The End of the Battle

[BAALgudea]

good song

[OkazakiEternal]

reminds me of how I always stood there thinking "why do I have to kill those giant wonders of nature... " they seemed more like guardians to me with nothing evil in mind.. I hated to kill them.

[AlkaroSmb]

hentai tentacle attack theme

[theedwardian]

0:57 is what you hear if you try to avoid your fate at the end of the game. The tiny violin parts fade in and out before disappearing, it reminds me of a how a flame flickers and glows softly before going out. Of course, in this game the flame equates to Wander's life.

[MrVold3mort]

I want this to play when i am falling down to my death :D

[zeldafangirl109]

Black death noodles ;_;

It's fun to try and run away from them >3>

[OkazakiEternal]

@zeldafangirl109 haha yeah my girlfriend always told me to run away from them XD

[TarurenChief]

My funeral song XD

[destroyer3242]

For the first boss, i actually managed to jump back down the cliff. and i still didnt get away from it.

[Dreadlord67]

A lot of video game soundtracks lose their effect when not played alongside the game. Shadow of the Colossus's soundtrack however is not the case.

[179charizard]

this song plays after i just took a dump

[SuperJJsmom]

@179charizard THIS IS NOT A SONG TO MAKE FUN OF D:<

[warrior44able]

@SuperJJsmom THANK YOU! Big thumbs up for you.

[MysterioBerlin]

poor colossus T_T

[MysterioBerlin]

poor colossus T_T

[ginojg]

I finished this game in 2006 and never played again, thru 2011 I've been preaching about how good this game was, a true definition of Art in video games, but forgot why I never played again. Now I bought the remastered edition, first day Pick up, and after I killed the first "Colossi" it came back to me, This game makes me feel like an ASS, and this song it's like a beautiful slap in the face "You have just take the life of something that means no harm to you, How do you feel now?"

[Nautalus]

A good example of how music can change the way a situation in games is perceived, it isn't a rousing victory number, it's sad, and speaks for the Colossus's that could not speak themselves.

[CoolChicken11]

The tentacles are a way for saying "You killed something that was neutral...You HERO..."

[CoolChicken11]

I run from the Darkness But I fail and end up getting infected...

[SammEater]

DAT TENTACLE, those things always catch me don't matter what I do, I even jump on the water (Gaius battle). :P

Also, its just me or its kinda sad to kill the collosi? This music surely don't make me happy to kill them.

[KidAuthorFilms]

@SammEater Thats the whole point of the game: to make you feel like an ass for killing something that didn't even attack you.

[Deviltriggerfounder]

The title should be,

"16 lives"

[Over9000Cookies]

everytime the tenticals get me i always laugh and say out loud,"LOL TENTICAL RAPE" :D i still do :3

[derpolcu]

Killing a Colossi will make you fell bad :(

[TommyVercetti214]

@RAWCLANBEST I hated the 8th i was happy to se him dead xD

[Mirroga]

Why do I associate this music with terror because sooner or later a spiking sound will interpret my failure to not be raped by those tentacles?

[XGiftedGamerX]

*Absolutely everyone's first reaction to the tentacle thing*

"OMG WTF I DIED THAT'S SO GAY!!!! THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING I'VE SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIF- oh....."

[TheCreatorOf4]

@XGiftedGamerX Absolutely ever 10 year old's reaction, ya, I guess.

[SonicZeroKm]

I wonder why they made a 1:38 second long track for this, if those tentacles always manage to rape-- Err, I mean stab you before you get to 10 seconds in.

Well, I preffer to see a half full glass, so more awesome lovelyness for us.

[SharinganKirby]

I tried to run away from those black tendrils after every fight. I almost made it to Agro and made a death-defying escape, I was so close. /:<

[Myth3842]

Way to make me feel like an ass game.

[manderzluvsyou91]

@Myth3842 HA! You're so right lol

[Iwannaplayssbb]

Yeah finally gotcha bitch!!!

*Music plays*

Wha...what have i done?....he was doing nothing to me

[SuperJJsmom]

@Iwannaplayssbb its the sad part of the game :'(

[Teichmeister]

@SuperJJsmom It's also the most epic thing I've ever experienced in my entire life as a gamer. Thank you for this, Team ICO, thank you so much...

[Teichmeister]

@Iwannaplayssbb True. Except for the last colossus, I kept falling off this f*ckin' thing for at least 30 minutes or so before finally figuring out that I have to hit his damn shoulder with an arrow ... damn u, gravity!

[NDKid16]

i can´t fucking wait for the last guardian to come out in 2011

[Jhoro115]

@NDKid16 I can't wait for it to come out in 2011 too.....oh wait it's 2012

[NarutoDetective]

Makes you wonder, Does Mount Everest has a weak spot... and can you attack it to bring it down? That would be EPIC!!! lol :D

[xerxerxex]

The only Colossi I didn't care for were Two Four legged Dog-like ones and the final Colossus, The one that I felt extremely bad for was the one flying around inthe desert, I killed something magical that day.

