There's turtles, fish, and butterflies too. And the end game credits shows even more life in the Forbidden Lands!

THE HOLY NUT

@@Lord_Talha dont forget the bats!

There are fish, turtles, birds including hawks and doves, and deer and butterflies in the world. (There is at least one deer at the end of the game in the cutscene with Mono.) I don't know why people say there's no animals in the game just because they're hard to find sometimes.

@@fogskiss3137 Don't forget PAL, the squirrel. Never forget! 😉

I completely agree

Honestly malus is the most underrated collosus, probably my 2nd favourite. I love everything about the fight

I fucking hated malus because I spent like a good 30 minutes trying to figure out what to do once I'm at the second hand and I though it was crap for a final boss fight but I guess my first impressions are really stupid

Malus is a flawed fight, but the emotional and narrative significance truly justify why it feels like a final boss, so it all works out to make it truly memorable.

Malus would be my favourite if it weren’t for how broken his hitboxes were. I spent an hour falling off his second hand because his fire wrist kept unfairly hitting me. The worst part was that you fall all. The way. Down. It should be obvious that if jumping to the first hand should never make me think “okay when I jump to his hand I need to stay away from his wrist because it’s broken and won’t let me move.” You shouldn’t play around the flaws of a game.

Nobody expects Ludwig!

Look af Bloodborn

I hate this creature! Love Kos, Maria and even Laurence. But Ludwig....

As in...the twitch streamer?

@@eluherrahaz1165 why do you hate ludwig and like the orphan?

NotSoSeriousNick Also Avion means plane in spanish

NotSoSeriousNick and phalanx means nut sack in Spanish.

_Barba_ means beard in Latin itself.

yep... portuguese also.

Barba in greek is a phrase we say to an old man lol

But how is it dangerous?

@@coletrainhetrick how is it not dangerous its a huge flying creature muxed in with stone and who knows how fast it can go

@@markalvarado4450 but you do realize it is docile? It is literally not hurting anyone nor ever attempts to. That's no different from saying whales are dangerous

It doesn't even have any attacks lol. But I guess if Phalanx were to be super aggressive, it could technically dive bomb into it's targets causing a lot of damage. I mean, it literally dives into sand like it's nothing. O.o

@@markalvarado4450 it's a non hostile Colossus when you awaken phalanx all it does is fly around and doesn't even want to harm wander

That was the first point in my first playthrough where I was like "Hey, wait a minute. That one literally didn't do anything aggressive, even after I attacked it..." I'll just blame it on the fact that I was a lot younger back then.

If its name is Phalanx then it deserves to die, whether it be a massive sky serpent or a puddle of black pudding surrounded by spartan shields

WoG that shit man.

Bryan Cameron-Hutchings Phalanx is female, hence the egg sacks

Bryan Cameron-Hutchings team Ico wiki is not always correct, idiot

I know!! It almost made me quit when i was a kid lol

really? i honestly thought it was fuckin funny

@@carthagosenatus2245 did you forget to log out of your main

Perfectly said! Malus is a boss fight about the experience, rather than the thrills. Everything from the setting, to the music, to the design of Malus, gives the whole encounter a vibe that's pure genius for a game like Shadow of the Colossus. It makes you think, with no words spoken.

Well said! It's also worthy to note that the closer you get to Malus, the more lasers(?) he shoots at you. It's like he's becoming more and more frightened the closer you get to him.

death-kuja i never really liked malus. He seemed kind of anti-climactic to me. Youve just beaten 15 giant colossi (some more giant then others), and i was kinda expecting this great huge god of war esc thing to come reign terror on me. Then i see a tall human wearing a dress and his feet stuck to the ground. The concept of him is cool indeed, and hes a great colossus. But change the arena placement and he could be just another colossus. I guess i was expecting more of a challenge, thats all. Ik this might seem like im being all like 'oh youre wrong and im right and anyone who doesnt see my way can jump off a cliff!' but im not. Im just sharing my opinion, the one you have is fine, we just dont see the same way :) but i do love myself another SotC fan!

death-kuja I respect your opinion and I do think it's an interesting way to see the fight. But for me I just can't help myself from seeing the battle as just anti-climatic, after all you've fought the last challenge is literally a tower who shoots missiles? Agro died for THIS? Don't get me wrong, I do think that making the players question themselves is good and has everything to do with the game, but I think pulling it off should be more like Phalanx, a foe who does not even tries to hurt you. Not like Malus, a foe who's fight is so surprisingly boring it makes you question if it's even worth it playing the game this far. But that's just my opinion and I do think yours is interesting as well.

