

Hunting down the glowing lizards you sometimes spot running around the wilderness can extend your stamina gauge and let you hold on for longer, making climbing up the colossi easier. You'll need to plan your route carefully, and find appropriate places to let it rest and replenish, while climbing the colossi - which can be easier said than done, when it's busy bucking and trying to shake you off. When climbing up a colossus, it's also worth noting you have a stamina gauge of sorts that dictates how long you can hold on for before your arms get tired and you fall to the ground. While the disembodied voice will try to point you in the right direction, its instructions sometimes aren't that helpful - like telling you that the aforementioned bracelet colossus' armour is "weak and brittle", when what you have to do is make him hit his arm on the metal plate in the floor. With each colossus requiring a different strategy to beat, it's not always immediately obvious how you're supposed to defeat each one.

Shadow of the Colossus isn't necessarily a hard game - but it can be a little obscure at times.

How easy is Shadow of the Colossus to pick up and play? A conveniently-placed metal plate in the ground can shatter the bracelet, if you can lure him over it and get him to whack it with his sword, giving you a relatively unobstructed path up to his head, save a bit of platforming and jumping between ledges. Another large stone knight likes to swing his sword down - making the perfect ramp up to his arm - however, a large stone bracelet stops you from getting any higher up. For example, one early one is a bit too tall to simply leap at and clamber up, so you need to shoot the underside of his feet with arrows to make him bend down, letting you grab onto his hairy knees instead.
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Though some may be gigantic earthen birds, others are dog like beasts, while others still are humanoid, stone-armoured behemoths, each has a similar set of weak points that you'll need to figure out how to reach, and attack. Fortunately, you have a magical sword that, when held up to the skies, generates a beam of blue light to lead you to your next colossus, albeit as the crow flies.Įach colossus is essentially its own boss fight, and you'll need to figure out a different strategy for defeating each one. With each colossus spread out over the sprawling Forbidden Lands, from beachside caves and lakeside ruins to hilltops and forests, figuring out where your next target is is half of the game. Your time in Shadow of the Colossus is generally divided into two parts - tracking down the next colossus, and defeating him with a mix of well-timed platforming leaps, light puzzle solving and quick sword slashes and dodges.
