. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #05 - Get its attention with an arrow, and wait for it to dive... | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #06 - At the opposite end of the room, hide and wait. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #07 - When it pops out of the water, so does its hairy tail. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #08 - Let it climb the wall and note where the weak points are. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #09 - There are geysers all over the field, bursting with water. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #10 - While riding your horse and being chased, look it in the eye. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #11 - Find a way on top of one of the torches and wait. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #12 - Use arrows first. Hop onto the Colossus, but jump off again... | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #13 - Those sacks on his underbelly are ripe for piercing. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #14 - Try getting on top of one of the vertical pillars. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #15 - When he stomps, tiles tilt, when he attacks, blocks fall. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | #16 - Not all of the weak points must be struck with the sword. | +============================================================================+ ____________________________________________________________________________ |~\/~~~~~~~\/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\/~~~~~~~\/~| | || 01.00 || Walkthrough || 01.00 || | |_||_______||____________________________________________________||_______||_| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +-- Acquainting Yourself with the Game and Controls -------------------------+ This is the story of a mysterious young man, and equally mysterious young girl. In order to save this girl, you must journey through vast plains and mountains in a quest to defeat the sixteen Colossi which inhabit the land. Before we begin the quest why don't we take a moment to familiarize yourself with some of the controls. Obviously you can move around using the left analog stick. You can also use the right analog stick to move the camera around. An interesting tip here, you can use the right analog stick to move the camera during cutscene sequences as well. The triangle button is used for jumping as well as mounting your horse, we'll get to horse controls in a minute. You can switch between your two weapons (and unarmed) using left and right on the D-Pad. The square button is used to attack with whatever weapon you are currently wielding, hold it down with the bow to charge an arrow, and release to fire. The longer you hold it the more powerful the shot, keep an eye on the pink circle at the lower right, when the white light fills it, then the bow is at maximum charge, the same applies to the sword when you are holding onto something (like a perhaps a wall or one of the Colossi.) The R2 button zooms in the camera, useful when aiming the bow. The L1 button will face the camera to whatever direction the main character is facing. The real use of this button is during battles against the Colossi, hold the L1 button in order to aim the camera in the Colossus' direction. Now head outside just past the platform where the girl lies, but don't drop. With your sword equipped, hold the circle button to aim it in the air. While holding the circle button move the left analog stick, beams of light will spread and converge depending on where you move it. Whichever direction they converge in, that is the direction of the next Colossus that you have to fight. Now it's time to get on your horse, you can call the horse by pressing the X button. While fighting a Colossus when your horse isn't around, pressing the X button will make you whistle to get its attention. Press the triangle button while standing beside the horse to mount it. While on the horse you can hold square or circle with the sword to get your direction, and you can fire your bow while riding. Steer the horse with the left analog stick and get him to start moving by tapping X, the more you tap it the faster the horse goes. The horse will gradually slow down, so if you want maximum speed, you have to hit the X button on a regular basis. Two more things, first of all you can stop the horse by angling down on the left analog stick. Secondly, you can look at the map with the start button. Now that you're accustomed with the controls it's time to venture off toward the first Colossus. ______________________________________________________________________________ ________) (, / /___, ) / +-- (_/ IRST COLOSSUS -------------------------------------------- 01.01 --+ When I refer to a specific direction like north or south, press the start button to check your map to see which way you should be going, but most of the time you can approximate by aiming your sword and following the light. When you get out of the temple, aim your sword and you'll see that the light points you directly south. Start riding in that direction. While you ride you can hold circle to check to make sure you're still going in the right direction, as you point the light toward different objects, the horse