Eighth Colossus - Wall Shadow
You'll need to pass through a canyon to the southeast of the Shrine to reach Wall Shadow. You'll come to a placid-looking set of ruins near a lake inside the canyons; when you do, dismount Ahro and enter through the door.
After some rudimentary jumping puzzles, you'll reach a huge cylindrical area that's open to the sun at the top. If you take the stairs down to the bottom of this area, you'll encounter Wall Shadow, a vicious lizardlike colossus that's one of the more difficult foes you've encountered thus far.
Attacks
Wall Shadow's primary attack is, of all things, a projectile attack! That's the first time you've seen one of those thus far, to our recollection. What happens is that, when you stand in front of Shadow, he'll power up a charge from his mouth, then rapidly shoot out a few bolts of energy which will impact, then cause damage to you if you remain in their area of effect. To avoid taking a massive amount of damage, then, be sure to do a dashing roll away from the beast's front side when it starts charging up. If you stand too close to Shadow's rear side, it can also swipe you with its tail for massive damage.
Killing It
Upon first glance, you'll notice something odd about Wall Shadow: it appears to have no real weak spots to speak of. Its hard shell will prevent you from doing much damage to it, and even approaching it is dangerous due to the way it moves. What gives? Well, maybe you need to flip it over somehow and see what lies underneath...
To do so, climb back up the stairs to the second level of the ruins, so that you can look down on the creature as it crawls around the bottom of the cylinder. When you're above it, whip out your bow and arrow and fire a few shots into its back. You should notice a bit of a pained reaction from the colossus, although you won't do any damage. When you get its attention, though, it'll decide that it's time to come get you, so it'll start climbing the walls until it reaches your level, and will start preparing to fire away with its breath weapon.
Fortunately for you, you still have your bow and arrow out, so when it reaches a stasis point on the wall, whip out an arrow and fire two of them into two of its legs, where they're lit up. When you hit two of them within ten seconds of each other or so, the creature will lose its grip and fall back down to the bottom of the cylinder...on its back.
Video Walk-through
This is the basic sequence of events to follow if you want to beat Wall Shadow.
At this point, you should be able to figure out what to do. You need to jump from the second level down to the bottom of the cylinder (yeah, you'll take damage, but you'll save a bunch of time), climb up on to the beast (easiest to do from its chin or its tail), find one of the two vital spots, and pound it with your sword.
At your quickest, you'll probably only be able to get in two sword strikes before the beast rolls back over and you have to repeat this process, making this a lengthy fight, but one that's definitely winnable when you know what to do.
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