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When I fist saw the photos of the unused collosi, they creeped me out. The low resolution, the fact that we can not see them in game, made them seem so… mystical, so … surreal. The screenshots looked like cryptid photos, adding to the eerie feeling. Remenants of their arenas are scattered through the lands making them seem like extinct creatures makes researching them so interesting, its a feeling that I can not explain.

13:44 Fumito: “we liked the spider in concept, but we scrapped it because it scared the bejeezus out of us in practice.”

Worm is an absolute nightmare, I can imagine the development team having a laugh to themselves making the GAPING HOLE OF DOOM the weak point.

It pains me how little we know about Yamori. No screenshots, no arena description, no pictures, every other colossus we know details, except Yamori. Very weird. Great video chief

I JUST WANT TO MENTION!!! There is a team of fans making and intergrading all of these bosses in a new port of the game called “Beyond The Forbidden Lands” where you will be able to play the game as if all of these were in the original release!!

Dirge: I'm the scariest mfer around. Worm:

Interesting that Evis and Malus are two different colossi, Malus would have been Buddha and where ever you find it’s location but Evis would have been the real final boss and I’d imagine a different location and fight itself.

I also explored the area where the Devil's arena was supposed to be wondering its exact location and how Wander was supposed to reach it.

The rock at 17:20 is the same one seen in D3 in the final game as this is where hillock was located before being scrapped and the 9th colossus was moved there. The other images are authentic, the source of these images is team stage 0 who got in contact with a dev, i know this because i am a member of the group. Same with the beta map and badlands image. The "pillars" seen in the spider screenshots are spider legs, not from the spider boss but the remains of other giant spiders, the devs wanted it's arena to be a spider graveyard type area

Probably the best video about the cut colossi, specially for the last ones which I've never seen a single video mentioning them.

Monkey sounds like the hardest imo, and i love monkeys so he probably would have been my favorite had he been in the game. I love his design.

fun fact: a fanmade game is currently in development known simply as beyond the forbidden lands. it will have all the unused colossi in it, completely revamped and remade!

I figured I'd correct and add some things after watching this video. 1. The spider screenshots are legit, no question about it - the rock you pointed out in its arena is still in d3 just with the tallest part removed. 2. A pretty rare fact is the sheets show phoenix had 2 intro cutscenes, presumably because crater had 2 entrances that Wander could come from. 3. Snake II (and snake a and b) is just an early phalanx design, dirge is called narga in the files not snake. 4. Likewise knight_II is just an iteration of Gaius 5. Long neck was probably Roc given that Ueda mentions it having a long neck 6. Griffin B is a griffin model that we haven't seen as the screenshots we have are almost certainly that of Griffin A (again its just an iteration, yamori is unique in that its 2 different colossi) 7. This one is pretty rare for people to know so I don't blame you, but there was a time Griffin was placed on the map and interestingly as a result that specific time frame had 25 colossi.

as much as i love the original shadow of the colossus, i’d kill for a dlc where they released a couple extra secret bosses

Okay, George Fontaine has to be one of the most UNDERRATED youtubers I have ever seen. I thought I knew everything about the cut collossi but he went above and beyond with the rough sketches and ideas at the end. Fantastic job! You just got a new sub. Also guys, there is a group of developers that are independently creating a project which includes the CUT collossi. The name of the project/group is called, "Beyond The Forbidden Lands" do with that what you will, take care.

Amazing video. Thank you for this! Always love sotc being keept alive

I've always been fascinated by the cut collossi, they seem extremely interesting, almost makes me want a mod to add them into the game, especially the spider

love how half the reasons these amazing stuff was cut was cause "too hard too much work"😭

48 colossis would have been an absolutely massive game.

20:49 The one with the long neck on the crater is the earlier Phoneix. The one during the alpha stages of the game. Blue vest, brown hair Wander. The final design, they made his neck different and lava wings and right eye. But was then removed late in development. Probably sometime in 2004.

In an alternate universe these colossi exist in the game and the ones we have now are the cut ones.

Outstanding production values. Well done!

this is one of the best videos on the subject. very well explained and summed up.

Amazing video. Every now and then i return to this amazing rabbit hole of one of my favourite games ever. It's interesting to dive deep into where this colossi could have been, how they were defeated and why they were cut. It's so sad they were cut because their designs are so interesting (for me the one that sucks the most is Phoenix. The idea of plunging it into a lake to take away the fire and reveal his weak points just sounds amazing. I can only imagine what my kid self would have felt holding the trigger button while the Phoenix falls into a lake with Wunder grabbing onto his back). Maybe we will get that experience in one of the mods that are in development.

I get that the PS2 had its constraints, but I really wish that the remake had 24 Colossi in it. My only complaint with the game is that it feels too short, and killing eight more colossi would've made a massive difference

I just wish they kept the colossi that were late in the development. ESPECIALLY Spider. Spider would've made Dormin's design make more sense. And that flying one with the hit detection issue. Although I'm sure they might've had to delay release to work these ones out, and they just scrapped them due to time constraints, I just wish they had fixed the issues. I also adore everything about Phoenix. But I agree, we had enough.

