Shadow of the Colossus speedrun part 10 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 10:
I used my first 10-20 tries to figuring out where this colossus starts this fight, when I figured it out I was ready for recording this segment!

I have some small balance problems again and one weird thing happens when I'm stabbing his last weak-spot, I'm HANGING on his fur which means while I'm hanging it's impossible to stab, so I release R1 button to continue my stabbings and I finally beat it with a few small mistakes.
(Total Time: 0:43:42)

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[MyBrainIsMush]

He said something like "you kill them faster than me, it took me at least 15 minutes to beast the first colossus"

and last time i looked, this isn't exactly "english" youtube either =)

[omf06]

i have seen all the vids to this one and i have to say that you play very well

[Roadburner4]

@alsowikk Yeah i beat the game. Wow that was really shocking. Although he got his wish.

[alsowikk]

@Roadburner4 Just a quick thing about that. Dormin(giant light ray guy with the disombied voice/voices) normally gives some hints to how to kill a colossus when he introduces them. Most of them only make sense in hindsight but it's worth paying attention to them(he mentions "his eye is upon you" for instance)

[KINFIN123]

@sagacious03 Except the horse is named Argo.

[Roadburner4]

Oh so your supposed to shoot it in the eyes.

[BuddhaMaster84]

the first shot was perfect- BULLSEYE

[eddsworldizawsom22]

@farc300 same exact problum here im trying to beat the game now. im going to go play the game riggghhhhhhhhhht..... NOW!

[sagacious03]

I lol'd when Wander cried out for Aggro.

Wander: "AGGRO!!" *Black tentacles of essence get Wander.* ("Damnit.")

[tunicaroja86]

there is a spanish youtube¿¿? xD

[adamanddustinh]

lol on my first try i just walked in w/out my horse. i died.

[farc300]

this one was hard because it takes half ur life away in one hit. I kept cowarding on one of the rocks until i decided to ride my horse. Then i realized i could hit its eyes but i had trouble using my bow on the horse. Whn he hit the wall i was so happy.