too will move in that direction. Point the light in the direction where the beams converge to the sharpest point and when you eventually reach that point you'll hit a wall. It's time to dismount from the horse, and make the rest of the trip on your own. You will note that so far you have not encountered any normal enemies, the reason for this is because there are none in the game. The entire experience is based solely on the battles with the Colossi, anything else would just be in the way (and pale in comparison.) Don't worry, you'll get to do some fighting soon, probably a lot sooner than you expect. After the quick little scene that kind of shows the area where you are, you should be off the horse. Face directly west and there on the wall will be a kind of viny, leafy, grassy patch. When looking at your map, the yellow arrow is the direction your character is facing while the blue shape opens in the direction the camera is facing. Jump at this viny wall with the triangle button and while in mid air, press the R1 button and hold it to grab on. Once you have grabbed something, the little pink circle at the lower right corner will begin to shrink. This is your grip strength, when the circle disappears, you will fall. When you are not gripping anything, the circle gradually gets bigger as you grip returns. Also noteworthy is the meter below the circle, this is your life bar. When it depletes, the game is over. While holding on to the wall, press the triangle button to jump up, or hold up on the left analog stick to climb. Once you grab the ledge at the top, press triangle to climb up onto it. Don't worry about leaving your horse behind, you'll see it again soon enough. From the perspective of climbing up, make a left when you reach the top (the other direction leads to a dead end anyway.) At the end of this path is a gap, run toward the gap and press triangle to jump over it. On the other side run left and jump up while holding R1 to grab the ledge above you, and then climb onto it. Head right (this and most other directions assume the camera is facing the default direction) and cross the wooden platforms. You'll see another gap here that you have to jump over, and then you'll reach a fallen pillar. You can roll underneath things in this game by pressing the R1 and triangle buttons at the same time (this can be performed while running too.) Continue to the end of this path and then jump and climb up to the one above you. Make a right here and climb again. You should find yourself at this point on a small ledge with a rock pillar on your left, and a dead end on your right. Even though you can't jump high enough to get on top of the rock pillar, run left and jump toward it while holding the grab button. You should be able to grab a small ledge on the side of the pillar. Now hold left on the analog stick to shimmy around to the opposite side. When you get there, hold the left analog stick in the opposite direction (from the one you're facing) and press triangle to jump away from the while while still holding R1, you'll grab the next ledge. Climb onto this one and follow the path to trigger a scene, here we have the first Colossus. ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | +-- F I R S T C O L O S S U S --+ | |____________________________________________________________________________| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | We are thrust right into battle immediately, but the Colossus doesn't | | really notice you. You're free to run around without much happening, but | | the instant he does notice you, some pumping battle music begins and that | | is when it truly gets dangerous. We should go over a couple things before | | that however. First of all this is your first battle, so it's important | | to know exactly what you're trying to do. At your disposal is a sword and | | a bow, both will come in handy but not necessarily for this battle. | | Colossi have weak points which are displayed as weird glowing symbols on | | their body, but they aren't always easy to find. To find them you must | | hold up your sword and see where the light converges, that will show you | | the location of the weak point (and usually there are more than one.) | | Killing a Colossus is a matter of hitting those weak points with your | | weapons, or something along those lines which damages the boss (its health | | meter is shown at the top.) Mostly you cannot hit these points without | | first climbing up the gigantic beast and locating them yourself. | | | | Remember that the L1 button centres your camera on the Colossus, that will | | really come in handy. Begin by holding up your sword and aiming it at the | | boss. From far away it doesn't really give an accurate reading but using | | it closer will reveal one weak point on its head, and one on the back of | | its left leg, down near the foot (or hoof). Climbing a Colossi is like | | climbing a wall. You can't just grab skin, but any hairy section is | | climbable, as well as accessories (like a bracelet maybe) and basically | | any surface that looks like it could pass as a ledge. Remember that most | | of the time there is a pretty predetermined way to climb on top of these | | beasts, all you have to do is find it. When you're ready to begin | | fighting this boss, then run up to him, and