Agro lived bud

BloodEagle13 malus’ thème is incredible :D I like it a lot ! It is so sad and calm

Definitely a great track to top of a sad story with.

Gaius?

@@jamesharden5685 Gaius is a great fight and a really good poster-boy choice for the game, for sure. Really, these three are just the top of my list, there is t really a fight I don't like in SotC.

@@bloodeagle5889 shut up

Based

Thrilling or annoying depending on your point of view.

I thought it was super boring, Phalanx doesn't even do anything in the fight. he just flies around and waits to be killed.

Yeah, Phalanx was probably my least favorite fight. Its by far the least threatening. I mean its still really cool, but its not really a fight. My favorite was the small bull one where you need to get it to knock down pillars. Took me forever to figure that fight out, and it was really tense since it could kill you really easily by knocking you over repeatedly.

WR, that is the point. It is innocent and just wants to be left alone. it doesn't fight you even when you are trying to kill it.

Yeah, but it still isn't very fun

Acituanbus:GLaDOS eddition Well yeah, early development, y’know, the unfinished version of the game unreleased to the public.

Acituanbus:GLaDOS eddition yeah the version no one can play.

Might as well say the graphics are shit because ICO's were.

Used to

Thanks for sharing your feelings with me as well! Phalanx and the game as a whole truly are special. When I was a kid I busted out my VHS recorder and taped myself playing the game because I wanted to relive my fights. I loved it so much and still do

theDeModcracy That's incredible! It sounds like you started very early. I'm really glad we have such fun streamers like you to help give words to the feelings we've been unable to express. Not to get fake deep or anything but you were able to succinctly ascertain why particular Colossi were good or just average and it is rather cathartic.

Oh come on it was irrelevant

For first time players, it certainly isn't irrelevant. Falling to your death teaches you stamina conservation

Nothing was changed. Fall damage works the same way it did back then. I don't know what led you to come to this conclusion.

@@Jaikhay231 wait it’s not different? Thought you take way less damage in newer versions

@@BIGD-cc7ru In the newer versions (PS3 at least) they made Wonder extremely clumsy. Sometimes it's very annoying. On many of the colossi, you just need to find the sweet spot, the magic pixel, where you can continue stabbing or you will get just one stab and it's all over. Wonder just can't find grip anymore. Coming from the PS2 version, it's super annoying.

i really loved barbas as well. one of my favorites so far but I am only on no 8. so far i sort of like all of them. the game mechanics can be annoying but that is true of almost any game.

If i was your i should place kuramoni in no.1 because its gots my favorite musics in its batle but thanks for placing kuramoni in a good number!!!!!!!

Update from after getting the platinum trophy 16. Dirge 15. Argus 14. Celosia 13. Phaedra 12. Pelagia 11. Hydrus 10. Gaias 9. Malus 8. Valus 7. Basaran 6. Cenobia 5. Quadratus 4. Phalanx 3. Avion 2. Kuromori 1. Barba It came to the point where during every playthrough I’d be dreading to get to dirge so he gets to go to the back of the list.

President Obama Why ? Is it cuz of the controls or something else ? I’m eager to know cuz I loved Dirge.

Tokxinz 010 because he’s a scary basterd. He’s not hard but he makes you panic which causes a lot of annoyance during speedruns . Very well designed for that reason but it has made me dread him as a result.

What's wrong with Phaedra?