[PeyserConley]

@xerxerxex I felt bad for the smallest one, Celosia, because she was afraid of fire. None of the other colossi showed any fear.

[xerxerxex]

@PeyserConley I know right!? So heartbreaking.

[Maphysto]

@PeyserConley Half the colossi make no attempt to attack you until you attack them. One can't even attack you at all, all it can do is try to force you off and stay out of your reach. You could've left those majestic creatures in peace, but no, you had to be a selfish bastard and try to make a deal with the devil.

God, this game still gets to me.

[TommyVercetti214]

@PeyserConley I felt sorry for every collosus except the one tha moves under the sand, the lizard, the small ones and the 15th

[soulessphilosopher]

By the time Agro gets to me, it's already too late...

But when I wake up, I give him one right in his jaw as punishment!

[gypsydreamer09]

yeah, lol the first time i played this, i was like, "so, what do these "colossus" look like?" when, when i seen the 1st one, i was like, "oh, WELL then... let's kill it! i want to see what it does." and when i killed it, i was dancing around... but then came... the MUSIC!!! when i heard this, i was like, "awww, what did i just do?" lol

[TonyTheTigre100]

@gypsydreamer09

makes you think twice about what it's like to be a colossus. If you watch the show, Dexter that also gives this game a juicy twist. :D

[gypsydreamer09]

@TonyTheTigre100 who's dexter?

[TonyTheTigre100]

@gypsydreamer09

A television show, based off a novel about a serial killer

that chose to carve his own moral code about do's and don'ts

for his sin to shed blood. Very interesting show, btw :D

[GrinchyBlob]

When I kill A Colossus I Feel Awesome and then The Music Comes I Like WH-WHAT HAVE I DONE TO HIM! So I Fight Him again and I try to be freindly But He stomps on me and im like fuck

[28deadbeats]

i feel bad whenever i kill one of the colossus'... i mean, its done nothing wrong. its like im the bad guy in this game... i turn away whenever i strike the final blow, i cant even watch any videos of them dying on youtube..

[cloudani]

tHAT'S WHY i JUST PLAYED THIS GAME ONCE. I FELT SORRY FOR THE COLOSSI lol

[StupidKieleVideos]

You dig your feet into the ground. Powerful forces beyond your control pull you further and further away from the one whom you conquered 16 massive beasts just to bring back. As you grip on to the edge of the pool, you stare at her figure shrinking in the distance. You realize that you have accomplished your goal. As you shed on final tear, you close your eyes.....and let go.....

[powerofdestiny]

I will climb the highest mountain, swim through the deepest ocean AND TRAVEL TO THE MOST DISTANT START!!!

Just to get this game......

[lovinmemore1]

i know what part this music was in i want to cry

[Evilguy951]

The reason I find this track so deppresing is because you feel like maybe you didn't have to kill it. Especially when some of the colossi don't even attack until you start stabbing them.

[ser136]

How far would YOU go to save the one you love???

[viridxer]

@ser136 I wont do this ^_^

[Exarian]

@ser136 however far it was, you get the feeling it was perhaps too far...

[locoloquendo100]

el peor video que vi

[ser136]

@locoloquendo100 Entonces porque estas aqui? Esto es music not video.

[runitecastle]

i love this little piece. it has so many emotions, some contradicting. relief, lament, sorrow.

[SockCasserole]

I cried when Agro died >_>

[hitter0s]

@SockCasserole Agro doesn't die, you see him at the end of the game again but he has a broken leg or two

[boysingsjpop]

i just finished the fight with the flying sand thing and i realized 2 things. 1 that it cant actually hurt you (not directly anyway, it can only hurt you if it throws you off.), and 2 it was really really sad when i did, mostly because of this music but also because you have to kill a majestic, and defenseless creature :.(

[Iwannaplayssbb]

poor colossy, they were just preventing a the scape of a demon

[boysingsjpop]

@Iwannaplayssbb * SPOILER WARNING!!! next time please i was 3 away from finishing the game

[TheSasori101]

i love this when its played when i kill the colossus makes me think that the colossus let me win and i just took him down

[WriterOfMadness]

This game is sooo depressing! And i love it!

[mickykeyes]

When i tried to fight the force sucking me into the pool it was almost as if the music was telling me to Let Her Go.

[angiegirl211]

I love the sunlit earth when i first herd it it made me sad and sort of happy at the same time

[joestaff621]

haha the tentacles at the end really got me the first time i played it, i thought i died and was so angry lol

[jm1814]

@joestaff621 me too, I thought damm wtf is happening! xd

[Throsor]

The full song here doesn't actually play at the end of a battle. The second half that starts around 00:50 is what plays as you *spoilers* Get sucked into that pool at the end of the game

[UnforsakenXII]

Im pretty sure one went up my ass teh first time.

