

You can climb up with your left analog stick, or you can press and hold the triangle button to charge up another vertical jump. To begin with, jump onto the vines near the bottom of the area, and use your R1 button to hang onto them. Almost all of your actions here can be performed with the triangle button (for jumping), the R1 button (for hanging on to vines and cliff edges), and the left analog stick, which will let you point yourself in the direction you need to jump. There's no way to bring your horse up the cliff obviously, so you'll just have to climb up - this is the jumping puzzle we were talking about earlier. When you reach the ruins far to the south, you'll get a cinematic view of your surroundings.

To reach it, you'll need to use your horse, so climb aboard with the triangle key and start moving out, using the X button to speed the horse up. It'll light up a portion of the valley beyond, indicating where your first target is. When you're ready to go after your first prey, walk out onto the sunlit platform near the dias where your friend is lain and press the O button this will raise your sword and let the sunlight focus on it.

There'll be a little jumping puzzle that you'll have to get through shortly, but for now, you can learn how to run around, jump, and so on and so forth. These colossi are incarnations of smaller icons within the Shrine itself, and killing them will destroy their icons, and give the hero the power required to restore his friend.Īfter the lengthy opening cutscene, you'll finally get the ability to run around with your character a bit, so you should definitely take the time to get used to the controls. After a bit of banter with the spirits that reside inside the Shrine, he'll learn what he needs to do in order to restore the girl to life: find and kill the 16 Colossi that roam the land. The nameless hero arrives on his trusty steed, with a seemingly dead girl in tow. The Shrine of Worship is where you begin the game. In it, we have a complete walkthrough for the game, including hints and tips (and video) for each of the 16 Colossi that you're going to go up against. If you're stumped, though, you'll be happy to know that GameSpot's complete Game Guide to Shadow of the Colossus is here to help. Each of the Colossi has different attacks and weaknesses, though, so figuring out how to approach them and attack them is just as difficult as actually delivering the killing blow. Unlike most adventure games, Shadow of the Colossus involves more brainpower than monotonous killing of hundreds of enemies indeed, except for the Colossi, the land is utterly devoid of life. But why? And who is she? Will you ever find out? In so doing, you hope to be able to bring a woman back to life. In it, you play as an unknown soldier, tasked with finding and killing 16 Collosi that roam the land, in order to appease the spirits that inhabit a shrine. Although Shadow of the Colossus isn't a sequel to the earlier game, it does share some of the same aesthetic and gameplay sensibilities, dropping you into a world that you're not really intended to understand. Shadow of the Colossus is the new game from the creators of Ico, a haunting and ethereal adventure/platforming game that came out over four years ago.
