
This can be used tactically to weaken the beast. Striking this point does only minor damage, but causes great pain. The first type of weak point appears as a crack in the Colossus' skin.

Puncturing these points causes great damage to the Colossus, enough to even kill it. These signify points on the body where there is little between the light entrapped within the Colossus and the outside.
Shadow of the colossus wander skin#
Striking a softer part such as where fur or skin is exposed only does minor damage, which the Colossus shrugs off, but hitting weak points makes their life bars decrease fast.Īll Colossi have weak points, signified by a dim, blue-green or yellow glow. Attacking a Colossus on its stony skin does no damage, as swords and arrows merely bounce off of it. All Colossi are driven to protect themselves, and thus keep the light entrapped. This light is the energy which animates the Colossus. The body of a Colossus is meant to do one thing, imprison the light within it. Other surfaces of the body have the appearance of: Some Colossi are so old that green, moss/grass like fur has grown on their bodies. Quite often, this stone is cut like a building, giving the Colossus the look of architecture. Sometimes this stone is amorphous, as though the Colossi were made out of rock. The Colossi themselves were mindless brutes, no better than beasts.Īll Colossi have the appearance of gargantuan statues come to life.

With their power separated out into the sixteen Colossi, the Dormin were powerless. Emon, leader of the order of which Wander is a member, once used the Ancient Sword to seal them away within the Forbidden land. It is unknown how the Colossi came to be, only that they are vessels of the Dormin's energy.