[DirtyDesk]

Its kinda funny. the farthest I've made into the song in the game is about somwhere between :40 and :50. It was the 3rd colossus, i think (the one with the club), and after he died I somehow fell off the platform into the water. It must have been a glitch because I've tried it again and again.

[HardCandyPsycx]

I always try run of that thing black ..

But I always fail D:

[wellan5]

@HardCandyPsycx i do it to!

[hjmndj]

Wut if you got on agro and started running? You could probably outrun the tentacles. :O

[ZachzNation]

@hjmndj

its not "agro", its "negro"

[Athdil]

@ZachzNation It is Agro. Check Wikipedia :)

[ZachzNation]

@Athdil

I know, I just wanted to throw that out there to see what people said lol

[Hapster95]

@Athdil

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone

i could go there right now and make it's name "jesus" if i wanted to and make the game about sandwiches and pie

[Athdil]

@Hapster95 Very true. But it won't allow such an edit without a citation. If you click on the citation number next to Agro's name, it cites the game's instruction manual on pages 14 - 16.

An edit about Jesus, sandwiches or pie would not last very long without proof :)

[Inyoursocks]

@hjmndj tried that. still got tentacle raped XD

[eedobaba7726]

how the hell are you supposed to hear this whole track in the game?!

[WanderMono]

sometimes it takes awhile for the "worms" to come and get you. You could always try and flee on Agro if you have him. I know people who have done that.

[burninator14]

I never get past :30 when i play.

[Drunkeninja131]

I remember the first time the tentacles got me. I literally dropped the controller and said out loud "did I just... Lose?!"

[Memington]

@Drunkeninja131 well. you were 1/16 of the way to losing

[dragoncaretaker94]

@Drunkeninja131 i did the same thing ._.

[MrUnknown1235]

@Drunkeninja131 I thought I had died the first time, but it never said "Game Over" then I started scratching my head.

[ser136]

@Drunkeninja131 lmao the EXACT same thing happened to me.

[Qain89]

@Drunkeninja131 Hell yeah! it makes you think that maybe you shouldn't kill the colossus.

[QuincyTheGoose]

@Drunkeninja131 I shut the game off.

[kainsunderling12]

OMFG! NO ONE SAID ANY THING ABOUT TENTACLES! I BETTER GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE! arghhhhhhhh! god dammit

[OPCXZNN]

I've played this game since it came out and loved every second of it and only yesterday did it dawn on me that maybe I should get the soundtrack album, sadly I can't find it anywhere.

[HardCandyPsycx]

I love this music... it significate the battle's finaly over xP

[akatsukifan2901]

aww i remember this at the end! i was crying SOO much cause i wanted wander to get to the girl SOOO bad!

[emilysnickers]

NOOOO!! RUN AWAY FROM DORMINS SOUL!!! i always do that lol but i always fail!! not once have i gotten on Agro and ran away from it...

[johnywash]

time to play run away from the tenicles again XD

[jdbasq]

hated this music at the end trying so damn hard to reach her awe so close god damn it dont wanna get sucked into pool awe!!!!!! lol

[ScaryIntentions]

wierd part at the end makes this my favorite and those frickin black things haunt me ... stabbed, land on knees, ow, fall over, MOTHER OF PEARL it wouldn't be right without getting killed by black tentacles after each battle would it NO it would be too happy then.

[peanut3423]

I'll never forget when this music played when Avion, one of my favourite Colossi died. Seeing it crash into the water silently and in slow motion... one of the most epic boss deaths ever.

[nobanoba09]

神だな～

[chaogirl12]

you can accually evade the shadows with the cape of ....is it invisablility? somthing like that

[SuikoFreakZ]

dunno bout u guys but everytime i killed a collosi and this music playin... i tried to evade the homin black shadows by scrammin away as far as i could... i know its pointless but hey at least better do somethin rather than watchin our poor dude got stabbed and faint...

[pivot510]

me too =)

[InsAInCroManiaCk]

ahhh, you guys heard of the new game called 'Last Guardian' or something like that? is that the 3rd part of the series? after SOTC?

[Ratigast99]

i dont know if the games are connected but in the trailer there are enemies that look alot like really tiny versions of the colossi! Liek its the same artistic style!

[FF7ACJW]

Yeah, they are all connected. I haven't played Ico (extremely rare nowadays) and I don't own a PS3 so I'm kind of screwed.

[StationaryHawk]

Last Guardian, I believe, is the prequel to SOTC... which was the prequel to ICO.

They have an interesting way of telling the story. It's like Star Wars...

