What's strange is such a feature isn't there in the stage concept art. This is from when Mammoth was located at C5, which is why there is still a beach there in the final game!

Perhaps this cut northern part of the arena was already in F3 before Mammoth's stage got moved there.

In-game view showing the entrance to the cut area I nabbed from the Dec. 2004 Mammoth video for the wiki - it's the cave where Mammoth breaks out from in the final game.

OK I just did the math and a minifigure scale Evis would be 110 centimeters tall ahahahahaha

Guess that's not happening.

Unfortunately, SOTC is rather niche so I doubt it would ever happen.

As for scripting a lot of it is probably from mid to late 2004, given the description of Yamori_B’s arena Dormin gives.

Not sure, when sekiban summoning was removed (could be surprisingly late) and when VA was done are both unknowns AFAIK.

You’d really think an interview would mention when they did VA. Maybe someone would need to ask the actors.

Sekiban summoning possibly getting more evidence

This would explain the bizarre allusions to save stones in the speech.

"すべては無と有に置き換えられ
石に焼かれた記憶…"

"They are memories replaced by ens and naught
and etched into stone."

They lines were so opaque for so long because they were removed entirely from their original context.

Organic collision deformation

If Shadow of the Colossus is such a good game why doesn’t it have a spin-off where the colossi play volleyball in bikinis with jiggle physics?

forgot i had rotated the head slightly to make it easier to work with

(modelling a basilisk colossus i sketched quickly the other day)

In good news I spared one of the eggs from its cursed fate and it was delicious in my shin ramyun.