FIFTEENTH COLOSSUS

We've finally got another traditional Colossus on our hands, and it's bigger and meaner than ever. Equipped with some kind of stone cleaver, he's ready to smash anything in his way using either the cleaver or his enormous feet. There's nothing climbable to be found on his lower body, so instead we'll be looking for a way to get to the upper body instead.

It's pretty obvious that you have to use the sides of the Colosseum to your advantage, but even knowing that it's hard to figure out exactly how to get up there. The answer isn't simple, but it's as reasonable as any other. For the sake of simplicity, let's climb up the side just to the right of where you entered the colisseum near the pillars. To the right of these pillars (when facing east) you will see a lower ledge, but one that is still to high to climb up. Notice how the tiles below this are somewhat raised off the ground, this is very important, because it will allow them to be tilted. When the tiles are tilted up, you'll be able to jump from the higher end and grab that ledge above you. Now to tilt them.

Stand on one of the tiles below the ledge, and whistle. If that's not good enough, fire some arrows, anything to get the Colossus' attention. He'll wander over toward you, look around, and then stomp down on the tile you are standing on. This will tilt it up toward the ledge. Now you can jump and grab the ledge and pull yourself up. That's the first step out of the way. The second step is somewhat similar. What you have to do is run down this hallway here and kind of wait in the middle. Get the Colossus' attention and make him attack with his huge cleaver. You can see that above you in this hallway are some blocks between the beams. Some of them have fallen down. Well when the Colossus hits this with his cleaver, another one will fall down on top of one that was already there. When you stand on it you will be high enough to jump at the wlal and grab hold of the lip that extends across. Shimmy along to the left, opposite the direction where you jumped up. When you reach the far left side you will be able to jump up to the next level by climbing the ledges.

Here all you have to do is run across the ceiling of the previous level, being careful not to fall down where the blocks dropped. There is a staircase at the end, go up that. Run to the very middle of the Colisseum and stand on the bridge that connects on side to the other side, but not in the middle. The Colossus is able to smash this long bridge with one attack, so if you're standing in the middle you will be knocked down. Wait until he gets as close as possible, luring him with arrows and whistling, then make a huge leap onto his head. It's difficult to judge distance exactly, make sure you wait until he's as close as he can possibly get or you'll miss. It's extremely easy to miss here.

Now that you're on his back you will want to make tracks for the symbol on the top of his head. This symbol can be stabbed enough so that the Colossus goes down to less than 25% of his total health, but it's not quite enough to kill him, there's still more. Now what you have to do is run to the back of his right shoulder and begin climbing down the right arm holding the cleaver. Around the elbow you'll find a trigger symbol, hit it once and the Colossus will drop the cleaver out of his hand. The final symbol which kills this mammoth beast is on the palm of his hand.

All you can do at this point is drop back down to the ground. The overhead strike with the cleaver has now been replaced by a ground punch. Run around in front of the Colossus and get him to pound the ground with his right hand. When he does, run up to it and grab onto his palm hair (yes, he has palm hair). A single charged stab will end the battle.