I think it's interesting what you say about the stick. I feel that the arched recession in the wall of the back room of Celosia's place might be a door and I've tried several things like shining sword beams through it and exploding arrows and even getting celosia to ram into it by standing Wander in front of it. Nothing worked of couse. What it is is the tall arch with a round carving above it. Whenever you see one of these round carvings in a wall, it is always above a passageway or door. That's why I think this is a blocked off door. Anyway, I never tried backing Celosia into it using the flaming stick. Not sure if there would be enough time....
ozzymandiaas wrote:
i find this thread very interesting for a number of reasons:
1) i always found it strange that in the regular game (not time attack stuff) celosia's fight is the only time you're given an extra tool. - the stick - and you use it only for that fight. i often thought if there were a secret the stick would be a good route to it.
2) i also found it odd that nowhere else in the game is there fire burning besides celosia's arena and barba's. seeing the fire in barba's basically begs you to bring the stick from celosia's arena to barba's. (which the game will allow you to do BTW) the only reason i haven't tried it is because last time i was in barba's arena i tried to climb up to the fire and realized i couldn't get close enough to light the stick even if i had it.
3) in ICO, sticks of flame are used all the time to open doors.
all these things put together make this one of the best secret theories i've seen.
I've never tried the mace secret myself, but I know the details about it. It was very elaborate. The only thing I'm truly worried about is whether or not they did in fact "finish" this secret, because it seems as if there is indeed something we are onto, but we keep running into dead ends.
ozzymandiaas wrote:
have you ever tried the ICO mace secret? it was very elaborate and somewhat random. The big bummer to me was that TeamICO revealed that easter egg to guide writers before the game was released. i've always wondered how long it would have taken or if people would have ever found it if they hadn't told us about it. i'll bet they wonder the same thing and maybe sotc was their chance to test that out. i doubt it at this point. but the temple top is such an obvious goal it'd be wierd for it not to be reachable. and, what if there is some elaborate way to get there, it'd be the greatest easter egg ever if after so many gamers have hammered on this game it still took this long to find it.
however if, in the end, ueda has to tell us how to get there, he overshot. best easter egg ever would take 2 years to find but then be legitimately discovered by a savvy gamer.
I don't know, thats the only weapon I don't have in hard TA. Once I beat #15 then I'll know if it does ot not.
spadethezombie wrote:quick question, does the queens sword light up in the dark?
It doesn't glow in the dark per se, but it does have a faint pulsating shimmer all the time. It's pretty cool.
Cute_Arapaho wrote:I don't know, thats the only weapon I don't have in hard TA. Once I beat #15 then I'll know if it does ot not.
spadethezombie wrote:quick question, does the queens sword light up in the dark?