Camoflaugin Warpugs She takes for fucking ever to look in the damn hole

@@zytlib6758 but you cant do anything to get on hydrus while underwater so you just have to wait

The maddening time attack of Phaedra

RabbitsDenn you can beat the phaedra time attack on hard mode in like 3 minutes easy if you know the strat

RND Games m

Honestly same, sure he's slow but sprinting around on Agro while dodging the blasts while he swaggers up to you with a look of *pure violence* is epic

I meant to say Malus

N1njawo1f295 Saiyan I

He did your idea lol

To tell you the truth i do also find weird that Hydrus starts swimming above the water when you finally get a grab onto it, it feels like a plot hole due to Hydrus ability to dive for long periods of time, it isn't justified. For example: Argus has this sword (knife?) which you can make him throw by stabbing him while you make Hydrus rise by... grabbing... onto him... there's also Gaius that if you're not experienced enough, you have to make him hit that center for his armor to break... (Also something weirder is that you can't drown after wasting all your stamina under water, unless they changed that it the PS4 version, but i doubt it.)

Yorcont still cant drown

I also enjoyed that. It was pretty fun.

Love it

Mark Deska finally someone commented this as well

Ikr! Im not the only one

Mark Deska oh thank you that one had me confused

@@connorvarley1996 He also later called Celosia as Celestia lol

and Pelagia as Pelegia

I too but i love it because of its batles haves my favorite music

Gerrit DeMan Hi !My top 16 is: 16-Phaedra 15-Basaran 14-Hydrus 13-Cenobia 12-Celosia 11-Pelagia 10-Kuromori 9-Malus 8-Quadratus 7-Barba 6-Valus 5-Dirge 4-Phalanx 3-Gaius 2-Avion 1-And my favorite is Argus

I still fell like cenobia is underrated as a boss

My top three is 1.Gaius 2. Phalanx 3.avion

I would say that my favourite is Malus, Why? Because i think it sets the atmosphere of you being the threat, and Malus, being the prey, on the battle he only snipes you when you are at the bottom, but when you reach him, he cant do anything else, he's stuck, locked, he cant move or do anything else to stop you, and ironically, he's the most humanly shaped Colossi, by killing him, it shows how you lose the bit of humanity you had left. And the theme, god, the theme is awesome.

valus is so low? that doesn't make sense. i will never forget that cut scene. it is incredible. the fight itself may not be so great but seeing that beast for the first time is legendary.

