Shadow of the Colossus World Record History

Speedrunning stories are often told as tales of triumph, overcoming obstacles of grand proportions. Stories of Players versus Game, of communities going head to head with each other and the speedgame they love. In Shadow of the Colossus, the obstacles are not metaphor, they are truly monumental.
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[@kurtie6794]

This channel is criminally underrated! The effort put into each video is obvious. I love watching these vids!

[@SpeedDocs]

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[@-MrFozzy-]

@@kurtie6794 agreement

[@whodiss4473]

It's the ridiculous, over the top voice that turns people away

[@Zarroxius]

@@whodiss4473nothing wrong with his voice, kind of reminds me of the last time on DBZ voice

[@TikTak12]

Thank you so much for making this happen Speed Docs crew. I really enjoyed the video and loved helping in the process!

[@JulioOrtegajr.]

One of the most underrated KZbin channels I’ve ever seen, your content is amazing dude! And you have a unique style! Really hope your channel keeps growing!

[@shaynola1]

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[@savanchandul7451]

Can you stop reading my thoughts and posting what I'm thinking a day before I even see this video?

[@mrbaaman]

Doesn't have much soul

[@fshlips4338]

Amazing channel!

[@nathanshivnen8545]

I love this channel

[@petroslazanis8466]

Finally... Been following you guys closely since the Jak 1 WR doc and its been a blast so far. Looking forward to watching this channel continue to explode! Keep it up CC!

[@halokinger]

I love the fact that you don't use the same OST of Summoning Salt like every other speed running documentaries. Thank you for that decision. This is great. Far more energetic.

[@SpeedDocs]

Yes, it's rather frustrating how everyone uses Home - We're Finally Landing. And thanks :)

[@grumpymonkey811]

I was not inherently going to watch this, but after sitting through the entire thing, I am glad I did. Completing the PS3 version of Shadow of the Colossus was one of the most nerve wrecking gaming experiences I have ever experienced. It took me days to finish it, but it will remain as one of those colossus [heh... pun intended I guess] under takings that I'm glad I completed. Seeing these mammoths completed in mere moments is, honestly, breath taking to me. I will never understand the focus and dedication it has to "speed" through any game. Consider me enthralled through the entirety of this show. Hell of a good job sir. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@timmadone8930]

I hear you on the PS3 version. I tried on & off for 10 years to get the platinum trophy & by some miracle I pulled it off in December 2021. To make things even sweeter, I also got the Queen's Sword on the PS2 version within the same month. While colossus 4, 6, 15, can be difficult on Hard Time Attack, it was the 3rd colossus that was the main cause for all the frustration with it's time limit of only 5 minutes. Thankfully the PS4 remake gives us extra time.

[@cimeries7012]

A great tribute to the legends that passed through Sotc and those who are still active. Some of the best players in the world who have gone through SOTC Noocurname Unidone Shirapon Tsunumayo Jarrod MgoStun Mikael Gamer Madorashi Stormglad T0nu JudgeMagist

[@iwouldprefernotto4381]

This is great! Really engaging storytelling and the narration was spot on. As someone who loved the original SOTC but found it hellishly difficult, these strats and times make my brain explode.

[@JudgeMagistR]

That was so nice to watch, As someone who has been a part of SotC speedrunning history it was nice to rewind some stuff that I knew as well learning new things which I didn't know it was going on back then.

[@GameArts1]

Insane momentum going from the 16.xx to the 14.xx, kudos! (imo the avion wing jumps craziness are the coolest, pulled it once off myself back in the day playing the HD ps3 version but seeing it done by a pro is just formidable).

[@270jonp]

Amazing as always. Cant thank you enough for putting out these insane videos.

[@aidanumpherson]

Thanks so much for show casing this beautiful game and the people who love it.

[@mysticaloctopus8224]

I was just watching your other videos last night, and I wake up to this. This is what I like to see!

[@tightalta77]

Great Game, great doc! Thanks so much, cant wait for the next one.. Love the little speech at the end

[@Destructo94]

Hey man, just found your channel and I've been loving the content. I hope this video wasn't the last we'll see of you! Keep up the good work. Thanks for making this. I was inspired to pick the game back up after years.

[@SpeedDocs]

We've been busy in the mean time, but we're coming back in a major way by the end of the month. And we're very glad to hear you were inspired to come back!

[@zcFOOD]

Great vid! It’s unbelievable you’re still under 30k. Only a matter of time before the channel blows up!

[@btab2772]

I’ve been waiting so unbelievably long for a video like this so all I can say is THANK YOU!!!

[@felipearrais5415]

Our prayers have been answered! Also I know I've previously asked about future projects but I didn't expect the SotC video to come out so soon. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@steelcurtain187]

This was really fascinating. You did a great job making this exciting to watch! I’m excited to check out more of your videos my friend.

