Game:

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 22:46

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The battle against Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top (often confused with Santa Claus) begins with a chase to the other side of the underground temple. Run like hell and hope you don't get caught by him on one of the "checkpoint" walls. If you're just on Normal Difficulty, Barba's definitely quite easy. Just bait him to look into the hiding place and grab onto that epic, awesome beard of awesomeness. At that point, the fight's a cakewalk. Poke his head and back and down he goes...unless it's hard mode.
Hard mode introduced a major sigil on the back of his left hand (our right) which brings a whole new dynamic to the fight. Odds are, unless you're on a new game plus, Wander's not going to have enough stamina to take care of all three (or even two) sigils without losing his grip and falling off. In fact, Barba's hand shakes so much that you're quite unlikely to take care of the sigil in one, or even two attempts.
That being said, it's quite advantageous (time-wise) to just get one large stab while his hand's grounded, jump off, and rinse/repeat until you take that down. The lack of damage that these things take on Hard Mode really starts to become apparent by this colossus and you're going to be falling off almost routinely from this point forward.

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