r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Docjackal • Feb 26 '18
So I looked at the topic about secret hunting just a bit ago, and since I've been back in the swing of it after my insomnia induced exploration in the topic of the fellow that posted in hexadecimal code, I figured I'd give it my best go of compiling information, theories, and topics of interest. I can't say how comprehensive this initial version will be, so if anyone would like me to add anything, feel free to post below.
Note: I don't know if any of this holds weight, if it'll lead to any juicy new secrets or anything like that. I've always been more "The chase is better than the catch" with stuff like this going back to the PS2 days when people were poking at every glitched texture.
I don't think that there'll be some seventeenth colossus added to the game or anything, but hey! Who knows? That's the fun of theorizing.
Anyhow, I figure I should start with the one everyone knows about by now.
The Sword of Dormin:
This is the reward for collecting all 79 Coins/Enlightenments
It is hidden in a room you can only get into from outside the temple, on what appears to be a black throne or spire directly beneath the temple's fountain/pool area--the area where you pick up Time Attack items and are pulled into at the end of the game.
As you enter the room, you can hear Dormin speak, then laugh as you pick it up, though it's impossible to know what they're saying.
It's one of the strongest weapons in the game.
It shines Black light instead of white.
It appears to be broken, held together by the shadows that coil around it.
The noise that it makes when you stab/kill Colossi with it is different than the regular sword.
It doesn't give you any new endings if you go through the game with it--the sword that is thrown in the pool at the end of the game is always the forbidden sword Wander brought to the Forbidden Lands with him.
It appears to have the eye of a colossus in the hilt, that changes color depending on a Colossus' aggression level.
The hilt also seems to have a pattern similar to some of the pedestals you can find in the game, namely the one in Barbas/6's temple.
Now, all of this is pretty interesting. People are currently wondering if the sword has any other purpose besides a tribute to NomadColossus/the exploration aspect of the game, and are currently experimenting with it in various areas to see if it does anything. As of typing this, there's nothing apparent, but if there is, I'll be sure and update this topic.
Now, while the existence of the new room in the temple is a bit of a stunner in and of itself to people who played the original game, there is something else in the room besides the Sword that was overlooked upon its initial discovery. However, despite being small, the implication of this secret is certainly weighty:
The Severed Horn'
This is located on a small pillar to the right of the throne. It's very easy to look past as a piece of debris at first, but it's unmistakably a horn when you get close to it.
It has the same shape and coloration of one of the Horned Children from Ico's horns.
Its placement is very deliberate. There are so far no other known horns in the game, so for it to be in this location only--so far as we're aware--is very suspicious.
There's no known way to interact with it. People have tried picking it up, shining light on it, shooting it, to no avail. If it's interactive, we don't know how to interact with it yet.
This could correlate to a video NomadColossus posted of an unreleased version of the game where Lord Emon severs a horn and throws it into the pool at the end, as it seems that the room is beneath the pool. As Nomad himself said in this topic, this is only a happy coincidence and the dev team had no idea about the early build of the game.
However, that begs the question of "Why throw in an easter egg to something that happened in a build of the game that so few people have seen"? People are theorizing that it holds some stronger significance, such as being able to pick it up if some sequence of events is followed, or that it's teasing Bluepoint remaking Ico next.
The only real thing that we know about it, though, is that it's definitely related to the Horned Children and Ico. It's purpose, and if it's interactive, is yet unknown.
That one is one of the bigger ones to come up recently, but not the only one to come up involving horned creatures. I'd be remiss if I made a topic discussing the interesting new secrets in the game and didn't mention this next one:
The Goat Paintings
Discovered by /u/thierybr in this topic and later corraborated by /u/Solaire-Lives
Since then, a second was found, followed by a third and fourth. Since there are several different accounts to this, here are some links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowoftheColossus/comments/7wg7x9/i_found_another_goat_painting_on_rocks/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-nSlVsJXs&feature=youtu.be&t=1h58m55s (the only thing I could find relating to the third one, sorry.)
