Shadow of the Colossus Help?

Question

How do you defeat the second colossus, the one at the sea cave?

Does it have to do with it's heel? I've tried to jump up on it, but really all thats close to the ground is it's rough thick hide.

Answer 1

This time we will be battling an enormous quadruped, and the other difference is that you have your horse with you. This Colossus is twice as nasty when it comes to stomping on you, obviously because he's got twice as many feet.

You will also want to be aware of the one main attack he has where he lifts his two front feet into the air and stomps down with incredible power. This will actually be a good chance to hit him and you'll see why in a minute. For now pull out your sword and aim the light.

You will see that the sword focuses light on quite a few weak points. First of all, every one of his feet is a weak point, as well as his head and his ***.

The weak points on his feat are for knocking him over like the first boss, while the other ones are for doing damage. The weak points on his feet are actually literally on the very bottom of his feet, so you can only lift when he raises his feet up high.

Obviously you also cannot hit these with the sword, so at least initially, the bow is going to be the weapon of choice here. Using the horse is totally optional, I don't find it to be particularly useful in this fight.

You can try ot hide behind the boss and pick at his feet as he walks around normally, but if you want to get things done right, you'll going to have to take risks.

By this I mean, you're going to have to run around directly in front of the boss. While standing just ahead of him, this should convince him to start the attack where he lifts both of his front feet into the air.

Wait for a few seconds as her lifts them up high (this |
attack is very slow) then when the time is right, and the target is clear, let loose a charged up arrow. If all goes well then the boss will drop.

Regardless of which limb you hit, they've all got some fur on them somewhere, usually around back and near the elbow of knee joint.

You can climb up this boss pretty easily, and reach the top without too much difficulty, there's fur everywhere. Once you get up there I would recommend making tracks for the *** symbol first.

If you climbed up one of the front legs it will be quite a bit more difficult, since there is no fur leading up to the shoulder you'll have to climb across horizontally toward the upper part of the back legs, where the fur extends onto the back.

Shimmy across now (don't try to jump across as you go, do it slowly but carefully, you'll have enough grip) and then when you get onto his lower back, stop gripping since it's flat enough to stand safely here.

After catching your breath, move down toward the symbol near his tail end. It might not be visible at first, so climb around a bit until it appears, it's quite big and hard to miss once it does. Grab hold of the fur in that area and charge up a sword stab attack.

You will be able to damage the boss for 50% of his total health before the symbol disappears. Once it does then you've done all you can here, and it's time to proceed to the other one on the head. Run across the back (you don't have to do a lot of climbing here).

You only really have to jump and climb over those bone like obstacles as you go along. It's hard to fall unless you're careless.

When you reach the head, walk right out above his face, you'll find the next symbol there.You have to be much more careful though, unlike the tail end, he can whip his neck around and try to throw you off.

Before you reach the symbol, be ready to hold the R1 button and grab on at a second's notice. When you reach the symbol, you should be holding on anyway.

In between head swings, charge the sword and stab. This is the last symbol so you can keep stabbing until the creature is defeated.

Answer 2

just run around and wait for it to lift its feet off the ground then shoot it on the blue circle under its feet and when it falls over you can climb up on its stomach