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Hows noone talking about this??? If this interview is real than this is some of the biggest sotc news we've ever gotten if not the biggest news

Man, I remember being there the minute this thread dropped on /v/. I didn't even believe it at first, I thought it was just things from the SOTC fangames. I still have everything from the Mega saved. Thank you for making a video on this. I don't think the SOTC community will ever get any information quite like this again.

This video gives a big question that needs to be asked. The roc fight was cut late into the bosses development. It was pretty much done by the time the boss was cut. And this dev claims that they liked to pull it up from time to time to just admire it even after it was cut. This implies that team ico's archives (or whoever owns the company) still has the files and they still work in the early versions. It's unlikely, but I wonder if these files will ever be leaked, or (even more unlikely but would be really cool) if the company themselves released video footage of the fight in like a bts interview or something.

They were so limited when making the original sotc. I wish we could get the full envisioned game now

At this point all we can do is hope that Bluepoint Games or even genDESIGN have something special planned for the 20th anniversary of this game in 2025. No doubt if the game was to get a 4th release it would include an expansion of the map, some or maybe even all the missing colossi, & full access to climb up all the way to the very top of the main temple. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Nice info on the cut colossi.

Very interesting, I just beat shadow of the colossus for the first time and I remember everything, and yes I agree they recycled a lot of cut content ideas into something else it would seem.

Thanks for talks about this! Other sources have been tight-lipped, from the ICO wiki to Nomad to even TCRF! The collective silence is rather concerning; glad someone is willing to give it attention.

Now it's correct "Ueda" is no longer the "twin brother Udea" 😂😁 Great video about the archives with the interview with one of the developers 👍

I wonder what have it been like to have evis the orginal final boss in the game. From the art it looked like the tallest colossi yet, probably taller than malus. Its design was also very cool. After watching this, it feels like there was a whole other game that was cut.

I just beat the game a hour ago for the first time in my life on my brother's old PS2 slim what a legendary moment 😂

I'm a software engineer and considering the limitations os the PS2 in 2005, SOTC is marvellous for what it has delivered. All these considerations for removing the colossi are reasonable and i agree to a certain point. But for Roc, i'd propose to change the idea a bit and level the arena, making it wider and simpler, making crossing it a challenge while Roc would be chasing you until you start climbing the tower. The tower would be used to develop the player's attack.

Another brilliant video!

Great video, love this game a lot and love the mysteries around it even more than the game itself.

Damn this is insane! I really hope they make these Colossus real someday with the technology we have these days :c

Any ideas about your next video?

at 10:06 wander glitched into the video

Incredible. So cool to know so much more

31:46 Celosia and Cenobia say, "Hello!"

Great video yet again on my fav game. It really is none of my business but is this a recent or a old interview

I love the content man! Keep it up!

Thanks for the info!

6:29 I'm glad that you don't fight smaller enemies, it would of been a drain on health or something would chase you into the battle against a Colossus, like Dirge or Cenobia for example. And don't get me started on Wander's singular sword slash.

Suuuuuuuuuch a good video!

This is insane stuff,game was really ambitious. I am actually curious as to why we haven't heard anything from Ueda's new game

The closest to having one of the cut colossi was roc. And roc, imo has the coolest design.

The concept of fighting two colossi at once sounds super cool! I doubt many of the final 16 would’ve made good candidates though, I think you’d need to design two colossi with that intent in mind or it wouldn’t be much fun. Maybe dirge and someone else could’ve worked though, get dirge to chase you then blind him and force a collision with the other colossus. Or even if they’d gotten the monkey to work, the collision with a wall could knock it down. Oh, what could have been!

I think the original nico idea is still a decent idea

Man this makes me want a sotc 2 with all the atuff they couldnt do cuz ps2 limitations

Literalmente tu y un youtuber de argentina son los unicos que han hecho un video de esta entrevista del desarrollador

There was a drop on 4chan in regards to devil. Although the post in unfinished

wow

only way to imagine phoenix is Rodan from godzilla king of the monsters

I don't understand why all of this wasn't on the remaster.

