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- Rebuilt from the ground up by Bluepoint Games and JAPAN Studio, SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS on PlayStation 4 system introduces the awe of its unforgettable world and towering creatures to a new generation of gamers, while allowing long time fans to revisit the beloved masterpiece with unparalleled visual fidelity and improved performance.
Tales speak of an ancient realm where Colossi roam the majestic landscape. Bound to the land, these creatures hold a key to a mystical power of revival - a power you must obtain to bring a loved one back to life.
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS is a breathtaking journey through ancient lands to seek out gigantic beasts. Armed with only a sword and a bow, explore the spacious lands and unearth each Colossus, presenting a unique challenge to test your wits, determination, and skill.
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I love the fact that they all look like they were laying there for long periods of time after they've been slain... we have no idea just how long they've been there. to us and wander, this was mere hours ago, but to anyone outside... it could be months... years even...
It's obvious by the condition of the corpse that a lot of time passes in between the death of each colossus. It's quite possible that time stops for everything in the Forbidden Lands except the colossi. That could explain why the sun never changes it's position & also why only the corpse of the colossi seem to age, but Wander, Agro, & Mono don't show any signs aging.
@timmadone8930 I assume anything alive or sentient in the forbidden lands isn't affected by time, only when dead does time start to pass
The shaman were hot on Wander's heels. It wouldn't have taken them months or years to reach him.
@@somebodyfixmyinternet that is debatable, time flows differently in the forbidden lands, for all we know, the shaman is a stranger from many years after wander left his tribe. I think personally, they were seeing the lights glow year after year and when the time came, they had to strike while the iron was hot to banish the demon during the ritual.
Are you talking about the Cursed Lands where Wander goes, time there, flows differently than the outside world?
the amount of dirt...the growth of trees... Wander was in a really long coma
Makes you think how that works. That would have to be a really long time, so how hasn’t he aged? Must have taken years at least, unless some random sandstorm hit every time he went to sleep.
@@EntropyAndSingularitya theory is that, after the death of a colossus, time stops in the forbidden lands for everything apart from the colossi
@@EntropyAndSingularity Dormin's inmortal soul surely made Wander resistant to aging o.o
When you kill a colossus it turns completely black. That is part of Dormin leaving its body, so all that remains is dirt and rocks so I have a feeling time doesn’t have to do with anything, that’s how I see it anyways
@@AirProGames99 interesting theory
I'll always carry SOTC on my heart. I always loved it, and it still make my heart bump. Those forbidden lands, amazing fantasy creatures, all it's lore, etc. Kinda mesmerizes me.. I just simply love it.
Same.
Same here. I started playing the demo in the Summer of 2005 & was already mesmerized by the first colossus & the surrounding area that you were able to explore (that includes the forest & the Secret Garden) plus the music & just the sound of the environment. I knew this was something very special even before the full game was finally released. And it feels just as awe inspiring & mysterious 18 years later.
This game absolutely nails the atmosphere. Truly one of a kind
yes buddy same here this game is and will always be in my heart till i die once i played it back in 2005 i was in shock and awe
SOTC will always be in my heart too.
This is just...I don’t think I can find a word stronger than sad to describe this, just seeing all these creatures once filled with life and larger than any animal we know in real life, dead and turning into the environment itself is just...soul-crushing.
Even though the Colossi were all meant to seal away parts of Dormin, you can’t help but feel bad for then since they all seemed to have their own personalities and just seemed to be enjoying life.
Sadly i see paralelism with what are we doing with animals and earth, some people dont see that there a living creatures 😢, and they deserve live like us
Blue whale is bigger than 90% of the colossi
@@EdwinDominguez
Are the animals of Earth also vessels to fragments of a dark and ancient creature?
In reality they were never "living beings", but automatons, they never "wandered through the forbidden land", they were inert until they felt the presence of the Sword near them.
@@riddlerwillison3336
Some leaked documents from the developer confirm that certain colossi already existed before Dormin and just went insane when his soul fragments entered them.
"You are Dust and to Dust You Shall Return”
Just the fact you can climb on them, just the fact they have collision detection is a proof how Team ICO cares about every single part of their game. No matter if you can access the spot or not, probably will have collision detection. I think that it was the way Ueda gave us the curiosity, and opportunity to explore.
Was this originally available on the PS2 version or was this an addition to the game made by BluePoint in this remake? If it was also in the original PS2 version, then yes, Team ICO deserves all the credits.
