They’re some of the most memorably opponents/victims in all of gaming, but the Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus don’t actually have official names. All this time you’ve been calling them “sword guy” and “flying thing”, but those aren’t canon.
They do, however, have official nicknames.
Did you know, for example, that the first boss was called by Team Ico “The Minotaur”? That the game’s fourth Colossus was labelled “Kirin”, after the mythical Chinese beast it shared a resemblance? Or that the final opponent was called “Elvis”, he was the god of rock?
You do now.
You can see more of these working names over at GlitterBerri, where the game’s official Japanese guidebook is slowly being translated.
The Colossi’s Nicknames [GlitterBerri]
Aaron
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:36 PMYeah.. all of the colossus actually DO have names. /sigh
Thom
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:38 PMThis its what I thought…
Jacka
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:55 PM“The Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus don’t actually have official names.”
To use your examples, the first boss is Valus, the 4th is Phaedra and the last is Malus
Could we maybe get a filter so that we only get the Australian content? It’s result in having to troll through a lo less poorly researched, inane articles.
Aaron
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:59 PMThose names are fan-made and not canon. They do have official names however, which are the original Japanese ‘nicknames’ and were found in the artbook.
NegativeZero
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:13 AMSee where it says ‘subscribe to Australian stories’ just there? That’s an RSS feed for the AU content only.
Also, all the AU content is tagged as such:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/au/
Lobo
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:39 AMNoooo! If we do that we won’t be able to say the same tired shit for every.single.article!
Jacka
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 3:37 AMAre you sure? The names seem to be pretty much ubiquitous across an awful lot of web sites.
Jacka
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 3:38 AMOop, replied to the wrong post. Meant to reply to Aaron.
GlitterBerri
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 7:24 AMIf you read the top of the article on GlitterBerri.com, you can see where the names Pelagia, Malus, etc. originated from. They’re a hoax.
noko
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:27 AMWow, I must have traveled back to 2006 or something. Old old old old old news.