NINTH COLOSSUS

The ninth Colossus is the biggest one you've faced yet by far. A quadruped again, and an enormous one at that. You'll find him in the cave, but when you go up and try to figure out exactly how it is that you're supposed to hit him, you'll likely find it quite difficult to hit him at all. There is a reason for this and I'll get to it in a minute.

The boss, like most, has two primary attacks. The one is the usual where he lifts his from legs up in the air and slams them down for a shockwave so powerful you should jump whenever it hits the ground. The second attack is the one which is far more powerful and dangerous. Similar to the previous boss, this one can fire blasts of energy out of its mouth. The difference is that they do a lot more damage and hurt you right away, rather than sitting around waiting for you to run through the electrical after-current. Always run, jump and roll to avoid this attack.

When it comes to actually damaging the boss, you won't be doing it in this cave that's for sure. It's pretty damn dark in here, and light is a good enough reason as any to lure him away (but the main reason is of course completely different.) Notice that outside of this cave from the way you came there is an enormous open field. Littering these field are little openings in the ground, these are geysers. They will randomly spray up water periodically and will play an integral role in your victory.

Basically what you have to do is run around the field, either on foot or on horse, and lure the hulking beast over top of one of these geysers. If one of them blasts water into the air while the monster is above it, the monster is going to be knocked off balance. When you use the sword to pinpoint the Colossus' weaknesses, they are all in his feet but you can't see them. When a blast of water shoots up, it knocks him off balance and suddenly two of his feet tilt to the side while the other two area in the air. With the two tilted feet, the ones which are still touching the ground, you can now see the symbols on them. Stand under the beast and whip out the bow. Fire a charged up arrow first at the back foot symbol, then the front foot symbol. If nothing happens just keep doing it. Soon enough the monster will topple over on its side, but there's still more.

You need to run around to the belly side of the monster which is covered in hair. There are a few ledges for you to grab on your way up to his chest hair. Now what you have to do is climb up all that hair to the top side of the monster and kind of position yourself on the edge. When he gets his balance again and rolls over, you will end up on his back and that's exactly where you want to be. Unfortunately there is next to nothing for you to actually grab while on his back, so be careful up here, and duck often. Gradually make your way to the head, that's where the main symbol is. On the very top of his head there's some fur you can grab onto. Grab the fur and begin using chare up attacks. This is the only symbol on his entire body so once you take this out, the boss is dead.