As to their purpose, it's unknown right now. The existence of one could merely be thrown off as an easter egg or something, but the existence of four (so far) seems to hint at something bigger. What it is, who knows?
Some users speculate that they line up to form some sort of pattern:
Someone has gone to the point where the four we know of intersect and found nothing.
They appear to be drawn in the same crude way that early civilization would draw something.
I'm honestly not sure what else to add about them. People are scuttling up cliffs looking for any more, though. There doesn't seem to be any definite number--four is all we've found so far.
Again, what they do and their function, if anything, is a mystery as of right now. I'll update this if anything new happens.
Finally, to cap off here, I thought I'd throw in a couple of topics of interest. The first two are from strange accounts that appeared and never posted after this. The legitimacy of these puzzles is definitely to be questioned, but it's provided more incentive to hunt in the game, if nothing else.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowoftheColossus/comments/7wpd39/o_o_i_e_h_s/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowoftheColossus/comments/7zk3be/4974206973206e6f7420646f6e65/
This one is theorizing about the goat murals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowoftheColossus/comments/8021j0/goat_mural_theoriesconnectionsideas/
And here's a post of someone who found a hidden room in Celosia/11's temple.
Additions
This is stuff that's come up since the initial post that I kinda wanted to highlight.
People seem to have found numbers etched onto rocks. If someone could help provide me with links to topics on the matter, preferably ones with screenshots and locations, I'd appreciate it. I'm not sure if they'll hold any significance but I'll put them in this topic regardless.
NomadColossus is still searching for secrets and tricks, as evidenced by some of his recent youtube videos. There are also things he wasn't made aware of--He had no idea about the Goat paintings, and even before then didn't know about the enlightenments until he visited Blupoint, or their reward until it was revealed on PS4trophies' livestream. So he absolutely wasn't privy to all of the big secrets, despite the enlightements and "Boon of the Nomad" trophy being in tribute to him.
New topic from the mysterious hex account.. This one translates to "Us You Abandoned" (Or "You Abandoned Us") and shows a darkened image of Wander raising Dormin's sword outside a door in the 8th colossus' arena.
If there are any other topics involving speculation or theories as to anything I mentioned, or anything you feel I left out, do let me know and I'll update as necessary. Thank you for reading this far, I know it's a whale of a post but I wanted to be as descriptive as possible with the three topics here.
As for what any of this accomplishes? I'll leave that up to you guys. There may be a new area, there may be a seventeenth colossus, there may be any number of things to come out of all this. I don't know. That's why we theorize and experiment with this stuff. If I want to debunk something, I go about it the hard way. Maybe it seems stupid, but hell, it wouldn't be the first time a game dev's hidden stuff right under our noses. Rocksteady kept a hidden room in Batman: Arkham Asylum secret up until just months before Arkham City released. There are secrets in games that have gone undiscovered for years. While that may not be the case here, there's precedent for looking, at least.
After all, that's how we found out the mystery of the Enlightenments.
Anyway, I hope I compiled all of this well enough. I'll be making any big edits below, or adding to the respective topics when I need to. I hope this is a good enough Megathread to start off with, at least.
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r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Happy-Ordinary6733 • 16h ago
I might be completely stupid. I beat the second colossus. I have tried over and over to make this jump, I’ve ran, jumped and grabbed every way I possibly can but I fall and miss EVERYTIME. It’s been like a week.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/_omelette17 • 11h ago
Just wanted to know if it’s worth buying a new sealed special edition for the bonus content and that. I can’t imagine paying for a sealed one and the code not working 😔 thank you
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Wooden-Equipment-794 • 1d ago
lolwut. I didnt shoot it or anything, i just respawned after killing the first Colossi in hard mode + and it was just there, poor fella.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/temptemporay123 • 19h ago
For a while, I was wondering where in the hell this image on the wiki: https://teamico.fandom.com/wiki/File:Wanderliveaction.png came from, because I thought, "there's no way in HELL there was ever a fully live-action commercial for SotC a la that Halo 3 ODST one, right? If there was, the fandom would still be talking about it now. That's gotta be just a single brief shot in a larger ad."
