Nomad Colossus

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Dormin's storm

Dormin's storm LOL!
youtu.be/NdXXfwlAiJY
hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm!

I remember people talking about this bug. Did you make a video?

2nd attempt. This time the bleached bones of a previous explorer are wasting away in the desert next to one of the broken rings... their sword rusting away by the sand blown winds!

My first attempt - will work on this more to make it better!
Wander finds part of a skeleton in the E5 forest - clearly some other Wanderer that had died here. Who was this person and why did he or she travel to the forbidden lands?

The image shows the #15th Colossus (Argus) part way through its cutscene via climbing up the cliffs. Just as his large sword like weapon is level with the ground, I froze Argus (using a memory editor). Then, I moved Wander (the protagonist) up and onto the weapon. He can stand here as the weapon has collision detection. So we can see a frozen image of the colossus, with Wander standing on the weapon. It's comical as there is no way to do this in the game.

What up Argus!
I froze the cutscene here then moved Wander up to stand on the edge of its club/sword? Not sure what to call its weapon?

I was interviewed for an article that appeared today in the UK retro gamer magazine. Ueda was also interviewed for this article! It's a pdf file - see here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1tucp...

I have all of these ICO paper cut-out models, but they are really hard to work out. That is, I printed them and cut out the shapes, but when trying to put the pieces together they just don't seem to work... and I do this for a living LOL!

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Wander tired/sleep glitch

I used Wander's animation codes to make him tired (notice he runs around crouched). Then, I added Wander's 'sleep code'. Normally, Wander sits down in his sleep position, but as I already had his 'tired mode' locked, this happened!
youtu.be/tLKTSCqNn3I

Here I have brought the 'storm' from the final boss 'Malus' at the Southern most part of the ancient lands, to the Northern most part at the Entrance temple! I had never done this before, so I thought it would be a cool video.

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Rain at the Entrance temple

youtu.be/Gp9NVWEnfO8

Great book! I still own the signed copy yout sent me 😍

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Wander falling/rolling animations (NTSC version)

I'm not using the controller here, just changing values. The up/down value is like a special NEW Moonjump code, except I don't have to use my controller anymore! I just set the value in my memory editor and Wander will jump up! Pretty cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bfc...

Is that made by you?

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Avion cutscene (1UP version)

youtu.be/3yGHCEggFt0

Awww! Thanks LOL!

Don't suppose you still have that disc?

What an awesome collection you have!

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - 75K subscribers tribute video

Reached 75K subs! So I made a special video to celebrate the occasion ; )
youtu.be/PTN13mVgw1c

When I get home from work, most nights I work on my latest blog post and occasionally upload a video to Youtube. After months of work I've just made public my latest post 'Early videos in chronological order (301-450). Check it out! nomads-sotc-blog.blogspot.com/2025/09/

Used Photoshop to generate 3 possible fills.

Awesome thread! Very interesting 👍

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Testing the bracelet

As suspected, without Wander present the bracelet (wristguard) doesn't break when Gaius hits the central stone platform. youtu.be/EbGYN8XQ-GY

You really should document all these great facts and musings in a blog post. If asked JK to do the same, but I guess the task is a little daunting!

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus Shadow of the Colossus - Argus in stand by mode

Argus in stand by mode. A recreation of an old video from March, 2010. Just a short test for now...
youtu.be/bCejcsONwnQ
Note: There is no music playing - Argus has no sword in its right hand - and all the sigils are glowing!

YouTube video by Nomad Colossus ICO - Hidden levels

Yes, of course I knew that already! Why else would I be reaching out to a famous game dev like you 😉. Well, perhaps this video I made may peak your interest? Although I have my doubts... youtu.be/GY2ang2LmPw

Are you a fan of ICO? As well as a creator?

Aren't you also a fan? Damn, you are a hard nut to crack!

Path to the dam (update) Added a lizard and fixed Mono

I probably should have sent you this piece of art I made using screen captures from Shadow of the Colossus. It's quite beloved by the community 😆
www.flickr.com/photos/nomad...

I see, well I meant no offence... I retouched out the SIE watermarks as I wanted a nice clean image as I'm a graphic designer by trade. But I did want to contact you, so I thought this might be a way to get your attention.