all hell breaks loose. | | | | As I said there are two weak points on this boss, one on the back of the | | left leg and one on the head. Obviously the leg is easier to get to so | | we'll aim for that, but let's take a moment to look at the bosses attacks. | | For the most part he just walks around, this sounds harmless but it's | | actually quite dangerous. If you get near his foot when he stomps (or | | worse yet, under the foot) then you are going to take damage. His actual | | attack involves the enormous club he is carrying, he raises it into the | | air and slams it down. If this lands on top of you then you can pretty | | much say goodbye to your life (this sounds like a good time to let people | | know that when you die, you can retry right from the beginning of battle.) | | | | Your goal in this fight is to get around behind the Colossus and jump at | | the back of his left leg. Notice that it is hairy, meaning you can grab | | onto it if you're holding the R1 button. Once you have grabbed hold of | | it, begin climbing up using the left analog stick. A few arm lengths up | | there is a small symbol you will see, when you are holding the fur on top | | of the symbol, tap the square button one to stab, and then again to stab a | | second time. Note that while you are doing this the Colossus will be | | trying to shake you off, as long as you are holding the R1 button while he | | is shaking (and not trying to jump) then you will hang on, but it will do | | a number on your grip. After the second stab, there will be a short | | cutscene where the enormous giant monster falls forward. At this point | | there are two ways that I know of to get up to his head, the hard way and | | the easy way (the hard way is what I used when I first fought this boss, | | before I found the much easier way to do it.) Which you use is up to you. | | | | The easy way to do it starts right here. While the boss is kneeling down | | after you have stabbed him, jump up and grab hold of the ledge just below | | the fur on his ass, then grab the fur on his ass and climb. Above you | | should be a reasonably large platform, climb over to the left to get | | around it, and then up. While holding the side of this platform, press | | the triangle button to jump up onto it. You're relatively safe while | | standing on this platform. You shouldn't be grabbing anything (to restore | | your grip strength) but you should be holding R1. Holding R1 when not | | near a wall makes you duck down, and while ducking you are much less | | susceptible to the shaking of the beast. Once you grip strength has | | restored, then it's time to jump up again and limb to the higher platform. | | | | From here it's just a matter of climbing the rest of the fur until you | | reach the head. Note that it's pretty safe to run around on the | | Collossus' upper back without falling so you can restore grip strength. | | While on the actually head he has a tendency to shake, so make sure that | | you are holding on (you have to be holding on anyway to do the stab.) The | | symbol here on his head is much larger, grab hold of the fur around it, | | wait until he isn't shaking and then press and hold square. When the | | white charge meter that appears on the pink circle reaches its maximum, | | tap square to perform a powerful stab that should deal damage equal to | | about 35% of his total health and cause a blast of black blood to spew. | | All you have to do now is keep using powerful stabs, just three of them | | should be enough to finally take down the monster and win the battle. | | | | The hard method I described before works as follows. After you have | | stabbed the mini symbol on the leg, jump off the creature and run around | | to the front (be careful of be stomped on here.) When he lands, he puts | | the climb down and on the front of the club are some ledges you can climb. | | Climb on top of the club (be careful because he swings it a lot) and jump | | from the club to the bracelet on his arm. From here you have to shimmy | | around back and climb up the fur on the back of his arm, there is a small | | platform near his shoulder you can rest on, but it's very difficult to | | actually reach it before you run out of grip strength, be warned. From | | that small platform you have access to the fur on the upper back. | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Upon defeating the boss you will see a scene and then a number of black spirits float about. You are automatically knocked unconscious here and asked if you wish to save your game. This is how saving works in the game, you can save every time you defeat a Colossus and then you are returned back to the temple, with a new Colossus in a new location which must be defeated. ______________________________________________________________________________ __ (__/ ) / ) / +-- (_/ ECOND COLOSSUS --------------------------------------------- 01.02 --+ Take your horse out front of the temple, and lift the sword up high. You'll find that the beam of light points directly at the temple. Well the next Colossus is not actually inside the temple, it's actually pointing behind the temple. Ride your horse around to the back side and then as you go in the direction of the beam of light, soon enough you will reach an enormous cliff. Almost