Shadow of the Colossus: The Old and New Legends that brought this epic game to life and bring some rumors about a possible Last Big Secret
(Legends told by the Internet and published by omegaleo on 2/13/2018)
Shadow of the Colossus is one of the greatest masterpieces produced by the video game industries, and all thanks to our beloved creator Fu"MYTH" Ueda. Besides the game have impeccable soundtrack, spectacular graphics that challenge from the old to the new consoles of the sonist generations, gameplay that matches reality and a plot full of emotions and mysteries, the game still yields thousands or even endless theories, this after about 13 years when the game was released in 2005 for the first time in the NTSC versions for Playstation 2. In honor of the release of the Remake versions of Shadow of the Colossus for Playstation 4, I decided to make a publication to do an analysis of some rumors involving legends and theories regarding the possible Last Big Secret.
The Legend of the Alternate Ending
As soon as Shadow of the Colossus was released in the middle of 2005, a few months later, rumors appeared in forums on a game detonated where it was said that to release the Alternate Ending it was necessary to eat all the fruits of the Secret Garden so that its energy was reduced to the minimum and the players would have easier when they controlled Dormin causing him to die with the arrows that the creature received with the damage caused by the guards of Emon, at the end of the game. Then, with the result of the total loss of energy of Dormin bound in the body of Wander, the story of the end of the game would be changed. This was the first legend that existed about the game and for many years, this generated many doubts in the players, because it was very difficult to try to take 100% of the energy of Dormin. Even as a player I came to believe this rumor, but there was no video on the Internet, especially on Youtube, of someone who managed the feat of taking all of Dormin's energy or releasing the so-called Alternate Ending. So, I did not resist and decided to investigate on my own a few years ago, and even recorded a video. In the video below, the truth is revealed:
It took me about 1 month to record several videos to take all of Dormin's energy. It's not easy. At first it's very, very complicated, but then, over time, you discover that the secret of not letting Emon and his guards get to the end of the Worship Sanctuary corridor is hitting a punch by focusing only on Lord Emon. I have found that the guards do not leave Emon behind, and they will not escape while Emon is not sure. After many attempts by recording videos and having to face the last colossus (called Evis and dubbed Malus), I was able to take all of Dormin's energy and prove it through a video, in which I uploaded it on YouTube, but the truth was revealed:
THE ALTERNATE ENDING RUMOUR RELEASED THROUGH THE TOTAL ENERGY LOSS OF DORMIN AT THE END OF THE GAME IS FALSE !!!
After taking 100% of Dormin's energy, frustration came. Nothing happens, because Dormin can not die on the base of arrows. No Alternate Ending is unlocked through this procedure. However this does not mean that the game does not have an Alternate Ending which can be released through another procedure. As long as there is hope, there will always be a light at the end of the tunnel.
The Legend of the 17th Colossus in Secret Garden
At the same time that there was the rumor of releasing the Alternate Ending through the total loss of energy of Dormin at the end of the game, also appeared the rumor that appeared a 17th colossus in the Secret Garden after completing 4 modalities, that is, the modes Normal, Hard , Normal Time Attack and Hard Time Attack. Result:
THE RUMOUR IN WHICH APPEARS A 17th COLOSSI IN THE SECRET GARDEN AFTER COMPLETING ALL THE MODALITIES OF THE GAME IS FALSE !!!
This has not only been tested by me, as it has been proven by several players that at any point in the game you go to the Secret Garden, completing not only the 4 modalities, but also the Reminiscence Mode and the collecting of all the white fruits and tails of the lizards at both levels, nothing happens. In addition, the rumor does not specify what the colossus looks like or what it is.
The Legend of Black Bird
This is the most famous rumor and what still causes the greatest repercussion on the Internet when it comes to the subject of the Black Bird. The rumor began around 2009 through Brazilian players. It all started when a player named Betum (an old and well-known moderator of the Shadow of the Colossus Brazil orkut community) swore he saw a shadow of a black bird fly overhead while playing, but the Betum has no proof, just his testimony. Since then, numerous theories have emerged on this phenomenon. Some players said that it could be the key to releasing the so-called Alternate Ending, others said to be some bug in the game, while there were players who elaborated on theories such as the player J.Alisson (anjokurosaki) who formulated Theory of Quadrant A0 as shown in link from the YouTube video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jff9-6HUHKQ
THE RUMOUR ABOUT THE STRANGE PHENOMENA OF THE BLACK BIRD IS STILL UNKNOWN. THAT'S, THE BOATO CAN BE FALSE AS IT CAN BE TRUE !!!