U deserve a like, my friend, for all the research and analysis. Great work 👏

great video, as another commentor mentioned there were a few errors, but i really enjoyed this presentation/format

I have a theory on the saru fight and how it would’ve worked. You know how you can grab hold of flying birds? It would’ve played a bigger part, mostly for this fight. Saru would be up too high and out of reach by normal means. The player would avoid the rocks being throw until a bird swoops down. Thats when you jump up and grab it, As it flies you up toward the colossi. Once you get close enough, you drop off he bird, and then grab onto saru’s climbable ridges. He’d swing, bob, shake, and shimmy in an attempt to get the player off. You goal wouldn’t be to hurt the colossi yourself, but to just make it let go of the canopy or stalagmites above (depending on the setting of the fight) Damage occurs when the ape finally lets go, and plummets to the earth. “But nick, the players wont have enough stamina to hold onto the bird long enough to make it to saru, and then still climb on it” THATS WHERE YOU ARE WRONG. theres a reason the lizard tails are in the game… It’d be a bit more of a puzzle than a fight, as well as a 3rd act marker. Dont have enough stamina to finish it? That’d let you know you’ve got some grinding/lizard hunting to do, as well as to let you know you wont be finishing the game with your current stamina stats. But of course, All of this was reduce waaaaay down in scope. And, as well, this is, of course just a theory.

I've never even played these games but I love the dedication and descriptions!

Fantastic video. Nice work implementing the leaked images into the presentations. The solution to make AI generated art for Evis was clever!

I hope one day if we ever get another Shadow of the Colossus remake or continuation that they add a lot of these unusued designs. Make it more horror based and eerie but keep it as badass as the original was when fighting an enemy

very nice work,well done!!!

With all these A's and B's floating around, I wonder if it has to do with the original idea of having 48 of them. To make that actually realistic, they were probably going to make a base model and then build off of it. So there would be "Snake" and they would make 3 or 4 variations of it.

In all Honestly Praey for the Gods was a gsme inspired by Shadow of the Colossus. Yes it doesnt have much of a story but neither did Shadow so not much of comparison. However unlike Shadow, Praey literally forces the elements against you not just the Colossi. Plus varies of other monsters. You play a female in Praey and there is a Wolf in it unlike some dead girl Wanderer was trying to bring back. Some of the Colossi in Praey look close to the unused Colossi of Shadow. I mean there is even a Worm like one in Praey.

with quetzalcoatl being sometimes a symbol of death and resurrection like a phoenix, and using phoenix textures maybe quetzalcoatl is an earlier version of Phoenix, seeing as quetzalcoatl also had wings.

Awesome video man!

Love SOTC content. You earned a sub

This video is so well made it honestly shocking that the channel doesn't even have 1k subs

great video man

Sounds like many of these would've overlapped too much with the existing 16. However, this did spawn two interesting concepts I haven't seen in the game or in the extras: 1. a colossus that breaks apart into a group of mini-colossi, and you have to attack the correct one while the others are trying to kill you. Perhaps you could even use the other's attacks against eachother to give yourself a break. 2. a colossus that has a ranged attack you have to absorb with your sword and/or bow in order to successfully harm it.

I would’ve loved it if they made a remake of the game and added some of the missing ones into the remake like Roc, Saru, The Devil & spider.

I just beat shadow of the colossus on the ps2 Japanese version for the first time and I’ve been around the world map and I agree there are definitely a lot of areas if you look closely you can see details of the unused areas and of course some aren’t even in the game but it definitely proves this game was suppose to be longer.

It would have been cute if there was a small reference to the cut 32 in the lore. There were once 48 colossi, but after others have came, fought, and died, only 16 remain.

I love this game and it will always have a special place in my heart. It feels weird though that the game I love so much could have been so different

Good franchises always leave you wanting more.

I find this in depth analysis stuff so cool

Great video man.

It’s also very interesting how Roc had a very long neck and the 5th colossus has a very long tail 🤣

If I had to pick one colossus to re-introduce into the game, I think it'd be Phoenix. The environment and visuals alone set it apart! Also, for the worm, it said its weakness would have been the flower bulb. What if the bulb/mouth structure is where its eyes were? Wander could draw its attention by clanging his sword against rocks, pillars, or other hard objects (lots of interesting vibrations) and leap into the bulb and strike the eye to stun it before it tunnels away! We could use that to sort of reverse the typical formula in a sense- by having Wander crawl *inside* the worm via the fur on the *inside*. If your grip ran out (I'm sure we could find some way to allow points to restore stamina), Wander could tumble out of the hollow worm as it spits him out.