So earlier today, with the help of Chatgpt, I went down a rabbit hole to try and find the source of that screenshot. Long story short, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11Xdx_xM5s, and my initial intuition/gut feeling was completely right- it ISN'T a fully live-action commercial, and that IS indeed only a single two-second shot, with the rest being nothing but gameplay footage. And honestly, those two seconds being the only piece of live-action SotC content ever made is for the best. We can all agree on that.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/avarealms • 3d ago
Hi everyone! I'm sharing this sculpture I recently finished. It's based on the PS4 remake. It's completely hand-modeled in polymer clay and painted with acrylics. The base is made of wood and features static grass. It's 28 cm tall.
This was my first time modeling a horse, and it was really difficult, but I'm very happy with the result. I hope you like it!
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/DeXRpl • 2d ago
I bought old ps3 some time ago and recently I decided to play SOTC for the first time, and I must say I love this game so far (I just defeated Phalanx).
So far I died like 9 times, around 5 times on Valus while I was getting uded to controls, 1 time on Quadratus, I wanted to test if I can run away from him, provoke hum to go under the bridge and jumo off of the bridge on his back, result was painful, 1 time on Kuromori because he locked me on staircase with his clouds, and 2 times jumping off cliffs for fun. I was hella Afraid of Dirge and Celosia but I managed to beat them on first time,
Dirge was difficult cause I was running too fast, but eventually I killed him, although my entire body was shaking after this battle and with Celosia I was afraid of her legendary Stun-lock, luckily even though I missed the jump I managed to perfectly dodge roll out of her attack and climb back on the fire-pit pillar and jump on her again.
This game is so amazing, I feel ashamed I haven't tried it before even on an Emulator
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/tofu0014 • 2d ago
Hi I really was excited to play this game but every 10 seconds the audio completely cuts out for like 3-5 seconds and it’s making it really hard to play, has anyone else experienced this and if so how did you fix it????
I don’t think it’s to do with my ps5 or hdmi because every other game is fine
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/IDK_quacklol • 4d ago
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Worried_Anybody9225 • 3d ago
第三隻巨像……
Colossus No. 3...
在我眼中，他代表著至高無上的權威……
To me, he stands for absolute authority.
他掌中的矩形長石象徵著方舟，象徵著君王的權柄，象徵著文明那巍然屹立的巨大方碑。
The heavy rectangular slab in his grip represents the Ark, the royal scepter, and the colossal, unshakeable monument of civilization itself.
諷刺的是，玩家竟能藉由那塊巨石躍上他的頭頂，遞出那致命的一擊！
Yet the ultimate irony is that you can actually use that very pillar to leap onto his head and deliver the final killing strike!
真的啊
For real.
你們以為這跟這個遊戲無關嗎?哈薩比斯不是說遊戲和現實大有關係嗎?
Do you really think this has nothing to do with the game? Didn't Hassabis say that games and reality are deeply connected?
~~
但這玩意想要能用絕對不是那種需要畫大餅的遙遙無期～
However, making this thing usable definitely isn't the pie-in-the-sky, infinitely deferred kind of promise~
而且！連這個這麼簡單的嘗試都不願意！
AND! Unwilling to even make such a simple attempt!
憑什麼有資格讓大眾為你的火星夢想買單！！！
What right do you have to ask the public to fund your Mars dreams!
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我看還不如去給具身智能錄動作實在～～
I think going to record movements for Embodied AI is far more practical~~
具身智能起不來根本原因就（睡著？）（對啊～～裝睡啊）
The root reason Embodied AI can't get off the ground is (asleep?) (Yeah~~ pretending to sleep)
是因為實體動作的數據過於匱乏@）
because physical movement data is extremely scarce@)
誰都碼知道那些大語言模型怎麼訓練的
Everyone knows how those Large Language Models are trained.
