Shadow of the Colossus speedrun part 1 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 1:
Not much to say about this segment, there aren't many mistakes. The only mistake is that I didn't grab his nose. It's faster than climbing up on his chest. The other mistakes are so small that you won't notice them (I think).
(Total Time: 0:02:48)

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• SotC
• Shadow
• of
• the
• Colossus
• part
• speed
• speedrun
• run

[NEOexSOLDIER]

still hard to believe how great this game still looks!

[itachi4492]

If you can do better, show us... if not, shut it.

[Jonnyjy]

@NEOexSOLDIER yeah and is a ps2 game.....

[Blade2xtremeFTW]

I love the jumping stab for the final blow!

[Lepton10000]

WOW! Amazing!! Well done!!

[bonerboy37]

@something915 yup

[45678ret]

the hard part isnt the colossus its getting to it lol

[sagacious03]

Lol, I like how the on-screen tutorial is being shown, but is completely & utterly failing to keep up the player/speed-runner.

Nice work so far.

[MrDante83]

wow, super speed.... great run

[something915]

does he always die after killing one?

[JuMer696]

I wouldn't consider The Last Guardian anymore a sequel than I consider Shadow Of The Colossus as a prequel to Ico. Completely new characters, story, etc. But, I do think that every game by Team Ico is similar in terms of atmosphere and storytelling (As in they're both fantastic). So I'm looking forward to something even MORE new in The Last Guardian.

[billyboggensproduct]

when I beat this game i didn't know about eating fruit and lizard tails to increase your grip meter and stuff. thats why im beating it again so i can get new weapons!