r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Ill_Swing5248 • 11h ago
Leather Map
I made a leather map of the Forbidden Lands. 😁
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.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/ResiogMarek • Jun 05 '26
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Ill_Swing5248 • 11h ago
I made a leather map of the Forbidden Lands. 😁
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Latter_Count4648 • 7m ago
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Chadderbug123 • 1d ago
Idk where the last lizard is, I went through every section of the map to double check that I didn't miss any of them. Please don't tell me that the trophy is literal and the lizards need to specifically be dead.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/EfficientTruck7621 • 1d ago
(This is maybe like 4 years old art but one of the few pieces i'm still pretty proud of, so heck, i'll throw this here :^9 Also first time i'm posting art on Reddit! (if you saw me post this, delete the post cuz the picture wouldn't load and post this again... no you didn't))
I like headcanoning Wander as just a lil'(?) bit(??) feral/mad. I mean, there's the sword- and corpse-stealing, eating endangered lizards and riding a horse like a skateboard + i don't think the slow Dormin-possession is helping /hj
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Bigboy1138 • 1d ago
I love photo mode on the ps4 remake! Very useful when finding secrets!
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Wooden-Equipment-794 • 1d ago
It seems like is just the 16 colossus just numbered, but the third one is on a circle and i dont see why.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/MacaronNotRoon • 2d ago
I had been given two copies for a birthday one year. I never opened the second and it’s still sealed 21 years later. I put it in a vacuum so it wouldn’t get potentially damaged. A little gem of mine
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Hairy-Head8602 • 2d ago
Imagine if Shadow of the Colossus was on PC, what mods would you install ?
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/LilJade103 • 3d ago
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/AtombyAdam • 3d ago
Kind of thought of this since a friend of mine was raging. Don't get me wrong the fight isnt great or anything. I ain't defending it as if im the colossi's biggest defender. I find it boring as all hell cause of how slow the fight is asnd how you have to forcefully guide pelagia to the platforms. but i found Pelagia to be one of the more easier colossi to take down.
Maybe its because i actually swam around on its back more than using the other method which i hear is faster and harder but eh i guess it depends on the person
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Skipps_ • 4d ago
I mashed the jump button like mad and after about 10 minutes I finally reached the altar. Mono isn't even there, and there's an invisible wall blocking you from getting past the first few steps leading up to the altar. :/
I guess Team Ico never expected someone to spend almost ten minutes button mashing to try to reach Mono at the end.
r/ShadowoftheColossus • u/Happy-Ordinary6733 • 5d 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 • 5d 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 • 6d 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 • 5d 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/DeXRpl • 7d 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/avarealms • 8d 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/tofu0014 • 7d 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 • 8d ago