@@peace4myheart to be honest, I don't know. But I believe it was. There are several videos about these features in Shadow of the Colossus: spots and areas where the player can't go without a hack that have collision detection. So I believe the same happens with the colossi's corpses.
@@peace4myheart yes, it was like this since the ps2
@@peace4myheart Yes, in the PS2 version you could go up to the dead body of a colossus & explore on & around it's corpse. You could do this with all 16 colossi, however to do it on the 16th colossus required hacking. In addition to exploring the lifeless bodies, the PS2 version ( as well as PS3/PS4) also allowed you to fight each dead colossus again (except colossus 16) by praying while on or next to the corpse.
Game devs: *Does the bare minimum.*
Casuals: ”They care SO MUCH!!!”
Look, i like shadow of the colossus (the original anyway), but i’ll never understand why some people really do praise the most basic of aspects as ”care”.
It would’ve been bizarre if they had no collision.
Anybody else notice that the ones in the water don't really float? They don't bob up and down with the movement of the water. They just stay stationary like an island even though there is nothing beneath them holding them steady
It's quite possible that considering the size of the colossus & the fact a good portion of it's body is made of stone, the water just isn't moving around with enough force to move the body of the colossus.
@@timmadone8930 If that were the case though wouldn't they sink to the bottom?
@@goodbyesafavor Perhaps not. I mean the weight of the Titanic was more than 3 times that of a colossus & yet it floated. We have to assume these colossi are leaving beings & therefore have internal organs. Maybe the inside of a colossus has enough room for air or gasses that help keep it afloat afloat? At least that's another possible explanation. xD
The "possible explanation" is that developers didnt even think about it, you guys are crazy😂@@timmadone8930
I just assume they're made of pumice stone, or something.
There is no game that can make you root for the villain quite like SotC.
We all know Wander is, at the very least, a neutral character with no moral qualms against releasing ancient danger into the world, yet we root for him. And in the same breath, it obliges us realize the consequences of his actions, i.e. the sad song that accompanies each of the Colossus' defeat or Wander's own body twisting into Dormin.
I believe that is better illustrated in the last Colossus fight: when Wander reaches up to it's hands, it won't be initially hostile and will even stare at Wander with curiosity. Meanwhile, Wander's disfigured form is hellbent on killing it.
This game will forever be a classic.
The colossus arent the villains theyre the good guys. Their just trying to keep dormin sealed in them
@@ENDI8089 And Wander, rather than go through grief, doesn't simply care what everyone else told him except the voice making convenient promises nor put consideration to any of the implications.
@@FezFindie even dormin himself, warn him about the price he was going to pay will be pretty heavy and Wander didn't care.
@@ENDI8089Nothing really implies that Dormin is actually "evil", we just know that he was sealed because the shamans were afraid of his power to revive the dead.
@@ENDI8089 they are just like guardians
I think colossi are statues made of earth, plants and rocks animated by the fragment of Dormin's soul. When you absorb the soul, the colossi simply return to earth. That's why they have those platforms for you to climb on, they were used by sculptors to shape the colossi.
when you see the colossi death in the floor its like you did something wrong
Well In sense of the word you are doing something wrong even if it's a noble cause
@@utillinthehopeful6933 "A hero would sacrifice you to save the world, a villain would sacrifice the world to save you"
@@4yazo148 Amen
Despite the fact that all the colossus are parts of the evil Dormin, they just lived for themselves in the forbidden lands until the main character came.
They never really had them, they were just automatons that remained inert until they detected the presence of the Sword.
They were majestic automatons, but automatons nonetheless.
Dormin wasn't evil in the traditional sense
He kept his promise to Wander and even let him keep his body after borrowing it albeit reverted to infant
He was sealed away because people feared him not explicitly for evil
@@CiderVGLawful evil is still evil.
And you don’t know that last part. You’re just assuming things.
@@schnek8927 We don't even know if he's evil tho. He states clearly that the price to pay was high, and gives wander a clear warning. He is not coercing nor manipulating anyone. He is as neutral as possible. And at the end he's just mad at the ones that sealed him. Lawful Neutral or Lawful "missing context" at best
Perfect music to go with this compilation the somber sadness that just permeates through is both eloquent and forlorn.
Shout out to @Myuu for making this beautiful music that fits the game's atmosphere 👏🏻👏🏻
Is that said music on iTunes or Spotify? Does it have a name? I want to add it to a playlist.
Yes, its on Spotify 👉🏻 spotify.link/1LWg2SVx9Cb
I didn’t realise you could climb on them, that’s pretty cool. Been watching videos of this game for years and I’m still learning things about it!
