Second Colossus - Seaside Cave
The second colossus is to the north of the Shrine, in the F3 map square. To find the cave it dwells in, head to the northwest of the shrine and find the earthen bridge that leads over the canyon there. On the northern end of the bridge, there'll be a path leading down to the cave. It's sealed for the moment, but as soon as you edge yourself up to it, the second colossus will bust out for you to kill.
Attacks
To be honest with you, this guy shouldn't really be hitting you at all; this is a quadraped beast that seems content to stamp around on its hooves, and doesn't have anything really comparable to the first colossus' club attack, from what we've seen. However, if you stand directly in front of the beast, it will rear up on its hind legs and attempt to smash you with its front hooves. All of the hooves will damage you as per usual, if you get too close to their impacts.
Killing It
Seaside has no easily-reached tufts of fur, so in order to climb it, you'll need to find some way to cripple it temporarily. Searching for weak spots will reveal vitals on their hooves, but they seem to be pretty well armored...
In fact, the weak spots here are on the bottom of the beast's hooves, and are going to be difficult to hit. What's more, it has two vital spots for you to attack with your sword, one on its head and one on its rear, so you can expect to do a bit of maneuvering on the beast's back if you want to take it down.
To cripple the beast, stand in front of it and wait. Just wait for a few seconds.... When the beast gets your scent, it'll rear up on its hind legs and start its little stomp maneuver; when its hooves are in the air, you'll have plenty of time to draw back an arrow with your bow and hit one of the hooves, preferably the one that's raised higher in the air than the other. A direct shot on the weak spot here will cause the hoof to fall to the ground and buckle out to the side. If you head to the joint, you should find yourself able to jump up to the fur and start pulling yourself up.
After climbing to the head, you'll find the first vital point. A few stabs from your sword will let you reduce the colossus' health down to half, at which point the vital spot will disappear. At this point you'll have to head for the spot on the rear and stab that as well to finish the beast. There are two methods of getting there, the simplest of which is probably to just jump off the beast and attempt to shoot an arrow at the weak spot on one of its rear hooves. This is more difficult to do than hitting the hooves at the fore, since the rear hooves don't raise very high, but is doable.
Alternately, you can climb onto the bones along the beast's spine and use them to perform a bit of a horizontal shimmy to reach the rear of the colossus. This involves hanging onto the bones and moving around them until you can jump off onto a platform large enough to stand on. This isn't too difficult to do, so feel free to go this way if you don't want to jump off the colossus.
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