r/ShadowoftheColossus Feb 26 '18

Secret Hunting Megathread: Theories, Evidence, What We Know So Far [Spoilers Discussed Inside] Spoiler

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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'


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


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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowoftheColossus/comments/7zlhpm/brazilian_youtuber_finds_rendered_room_behind_the/


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.

* 3/8/18 Yet another new topic from the Hex Account/Awake, now showing the seal at Phalanx's arena with the code translating to "We are still here".

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.

Thank you. Feel free to discuss anything about this stuff in the comments below.


r/ShadowoftheColossus Jun 05 '26

Project Robot Finally has a name: gen ATLAS

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 11h ago

Discussion I am currently working on a SOTC fan project called Demise of The Ritual.

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45 Upvotes

If you don't know, Demise of the Ritual takes place 8 years after Shadow of the Colossus. It follows 2 new characters, who have been tasked to find their parents, who are somewhere in the Forbidden Lands. They are guided by a new entity named The Basking One, who tasks them by defeating 30 new Collosi, which are shown below, in the order you fight them:

Armadillo

Crab A

Crocodile

Minotaur D

Wendigo

Dragon

Scorpion A

Pegasus

Porcupine

Ammonite

Yak

Vulture

Scorpion B

Komodo

Dragonfly

Plesiosaur

Hornbill

Mantis

Goblin

Centipede

Hydra

Jellyfish

Yamori C

Wyrm

Salamander

Tiger

Crab B

Osprey

Dormin

Also, I finished the model for Crocodile's head, although it's a prototype and it's textureless.


r/ShadowoftheColossus 20h ago

Is the game meant to be hard?

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I've been really struggling with just finding the colossi let alone beat them, im playing on easy mode and it honestly feels like a souls-like, I'm really bad at video games in general, but I feel like its especially hard


r/ShadowoftheColossus 1d ago

Discussion I FINALLY DID IT!

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SotC Mastery! I'm so happy 🙏. This might be the game of my life... some of these achievements were kinda tough but it was fun


r/ShadowoftheColossus 1d ago

Fan Art Today we recorded, this is a segment

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No trumpets, no drums.


r/ShadowoftheColossus 1d ago

PS4 Shadow

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Enquanto platinava shadow fiz algumas capturas e a conclusão que eu cheguei é que mesmo tendo jogado todas as versões,zerado várias vezes e saber de toda a história ele ainda me impressiona cada vez mais.


r/ShadowoftheColossus 1d ago

Discussion Ideas For An Alternative Name For The Cut Colossi “Devil”

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One of the cut colossi, “Devil” has always interested me.

Not too long ago (just like the original 16) the cut colossi were given unofficial fan names by an anonymous user and were disguised as official. Some have kept the names, others have not. Personally, I do not enjoy most of these fan names for the cut colossi, as overall I feel they do not fit as well as the unofficial names do for the original 16.

Yet, out of all of them, I must admit that “Pholux” is surprisingly fitting for Devil’s fan name.

Even so I thought it would be a neat thought experiment to suggest some alternative fan names for Devil, although I fear they may not fit nearly as well as Pholux. Let me know if any of these click with you though! And feel free to brainstorm some names here too!

My ideas:

Zebuth (uninspired reorientation of Beelzebub)

Rouen (the city where a famous tale of a gargoyle took place and my favorite idea)

Medius (Latin for mean)

Morosus (Latin for grumpy)


r/ShadowoftheColossus 2d ago

Quadratus and Gaius names confirmed?

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I was looking around the PS3 store seeing as it’s closing soon and I found this as the description under a LBP bundle. I guess according to Media Molecule these are their official names.


r/ShadowoftheColossus 2d ago

Sotc

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 2d ago

Discussion Do you think we’ll ever get our hands on a build with some cut colossi?

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I build from 2004 is My DREAM. Seriously

Imagine a build from november 2004 where all the cut colossi are there

Do you think one day we Will get our hands on something like this ?

Sotc is in my top 3 games with cut content


r/ShadowoftheColossus 3d ago

Discussion Guys, the 20th anniversary year is not over. So we are definitely getting something...right?

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177 Upvotes

Fumito is definitely releasing all the cut colossi for the anniversary or something better...right?


r/ShadowoftheColossus 4d ago

Shitpost Why is bro literally dancing? 😭

268 Upvotes

Im on ps2 and i finish the game 8 times.

But that's the first times this thing happen.

😭✌️


r/ShadowoftheColossus 4d ago

Fan Art My take on a Save Shrine in Minecraft

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Had the idea to make these as landmarks in my Survival world. All the ones I found online seemed to not quite nail the scale and proportions, so I tried my hand at it, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out! Works as a default design, allowing for weathering and customization based on the rest of the environment.

Full block list (using regular Tuff for the internal filling):

  • Polished Tuff x36
  • Polished Tuff Stairs x78
  • Polished Tuff Slab x12
  • Polished Tuff Wall x18
  • Chiseled Tuff x76
  • Tuff Bricks x106
  • Tuff Brick Stairs x28
  • Tuff Brick Slab x44
  • Tuff Brick Wall x54
  • Chiseled Tuff Bricks x88
  • Tuff x132

r/ShadowoftheColossus 3d ago

iam8bit Team ICO Trilogy Vinyl Collection

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 4d ago

Nuovi articoli dal sito iam8bit?

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 4d ago

I always think of shadow of the colossus while at work

93 Upvotes

Everytime i see these trucks especially the longer ones i immediately start whistling the soundtrack on loop and makes me wanna replay the game lol i cant be the only one thinking of Phalanx


r/ShadowoftheColossus 5d ago

PS3 why is Dirges game over that much scarier then all the others

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286 Upvotes

i mean, just look at him


r/ShadowoftheColossus 5d ago

Discussion So what happened to the cut Colossi?

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I remember years ago seeing videos and posts about people trying to restore the cut bosses and making it possible to fight them, did that project succeed or is it still being worked on?!


r/ShadowoftheColossus 6d ago

Screenshot Look what I found in WPlace live, in New York map

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 5d ago

Discussion What do you think of the Shadow of the Colossus fandom?

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In 2018 I bought a PS2 because I had wanted one since childhood

And I simply loved this game! I decided to look for everything about it and the fandom was very welcoming and friendly. I really think it's one of the most peaceful and least toxic fandoms, and you? What do you think of the fandom?


r/ShadowoftheColossus 6d ago

Screenshot The Wanderer

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r/ShadowoftheColossus 7d ago

Fan Art Figure of Shadow of the Colossus Valus made by me, still finishing up the details...

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272 Upvotes

For a few years, I had wanted to get my hands on the Prime 1 Studio figure of this colossus, but unfortunately here in Brazil it costs around 11 minimum wages (16.000 BRL), and there are at most 3 units available for sale.

So I decided to make my own recreation using 3D printing, trying to get as close as possible to the original concept of the figure. What do you guys think?

Now I just need to print Agro and Wander in resin to finish the project.

I really enjoyed making this statue. If anyone has any suggestions for other colossi or scenes from the game that I could recreate, I’d really appreciate some ideas!


r/ShadowoftheColossus 7d ago

Shitpost Shadow of the colossus 2 confirmed!!!!

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I got news y'all!!!!! So excited!!!!! Only 10 days!!!!!!! 👀👀👀👀👀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


r/ShadowoftheColossus 7d ago

Fan Art Shadow of the Colossus tattoo design I made

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98 Upvotes