Ruins

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Ruins
A closed-off city beyond the channel...
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Inhabitant	Cerberus
Quadrant	C2
Stage Number	15
Designer	New: Kazuhiro Numata (nk) Old: Jun Tsubuku (tb)
Theme
Theme (E3)

Ruins is the developer name given to the arena of the 14th colossus.

Description

A city that looks as old as it is ruined. The surrounding area is separated by waterways, with tall columns standing in various places.

Location

The arena is located on the northwest side of the Forbidden Lands, close to Umbral Glade, at quadrant C2.

Trivia

• The theme A Closed-off City plays when first finding the arena.
• The pillars aligned by the entrance of the cave that leads to the Ruins once belonged to Devil's Plain, the arena from the unused colossus known as Devil.
• C2 is the only quadrant to have a slow resolution texture named after the arena it resides (slow_ruins), instead of the usual quadrant letter and number, like for example: "slow_c1".
  • A few unused arenas and previous versions of existing arenas also had this naming scheme:
• The E3 Demo version of this arena has a few differences. Namely the wider entrance to the channel and the missing block pillar on the starting platform.
• In the E3 Demo, the cutscene for this arena can only be accessed with the debug menu or by modifying the code. The theme that plays is the non-shortened version of the same song from the final game.
• Early on in development, the shape of Ruins was different and its size was larger. This is seen in its old slow texture.

Gallery

• Original
• Remake
• Earlier versions

Pillars aligned by the entrance of the cave that leads to the Ruins.

Strange lake with a mound in the middle of the cave.

Scattered blocks in the cave.

The entrance.

Wall which is destroyed near the end of the battle.

The gate leading to the channel.

The channel.

Cenobia's temple.

Close-up of the 14th Colossus' temple.

Lone pillar at the back of the arena.

Line-up of towers and ruins leading to the end.

Big tower at the end of the arena.

Concept art of Ruins' entrance area from the PS4 remake.

Concept art of the Ruins from the PS4 remake.

The early version of the pillars from PSU Preview.

The gate leading to the channel in the E3 Demo version. Its width is much larger compared with the final version.

Block missing on the starting platform.

Comparison of the final Ruins with the shape of its slow texture, which shows an early version of its arena not found in any versions or pictures available.