One of the most creative things about Colossus is that the player starts out with all of the equipment they’ll ever use in the game. You’ll constantly have your sword and bow at hand, which you can constantly switch between whenever you want. While the arrows seem to be a standard projectile, your sword can be used as a pathfinder of your next objective, shining brighter and with a more focused beam of light from the sun as you move in the right direction. You’ll also be able to put your weapons away to grab additional handholds when you’re climbing cliff faces and leaping for faraway ledges. You can expect to do a significant amount of jumps and wall scaling in this game, simply to get to higher locations.

The largest trick of the game is figuring out how to kill these monsters, finding ways to weaken them or reveal weak spots on their bodies that you can exploit. Some of these monsters might take you up to two hours or more to simply injure, much less kill. Most of the time, this will involve using the sword’s reflective properties to reveal the weak spots of the creature. Plunging your blade into these targets releases a large spray of black blood and energy, bringing you one step closer to fulfilling your goal. However, these creatures won’t simply let you kill them without a fight. They’ll do their best to shake you off their shoulders, heads and other body parts so they can step on you or hit you with their hands, inflicting significant damage on the hero. In fact, you’ll often find that you’ll need to abandon your assault on these beings to simply hang onto them for dear life.