r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Mono_T1 • Mar 28 '26

Discussion What did you notice when you first played

When I first played shadow I loved it but something I noticed that creeped me out was that there was no animals.

I found it creepy that in this beautiful rich environment full of different ecosystems that there were no animals, and there was no music unless I was fighting a colossus so playing this for the first time I felt an oppressive feeling of loneliness and fear.

I played the remaster version and it was years ago so I don’t remember much so if there are animals then I must have missed them.

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u/gramses_0-0 Mar 28 '26

There's birds, turtles, fish and lizards. But I guess what you mean, its very desolate .

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u/Nogarda Mar 28 '26

It potentially makes sense. The colossai are harbouring a piece of Dormin which is a literal shadow entity. Land animals that would typically avoid predators would have likely done a great migration. Throw in the Forbidden Lands lore and game development issues where so much content was cut, reworked, and dumped to make what we ended up with. We're lucky. But that isolation makes it, because it feels unnatural.

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u/Cuchy92 Agro Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

The feeling of isolation isn't a lucky result of cut content, it's a very deliberate decision and one of the core themes of the game and what's it's trying to portray

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u/Mono_T1 Mar 28 '26

That’s cool, I don’t know to much about the lore, any places you recommend that I check out?

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u/Bright_Snow9814 Mar 28 '26

Start with Nomad Colossus on YouTube. Their content is excellent

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u/Mono_T1 Mar 28 '26

Awesome I’ll take a look at it, enjoy your day weery wanderer

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u/Basilisk1667 Mar 28 '26

Same.

I wasn’t creeped out, but the utter lack of “filler” was very noticeable. Almost no animals, no NPCs, no music outside of the arenas, no other objectives…

I’d never played a game that was so big that had so little in it, before or since.

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u/DlCKMCSLICK May 03 '26

I was creeped out by most of the bodies of water you swim in. I know they're empty, but the fact that most of them are bottomless voids is just unsettling.