Walkthrough for the 3rd Colossus
Gaius
The way to the 3rd colossus
Thy next foe is... A giant canopy soars to the heavens... The anger of the sleeping giant shatters the earth...
Ride along the temple on the west side again and over the natural bridge over the canyon
just like you did to reach the second colossus, but this time you don't follow the path down
into the valley but you continue straight after the bridge. Well, a little bit left, but it's
straighter than the way down into the canyon to the second colossus.
Pass the small stone hill to your left unto you are on a huge plain. Turn about 45° to
the left and ride all across the wide plain and aim for the dark place between the huge
mountains. If you are unsure just use your sword, there is enough sun here.
Here you ride along this dark path until you reach a big lake and your riding is interrupted
by a short cutscene. This videosequence shows you the plateau on which the third colossus
is waiting for you. The long way up on the west side of the plateau is also shown.
Use the way up until you are really close to the colossus. Now you have to jump
two times and hold on tight and climb a bit around the stones up here and in
no time you are at the third colossus. Please note that the longer you hold down the
-button
the farther you jump.
In case the description above didn't work for you take a look at the colossus map
The 3rd colossus is really mean and angry. All the time he tries to hit you with his
long and hard mutated arm and makes use of two different attacks. Number one
is him getting huge momentum into his arm while you are far away. Then he smashes
down his arm and tries to catch you like an annoying fly. His second attack is crushing
his arm straight down onto you when you are near him and running around between his feet.
He always tries to crush you.
When he uses the attack here he gets huge momentum and smashes his arm to ground
his arm remains stuck in the ground for a moment. If you managed to dodge the
attack you can walk up on his limb but then there is no way to climb up higher from there because
a ring made from stone around his arm is blocking. So what can you do to reach higher?
The solution how to climb onto the third colossus is quite easy once you know how, but it is difficult to find out about it.
You should now take a good
look at the huge stone circle on the ground in the middle of the plateau. This is part of the
solution. But before we do anything with it you should stand at the outer edge of the plateau
and whistle and lure the colossus near. Once the 3rd colossus is really close to you and the edge of the
plateau it is the right time to run to the stone circle in the middle of the plateau. Stand right on in
and again attract the attention of the colossus. Of you are fast enough the colossus is still
at the edge of the plateau and far enough away so that he uses his distance attack. He will get
momentum for his arm and then smash it down in your direction. Needless to say, you have to avoid
getting hit now, so run away from him, not to the left or the right but straight away from him.
If you did it right the colossus will now hit the stone circle and this shakes his arm enough to break
the stone ring on his arm that once was blocking you from climbing up higher on the colossus.
Now you have to provoke the colossus once again and make him do his long blow from the distance.
While his arm is stuck in the ground again after missing you once again climb onto it and walk up on the arm. Now you can climb up his arm and climb higher
and higher. If you need to rest to refill your grabbing powers the elbow is a good place to do so. If you managed
to climb higher already you can always refill on his shoulder because now it's getting interesting.
So climb up on his deformed head and make him hurt. But grab on tight as he doesn't like you
being there and so he shakes and shakes and tries to shake you off.
In case your grabbing powers are drained too low you can climb down onto his shoulder
or his neck once he leans back or is standing still. It's quite easy to stand there
to restore power. Sometimes he even shakes while you are standing there so you have to grab
onto his fur there.
After you drained about 50% of his health the ornament on his head vanishes and
you can jump down onto his shoulder to regain some powers. Then you climb down
his old back until you can't go down any further, then you just loosen your
grip and drop down and while dropping down keep pressing
. If you are lucky you land on
the platform around his belly, if not you will just grab onto it. You can steer your
direction a bit while falling. So make your way to the other end of the platform,
to his bellybutton, this is where his last ornament is placed. Grab onto it and
beat the life out of this ornament too.
It is also possible to jump from the arm you use to climb up directly to the
platform around the belly of the third colossus but this is harder than the way described above.
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