In addition, the Black Bird that was even called "The Lost Colossus" is compared by the majority of fans with the alleged colossus excluded from the game Roc (Avus) as shown in the trailer section at 1:55 of the video to follow by Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRMi3GwuwVc
We must also remember that there is a coincidence with the shadow of the Roc (Avus) sighted during the gameplay, when it is over the bridge of the beach (Easter Egg of Ico), however this mystery has already been revealed by the hacker player Tchollo Ventura through following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsLEqcm0XvI
Quest for the Last Big Secret and the Theory of Intersecting Points
The Quest for the Last Big Secret through Theory of Intersecting Points is the best and most famous that has ever existed in Shadow of the Colossus. The theory that had been formulated by the AscadiaPSU player in 2007 in the forum of Sony, is based on a possible Last Big Secret through the speech of Emon in the opening of the game on the mysterious origin of Forbidden Land. The player AscadiaPSU had noticed the four blocks of stone that are repeated on the huge bridge that connects the Wind Slit with the Sanctuary of Worship, in addition to the Secret Garden. The engravings on the stone blocks may represent some places seen through the sky, and as Emon says in the opening of the game that the memories of the Forbidden Land are engraved in stone, that is, the image of the blocks can represent these four places: Lake Relic (Arena of the 7th colossus), Wind Slit, Desert Fortress(Arena of the 15th Colossus) and Entrance of the Sanctuary of Worship. Then, AscadiaPSU used the map of the game (by pressing Pause) and positioned the 4 blocks of stone in the four places indicated in the pictures of the blocks. After that, AscadiaPSU interconnected the four blocks of stone forming a cross on the map. The center of the cross would take us to the Arena of the 11th colossus (called Leo and nicknamed Celosia), inside a huge crater. Finally, AscadiaPSU decided to go to the huge wall-door in the temple of the 11th colossus, located below a mandala. His goal was to open the huge wall-door to reveal the Last Big Secret, but for this it was necessary to use the Sword of the Sun to open it since the radiation emitted by the sword penetrates in places that the other swords can not issue. The end result is that the huge wall-mounted door would not open at any point in the game. In addition, several players have already tried to cross the huge door, but there was nothing back there. The theory link formulated by AscadiaPSU: https://community.playstation.com/content/pdc/us/en_US/pdc-communities/playstation-general.topic.html/quest_for_the_lastb-chNB.html
THE RUMOUR ON "LAST BIG SECRET" THROUGH THE THEORY OF INTERSECTING POINTS FORMULATED BY ASCADIA PSU CAN BE TRUE AS IT CAN BE FALSE !!!
The repercussion was so great that I, the player Lionel Ultra HD, gave continuity to his theory looking for other alternatives until arriving at some result, perhaps, significant. I developed the New Theory of the Last Big Secret.
The Rumor on the New Theory of the Last Big Secret
The New Theory of the Last Big Secret was developed by me, Lionel Ultra HD (old nick: Lord Kademus), and is continuation of the Theory of Intersecting Points formulated by AscadiaPSU. The New Theory reveals that the Last Big Secret consists of releasing the supposed Secret Ending by defeating the 15th colossus with the door to its open arena. But for this it is necessary to hang on one of the birds that fly inside the huge crater (Arena of the 11th colossus) with the Parachute (Cloth of Desperation) activated in the menu "item" and the stamina evolved at the maximum, pink circle disappears completely from the game screen. The most accurate location around the crater to jump and try to grab one of the birds is near a dry tree with a dry plant next to it. The problem is that these birds are insane to grab in comparison to the other birds scattered throughout the game. If a player gains the ability to grab onto one of the birds, there will be a chance that a scene will be released in which the bird will take Wander to some mysterious place in the Eastern Region of the inaccessible areas of the map. The goal is to go through a secret path in I and J quadrants to waste time in the game's history and avoid confrontation with the last colossus by opening the door in Arena of the 15th colossus (called Minotaur_C and nicknamed Argus) by triggering a kind of elevator under the door of the fortress inside an underground cave. The New Theory was developed a few years ago and published on this Site/Blog earlier this year (2018). The video below the procedure was posted by me on Youtube:
ATTENTION: All the data of this matter have relations only with the versions of Playstation 2.
This theory is very old and emerged from the Theory of Intersecting Points. As the Arena of the 11th colossus is surrounded by mysteries because it is the center of the cross formed on the map, many players thought that if the wall-door is not the secret, then the secret may be related to the torch when it is overthrown by the 11th colossus to thump in the cauldron. In reference to the game Ico, the majority of the torches served to open portals in the form of rings. As in Shadow of the Colossus, there are huge rings, some buried by the desert sands in Arena of the 13th Colossus, many players have created a thesis to bring the torch lit and use them in the rings, but the result is as follows:
THE THESIS OF UNLEASHING A SECRET INVOLVING THE TORCH AND THE RINGS IN THE DESERT IS FALSE !!!