It's really amazing that after 18 years there are still new things to discover.
You can even refight them in a memory by praying at their body.
The dead colossi look like theyv been laying there for years. I wonder what causes that. Agro, Wander, and Mono's corpse don't seem to age, and time doesn't seem to pass in the Forbidden lands. The whole thing feels so weird.
Bad Writing
Because in the forbidden lands nothing dies unless Dormin says so.
IIRC the devs once said in an interview that time only started moving at all in the Forbidden Lands when Wander entered. Who knows how it works whenever the camera cuts away?
I think the colossus were not subject to time when they contained parts of Dormin and their bodies experienced all of that accumulated time in just hours after Wander absorbed Dormins essence from them.
I am of the opinion that if we think about it literally-that a great deal of time has passed-it doesn't make sense. Rather, I believe that it's more a symbolic message to those who go to look/ mourn the colossi.
Agro and Wander do not age, nor does Mono decompose (though Dormin could be preserving her)... and also NOTHING else about the world changes but the colossi.
So I don't think anything about time is what's happening. I think it's telling us that no matter what happens, life and nature will overcome and thrive.
This doesn’t feel just sad to me- I mean, yes it’s very sad, but that’s not the only thing I really feel. It feels like a monument, a contribution to the concept of time and moving on. Only the building parts of them remain visible, as if their living parts had already been freed, their souls released. What’s been done has been done, and there’s no changing that, but there’s no use in dwelling on it. Nature has accepted them back after their tortured and cursed existence had ended. This was their fate in the end, but it’s not necessarily a bad one. I didn’t explain it well, did I? Eh, I tried.
No, no, you explained yourself very clearly, bro.
@@AlexMcCoffe Thank you :)
Man, I forgot how big Dirge was, also the water in this game is nightmare fuel.
It never occurred to me to take the Colossi being buried as huge amounts of time passing. I figured it was the land trying to give them a proper burial. Even tho they are trying to kill Wander, they only do so because he attacked them and they need to keep Dormin's soul apart. They're technically the good guys. And in a world of gods, demons, lethal prophesies and regions where nature is both all encompassing and yet minimal, it's not a stretch to think the land itself can have a will.
This gives me the same pang of sadness I get when I see roadkill. You get a glimpse of some living thing that was minding its own business when all of a sudden it's senselessly killed and its corpse is just left there to rot and become one with the earth.
Shadow of the Colossus will always be my favorite game of all time. Such an incredible and absolutely amazing game.
Every time I go free roam and visit the Colossi that Wander killed, I often times think that Wander is saying to himself. "What have I done?" or "You didn't deserve this fate I unjustly gave you."
No, I think it's more like:
"Yeah you died that sucks, but I am gonna get laid sooooo."
@@ProbNotCrossthe only reasonable answer
@@Mariscosfilantropias honestly, yeah. if he had any remorse, he'd have stopped. remember, the colossi die painful deaths by multiple stabbings across their bodies, sohe was just too far deep into what he was doing too care about them.
Causa una sensacion de extrañez volver a visitarlos, sus cuerpos ya abandonados en la soledad y carcomidos por la naturaleza nuevamente, inquietante al punto de causar miedo y mas sensasiones que aveces no se pueden describir, gran juego.
I love it! They were the last thing remain from their civilization. And now they are dust.
I just want to say that I had a great time exploring the world of shadow of the colossus. For once I had a game to fully explore. Climb around. Do foolish stuff etc and I wasn't constantly bothered by random monsters, or fetch quests to complete, or crafting materials to gather. It is just the world, you and your trusty horse. And there is a lot lot to discover. The game just lets me do it instead of pushing it on me.
Everybody talking about all the dirt and plants over they, talking about wander being in coma for months, but nobody thought this is only the colossus body without dormin energy?a great part of the colossus have plants and stones in her body, even if they look like hair or something like that
When we were kids playing the game in the PS2 version, my brother used to say that they looked like those worms cuddled up in a bag that later became butterflies.
They still do and I love that.
didn't know that colosi didn't just despawn out of existence but instead they turned into an abandoned structures like state until now
I've been a fan since the ps2 days, when video game mags were hyping it up, and telling us to "hope" this one makes it to America. I've played this game so many times, and It never occurred to me to go back after I defeated a Colossus... my mind is blown.