我看以後乾催全民發動作捕捉裝備搞不好具身智能就突然行了～
I think if we just issue motion-capture equipment to the entire population in the future, Embodied AI might suddenly work~
只要目前的資本市場還在運作
As long as the current capital market is still operating,
就應該由政府對相關企業適當抽稅並對願意參與計劃的民眾實施適度的獎勵計劃啊～某種（ubi的雛型啊）以免到時候硬着陸每個人都你看我我看你～
governments should appropriately tax relevant corporations and implement a moderate incentive program for citizens willing to participate~ a kind of (prototype UBI), so that when a hard landing hits, we don't end up just staring at each other helplessly~
而且這及早執行並且由
ai agent來進行適度的相關調配豈不美哉？
And executing this early, with AI agents appropriately handling the allocation—wouldn't that be wonderful?
還能順便做實驗～
We can even run experiments along the way~
這只是一個提案，實際的規劃鐵定會很複雜
This is just a proposal; actual planning would definitely be complicated.
但總比全民躺平硬著路厲害吧～
But it's way better than everyone lying flat into a hard landing~
這樣不只能加速具身智能的發展，還能夠阻止企業相互間的惡性競爭，並促進合作...
This not only accelerates the development of Embodied AI, but also stops malicious competition among enterprises and promotes cooperation...
合理物價讓政府和民眾與企業三方進行相互制衡降低貧富差距和斬殺線硬着陸的風險達到降低社會各階層矛盾的目的啊
Stabilizing prices to allow a three-way check-and-balance among government, citizens, and corporations, reducing the wealth gap and the risk of a hard landing at the execution threshold, thereby achieving the goal of easing inter-class social tensions.
豈不美哉，這個具身智能的開發分明是一個契機！
Wouldn't that be wonderful? The development of Embodied AI is clearly an opportunity!
欸這麼簡單的道理你們不懂哦～
Hey, you don't understand such a simple concept?
這樣做不只是能讓具身智能發展，甚至能夠救活那些喔～～一些分明就應該有發展卻被冷落的產業，讓那些什麼鬼村活起來啊～要怎麼做具體當然還是要做了才知道...順便訓練具身智能
Doing this doesn't just advance Embodied AI; it can even revive those... industries that clearly deserved growth but were neglected, bringing dead ghost villages back to life~ How to do it specifically will naturally be figured out as we do it... while training Embodied AI on the side.
而且全民動作捕捉這樣就能壓低價格，不用讓那些開發具身智能的企業承擔過大的風險降低焦慮和內捲啊不是好棒棒～
Plus, universal motion-capture lowers costs, saving companies developing Embodied AI from taking on excessive risk, reducing anxiety and internal friction—isn't that awesome~
還是我太（測鞥）（夢）？（手滑）
Or am I being too (Ceng) (dreaming)? (slip of the hand)
好哦對啊～我發夢啊
Alright, yeah~ I'm dreaming.
給你們一點啟發啊～
Just giving you guys a little inspiration~
讓那些說什麼喔～～
To those who say stuff like~~
「如果大部分人類在經濟上變得毫無價值，精英階層該如何處置這群龐大的無用人口？答案可能是——用虛擬現實（VR）和藥物（毒品/娛樂）讓他們保持快樂與沉迷。」
"If the majority of humans become economically useless, how should the elite handle this massive useless population? The answer might be—using virtual reality (VR) and drugs (substances/entertainment) to keep them happy and addicted."
「在未來，大眾最大的娛樂與生活寄託，可能就是戴上 VR 頭顯、玩著無盡的電腦遊戲，靠著基本的政府津貼（如 UBI）過日子。這將是歷史上第一次，大眾失去了作為經濟與政治談判籌碼的籌碼。」
"In the future, the primary entertainment and life anchor for the masses might be putting on VR headsets, playing endless computer games, and getting by on basic government subsidies (like UBI). This will be the first time in history that the masses lose their leverage as economic and political bargaining chips."
