Curiously, despite Badlands being set in a giant impact crater, the name 'Crater' was instead used for a different arena.Roc's arena was previously speculated to have been located at B3 due to a seemingly similar shaped area being seen in an old low resolution texture, but it was debunked when several pieces of evidence, one of them being Roc's pillar, were found that linked Badlands and D6 together.An interview with the development staff of Shadow of the Colossus released by the Japanese graphical design company CG World contains materials of the game's map, which include, among other things, snapshots of the level-of-detail model of the E6 quadrant back when the adjacent D6 area still housed Roc, allowing for a fairly decent idea of how the arena looked like in its entirety.

It's possible that it was made that way in order for Wander to hide from the colossus and regain health.

By examining the footage of Roc closely, one can note that the base of its pillar has smaller pillars supporting it, with spaces big enough for Wander to fit through.

This correlates with the existence of the old versions of quadrants B6 and C6, and it connecting to the surrounding quadrants.

Badlands' chip data is full, indicating that the whole quadrant it resided on was modelled.

A short clip from an extended trailer by IGN shows Roc's pillar.

The 13th Colossus' Desert can be seen in the picture of Roc perching on its pillar.

Various pieces of the 3rd Colossus' armor can be observed in one of the artbook screenshots and in the video footage of Roc.

After Roc and the Badlands were discarded, the 6th Colossus and the Canossa took their place on the map.

The arena was located on the southwest of the Forbidden Lands, next to the Blasted Lands, at quadrant D6. The location of Badlands in a mockup version of the early map. It is filled with various types of ruins, including a massive pillar which the colossus rested on. However, higher resolution photos from different perspectives 'revealed' the face was simply a natural rock formation.Short clips of Wander coming out of the Autumn Forest into the desert, Roc's pillar can be seen on the right.Ī desert-like landscape with a huge impact crater on its center, and a smaller crater connected to it facing southeast. One of the most famous pictures is the Satellite photo of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars ( The 'face' of Mars). There's actually a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia, which involves a stimulus (image) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern (like a face) when none actually exists. It has been touted as both a 'net sensation' and a 'geological marvel'.īut, this obsession with finding human heads in, well, just about everything isn't a new sensation. The head was first 'discovered' in 2006 via Google Earth. The long line and hole starting near its 'ear' (sometimes called earphones) are man-made structures, to be specific, an oil well and a road. This 'face' was caused be erosion into the clay of the land. From above, the land feature bears a striking resemblance to a human head wearing an Aboriginal Canadian headdress.

Now, these softs hills are beautiful in their own right, but it's whats above that's really exciting. If you search for pictures of the Badlands Guardian on google earth street view, you'll simply see lush, rolling hills. In Alberta, Canada there is a view that is breath taking from the ground and above.

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