[@ZombieMatt27]

What an awesome video! It was so nice to see so many improvements, so many strategies, and that super jump + wacky jump damn!! You got a new subscriber

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Wow that remaster was entirely necessary now that I see that, KZbin compression was not nice to sotc

[@Scrubermensch]

Suggestion: F-Zero X Speedrun history. that game has the coolest looking tricks in any game that were ever speedran

[@aquilaezio6621]

what a magnificent video about a magnificent game and magnificent community.

[@GrachiPlays]

Looking forward to watching this, SOTC is a super underrated speedrunning game.

[@Shoonoonoo]

This channel is so awesome! Thanks, man. Found it because I searched for Jak and Daxter. A lot of footage is super dark and I can’t tell what’s going on

[@rainydayyoutube]

Amazing job as usual!

[@BGAMESBrasil]

Thanks for this amazing vídeo! SotC is my favorite game!

[@SiberianHuskyF1]

I cannot believe you don’t have more followers, you really deserve them given the sheer amount of effort you put into your vids!

[@SpeedDocs]

Tell your friends!

[@tonycruise]

i learned so many tricks but the most from sean, i have good times on every collossus close to world records but its so hard to do it all in a run compared to time trials

[@rorygrealy2945]

Finally new vid, so excited!

[@SECONDQUEST]

Love the intro! Love the narration! Love the channel!

[@BigDummy445]

These are literally better than a professional documentary

[@Zockid22]

Just started playing the game last week and I love it. This video will be very interesting

[@mikehunt42069]

Incredible storytelling and narration, you had me hooked the whole way through.

[@AquatexZ]

I do wish to say that these videos shouldn't just be for documentary's sake, but a public service announcement to all viewers, if you're interested in the speedrun history, the complexity of the run, or the timesave still left in these runs. Go for it. Make us all proud, Take on that fresh mindset, plus, SoTC especially is such a rich game of lore and theories, so even if you're not into the speedrun, the lore community over the 17th Colossus is a fantastic and honestly really cool place to be. Sincerely, an IL runner of other games, but has been watching SoTC runs/content since 2014.

[@lounowell4171]

what does lore over the 17th colossus mean? don't we know by now that a) there isn't a 17th colossus in the game b) more than 17 were planned

[@Tuchsky1]

I love your videos and i'm sure this one will be as good as the others, i keep it to watch and relax after work.

[@Xaynier]

Been waiting for this one!

[@darchocla]

I'm always ready for a new speedrun doc

[@arqueeevist]

nodding along at all these strategies and every so often i go "wait, thats not how you do it?" unfortunately im not good enough to pull off a speedrun (yet?), but it's fun to see how people come up with these tricks. good vid! cheers form brasil

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Now this is straight up epik! SoTC is awesome and I'm glad someone is finally bring attention to its speedruning community.

[@juan.o.p.]

Amazing as usual!

[@aliciafranco5704]

It's amazing to see how much this game is loved by so many and finding new challenges!

[@tuner7961]

I cannot wait to watch this. Thats why im watching it right now

[@melko1408]

Great video, wow. My ps4 died and I’m going back to the classics and I am gonna try Jack and Daxter now because of this channel.

[@thegaleforcerob]

Amazing! Been looking forward to this. What a way to preserve history!

[@Tesserakt8]

What a tease! I don't wanna wait!

[@Omonja]

I've watched this so many times, I appreciate it more each time I come back 👌🏾

[@mynameselijah]

This is the right tone. Great channel

[@alexbandli]

I'm still kinda new to the channel but have you ever considered a collab with Summoning Salt? You both are really good at what you do and it would be the crossover episode of the century.

[@savanchandul7451]

I'm not sure how to explain this, but I think SummoningSalt likes to narrate his own videos, and I think they have slightly different preferences for what type of videos to work on. SummoningSalt for example seems to prefer more retro, and Nintendo based games, while SpeedDocs has done a lot of PS2 and the less common Nintendo games like Pokemon Snap and Minish Cap. I'm sure they know of each other, respect one another and perhaps even communicate but just have their preferences

[@SpeedDocs]

This is a pretty good answer. Our original goal was to make videos on games that would never get a Summoning Salt video. A collaboration would be cool, but not sure how that could work.

[@savanchandul7451]

@@SpeedDocs I'm glad we have you guys. While his videos are interesting it leaves a lot of games off the table, and besides there's more content overall if they're not working on a video together

[@deathmetallongsleeve]

@@SpeedDocs As a Playstation speedrunner myself your channel is a godsend

[@alexbandli]

@@savanchandul7451 you explained that perfectly. Thank you

[@Overly_Hydrated]

Great video, subscribed

[@atpyro7920]

I found the editor's notes under the text on black parts to be amusing. Good bit of flavor to break up otherwise unengaging parts of the video.

[@bulletsunderpressure]

Great documentation my dude. This looks like it took forever to research everything presented here. Keep going. :) Also, song at 14:30?

[@ryanlane680]

Good content man hell yeah

[@alibektas8934]

Great Video. One of my Top 5 Games of all time.

[@damian-vp9lg]

How are the new records under 14 mins. Please explain to us! Much love.