directly northwest of the temple, along this cliff is a path that is somewhat hard to see. It's sloping down and leading north across the canyon. If you can't find it then ride back to the back of the temple and look northwest, you should see two stone pillars that make an arch, but the middle of the arch is broken. The path is below this arch, leading to the north. As you are crossing this bridge you should be able to make out the faint, blurry outline of a door on your right, way down at the bottom of the canyon. For the record this is your final destination, keep that in mind. Continue across to the other side of the bridge and when you get there go right and start to descend down the sloping path (a short scene should occur here if you're on the right track.) At the bottom, turn around and go west until you hit the wall, and then turn again and ride to the north toward the door. A scene should take over here as a huge hulking creature breaks loose. ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | +-- S E C O N D C O L O S S U S --+ | |____________________________________________________________________________| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | This time we will be battling an enormous quadruped, and the other | | difference is that you have your horse with you. This Colossus is twice | | as nasty when it comes to stomping on you, obviously because he's got | | twice as many feet. You will also want to be aware of the one main attack | | he has where he lifts his two front feet into the air and stomps down with | | incredible power. This will actually be a good chance to hit him and | | you'll see why in a minute. For now pull out your sword and aim the light. | | | | You will see that the sword focuses light on quite a few weak points. | | First of all, every one of his feet is a weak point, as well as his head | | and his ass. The weak points on his feat are for knocking him over like | | the first boss, while the other ones are for doing damage. The weak | | points on his feet are actually literally on the very bottom of his feet, | | so you can only lift when he raises his feet up high. Obviously you | | also cannot hit these with the sword, so at least initially, the bow is | | going to be the weapon of choice here. Using the horse is totally | | optional, I don't find it to be particularly useful in this fight. | | | | You can try ot hide behind the boss and pick at his feet as he walks | | around normally, but if you want to get things done right, you'll going to | | have to take risks. By this I mean, you're going to have to run around | | directly in front of the boss. While standing just ahead of him, this | | should convince him to start the attack where he lifts both of his front | | feet into the air. Wait for a few seconds as her lifts them up high (this | | attack is very slow) then when the time is right, and the target is clear, | | let loose a charged up arrow. If all goes well then the boss will drop. | | Regardless of which limb you hit, they've all got some fur on them | | somewhere, usually around back and near the elbow of knee joint. | | | | You can climb up this boss pretty easily, and reach the top without too | | much difficulty, there's fur everywhere. Once you get up there I would | | recommend making tracks for the ass symbol first. If you climbed up one | | of the front legs it will be quite a bit more difficult, since there is no | | fur leading up to the shoulder you'll have to climb across horizontally | | toward the upper part of the back legs, where the fur extends onto the | | back. Shimmy across now (don't try to jump across as you go, do it slowly | | but carefully, you'll have enough grip) and then when you get onto his | | lower back, stop gripping since it's flat enough to stand safely here. | | | | After catching your breath, move down toward the symbol near his tail end. | | It might not be visible at first, so climb around a bit until it appears, | | it's quite big and hard to miss once it does. Grab hold of the fur in | | that area and charge up a sword stab attack. You will be able to damage | | the boss for 50% of his total health before the symbol disappears. Once | | it does then you've done all you can here, and it's time to proceed to the | | other one on the head. Run across the back (you don't have to do a lot of | | climbing here). You only really have to jump and climb over those bone | | like obstacles as you go along. It's hard to fall unless you're careless. | | | | When you reach the head, walk right out above his face, you'll find the | | next symbol there. You have to be much more careful though, unlike the | | tail end, he can whip his neck around and try to throw you off. Before | | you reach the symbol, be ready to hold the R1 button and grab on at a | | second's notice. When you reach the symbol, you should be holding on | | anyway. In between head swings, charge the sword and stab. This is the | | last symbol so you can keep stabbing until the creature is defeated. | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______) (, / / ) / +-- (_/ HIRD COLOSSUS ---------------------------------------------- 01.03 --+ Ride the horse out from of the temple, this Colossus is going to be in approximately the same direction of the other one at least to