IKR! I can give you mine, there's 23 bosses (4 optionals), Obviously, SPOILER WARNING: #23: Tree of Men. While the concept itself is ok, the execution is just awful. Way too many ways you can get thrown off the platform to the point it just feels unfair. #22: That Stench Most Foul: While the boss itself isn't that bad, it's just WAY TOO EASY... had this been one of the earlier bosses it would've been higher on the list. #21: The untouched Inquisitor: This boss just doesn't have enough moves to keep you interested. It has what, 3 attacks? They do hit like a truck, though. #20: The unspeakable deep: Suffers the same problem as inquisitor, but is much more tense due to you being heavily underlevelled for the experience, making it slightly more fun imo. #19: The mad alchemist: I think this boss is ruined by the fact that those slimes are either no problem at all, or basically unkillable depending on what weapon you're using. Good luck fighting this guy with dex weapons, you'll get your ass handed to you by the slimes EVERY TIME. #18: The Bloodless Prince: Now we're getting to bosses that I like: Bloodless prince is a fun fight. The main problem with it is the camera, the prince is just too big to properly see what he's doing. Other than that, this boss has a fun moveset that keeps you on your toes, and a great atmosphere. #17: Witch of the Lake: This boss was a little on the easy side for me, but walking into her for the first time got me mad excited due to the background, and her moveset is pretty fun to fight against. #16: Carsejaw the Cruel: This Gravelord Nito wannabe has everything that was great about Nito, and a lot less of what was bad about him. Fairly good boss! Points deducted for being sucha blatant copy, though! #15: The False Jester: This boss is great because it keeps the pressure up. He is very aggressive and just does not let up in his attacks, requiring precise timing to get hits in! #14: The Forgotten King: This 3-in-1 bossfight is hella fun! It's not too difficult, and their individual movesets are lackluster, but combined they make for a fun trio to fight. #13: Disemboweled Husk: This guy is fun because figuring out how to dodge his shotgun projectiles is what makes or breaks the fight. Once you learn that, it's a fair but challenging fight, but before that the guy just shreds you! #12: Kraekan Cyclops: This first large monster fight in the game teaches you to use s instead of position to dodge attacks. Up until now you can use smart positions to stay out of harms way, but this guy just smacks the entire arena senseless, so you better get used to rolling! #11: Dried King: A decently fun mage fight. The way the spotlights indicate harmful areas to stand in fits perfectly with a platformer Souls-like! That being said, the randomness of those things can be a little annoying, and his other moves are slightly lacking. #10: Kraekan Wyrm: This fight would've been top 5 if he didn't have that stupid fly away move. Other than that, I'm a sucker for dragons, and this guy deserves to be in the top half of the game! #9: The Unskinned: a Great duoboss. The caster keeps you on your toes while the brawler keeps the pressure up. Good mix! #8 Ronin Cran: This is just an upgraded version of the unskinned, minus the caster subboss. He's agressive, he's fast, he hits like a truck! #7 Kraekan Dragon Skourzh: This guy has you screaming "HOW DID I DODGE THAT WRONG" until you get all of his moves. It's like disemboweled husk's pistol, but ALL OF HIS MOVES are like that! #6: Murdiella Mal: The fact that I had no idea this boss existed before my 3rd playthrough makes me sad. Fun moves, great atmosphere, lots of mystery! #5: The Coveted: I love this boss because it's one of those rare times where you're not even attacking the enemies, here you're attacking their most "coveted" possession! Interesting concept and the fact that the ghosts switch up roles every now and then makes for a great twist! #4 The Queen of Smiles: This woman's howling screeches agonize me every time I hear them. The boss isn't that hard, but it's a great step up in difficulty from the Sodden Knight to the point where it's just that perfect difficulty for a second boss! #3: The Third Lamb: This guy is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's just such a fun fight to me, I think mainly because of the way his difficulty scales with his health percentage. This boss is an animal, and when you're doing good against him, he starts to fight like a cornered and frightened animal! I love every second of it! #2: The Sodden Knight: You may disagree with me here, but the sodden knight feels like what the Asylum Demon in dark souls should've felt like. A hard boss if you're unfamiliar with the controls/style of gameplay, but only a hurdle when you know what you're doing. It's just the perfect first boss. And that soundtrack definitely earns him a lot of bonus points! #1 Nameless god: While not the most interesting boss mechanics wise, he's just perfect for what he's intended. This God is the most agressive enemy in the entire game, because that's just what the lore wants him to be, a ragefilled consumer of kingdoms! Oh, and that atmosphere! his howls echoed in my mind for months after first defeating him! It's just such a perfect conclusion to such a darkly themed title!

Freddie Geraghty how is argus above any colossus

@@affekmonsa-chermon5041 argus was the one colossus I actively hated fighting

Actually it is #1 for me

Because Argus is way more enjoyable to fight than the embarrassment that is malus

Plug Shirt what

Even Phaedra?

nice response. i tend to agree. each boss is special so far in its own way. i am only half way through but i loved barbas. i did find the electric eel a bit annoying because of the swimming and how simple and silly it is to get on it but i do like the scenery the intro and the cutscens a lot on that one so it is still quite good overall.

@@gannielukks1811 phaedra is annoying to beat but that one made me feel so sad to kill i think it really does do a lot to provide that emotional feeling of am i really doing something wrong here? it seems like killing bambi almost.

Louis Cyphre same

No I really like him too. It's an interesting and fun fight and he looks awesome.

King Fancy YES. YES YOU ARE. Jk i just dont like him XD

I like him.

@Give your meat A gold ol rub basaran

i like mr turtle boi too

Hydra in my opinion is more interesting then Phalanx. I love Phalanx, but once you actually get on him, he's not as fun, because it's very simple once on him. While Hydra weaves in and out of the water while you have to disable his barbs. And his point about his Hydra never learns it's mistake by resurfacing could be used on most of the Colossus in the game, including Phalanx.

Lejend Dairy true i love hydrus too

Guessing you come from the PS+ sale too?

the problem for me has always been the idiotic shaking he does when you get on top of him.