[@10HW]

I am such a fan of this game, thank you for making this doc

[@four-en-tee]

I may need to study some PS3 NTA runs, i've been struggling with the time attack missions on my save file.

[@StepBaum]

Great OST , great narration, great visuals!

[@Aether_GM]

SOTC needs a proper ps5 successor

[@mahmud7645]

Spiritual successor yes. This game doesn't need a Shadow of the Colossus 2, it would not do the first game justice

[@Sirfortune881]

Love this game mabey ill try this one day got yourself a new subscriber

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

Holy shit that Avion strat was awesome, that's some galaxy brained nonsense right there.

[@Lunai5444]

Excellent video as always. I don’t know the game but I feel like you mentioned Resets too late

[@--_--_--_--_]

you guys need more subs

[@bearchaser012]

Love the vids ❤️

[@YoungCatracho]

One of my favorite games of all time

[@Wwheeles]

don't stop posting, thanks

[@birdfacemd]

I'm liking the title cards.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

58:12 lol my dude was like Goofy Hollering off that collossus

[@richardk6238]

Great game, great video!

[@adamkostowicz7289]

That avion method is awesome

[@pourPOURpour]

this is one of my favorite games of all time

[@starrunner2838]

Great vid! Current Boss Rush record is TikTak’s 13min 54secs

[@Panaesthesia]

bruuuuuuuuuuuuuh NEED MORE CONTENT. I'm dyin here

[@hayleywaalen2612]

Tonu is also the name of a Neopet species.

[@alex_demote]

Long live speed docs 👑

[@kashjaegermusic]

Damn I’ve always heard so much about COTL. Never actually seen gameplay. Looks insane.

[@truteal]

Is there any chance you'll do an any% speedrun world record history doco on Donkey Kong Country 3? (I don't have anywhere else to ask this)

[@SpeedDocs]

It's in the works :)

[@truteal]

@@SpeedDocs And subscribed

[@sidthesquid4206]

I'll watch this later

[@Viviantoga]

I'm curious, have there been no runners attempting to take any of the newer strats back into the PS2 version to crack that old WR? Or have they just been proven unsuccessful?

[@SpeedDocs]

There has been IL activity but not NTA or any%

[@cimeries7012]

Many of the old players migrated to the ps4 version and left the ps2 and ps3 versions aside, but although you can do some of these techniques there, it's much more complicated to do in the old versions.... ps2 and ps3, maybe some player takes them to the old versions, he would get some records.

[@LordBete]

The music around the 9 minute mark is actual pain to listen to

[@Mikkiz666]

finally the best game gets more spotlight :)

[@CERTAIND00M]

As far as I know, I was the first player to discover the Quadratus hooves skip where you launch yourself off of Agro from a full run just as Quad is leaving the gate at the start of the fight. The ground is slightly higher outside of the gate and, if executed correctly, you are just barely able to grab onto the section of fur around his front left leg. The big problem with this skip is that, because of Boss Rush’s default start position, the skip was only possible in a full-game run.

[@TheMasterPoe]

Milktea kinda messed me up as that’s the name of a og smash player. I think she played peach. Not that it particularly has anything to do with shadow of the colossus.

[@thomasinborderland]

goat content

[@MrBlubba97]

Subscribed just by reading the title :)

[@fatandfluffy220]

If you take suggestions you should do Yoshi's island 100% it's a fascinating story.

[@identityx3565]

bro only 76K viwes this video is so good i hope more pepeiel see this masterpice my engileh is not good sorry ❤

[@giddytv611]

🔥

[@link3rd]

57:11.... that jump tho, wtf

[@timmadone8930]

Looks like I've got my work cut out for me. I've beaten the entire game on hard in just slightly over 2 hours. I've taken out colossus 8 in 46 seconds. I wasn't planning on trying to beat my own records, but now I feel the calling to try. Not sure I'll be able to beat the records shown in this video though. One thing has been on my mind recently...with "Death Stranding" & "Ghost Of Tsushima" getting a director's cut, could "Shadow Of The Colossus" be far behind?

[@raucoussauce1528]

1:09:17 you said this record occurred in July 2021 but the text box says February 2021?

[@SpeedDocs]

Whoops! Every video always has 1 of those panels that's wrong. The date I said in the video is correct, not the Lower Third panel

[@TehAwesomer]

Commenting for the algo.

[@robertthor3475]

Isn't this just breath of the wild with extra steps?

[@Seama327]

I with they’d bring this game to pc:(

[@donttellmybossplease]

lets goooo!!!

[@tehtonym]

Fuck yeah!!

[@KeyRaven]

Yay

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Wait but...hydrus explicitly has 3 points

[@SpeedDocs]

The other spots aren't actually sigils, they're minor weakspots that disable the electric spines

[@lukostello]

the way some of these jumps from moving body parts to the head makes it seem scripted. Is it?

[@TikTak12]

That's the beauty of the game. Nothing is scripted. Just very precise timing and positioning

[@aozero7776]

Hype