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Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

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Let's Play

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My tips for Gaius, the Third Colossus.

You absolutely HAVE to be patient when getting his cuff off. If you don't utilize the sword launch technique that I describe in this video, then you have to lure him to one side of the platform with arrows (the area you start on is perfectly fine for this.) After he attacks you, turn him around and stand on the metal piece in the center.

If done correctly, Gaius will aim his sword at you. Right as he rears his sword, get the hell out of dodge and off goes the cuff. After this, just bait him to lodge his sword into the ground and you'll easily have a path onto his body. If on Normal Difficulty, only the belly and head will have Major Sigils, but if on Hard, the left arm will also have one.

Wander has a ridiculous capacity to shake on this boss, so you're going to have to familiarize yourself with the timing for the belly. Right as he starts doing his twisting and shaking is the perfect time to get a fully-charged stab off. Any other time, you're going to have to utilize short stabs to take of small bits of his health, because Wander simply flails around too much to get anything more than that.

For the head, I don't demonstrate it in this video, but baiting him to shake you off from his shoulders is the perfect time to run onto the head and get a couple of full stabs off. The same is done for the sigil on his arm. Rinse and repeat, and with enough practice, he's nowhere near as hard as I make him out to be in the video.

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