Looking back it's funny gaming magazines were worried about the game getting a North America release. As it turns out the game was released in North America before it was even released in Japan, despite the fact the game was made in Japan. Same thing happened with "ICO" too. I've also been a huge fan of this game ever since playing (& fully exploring) the demo back in May of 2005. No modern video game has ever grabbed my attention quite the way this one has.
i wonder how a game can be so empty like this but so majestic at the sime time, this game is strangely wonderful
Its a shame you couldn't visit malus's grave wanted to see how he looked like since his legit my fav colosi
You can see it briefly during the credits
@@sentientmustache8360 ye but I meant fully. From the inside to the outside and how he looks from all angels but yea I guees that's the closest thing that we can get
You can but it requires some tricks & or hacking in order to pull it off. The one thing you can't do though is fight Malus again in Reminiscence Mode. Nomad Colossus covered this in one of his videos & I also plan to do a video on it at some point.
there should be someone that did. the fact that its in credit might means that the model was there
To me this shows there’s beauty in death , in decay , in tragic .
I had NO idea that this was ever a thing. I never ended up returning to any previous battle sites. This is amazing.
É tão bom ver conteúdos do SOTC, e ainda com uma música para relaxar, esse jogo é tão bom e com mistérios que ainda não foram desvendados...
Thank you bro that you show the all dead colossi, before 2021, 2020 and more few years ago, i want to see how is look like all colossi dead, but i found nothing in TH-cam, but thanks to you, who you share a amazing video
Meu jogo favorito do PS2 ❤
meu tambem
Thanks for making this video ❤
I always wander what kind of stone armor the colossi have as skin and bone. Makes you think how all that stuff covered the colossi. I personally think after each colossus death, the black and white portal is Wander travelling through time as we hear the Maiden's voice
Just the fact that they took the time to create these colossal wrecks and made them look as if they had been there as long as all of the ruins is amazing.
It’s like they were outside of time when animated but had hundreds of years happen to them in moments after Wander took their essence.
Ver a los colosos muertos así me hace sentir como: por dios que eh hecho.
Es verdad, Shadow of the Colossus es un juego único. Te hace sentir minúsculo no solo en el inmenso mapa, sino que tambien causa soledad y una deprimencia terrible al saber que tu novia está muerta en un templo. Y peor aún, siento una culpa Colosal, viendo que tengo que matar a esas criaturas enormes que tampoco tienen la culpa de nada. ☹
The music playing the backround really sends the feeling that killing these giants might have some consequences... like you cannot forget their every struggle they feel, every pain they endure, and screams of agony... All for a reward... the titans lay down on their final resting place to decay and be part of the ecosystem as a whole....
I never really thought about it but Dirge is the only colossus to blink
Wow I don't remember seeing their faces in the debris! Was this the case with the original?
Yes!
Thanks for posting. I was looking for this.
exclude malus... now we can only imagine it visiting his corpse only
It's like they're literally getting assimilated by nature
This is freaky and I love it
Wander had to be comatose months between each Colossi, seeing how ifya visit em after the fight they are already covered in dirt, plants and even sapling trees. Also kinda funny how Avion, Hydrus and Pelagia all become islands and their bodies just float rather than sink.
Makes you wonder how long you get knocked out for if entire trees grow by the time you return 😂
this great to watch when u want to fall asleep.
Its even better when you play, i never ever in my life felt so much sleepy until the day i tried out this game, i tell all my friends and they all sleep with their headsets on the party, one of them broke the damn headset sleeping, we call it shadow of the boring after that, i always keep it instaled on my ps5 when i had insomnia and cant sleep, this game is truly magic😂
god i wish we got more of this games remember my childhood friend showing me this game on his playstation and me being like ohma god is a mazin giant creatures
These colossus are Made of Earth and Rock
been doing these on ps2 version, never though they add so much detail in the remastered,
and that music feets well
They barely look like what they were... Their live form, compared to their corpses, was something like what we might imagine when looking at clouds, and so might be for anyone seeing them in the future... perhaps that's all they ever were. We could think of them as some sort of illusion: magical beings sustained and held together by a single purpose. In the Forbidden Lands, after all, even memories are forbidden. No one except Agro witnessed Wander fight the Colossi. Wander himself lost his physiliological ability to retain any memories of what happened by becoming a newborn. Life goes on, his sacrifice is absolute, as only a true act of love can be.
you know what the remake also needed, freaking dirt and sand physics, but i don't think the ps4 version could handle that
This song adds a feeling that I can't describe...
Both here for the sad, and to finally learn all the Colossi names XD
Pfft, Avion is Plane and Barba is Beard in Spanish.
