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
Connecting Quadrants	F6 G5 G7 H6
Stage Number	09
Seamless Designer	Masanori Kajita (mk)
Theme (E3)

Underground (地下遺跡 meaning Underground Ruins) is the developer name given to the arena of the 8th colossus.

Description

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 Ancient 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, but overtime had receded into a copse of few trees according to Nomad Colossus.
• The trees outside of the temple leading into this arena are bluish with dark spots, having the same texture as the skin of some colossi, especially that of the 6th colossus.
• The oasis before entering the actual arena has a similar shape to that of the Sluice.
• The reflection model of the oasis shows an earlier version of the area with a different cave-like entrance instead of the ravine from the final version.
• The temple that leads to the arena is similar in design to the Baiyon temple in Angkor. It's possible that it was the inspiration for it as the 8th colossus' test stage (and its final arena as well) includes the texture "ym_baiyon_wall".

Gallery

• Original
• Remake
• Earlier versions

Original

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 Jaikhay.

Another shot of the temple.

Inside of the temple. Picture by Jaikhay.

Top view of the coliseum. Picture by Jaikhay.

Broken walls of the coliseum.

The top part of the coliseum.

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

Remake

Wide shot of the oasis in the remake.

The oasis and the temple in the remake.

Another angle.

The temple leading to the 8th colossus in the remake.

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.

Earlier versions

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.

The Ancient Lands World Era 3 World Era 2 Retail Map Beta Map (fan recreation)