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Diluted Dante

The real question is, are you fixed?

hylian_elf

Bob wrote:

Some how I'm in completely the wrong place.. there's a lake but it's not the right lake. Shit.

Colossus 5?

Spoiler:

Bob

hylian_elf wrote:

Bob wrote:

Some how I'm in completely the wrong place.. there's a lake but it's not the right lake. Shit.

Colossus 5?

Spoiler:

when you come out of main shrine, go left and around to the left of the cliffs in distance (which iou used to get to the goat type colossus). Follow cliffedge left to open area with waterfalls to the left asheien and a big tree with loadsa fruit. The path you want is to the right, another narrow passage in cliffs with a gate that can be seen in distance.

I'm in the right-ish direction obvs cos I followed the sword.. but I went through a glade and around a patch and there's a lake and a waterfall. But no fruit tree and no gate.

hylian_elf

Those cliffs in distance when you look left once out of main shrine... you literally need to just hug it and follow round to left, I think. No bridges or open areas, just hug it and see where it takes you. I think that should do it.

Bob

hylian_elf wrote:

Those cliffs in distance when you look left once out of main shrine... you literally need to just hug it and follow round to left, I think. No bridges or open areas, just hug it and see where it takes you. I think that should do it.

Cool. thanks.

Verecocha

Gonna start SotC at some point today. Only TI game I’ve not completed. Enjoyed Ico, hated TLG, so I imagine it’ll be playing Delight or Disappointment.

Bob

Based on that being exactly my feelings toward his works I expect you'll be kind of pleased but kind of underwhelmed. Unless you particuarly enjoy boss battles, Which I don't.

Diluted Dante

Perhaps the game of only boss battles was not the right one for you.

AJ

Yeah, but everyone hates escort missions...

tin_robot

The thing is, I hate boss battles with a passion, but I love SotC. I guess I just don't really see them as "boss battles" - at worst I regard them as puzzles to be solved, and at best (which is often) as creatures in their own right, to be studied and ultimately mastered. (And by mastered I mean brutally and horrifically murdered for my own selfish reasons.)

Bob

Diluted Dante wrote:

Perhaps the game of only boss battles was not the right one for you.

For sure.. but I love Ico and, contrary to popular belief, I'm quite open minded.

AJ

tin_robot wrote:

The thing is, I hate boss battles with a passion, but I love SotC. I guess I just don't really see them as "boss battles" - at worst I regard them as puzzles to be solved, and at best (which is often) as creatures in their own right, to be studied and ultimately mastered. (And by mastered I mean brutally and horrifically murdered for my own selfish reasons.)

What you've described there is what many consider to be a good boss battle. Many of the Metroid Prime bosses were very much like that, IIRC.

tin_robot

AJ wrote:

tin_robot wrote:

The thing is, I hate boss battles with a passion, but I love SotC. I guess I just don't really see them as "boss battles" - at worst I regard them as puzzles to be solved, and at best (which is often) as creatures in their own right, to be studied and ultimately mastered. (And by mastered I mean brutally and horrifically murdered for my own selfish reasons.)

What you've described there is what many consider to be a good boss battle. Many of the Metroid Prime bosses were very much like that, IIRC.

I only remember the final boss in Metroid Prime. I hated it so, so much.

AJ

Had to look it up because I couldn't remember it. Yeah, that wasn't a good way to end things.

hylian_elf

I thought final boss was amazing. All Metroid Prime bosses were good. Well, Ridley was a big of a battle of attrition.

Bob

Literally never managed to get past the first boss on metroid prime. Tried and tried.

Tempy

hylian_elf wrote:

I thought final boss was amazing. All Metroid Prime bosses were good. Well, Ridley was a big of a battle of attrition.

Phazon Pirate is tougher than Meta Ridley I think, so many things can go wrong whereas old Ridders is just about dealing with one tough cookies

Prime herself is a boss I always heard was pad crushingly brutal but did it first time.

[Deleted User]

I’m replaying SotC HD on PS3. I really, really hope they’ve massively improved the controls for the remaster. It’s not the buttons I have an issue with,it’s the fact that you’ve got to wrestle the camera to within 5° of perpendicular to make sure Wander pulls himself up onto a ledge instead of shimmying along it or leaping at some obscure angle away from whatever it is you’re climbing. And the fact that I literally never, ever, ever want to jump near Agro.

Also, I hope they’ve fixed the 11th colossus’s attack cycle so he doesn’t just knock you down as you’re getting back up, because that’s some shitty game design right there.

Moot_Geeza

That one was awful. There's a similar thing near the end of Stranger's Wrath iirc.

[Deleted User]

Yeah, I’m sure I remember them talking about that on Cane & Rinse.

To balance that out, though, the thirteenth colossus has to be one of the greatest sequences in all video games.

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hylian_elf

13th is my fave.

Is 11th the small one? I hated that shitty design too.

Dark Soldier

Prime end boss is a piece of piss, first phase is simple mode, second phase is move around a lot and do a shit load of visor switching

[Deleted User]

hylian_elf wrote:

Is 11th the small one?

It’s the first of two small ones.

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EvilRedEye

They still spam.

[Deleted User]

That’s disappointing.

g.man

The PS3 remaster is arguably the definitive version, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over what the remake does or doesn't do.

AJ

Plus, it's in 3D(!)

[Deleted User]

Well, that’s me played through the HD version on PS3. I may have called my TV (or PS3, or controller, or the game, or me, I’m not quite sure) a ‘fucking cunt’ a number of times during the last colossus.

I’ll put together my revised thoughts tomorrow.

Bob

g.man wrote:

The PS3 remaster is arguably the definitive version, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over what the remake does or doesn't do.

How do you get to that conclusion? On the basis it hasn't been meddled with?

Skondo

Is this new version easier? I'm playing on normal and I appreciate in some cases I may remember the fight and where the weak points are, but I've now defeated number 9 and it all seems rather easy.

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