This was just so sad 😢 watching this trough the whole entire video 😔 They just all collapsed into sand and dirt, dead tiny little trees, and all of that stuff 😭❤
Impressionado com a grande habilidade de "criar" jogos com gráficos de PS4 no PS5, parabéns.
bro what a feeling of sadness this song gives, a feeling of guilt for killing the Colossos
I found it very unusual and unique.
I really don't know what to think when I see the bodies of the fallen giants, reduced to piles of earth, the vegetation grows on here xd.
Because in my opinion it is a more "positive" effect
If instead there was something corrupt that was burning plants and earth then it could be a little clearer to me.
it never gets easier
When I was a kid, I was thinking that all huge mountains in the world are the dead bodies of Titans. And wondered what would happen if they all came back to life someday. I don't where that idea came from. A child's imagination I guess.....
It's like if there was a second main quest to give their souls back (I wish)
I'm sorta reminded of th ARG the original release, where people were finding the remains of the Colossi around the world.
"It's just a machine" - Huey Emmerich 1984
good choice of music
Silent Turmoil- Myuu. Brilliant song
When the Colossi die become earth cycle
It would be a great idea if we could relive the battles with each colossus by simply praying in front of them, in the same way we save the game on the totems. That way it would also be a way to respect them.
You can do this already with their bedies and their statues on the main temple atleast on ps2 version, idk about ps4 but I'm guessing you can too
You can refight them by praying Infront of their dead bodies
@@Mega_Roman_gaming bruh
@@MonsTerCatita wat?
I'm just confirming that wat you're saying is true
Wait, can you actually do that?
This game is so pretty
This actually made me feel sad
And not a lot of things can do that, trust me
This feels like Eren Jaeger having sympathy on Titans in the last episode of season 3 in AOT
for 7 is it possible to create that as a sculpture by making it hollow?
Ceremonial arrow for the departed Colossi.
Interesting how the stonework is sort of disintegrating. The basic forms of the colossi are there, but they're partly retaken by the land. The colossi are terrifying in this game, but also majestic and awesome. It is sad to see them like this...like a bygone era of myth, such as the Titans from Greek folklore. Is this a mod, or what actually happens in the vanilla game?
Nope. It’s literally how they depicted the dead colossi in the original. Surprised it has collision, considering you’re not supposed to be able to reach them normally.
@@EntropyAndSingularityYes you are able to reach them normally lol. The person who made this video didn't modify the game in any way you can play the original or the remaster and do this yourself.
@@mcgfn ah, got it
Esse Jogo é uma obra de arte ❤️🫶🏼🥹🎮
Those dead colossi in the waters must be made of pumice stone if they're still floating like that.
Um dois meus jogos favoritos 🎮❤️🥹
Why does grass grow particularly on the remains of the colossi ?
The silence of death is VERY sad
Damn
I played the original when it first came out, never played the HD or Remastered versions. Was this in the original? Could you reload your save in a post game and do this? I have no memory of being able to go back and see these like this.
You could always go back & visit the remains of a dead colossus in the PS2 version & even fight them again by praying in front of the lifeless body. That was a feature that's always been in the game along with Normal & Hard Time Attack Mode. New Game+ was also available in the PS2 version even though that term wasn't used. But the ability to start a new game with your saved progress existed.
I didn't know they left behind literal corpses i wasn't good enough to return to any of them after beating them
There were giants here.
I wish that the colossi you fight more recently towards the end weren’t as covered with dirt, rocks, and plants to give a more accurate estimation of how much time is passing in between fights
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I have a question, how did you get that bow, for what I know it appears in the character section, on "bows and arrows" but I don't know to earn it. Someone can help, I wish to love this game and that's part of it.
That bow is called the Ancient Bow & you could only get it with a D.L.C. code which is no longer available. Perhaps if we're lucky enough to get a Definitive Edition of the game next year to celebrate the 20th anniversary, that bow along with a few other D.L.C. items (Spotted Agro, Life Sword, Shaman's Cloak) will be made available as items you can unlock.
@@timmadone8930 Right, thanks, I really couldn't find any information on it anywhere, so I started to hypothesize about how to obtain it.
@@alejandrorojas6422 Yeah, I have all the D.L.C. items except the Life Sword. One of the pics in the gallery shows the Life Sword along with the 3 other swords. It's the sword with the circle at the end of the handle. To get the D.L.C. code for that sword you had to pre-order the special edition of the game. In Japan the D.L.C. code was on a piece of paper inside the game case of the standard release. All D.L.C. codes for the game expired in February of 2021.