[Bobstheman226]

Ow, I pricked my finger...

....what the hell? What's this black mist shooting out of the wound?!

[kattekind]

oh no you are turning flee everyone aaah XD

[luisxpo]

great song, great game

[Ratigast99]

its great because when you defeated a colossi your like "yes! hes dead!...i wonder why the music sounds sad?" and then later you realize.......

[manderzluvsyou91]

Indeed. A very twisted ending.

[Dominator046]

Yes, you had no idea what was going to happen... so terrible.

[manderzluvsyou91]

Its too short D:

[manderzluvsyou91]

This is the most beautiful and enchanting song I have ever heard and I cannot wait to buy this game (even though I'm a bit late because the game is a bit old... but that means it will be cheaper :D) and I love all the music bu this by far is my favorite.

[434x18]

I knew I'd find intelligent comments amongst people who really appreciate beauty like this game.. you really feel alone in the world sometimes...

[gimaru]

In the end though...there really was no purpose to kill the colossi cuz dormin was an evil fuck :/...he brought your girl back to life though :P

[LukasLG54]

Amazing

[jeezulz]

You never really get past the first 30 seconds in the game.

[Vengance84]

Shut up, don't dare to put religion in front of this game, please...

[Malfaxi]

just a comment.... i mean com'on this could go in any sad scene.... i just thing it relates to it...

[Vengance84]

There's a lot of true sad stories around there

[Fuzunga]

I don't think it sounds sad. It sounds like a happy ending to me, but maybe I'm just crazy.

[Malfaxi]

just leave the conversation where it is... it's done...

[atarau]

Feels like a mix to me.

[CharizardNoob]

Why even bring it up? This has nothing to do with religion.

Politic crap is even worse though.]

On topic : Great to hear the full song.

[Malfaxi]

whoa whoa... politics would not fit here.... never...

but still it sounds like an end dosn't it?

[Malfaxi]

this sounds like something great that needn't be destroyed is in its final moments...

[TheDeejay01]

:'(

[Malfaxi]

you could put this music in the final moments in the crucifixion

[sevencolossi]

best music in a video game hands down

my list-

1 sotc

2 dq 8 journey of the cursed king

3 super mario 64

[XOXMSperfect]

i tried so hard, to protect him from his fate, but now the light fades, and one more shadow, will defile his being. Let us hope, one of my brothers shall succeed, in halting the ressurection.

[video157]

@XOXMSperfect now thats poetry xD

[soulessphilosopher]

This music makes me think of all kindza sad death moments :(

[nathaniscool23]

The battle music kicks in and I'm always like 'Hell yeah! Time to kill a Colossus! Awright!' And then when I kill it and this music comes in...'Jesus, wh-what have I done? It, it didn't do anything to ME! WHHHYYY?! *Sob.*'

[LaLoonasTears]

@nathaniscool23 exactly what me and my friend felt too....

[Seunia]

@nathaniscool23 I feel this way too. Im doing my best to beat them but then...

Im trying to convince myself that they are evil creatures to make it less emotional. But I guess they arent.

[RescGT777]

pretty cool, I loved it

[Malfaxi]

the question is would it really matter if you were to risk your own life to save another?

[Kawaiiiii79]

i dunno why but im always sad when a colossus gets killed. Im like "aw...poor colossus" lol and also the music that is pretty sad :(

[Malfaxi]

this song plays each and every time he kills a colossus.... I love this song.... so much emotion

[Doorstopper5867]

Amen, brother

[Tengent]

Man.. the later part of this song that was not heard until the end of the game (0:58) makes me so sad.. I heard that part when.. well.. SPOILERS

Wander was getting pulled into the pool, trying to get to Mono. So ... sad. :(

[kev19960]

yea tht was depressing

[helldropper]

just one unrelated question what language did they speak in shadow

[spaceawesome22]

it was a fictional language

[TheWhiteWolf1337]

Yeah, it's fictional. It's some sort of backwards Japanese mixed in with Latin.

[deusexvitay]

Please don't remove this video, I don't think anyone else will ever post it.

[Doorstopper5867]

Great music, I agree with you oldskooheadbanger, "Is it alright to take a life to save another?"

[oldskooheadbanger]

this song always made me think, "is it alright to take someone or some thing's life just to bring back another?"

[wesleyfilms]

If you know what the colossi are then you dont mind killing them.

[Clanitz]

D: still, even though I knew what they were apart of, I still felt guilty.. because they didn't do anything to me that made me want to kill them ;_; show some remorse for the poor guys..

[21alt3go]

more like 16 lives

[realninja01]

i loved this theme it was like one of those themes you hear when someone big dies in a movie

[qu4zu000]

lol king kong

[realninja01]

or maybe a king

[Midgar21]

Most touching.