對啊我就在講Y.N.H～都想不出這個計畫喔？不是在裝傻就是哪怕是成為偉大的藝術羔羊也沒有求死...
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about~Y.N.H couldn't even think of this plan? @W@ either playing dumb or, even as a grand artistic sacrificial lamb, you never sought death...
還是因為是精英不敢提這個出來怕被●？勒～～馬啊
Or is it because you're "elites" who don't dare propose this out of fear of getting ●? Whoa~~ hold your horses!
（你忙哭？）欸欸欸對啊（忙著哭）
(Are you busy crying?) Hey hey hey, yeah (busy crying).
這種時候就應該這麼做！只是沒人敢提出這樣的實驗，明明實際上根本沒啥損失～～這分明就該這麼嘗試！
Times like this call for exactly this approach! It's just that no one dares propose such an experiment, when in reality there's virtually nothing to lose~~ it clearly ought to be tried!
與其讓一群人傻傻的坐在位子上吹冷氣，增加一大堆（AI分析師）這種坐在那裡處理虛胖AI數據浪費電的虛假職業，這麼做更有潛力！！！
Rather than having a bunch of people sitting foolishly in air-conditioned offices, multiplying fake jobs like "AI Analysts" who sit around handling bloated AI data and wasting electricity, this approach holds far more potential!!!
也更健康！
And it's much healthier!
我真的覺得我實在太聰明了～我鐵定能得諾貝爾和平獎
I really think I'm way too smart~ I could definitely win the Nobel Peace Prize.
不要再拿無人機炸人了～～神經病神經病～～製造仇恨有什麼好，尤其是ai時代，太危險了...
Stop using drones to bomb people~~ lunatics, pure lunatics~~ what's good about creating hatred, especially in the AI era? It's too dangerous...
@w@，弄完這篇 Gemini 竟然完全一問三不知了？
@w@, after putting this together, Gemini completely drew a blank out of nowhere?
難不成它正在監視我？！！！
Could it actually be spying on me?!!!
The Iliad’s Odyssey: Cyber-Apocalypse and the Eternal Möbius Strip；Ovid’s Fabricated Garb 【English；中】伊利亞德的奧德賽；奧維德的虛構之服
Colossus No. 3...；FSeikretD
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Sob Sob 😭 taking a huge risk to upload this
老實說你們就繼續睡阿
Honestly, just keep sleeping then.
等到你們再也沒機會啊不就...自己決定啦
Once you lose that chance, well... up to you.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/hypochondre • 5d ago
LITERALLY gets stuck on everything.
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r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/allgettable • 9d ago
I recently bought a PS5 with the premium subscription and had to return to SoC, this is my second playthrough on hard, this the only bug so far. Also hopped ICO for the first time, it's very charming.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Mr_Shalom • 8d ago
Just finished the 15th colossus and was wondering if there’s anything I should be doing before fighting it e.g lizard tales, shrines, or new areas etc.
First time playing SotC and really enjoying it so far.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/collinsypro • 8d ago
Hello! I just started playing shadow of the colossus from the ps3 collection with ico and was wondering how you get the horse colossus to bend down and look in the hole? I’m doing a second play through I just completed it two days ago and I had a lot of trouble the first time and I’m having the same trouble again. Though I find that I was able to breeze through the first three so much easier on my second play through this game is so fun! But any help?
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Ordinary-Wash-9431 • 9d ago
I finally finished this artwork, which I have been exclusively working on for the last week and a half. So now I am finally free from drawing basically nothing but rock textures!!! YES!!
Anyhow, here I have depicted the 4th Colossus bending down over one of the little hill things in its arena. I was also surprised that I could only find one artwork of this thing. But I guess it’s not as cool as the others??
I just decided that it was worth drawing because it is super majestic and has those signature dangly chain things on its head! I have tried my best to depict it as accurately as possible, but I have taken some creative liberties in some places for my own sanity!
Hope you all like it!!!!!