Seeing this makes me happy we didnt get to fight some of these Collossi as Devil and Pheonix seemed impossible to beat too. But thankfully the modding community behind the fan project named Beyond The Forbidden Lands is giving us the scrapped Collossi in a fan made project or extension of the OG Game :)

The fight with roc would have been so god damn cool 😭

"It's important not to obsess over what could've been" 🤨... seriously?! After giving us an amazing video like this showcasing what could've been, you tell us not to obsess over it?? I honestly would've even taken a single large arena dlc with the ability to fight cut collosi over time. 🤤. Still I absolutely love the game anyway. Well you got a sub from me! 😁

All the game needed was the Spider guy:)

Buen video amigo, me hubiera gustado que pusieras imagenes referenciales del proyecto TRIBUTE, ese juego ya tiene varios de los colossos eliminados muy avanzados en el desarrollo, hay muchos videos de ellos e imagenes

Evis is so scary. Somethign abot the humanoid face on those proportions freaks me out.

I cant wait for that fan remake with all these colossi in it

Fortunately there are people trying to make these colossi possible to fight as there are 2 projects being worked on by separate teams both of which are pretty small so it’s going to be a few more years but these projects are called “Tribute” or “Tribute to the Forbidden Lands” and the other is called “Beyond the Forbidden Lands” both of which are trying to make a sort of remake/ remaster and trying to restore all of the cut content including areas and collusi

"i figure itd be useless to show the same thing twice" He didnt have a problem doing that with celosia and cenobia

this game is WAY too underrated

knight two would be a great colossus despite Gaius being my favourite colossi knight two would be my second favourite colossi.

I love watching videos of the unused colossi! Never heard anyone call the monkey "Saru" before, is that the name in the art book?

As a video gamer I start to realize it’s like a life in general all around the stuff we don’t know and what could have been all the ideas and everything we don’t know it’s just unsettling when you realize video games are no different every game has more content that was never seen never was and how much more of a different perspective these games would have offered it just begs the question how much different these games would have been and how much longer and it’s just scary that we don’t know besides what we have so far.

what music you used through out the video

Saru is the Japanese word for primates so it makes sense that the colossus reminds you of King Louis from the Jungle Book.

I love the documentary style for this video it’s so gritty and mysterious 😅

Would be cool if in the remaster there was a new game+ option were after you beat the game you could choose to swap 8 of the colossus with 8 of the ones that were cut making half of the enemies new the second time around

When I Saw Griffin I Thought Of Trico From Last Guardian

0:46 He looks fucking terrifying

Still dont know why they wont update it and come out with a add on we need more

spider so damn huge!

if fumito only gave us that sequel already

Wonderfully made but every time you said fumito udea instead of ueda I was subtly raging lmao

Why are we not making a “shadow of the colossus the uncut” version? With technology today, bring out a SOTC with the ones they cut? Just sayin the fans would love it.

Although i would love to see these bosses im glad not all of them were added, many of them have the same concepts as others which would have made the game a bit too repetitive.

"I figured it would be pointless to show the same thing twice," *Proceeds to show minotaur 3 times and small ramming dog/cat twice* I totally buy that explanation. If only those repeats would've been replaced with the discarded unique ones it would've been less monotonous but oh well.

I believe there’s a fan group modding to restore the 48 colossus

19:55 soundtrack name ?

I'm so glad spider isn't in the game as someone who has megalophobia but specifically for living creatures this game was hard enough to force myself to beat if spider was in it I never would've played it, hydrus and dirge already creeped me out (basaran and phalanx too even though they're pretty easy to beat) but with spider I never would have tried

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reason enough to make sotc 2

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I think I like spider the best

We don't get games like this anymore

Ueda. U- E- Da.

Why blood red for everything?

Imagine if someone mods them in

They should have put the extra in the ps4 remaster

Amazing Video, but i disagree on one thin, i don't think 16 is enough, Spider and Saru soun way too interesting fo me, to not wish they would have been included

1:15 soundract name plz

I've never played shadows of the colossus. It seems that shadows of the colossus was the first version of botw

Fumito ueda

Is it impossible for modders to make this cut colossus playable?

Great video I love sotc and it's cut content, it's so fascinating and very nice to see it compiled like this, but the use of AI "art" is really disgusting, shame on you

Is there any reports of these Colossi actually being in the PS2 game? Because I recognize Roc and Griffin and I know I've dealt with more than 16.... I may even have a save game on my PS2 card. Gonna try and find it this weekend and "check" to see how many statues in the temple that crumbled.... But, if there is some soft of stat sheet at the end of the game maybe that could verify the number I took down....? I'm not sure I even solved the game yet... there may be 1 or 2 left and If I recall, I got stuck on one of them and that's where I left off. I think I had 3 .. or maybe just 2 left... But Roc and Griffin look very very familiar !

No surprise they were all cut, they all look more of the same existing Colossi. Instead of adding more boring colossi you defeat the same way, they should expand on the combat and make the open world less empty and devoid of content. Oh, and ofc, way better controls

Imagine what a great game we would have had if he had implemented all of that. That must have been the game with the most cuts. What a pity!

Me: Oh this is cool, always down for Shadow of the Colossus lore, *clicks like* GreorgeFontaine: "so I tried messing around with A.I art generators" Me: Nevermind

it pisses me off that they made a Remake for PS3 and couldn't be bothered to make some DLC for the cut colosus on the original game