Shadow of the Colossus speedrun part 13 by Ari 'Rapu' Taitto

Author's comments:

This was my first speed run, and I played with Normal difficulty, no fruits or lizard's tails eaten. The only things I did were: Locate and defeat all 16 colossi. No special weapon(s) used. Sword and bow were the only weapons I used in this run. This run isn't the easiest one. I had many problems, some were smaller and some were bigger, but I didn't solve them all alone, I got a lot of help in the SDA's forum and from Gamefaqs and I can't thank enough the people who helped me out, but I really want to thank the following people: mikwuyma and the whole SDA's staff, VincentAC, conan2 and Enhasa and last but not least Sniper1263! All of them helped me alot. In the SDA forum I got much help, but Sniper1263 didn't help me directly, I watched his YouTube videos and I learned some tricks from his videos, so thank you again! But I've got to thank BGR44's staff for making the SotC Time Attack site where I got a lot of help, because most of the tricks I'm using in Colossus fights are taken from BGR's site so without that site this run wouldn't be here now!
My first goal was to beat this game under two hours. Later my goal became under 1 hour 30 minutes, but I didn't make it. My completion time is: 1 hour 34 minutes 30 Seconds, but I'm not disappointed, I'm very proud of it, because no one has done a SotC speed run before as far as I know.

When I started this run, I didn't know anything about those tricks the japanese players are using, because I hadn't heard anything about BGR's site, when I first saw their videos, I was really excited. So I decided that I'll learn those trick some day and I remember the day when I first time came to the SDA forum and started searching Shadow of the Colossus topic(s). When I finally found one, I read the whole topic and I was really disappointed, because there were few people who said they will do the SotC run, but none of them ever did, so I decided to take that job for myself and now here I am, writing this comment and proudly presenting my speed run! I hope you will enjoy it!

There are 16 segments in all, each segment has the locating and defeating of a colossus. Now I'm going to put my total times on each segment:

Segment 1: 0:02:48
Segment 2: 0:06:11
Segment 3: 0:11:08
Segment 4: 0:14:48
Segment 5: 0:19:22
Segment 6: 0:24:20
Segment 7: 0:30:08
Segment 8: 0:34:40
Segment 9: 0:38:57
Segment 10: 0:43:42
Segment 11: 0:47:38
Segment 12: 0:54:40
Segment 13: 0:59:26
Segment 14: 1:07:09
Segment 15: 1:13:24
Segment 16: 1:34:30


Segment 13:
I like this fight a lot, because it's looks good and such. I didn't have to try this segment many times, because I felt that this one is easy and I completed it in one day.

About the fight: The fight was easy like I said, but I found a pretty good method to pierce his first 'sack'. When the cut-scene starts, I skip it and then the screen goes black then I hold auto-lock button (L1) and then charge and when I think I've charged enough I release the square button and if everything goes perfect it will pierce the first 'sack'. And the rest 'sacks' are easy to shoot and the rest of the fight is easy.

Just a note, if someone is wondering why I'm not stabbing his weak-spots until they disapper, the reason is that if I do he'll get crazy and try to make me fall down and it will make my job harder. So I just stab one fully charged and one nearly fully charged which is almost the same thing as two fully charged stabs, but the only exception is that his weak-spots won't disappear.
(Total Time: 0:59:26)

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[killzoneX13]

i love the slow=mos when you kill them...epic..pure epic...consider me a fan

[UltimaWeapon786]

@xpodmaniac I wouldn't consider this a game, more like a work of art

[ograndeprimeape]

not is site the inglesh!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sagacious03]

Damn, Wander must have bones of steel to survive all that falling.

[adamanddustinh]

man this guy is a bitch on hta. i always get at least 20 seconds too long!

[xpodmaniac]

IT'S A GAME, DON'T THINK TOO HARD ABOUT IT.

It's supposed to be FUN. Thinking about physics is for SCHOOL, not GAMES.

[Alluthalas]

This colossi was my favorite. I just rid on his back for a while.

[kingfdragon]

lol and what makes my say "WOW WTF" is

How the hell does this mutah fucker always live after falls hundreds of feet on the backs, heads, crotches and other things of giant ass stone things?

[jumploard]

this ones my fav its easy to beat and just over all beautiful :P

[nirvash220]

well actually the first time time i past this game i do it whi no lizard tails or fruit i just won how i know killing colossu =)