Underground

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Underground
A tail trapped within a pail deep within the forest...
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Inhabitant	Yamori B
Quadrant	G6
Stage Number	09
Designer	Masanori Kajita (mk)
Theme (E3)

Underground is the developer name given to the arena of the 8th colossus.

Design

The stage for the battle is a cylindrical building that resembles a coliseum. The central square is an atrium, and the building wraps around it. Each floor of the building can be accessed by stairs, and the colossus can't enter the building.

Location

The arena is located on the southeast side of the Forbidden Lands, close to Valley Plain, at quadrant G6.

Trivia

• The bridge just after the cave entrance changes every few versions. It's closer to the wall in the PAL release, away from the wall in the NTSC release and much narrower in the E3 Demo build.
• The inside of the temple that leads to the main arena had no jumping puzzle in the E3 Demo, being a clear path with no way to climb onto the pillars of fire.
• The grates from the windows of Underground were fully-closed in the PSU Preview and E3 Demo versions, likely because the rolling mechanic wasn't implemented at the time.
• In the E3 Demo, there is a placeholder cutscene for this arena that can only be accessed with the debug menu or by modifying the code. The cutscene has no camera panning and ends very quickly. The theme named "A Pursuer" (also known by its file name "forest") plays.
  • Dormin's intro dialogue for the 8th Colossus describes it living within a forest. This, together with the theme song may imply that there used to be a forest somewhere in the vicinity of its arena.
• The oasis before entering the actual arena has a similar shape to that of the Sluice.
• The reflection model from the oasis in the E3 Demo shows an earlier version of the area with a different cave-like entrance instead of the ravine from the final version.

Gallery

• Original
• Remake
• Earlier versions

The cave entrance leading to the arena.

Waterfall inside the cave.

The oasis-like area before reaching the temple.

The temple that leads to the underground coliseum. Picture by JK.

Another shot of the temple.

Inside of the temple. Picture by JK.

Top view of the coliseum. Picture by JK.

Broken walls of the coliseum.

The top part of the coliseum.

Sketch of the temple leading to the coliseum from the PS4 remake.

Concept art of the temple leading to the coliseum from the PS4 remake.

Bridge leading to the arena from the E3 Demo version. Looks much narrower than later versions.

Inside of the temple in the E3 Demo. Note that there was no walls that needed to be jumped on.

Grates from the windows of Underground. Fully closed in the E3 Demo and PSU Preview.

Reflection model from the oasis' entrance in the E3 Demo version. It shows that it used to be a cave-like path instead of the ravine from the final version.