Shadow of the Collossus? I need help on the first level!?

Question

I got SOTC two days ago at Gamestop, and i havent even saved yet because i havent killed the first collossus. After about 10-15 tries i called Gamestop to see how much store credit i would get for the game. He said it is one of the best games ever made and what reason i would want to trade in my game. Please help me on level one and very THOUROUGHLY and explain how to do it please.

Answer 1

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| We are thrust right into battle immediately, but the Colossus doesn't |
| really notice you. You're free to run around without much happening, but |
| the instant he does notice you, some pumping battle music begins and that |
| is when it truly gets dangerous. We should go over a couple things before |
| that however. First of all this is your first battle, so it's important |
| to know exactly what you're trying to do. At your disposal is a sword and |
| a bow, both will come in handy but not necessarily for this battle. |
| Colossi have weak points which are displayed as weird glowing symbols on |
| their body, but they aren't always easy to find. To find them you must |
| hold up your sword and see where the light converges, that will show you |
| the location of the weak point (and usually there are more than one.) |
| Killing a Colossus is a matter of hitting those weak points with your |
| weapons, or something along those lines which damages the boss (its health |
| meter is shown at the top.) Mostly you cannot hit these points without |
| first climbing up the gigantic beast and locating them yourself. |
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| Remember that the L1 button centres your camera on the Colossus, that will |
| really come in handy. Begin by holding up your sword and aiming it at the |
| boss. From far away it doesn't really give an accurate reading but using |
| it closer will reveal one weak point on its head, and one on the back of |
| its left leg, down near the foot (or hoof). Climbing a Colossi is like |
| climbing a wall. You can't just grab skin, but any hairy section is |
| climbable, as well as accessories (like a bracelet maybe) and basically |
| any surface that looks like it could pass as a ledge. Remember that most |
| of the time there is a pretty predetermined way to climb on top of these |
| beasts, all you have to do is find it. When you're ready to begin |
| fighting this boss, then run up to him, and all hell breaks loose. |
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| As I said there are two weak points on this boss, one on the back of the |
| left leg and one on the head. Obviously the leg is easier to get to so |
| we'll aim for that, but let's take a moment to look at the bosses attacks. |
| For the most part he just walks around, this sounds harmless but it's |
| actually quite dangerous. If you get near his foot when he stomps (or |
| worse yet, under the foot) then you are going to take damage. His actual |
| attack involves the enormous club he is carrying, he raises it into the |
| air and slams it down. If this lands on top of you then you can pretty |
| much say goodbye to your life (this sounds like a good time to let people |
| know that when you die, you can retry right from the beginning of battle.) |
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| Your goal in this fight is to get around behind the Colossus and jump at |
| the back of his left leg. Notice that it is hairy, meaning you can grab |
| onto it if you're holding the R1 button. Once you have grabbed hold of |
| it, begin climbing up using the left analog stick. A few arm lengths up |
| there is a small symbol you will see, when you are holding the fur on top |
| of the symbol, tap the square button one to stab, and then again to stab a |
| second time. Note that while you are doing this the Colossus will be |
| trying to shake you off, as long as you are holding the R1 button while he |
| is shaking (and not trying to jump) then you will hang on, but it will do |
| a number on your grip. After the second stab, there will be a short |
| cutscene where the enormous giant monster falls forward. At this point |
| there are two ways that I know of to get up to his head, the hard way and |
| the easy way (the hard way is what I used when I first fought this boss, |
| before I found the much easier way to do it.) Which you use is up to you. |
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| The easy way to do it starts right here. While the boss is kneeling down |
| after you have stabbed him, jump up and grab hold of the ledge just below |
| the fur on his ***, then grab the fur on his *** and climb. Above you |
| should be a reasonably large platform, climb over to the left to get |
| around it, and then up. While holding the side of this platform, press |
| the triangle button to jump up onto it. You're relatively safe while |
| standing on this platform. You shouldn't be grabbing anything (to restore |
| your grip strength) but you should be holding R1. Holding R1 when not |
| near a wall makes you duck down, and while ducking you are much less |
| susceptible to the shaking of the beast. Once you grip strength has |
| restored, then it's time to jump up again and limb to the higher platform. |
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| From here it's just a matter of climbing the rest of the fur until you |
| reach the head. Note that it's pretty safe to run around on the |
| Collossus' upper back without falling so you can restore grip strength. |
| While on the actually head he has a tendency to shake, so make sure that |
| you are holding on (you have to be holding on anyway to do the stab.) The |
| symbol here on his head is much larger, grab hold of the fur around it, |
| wait until he isn't shaking and then press and hold square. When the |
| white charge meter that appears on the pink circle reaches its maximum, |
| tap square to perform a powerful stab that should deal damage equal to |
| about 35% of his total health and cause a blast of black blood to spew. |
| All you have to do now is keep using powerful stabs, just three of them |
| should be enough to finally take down the monster and win the battle. |
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| The hard method I described before works as follows. After you have |
| stabbed the mini symbol on the leg, jump off the creature and run around |
| to the front (be careful of be stomped on here.) When he lands, he puts |
| the climb down and on the front of the club are some ledges you can climb. |
| Climb on top of the club (be careful because he swings it a lot) and jump |
| from the club to the bracelet on his arm. From here you have to shimmy |
| around back and climb up the fur on the back of his arm, there is a small |
| platform near his shoulder you can rest on, but it's very difficult to |
| actually reach it before you run out of grip strength, be warned. From |
| that small platform you have access to the fur on the upper back. |
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Upon defeating the boss you will see a scene and then a number of black
spirits float about. You are automatically knocked unconscious here and asked
if you wish to save your game. This is how saving works in the game, you can
save every time you defeat a Colossus and then you are returned back to the
temple, with a new Colossus in a new location which must be defeated.
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Answer 2

The guy was right, Shadow of the Collossus is one of the best games ever made. I've beat it a couple of times, but I can help you with the first boss.

The first thing you need to do for the first colossus is to run behind him and then jump on the back of his left foot and stab him several times until he falls down on one knee. (If you're facing the colossus from the front then it will be his right leg, if you're behind him it will be the left leg.)

When he falls down jump up his left leg and crawl up on the platform on his back. Then you need to crawl up his back and up onto his head and just keep stabbing him in the head until he dies.

Here is a tip also: on most colossus in the game, the head will always be a weak spot. Also, depending on the difficulty of the game, a collossus will have more weak spots that you have to find. I think that the first colossus has just one weak spot on all difficulties.

The weak spots will glow when you are near them and when you have your sword out while you are crawling on a colossus.

If you need any other help with anything else in the game just give me an email at: [e-mail]

Answer 3

The game is extremely dull. Sorry, but you wasted your $$$ just like me.

Anyway, as soon as you start to play, you have to become extremely familiar with the controls. walk around a little bit, and play around w/ the buttons. After going down the steps of the temple (on horseback) point your sword almost directly ahead and try to narrow the light beam on your sword so it is extremely straight and your controller vibrates. Then ride straight ahead to that spot. Eventually, you come to a cresent shaped spot with the ground rising almost directly up. you have to climb up and then you should see a huge giant furry thing. That is a collosus. KIll it.