The flame of the torch has a time limit to remain lit. There would be no time to leave the Arena of the 11th colossus with the fire burning in the torch. In addition, the water from the arena pond extinguishes the fire. And not to mention that many players hacked the torch lit for an unlimited time and scoured every corner of the game looking for some source to be triggered and activate the desert rings, and found absolutely nothing. The conclusion of this is that both the torch and the rings are just Easter Eggs or just tips on a supposed CONFIDENTIAL content hidden in the game and that would be out of reach of players and hacking programs.
The Hidden Dam in the Eastern Region
To close this matter, we must not forget the incredible discovery of the player Pikol Uploader in 2009, when he discovered a dam located in the East Regions of the inaccessible areas of the map. The video link from your discovery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75R1g9zZfU0
THE DAM LOCATED IN THE EAST REGIONS OF THE INACESSIBLE AREAS OF THE MAP IS STILL A MYSTERY. CAN THERE BE A COLOSSAL SECRET !!!
Most players believe that there is nothing more secret hidden in the game as they go far behind information from hacking players, rather than searching the background on their own. Nomad Colossus himself had already said in a Sony forum posting that the tools that hacking players use have very limited features for exploiting the game, not coming to a conclusion about what those extra and unknown data are installed on the game disc . What we can do is just speculate things on the basis of "achism" and not go around "affirming" things as if they had been part of the game's production, as the creator Fumito Ueda himself had already said in an interview that hacking players are considered "illegal sources" to rely on information involving the production of the game. However, players who still want to believe in the existence of a Last Big Secret, continue with their quest, because in the end they may end up being rewarded. And who does not want to believe in anything, all that remains is content with the content that the game has always offered and has always been epic and nostalgic.
THE RUMOR ON THE NEW THEORY OF THE LAST BIG SECRET FORMULATED BY LORD KADEMUS CAN BE TRUE AS IT CAN BE FALSE !!!
It all started a few years ago (in 2013) when I was suspicious of the birds flying inside the huge crater, as Theory of Intersecting Points (AscadiaPSU) pointed out that there was a secret inside the Arena of the 11th Colossus because of the center of the formed cross by the four stone blocks of the huge bridge. As the wall-door of the Temple of Celosia did not open at any point in the game, I thought to myself: if the wall-door is not the secret, what could it be? It was there that I heard sounds of birds inside the temple, and I wondered if the birds that fly inside the huge crater could be the Last Big Secret. So I thought, where I could catch them if I were inside the temple, Wander would never reach the birds in the sky. It stands to reason that birds can only be snatched from above, that is, somewhere specific to the huge crater. It was there that I watched the birds flying and saw that they were approaching the dry tree around the crater. So I decided to go there to try to catch them, but at the time, I did the procedure before facing the last colossus (16th colossus). To start the procedure, I did not activate the Parachute in the menu item and only used to avoid death during the fall if I could not catch some bird, because the Parachute disturbed me when I tried to hang on some bird because of the pair function of the R1 button which simultaneously has the functions of grabbing some element of the game, besides opening the Parachute. Remember that when playing from above, the Wander falls on the ground and dies. In the first attempts, I saw how tense it was to grab these birds, it was then that after several attempts, about a week, I finally managed to catch one of the birds, but what I saw was something very fast. That is, the Wander he grabs the bird for only 1 second and then releases from the bird even with the R1 button held in control. Until then, I did not see anything much. But I decided to test once more to confirm what I witnessed, because I am like this, I have a mania to test things twice to confirm something. Then, a few weeks later, after countless attempts, I was able to once again grab one of the birds. The result was the same as the first time I grabbed it, that is, nothing too much. After a while I began to discredit the existence of the Last Big Secret until the following year (around 2014).