start. Head around behind the temple and look to those two arches to the northwest I described in the previous one. Take the same path leading north across the canyon. When you get to the other side here, approximate where you have to go by holding the sword up to the light. What you want to do now is follow the light exactly, even though it's going to lead you into a wall. When you hit the wall, turn right and head east for a ways, while sticking close to the wall. Soon enough you should find an opening leading to the north, follow it up and you'll come out among some trees and a quick scene will occurs. Ahead of you is a large body of water with a gigantic structure in the middle of it. Going up the side of the structure is a long path, you need to get to that path now. Jump off your horse and get into the water, you can swim just fine. Hold up on the left analog stick to swim and hold R1 to swim underwater (your grip meter becomes your oxygen meter while underwater.) Once you eventually reach the path going up, begin climbing it until you reach the top. All you are going to find here is a stone pillar with a ledge on the side of it. You have to run and jump diagonally and grab hold of the ledge using the R1 button. If you miss it's a long way down, and a long way back up. Once you are holding the ledge, shimmy around to the right side and then spin the camera so it's facing in the same direction you are. Hold the analog stick in the opposite direction (toward the platform on the other side) and leap off the wlal you're holding onto to land on it. From here all you have to do is run up the path to the top. Climb up the large platform for a scene. ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | +-- T H I R D C O L O S S U S --+ | |____________________________________________________________________________| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | This is a really neat boss here, he's wielding a large stone rectangular | | pillar, and has these neat little spheres for feat. He has two different | | kinds of attacks that he uses, one is an overhand stab where he crams his | | large stone pillar directly into the ground. The other is where he swings | | the pillar and slams it into the ground horizontally, rather than | | vertically. When he does the second one, it creates a ramp that you can | | run up and that will be an important part of the strategy for this battle. | | | | Unfortunately if you try to run up the pillar after he slams it down | | you'll find there is nothing you can do. His bracelet is so big that when | | you try to climb past it, well, there just isn't any way to get past it. | | The solution is quite simple. Note that in the middle of the field there | | is a flat stone platform. Well what you want to do is stand on this | | platform and wait for the boss to attack. When he eventually does attack, | | he'll hit the platform with his pillar and the force of the collision will | | actually shatter the bracelet he's wearing on his right arm! | | | | No it's time to really take on the boss. Wait for him to do the overhead | | attack where he slams his weapon onto the ground, and then run up it. No | | need to climb, just run. When you reach the top, jump and grab hold of | | his arm hair and begin climbing. Along the way up, when you get a chance, | | climb around to the back of his arm, it's easier to get up from there. If | | you need a rest then you can easily drop down onto the large broken | | bracelet, the part on the back is still in tact. Climb up the back of the | | arm, and from there onto the back. The first weak point of this boss is | | located on the top of his head, you'll have to climb his neck to get it. | | | | Whip out the old sword and jam it into the top of his head. Up here he | | likes to flail wildly so it can be pretty difficult to hold on. Keep | | stabbing until you have dealt damage equal to about 50% of his life, at | | that point the symbol is going to disappear. That's only one of the two | | located on his body, but don't worry, the other one is quite easier to | | find. What you want to do next is run down his back, right in the middle. | | Grab hold if you need to, there should be kind of a stone object at about | | the point where his back goes from being slanted, to being straight down. | | Grab hold of this stone object and hang, then let go of it entirely. As | | you drop down his back hold the R1 button. One of two things will | | probably happen, either you will grab the ledge around his hip area, or | | you will land on it without even grabbing. There is very little chance of | | actually missing it since the ledge extends so out quite far. | | | | Move around this circular ledge to the monster's belly. On his belly | | there you will find the second weak point covered in fur. Climb up it and | | get ready to do some more stabbing. It's takes quite a number of stabs, | | and he kind of likes to do The Twist while you're hanging on for dear | | life, but the platform is right below you so taking a rest is easy. Once | | this symbol has taken enough damage, the entire boss is done for. | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ ________) (, / /___, ) / +-- (_/ OURTH COLOSSUS ------------------------------------------- 01.04 --+ When you leave the temple this time, your sword will direct you to go directly southeast, so follow it. Eventually you will hit a wall, when this happens make a left and follow the wall along as you proceed east until there is an opening that continues southeast. Follow this foggy path for quite a long ways until it leads you out to a nice green area. There's a cliff in front fo you so what you need to do is follow the path that goes around between the cliff and the wall. When you get down to the bottom, aim yourself toward the opening but don't go down there. There will be a time when you do have to, but it's not right now. Instead proceed east past these openings and at the end of this secluded area, there is a Colossus lying on the ground in wait. ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | +-- F O U R T H C O L O S S U S --+ | |____________________________________________________________________________| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | It's a face off against another quadruped, this one with sharp feet and a | | tall giraffe-like neck. You will likely notice there is absolutely now | | way, no matter how hard to try, to climb up this thing. Since the sword | | identifies the weak points as being really high up and not visible you're | | going to have to find some other way to take on this beast. | | | | The solution is as follows, it's now time to make use of all those | | entrance doors you passed just a little ways back. Ride the horse over | | there and wait as the Colossus follows you. The Colossus has a nasty | | attack where it stabs the ground with one of its front legs over and over | | again. Fortunately since they are so pointy, this attack is quite easy to | | dodge. Your goal now once you reach this point is to jump down and run | | through one of the doors. Descend down the stairs. The hallway here will | | lead you around in a square and back to where you came in. You can exit | | at any of the points. Pick one set of stairs and stand at the bottom. | | | | Just wait here as everything shakes, and soon enough most shaking should | | stop entirely, when this happens what you need to do is stand at the | | bottom of each of the stairs and look up outside. At one of them you | | should see the Collossus' head, it is trying to peek inside to find out | | where you are. Let it peek. Run to the one on the opposite side and exit | | there. When you come out you will be behind the large beast and it won't | | notice you. If he starts moving at any point just stay hidden and soon | | enough he should duck down again, looking through the same door. | | | | Run up to the Colossus from behind and note his tail, it has two ledges on | | it, bingo. It's a little bit high to run and jump, I find it easiest to | | just stand right beside it and jump vertically, holding R1 to grab on. I | | imagine you could also jump off your horse and grab it if you accuracy | | with the horse jump is good. The second you grab hold of the fur, the | | monster will know you are there and begin shaking its ass wildly. Hang on | | as best you can and climb onto the back, where you can just run without | | holding on too much. Keep running until you reach the neck. | | | | There is a small weak point here like the first boss had, when you stab | | this with a weak stab twice, the boss will lower its head down. This is | | your chance to run along it, right to the top of the head above the face. | | You'll find the primary (and only) attacking weak point here. Grab hold | | of the fur and start using charged up stabs to defeat the monster. He | | likes to really shake his head around so it can be heard to hold on at | | times, but it's relatively safe to let go in between shakes here if you | | need a break. Since it's the only symbol, the boss dies when it's gone. | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ ________) (, / /___, ) / +-- (_/ IFTH COLOSSUS -------------------------------------------- 01.05 --+ Mount your horse and get yourself out of the temple. The next Colossus is located approximately east of here, aim your sword high and follow the path where the light converges. As you follow the light of the path exactly, it will eventually lead you to a canyon. Make a right when you hit this canyon and you'll find that it leads you around between the wall and the canyon safely toward a much more open area. When you reach this place lift the sword high again and the light should aim you to a path between two walls. Just a short ways down this path you will reach a point where the horse cannot continue, there is nothing but water in front of you. No matter, just jump off the horse and jump in the water. Note the very large wall ahead as well, in the middle of the wall there is an opening, but you must be underwater in order to get through it (hold the R1 button to dive remember). Pop up on the other side and look straight ahead, you'll see a number of ledges which you can climb up. At the top there's a short bridge to cross and a scene. ____________________________________________________________________________ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | +-- F I F T H C O L O S S U S --+ | |____________________________________________________________________________| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | You won't be able