@@timmadone8930 Thank you very much, any way, I glad that I can play this Remake from that master piece, I give it so much time, a really game of my soul
@@alejandrorojas6422 It is a masterpiece for sure. And there's a lot to do in addition to taking out the colossi. Like obtaining all the trophies. Completing all Normal & Hard Time Attack Modes. Unlocking all 154 gallery pics. Finding & collecting all 79 gold coins. And just exploring the entire map & seeing all the areas you didn't get to see if you just went from colossus to colossus.
Man this video bummed me out.
I’ve always been curious how the colossi were made. I understand that part of it is magic of some sort, with the god’s power. But, what about the actual assembly of them? Were they crafted in sort of facility? Where the designers used tools to apply the intricate pattern of the stone each one had on their bodies. Or, were they bred from an ancient form of alchemy? Where they combine both stone and living tissue to create the colossi. And the god’s power was the source of their activation? 🧐🧐🧐
Como se llama la canción de fondo
"Colossus" on the plural is "Colossi" ;)
Thanks Bro 👍🏻
How are the colosi floating in the water?
Everyone talks about this incredible game as they should, but it's sad to see that rarely if at all anyone mention the original ICO...
im sad when i see this..
It's kind of like their bodies are decorating at a higher rate because they're going back to their natural state
Doesn't matter if it's played on PS5 really, it's still a PS4 version game with the same PS4 limits. There's no version that takes any advantage of the PS5's new hardware capabilities. Sure the 30fps is stable but 30fps is all you get and the resolution is the exact same on the PS5 in all guality modes as the PS4. I really wish Bluepoint would release a framerate unlocked 4K version of this game, like Guerrilla games did for Zero Dawn. I know they can do it, just up the resolution and uncap the framerate. Idk why so many studios won't do it.
You just might get your wish...might. 2025 will be the 20th anniversary of the game & there is at least a slight chance that to celebrate we will get a Definitive Edition/Director's Cut of the game. If this was to happen of course it would be on PS5 & run at 60 F.P.S. In addition to that, there is a good chance we'd get some of the missing colossi put back in the game & a few other new extras too. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it happens.
Its 60 fps on PS5 . There was even an option for 60 fps on PS4 pro. 30 fps was only on PS4 slim or resolution mode for pro.
@@ghostofwar5430 No, in cinematic mode it is 30fps. Performance mode is 60fps.
Get the parachute, It will save time getting places.
14 hard time attack bosses 👁🗨 💋 👁🗨
By the Gods, ¿what have we do?
"We did the humans always do: discover and then destroy" (Dr. Zhang: Meg/Megalodon - 2018)
The biggest mistery of SOTC is not The Dam, The 17th colossus neither Black Bird. Is how Avion and Hydrus float on the water after their deaths
Beautiful music. Whats the name of this track and by who?
Silent Turmoil by Myuu...Check this out
open.spotify.com/track/6RwKbRQoW5fnHFUhjUUDok?si=ldW8NoCOQpmoLoWaFtOu6w
Lore wise wouldn’t it make sense to keep the bodies looking like you just killed it? If I’m mistaken forgive me but I thought there was a line in the old ps2 version that says time stopped flowing until wanderer unlocked dormim which started the flow of time again
I think the build up of rock and debris growing around their body is to show to the player that every time you defeat a colossus, a LONG period time has passed, months probably (would say years but that seems a bit far fetched) and it questions you on what happens when you are knocked out and mysteriously transported back to Dorman’s temple
Late reply but the way it seems is that the colossus Rapidly decayed after many years of being locked in time so as to catch up or the magic that kept them alive faded and it just returned them to what it once was: Dirt and grass with only the artificial stones and armor staying. If we go by the time moves differently like months or years then it wouldn't make sense because Emon and his men would have been very old once they catch up to Wander in the final scene.
Best theory is the first one where they rapidly decayed like Time is catching up to them since the Forbidden lands where sealed in time and was gradually broken
All the dialog spoken in the game is the same in all 3 versions (PS2, PS3, PS4). The only difference is the PS4 version has either new voice acting or a remix of existing voice acting for the male/female voice of Dormin. Either way the subtitles of what Dormin is saying are the same in all 3 versions. I did notice though that one line spoken by one of Lord Emon's men is missing from the PS4 version.
WANDA : "AGURO!!!!!!!!!"
While it is sad, there's something absolutely beautiful about how the colossi's bodies are being used to bring forth and nourish new life into the land. It all foreshadows Wander's ultimate fate in a way.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." 2 Corinthians 5:17