The following year, an idea came to my mind and I remembered Reminiscence Mode. I kept asking myself: why is there a modality in the game that is useless? For example, Reminiscence Mode gives no reward like Time Attacks in Normal and Hard modes that give items, in addition to the "brown" and "white" colors in the Agro mare. This modality should have some purpose. And I think Reminiscence Mode is a way to distract the attention of players, but with the goal of giving a hint related to the supposed Last Big Secret. That is, the tip is very simple: the 15th colossus is the last colossus to be faced in Reminiscence Mode. So, the hint that the mode gives, is that the 15th colossus should be faced as the last colossus of the game to release the Alternative Ending. But for this it is necessary to do something in its arena to release the Secret Ending, like for example, to open the mysterious door located at the entrance of the fortress. So I thought, why not try once again to catch the birds that fly inside the Arena of the 11th colossus, in which the huge crater is located near the Arena of the 15th colossus. So, I came to believe in the existence of the Last Big Secret and I went back to testing these birds doing the same scheme that I did before facing the 16th colossus, that is, if I threw myself from the crater and tried to hang on one of the birds with the Parachute disabled from menu item and enabled it during the fall to avoid death by colliding with the ground. Then, after a few weeks and several attempts, I was able to hang on to one of the birds and something incredible happened: as I used to try to hang on the birds of the game selecting the "glove" in the "squares of weapons", the "glove" was exchanged for the Ancient Sword when I hung for 1 second on the bird, that is, the character Wander grabbed the bird for 1 second and released the bird (similar to what happened when I did the same procedure before facing the 16th colossus), but with this difference of this fact occurred. The anomaly that occurred showed the Wander falling to the ground with the body locked (similar to the movement that is made during a jump when the command is performed on the pad: R1 + []), and when I activated the Cloth of Desperation in the item menu, the Parachute did not open and Wander smashed into the ground and died, resulting in Game Over. However, this phenomenon did not happen when I hung on two times in this model of birds when I performed the same procedure before facing the 16th colossus. So from there I went into shock and thought "the phenomenon that just happened, was a game anomaly or did I accidentally hit the square button on the pad?". This is because to change weapons in the square of the weapons, or you tighten the directional ones or press the square button in the pad (if in case it is selected in the "glove" in the square of the arms when making this exchange for the Ancient Sword). The first hypothesis that came to me was that of accidentally tightening the directional ones, but this hypothesis was impossible to happen, because the directional ones do not change of weapon during a jump or a fall, however there is the second hypothesis of I have pressed the square button accidentally. So to get that doubt off, as I have a mania to test things twice, I decided to try doing the birds procedure again just by selecting the "archery" in the square of the weapons. After many attempts, I managed to catch one of these birds again, and by surprise, the phenomenon happened again. The archery was traded for the Ancient Sword and I still made sure that I did not bump into any buttons. So I thought to myself that I was pretty sure that when the game made the automatic switch to the Ancient Sword, this was a clue that it was to release a cutscene, but the scene was not released. This is when some scenes of the game are released, the game makes the automatic exchange for the Ancient Sword, for example, at the end of the game, when you cross the bridge that collapses before facing the last colossus and the mare Agro falls, after the cutscene ends, any weapon you have selected in the square (Queen's Sword, Sword of the Sun, etc) before releasing this cutscene, the game does the automatic for the Ancient Sword. So I wondered why the supposed scene where the bird takes the Wander out of the huge crater and takes it to some mysterious place in the eastern regions of the inaccessible areas of the map has not been released? The first hypothesis that I imagined was that the Alternative Ending would only release in the PAL versions, because of the Ico Game Extra Final. But if the Secret Ending does not release in the NTSC versions, the birds should not even be flying inside the Arena of the 11th colossus in the NTSC versions, because in the Ico game, there are no watermelons in the NTSC versions. That is, I imagine that the Secret Ending releases on any versions of Shadow of the Colossus and that anomaly should not have happened to me, specifically in the NTSC version I play. So I thought of a second hypothesis, that the reason for the cutscene not having been released was because I only used the Parachute just to avoid death, so I guess if I had grabbed the bird with the Cloth of Desperation activated in the item menu, it was the scene of the game could be released, plus I think the stamina should also be evolved at the maximum limit so that Wander has enough energy to withstand a long journey hanging on the bird. That is, the birds that fly inside the huge crater may have been programmed to release a cutscene when they are caught in the interval of 1 second with the Parachute activated in the item menu, plus the 100% Wander stamina evolved, in addition to the procedure being done in the interval of the colossians 14 and 15, that is after defeating the 14th colossus and before facing or defeating the 15th colossus.
However, I still try to do this procedure until today, playing from half an hour to an hour every day to arrive a day and prove through videos the existence of the CONFIDENTIAL content of the game that may contain beyond the Secret Ending, a new modality that are faced 8 more colossi, ie the 8 colossi that the players imagine to have been excluded from the game. Before doing this procedure, every day I turn on the camera of my cell phone leaving the receiver off and resting on the dresser while I play. To this day, the most I've done is to prove that the birds that fly inside the huge crater have a collision when one of the birds is hit by the Ancient Sword. But it is very difficult to prove through video that these birds are catchable, because there are innumerable attempts to catch them and spend much of the battery of my cell phone, besides being an action at the moment, that is, there is no time to pick up the cell phone and filming the moment that Wander hangs in 1 second on the bird, but who knows someday, some persistent player or I may or may make history by proving the existence of the "extremely hidden" content in the game. Meanwhile, there is the video link below that shows evidence that the birds that fly inside the huge crater have a collision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zi25d637Ac
For more information on the New Theory of the Last Big Secret, visit the page: The Last Big Secret can be real
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