to get the attention of this Colossus just through | | whistling, so that means you have to use the other way of getting | | something's attention from a distance, your bow. You're still too far | | away at this point so note the cracked ground right beside where you | | start, drop down here and you'll land in the water. From here you want to | | start swimming east, with a very slight southeast tilt. In between two of | | the large stone structures you should find a few platforms which protrude | | only slightly out of the water. Swim up beside one of these platforms and | | hit the triangle button to jump out of the water and up onto it. | | | | Equip the bow and hold the square button to charge up your shot, then hold | | the L1 button to automatically look at the boss, and fire. This will | | definitely get his attention and he takes off from the perch and begins to | | fly around (if he flies down near you so just part of his wing is about to | | clip you, drop in the water to be safe.) Now the boss will begin | | attacking, especially if you keep shooting arrows at it. The boss' one | | main attack is to dive out of the sky head first directly at you, and | | obviously this is going to be the only means you have to get on him. | | | | Keep firing arrows from your platform as the boss flies through the sky. | | Remember the age old Space Invaders logic of shooting not where he is, but | | where he is "going to be" since the arrows have travel time. Eventually | | when the boss gets mad enough it will swoop down toward you, and this is | | your chance. There is fur on the boss wing where it meets the body. You | | need to wait until the timing is right, then jump forward at this fur and | | hold the R1 button. If all goes well then you are now holding on. I | | forgot to mention, if the boss keeps swooping but never close enough to | | grab on, try jumping over to the next platform. The boss isn't so much | | swooping directly at you as he is swooping between the two large stone | | structures, so you can move to the next platform and try from there. | | | | This is where it starts to get interesting. Unlike other bosses you | | cannot simply take a break on any flat surface, there is strong wind | | resistance that will push you along and blow you off if you aren't | | careful. It's still possible to let go for a short period of time, but | | you have to make sure the boss is moving straight and calmly, and grab | | hold again at any indication of change. We'll begin with the two more | | difficult symbols to hit, because you are closer to those ones. | | | | At the tip of each wing there is a symbol and you will have to reach | | them. In the middle of the wing there is no fur so that's going to make | | it more difficult. What you need to do is hold onto the fur of whatever | | wing you are on, and wait until you get a few seconds of calm. At that | | point quickly let go and run like mad across the wing in an attempt to | | grab the fur near the tip before the monster starts to flap its wings | | again. Once you have hold of the fur you're relatively okay. The symbol | | is right here below you, equip the sword and you will see it in the | | middle. You need to charge up one single attack and stab down into the | | wing. This symbol and the one on the other wing can only take one charged | | up hit before they disappear so after stabbing once, get back to the main | | body. This is good because after the stab, the monster flips upside down | | and you lose a hell of a lot of grip strength. It's no big deal if you | | fall of course, you'll lose a lot of time, but you can get back up always | | the same way you did before. Either way you now need to do the exact same | | thing, except you must get to the tip of the other wing this time. | | | | Finally once the symbols on both wings are gone, there is one more | | remaining. This symbol is at the very tip of the tail. What you need to | | do is get onto the main body and then when things calm down a bit, let go. | | Begin running as fast as you can down the body toward the tail. If he | | starts to turn at any point, simply grab on wherever you are. When you | | eventually reach the tail there is a large symbol there which you can | | start stabbing like mad. It's the last one, so it will kill the Colossus. | |____________________________________________________________________________| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ __ (__/ ) / ) / +-- (_/ IXTH COLOSSUS ---------------------------------------------- 01.06 --+ Now we head in a brand new direction, and that direction is southwest. Follow the light of the sword exactly as it directs you toward the mountain. When you hit the wall, make a left and turn more in a southeast direction. Follow the wall around and there you will find a path that goes between the wall and a nearby canyon, in a southwest direction. There is a forest here that you have to pass through, it can be difficult at times to get the horse to where you want to go, but if you reach an impasse then just go around. The exit to the forest is on the far west side, with a slight angle toward the north. It will lead out to a sandy path that goes through a large rock tunnel and opens up into an enormous desert. Check the light of your sword again at this point