Justin S Yeah you can't do much if you're not on a sweet spot

Celosia is easy because you only need to make it fall out of the tlempe

Ethan Dupras I hated him SO MUCH

Ikr bassaron is one the best next to Gaius

It's Basaran bro

Nothing special about him and when he shakes and you're on his shell is just annoying.

his battle just feels too repetitive indeed when seeing it for the first time it can be cool and intimidating but its slowness makes u have to run in circles around a geyser for way too long to the point the fight already feels repetitive on the first time and then watching it get to the geyser but not at the right spot which doesn't takes it down makes it even more annoying as u know u gotta go through the whole run around thing just to get it back to the geyser Climbing basaran is nice till it gotta stand up where u gotta stay near a spike and hope that u grab it instead of physics saying screw it and yeets u away Trying to speedrun it can be quite buggy (at least for me) after tries to get to his leg his animations just bug and he enters an infinite loop or starts having more animations problems making player unable to stab unless they do it the normal way which is far slower and boring watching how basaran is slow throughout most of the battle but suddenly gets faster when he's at the geyser annoys me alot ofc this is mostly about basaran being slow but that's like the main factor of why hes battle boring and repetitive

It sucks

evilduck1000 you’re supposed to climb on its back? I just grabbed onto his head and climbed up

@@kuwakaney2443 To be frank that's how I do it now too after seeing a couple of time attack vids... But yeah, my first playthrough I swam round back to grab him. Thought the fight was designed like shit because of it, but now it's one of my favourite colossi to beat.

They can breathe underwater you uneducated bitch

Fish breathe through gills

In what grade do we start learning about fish, or just know about fish? Cause I bet it’s low.

Literally the only battle I died on because I just stood in the sand like an idiot without thinking of Agro lol. He killed me so fast. But I realised after that and had the most fun taking him down.

Astral Nightmare He should totally do the Easiest to Hardest scaling, its always interesting to hear his opinion on the difficulty of a game (Imma put flesh doggo on top, my favorite fight in the game)

RND Games In terms of easiest, Jagras is a no brainer along with probably Tzitzi and Girros. Hardest for me personally (I haven't fought them all) is Bazel, Teosta and Pink Rathian.

Same. For me it was the controls (which I think is still a major problem with this game) I would get so angry that Agro would randomly freak out that I wasn't really focusing on the battle

You aren't alone, I found it to be one of the most annoying fights to deal with. The fact that the fight is one of the few in the game that manually forces you to re-scale it from square one didn't help.

Nice of you to say Cam! I may do Zelda games sometime in the future. God of War is next on the list for now

Np dude

He was giving his opinion on the bosses and his fear of fish played into his reasoning for disliking that specific boss. I don't get what the problem is?

I do hate Argus, but Gaius was the worst for me in Hard Time Attack, apparently they changed physics from PS2 to PS3 version so Gaius's belly was the most unstable in PS3 so you can't stab him as *deep* as you want. I'm not sure if they changed that on PS4, but at least i couldn't get my White Agro untill i was able to defeat Gaius in Hard Time Attack.

kira kazie surprisingly for me, in hard time attack, the spot on his chest was much harder to hit than the one in the hand, because of the stamina management, it takes a lot of time to get out of there through climbing back to his shoulders and he just keeps doing that dumb chest shaking where you can't do anything but pray that you have enough stamina for making it back to his shoulder. The hand for me was more like an extra reason for me to worry about time, since it's not really that hard to pull it off, at least for me, you can even rest on his fingers for stamina when he stops moving he arm

Aaron Brady same he/she is so cool

Aaron Brady pelagia was a BIOTCH for me in time attack though. They were the last one i beat.

When i fight Demod i select the bow and tend to ride with Agro around the stage utill i can confirm Demod is following me with its glowing eyes by pressing L1, then i redirect Agro so it takes a diameter like rute (and completely stop using the movement stick afterwards), after that i press L1 again while pulling out the bow, finally i release L1 and adjust the scope to Demod's Eye. Another thing is that you can pull out the bow and make Agro go faster at the same time, you just need to keep one button pressed and press the other repeatedly, but in this fight if you do something similar to what i described i don't think you need to push the speed button.

I don't mean to sound rude, but that's kind of a silly reason.