I am sceptical as to whether this came from a dev, as some of the terminology used sounds like it was written by fans alike, although it could be in translation that it sounds familiar. Most of this information we already knew, the rest could be made up and/or forgotten in the mind of the dev so-to-speak. This video has spawned more interest however and gets people like myself talking about SotC once again. An elaborate ploy perhaps? Nevertheless, this game's lore never ceases to interest and entertain. My favourite colossi are Roc, and Devil - 2 that were more in their final stages of development compared to others. According to this interview, it is such a shame Devil was cut for being too small, if it is true. However, Celosia and Cenobia are also very small yet in the game obviously. I've said this before but I'll say it again, if we had a version of the game with all the cut colossus that we know about, then we would have original versions of the same/recycled colossus that exist today. The problem with this is that the discarded colossus are so renowned by fans that they would need to be included but the game just wouldn't make sense from a commercial standpoint. With that being said, a remake or remaster including the cut colossus would be a love letter to fans alike, which sadly I very much doubt would ever happen, for the reasons I mentioned. A fan-made game however would be a strong possibility. The problem with the original SotC and as mysterious as it will always be and its cut material is that too much was given away and too quickly, before the game's release even - This is the game's biggest strengths and weaknesses in terms of its forever mysterious and haunting lore that we all like to love and hate about it (what we got, what we didn't get, and what we all wanted).

Hey GeorgeFontaine are involved in shadow of the colossus back in 2005????????

Bruhh even if they remade this game for the 3rd time now an added the missing extra colossi I'd not only pay 35$ for it I'd platinum it... I've played and beat this game on all modes on ps2 ps3 ps4 and ps5.... it's such an amazing game I'd love to see team ico release an exact blueprint of this game with new colossi, or even kaiju he'll I'd love to battle every godzilla villian in this stylization, would be sick and same thing might work for the most part colossi ignore you for the most part unless you invade thier territory or attack them which is exactly what you do.. most godzilla villans would ignore humans because they are so massive that even if they know a human is there it's not worth thier time or like I said a game with new collosi/kaiju.. or remake it again and add all the missing creatures at one point I think they were over 40 and we only ended up with what 15 or 16?... uhh ohh forgot time for another play through cancer camera angles here I come btw my only complaint for the entire series.....

I realize many of the problems could be solved if there was the ability to shoot an arrow with a rope wander could climb

final fantasy 7 got a remake, why not SotC?

Of all this years i just cant understand how the hell they didnt finished the game after release, could be a expansion or a remake version for ps3 or ps4 instead the did a remake without all the content and i know that was another studio but was the opportunity to finish the game!

huge burger

is this recently leaked?

Aren’t you hurting Team Stage 0’s efforts by bringing more attention to this? If by some chance they’re able to get in contact with another dev, minimizing the publicity of their former contact’s contribution would, even if a very very very small amount, increase the likelihood of them willing to divulge. I’m not sure if you got permission from the team, nor if they’re okay with people reporting on it, I won’t be watching this video to try and minimize its reach, but I sincerely hope this was born either out of ignorance of its ramifications or in accordance to Team Stage 0’s wishes.

Niwa was the dev in this interview

You pitched the music down so much that I can barely recognize it and don't tell me it's a copyright issue because no other video discussing the game does this. It sounds like shit and it would have been better to leave the ost alone

Fake interview. A lot of things said here don't make sense

Maybe the Griffin could've had a playful demeanure. It would poke its beak around in the dirt, the rocks & maybe trees, bc it's slightly bored, but not too bored that it would wanna run around constantly. It slowly walks up to the player & would try to knock them around with their head & maybe legs or maybe it should just ignore the player until they get on Agro. But when you get on Agro it starts running around you in circles, but not very fast. If you follow the Griffin, it'll start running in a relative straight line in the direction of its longest possible track. In its excitement it would speed up whenever Agro almost catches up until it reaches its top speed(ofcourse it'll go topspeed, if Agro performs a running start), but it would slow down, if Agro is too far away or go back to circling Agro, if you stand still/walk slowly. You'd need to run parallel to the Griffin to jump over, so the Griffin shouldn't make sharp turns & perhaps should have a readable pattern on when it makes a slight turn. Like, if Agro is extremely close parallel to it(like almost touching), Griffin would swirf off to the opposite side of Agro so you need to keep a *little* bit of distance. Griffin would make a U-turn, when it gets too close to its border so you don't have too much time, but it should always make a turn into the direction with the longest possible track. It would try to shake off the player & eventuelly would do a big shake that'll always throw off the player, unless the player manages to jump at the right moment & then gets back to holding onto the usual spot.