TheLastColossus

Definitely not separate stories. How can everyone be ignoring the horns? Wander obviously got them. ICO obviously has them and got them broken. The Last Guardians are definitely broken!

Okay, Ueda just likes horns. Horns that grow, get carried onto the next game and break, and carry on broken to the next game. Though, they have no relation. No coincidence. No connecting stories. The man just loves horns and shadow creatures for all of his games.

Please use common sense people. The only reason people believe they aren't connected is from gossip in the early 2000's and Ueda being very secretive about the story. He always is. He's not going to spoil his trilogy for you people by letting everyone know his intentions.

The soldiers/knights show up in The Last Guardian, very similar soldiers from ICO. The architecture is obviously the same. The horns. The doves. The shadows. Dormin.Look at screenshots released for the last guardian- he even has a glowing weak point on his back like the typical colossus.

There are clues everywhere! But forget the clues, they don't matter right? What the heck? Wow, just forget it. I could go on and on with similarities and people will just spout what they want to believe rather than using COMMON SENSE. The clues are OBVIOUS!

Apparently I'm mistaken.

I guess them taking place in the same world with the same architecture, with characters with horns (and sequentially one character getting horns, another breaking horns, and then the beast having broken horns), colossal creatures, constant white doves, the sacred sword in Shadow and ICO, and the last lines spoken in SOTC aren't proof enough that this is a single journey.

SOTC: Going from a human, to a beast, to a child with horns in a fountain isn't a symbol of rebirth. Nah....

ICO: I guess ICO's broken horns don't highly resemble the broken horns from the Last Guardian. Nope nope nope.

-Wander ends up with horns.

-ICO has horns but they end up broken.

-The Last Guardian has horns and they ARE broken.

The story begins with Shadow of the Colossus. The very last line of SOTC is "Should you be alive... If it's even possible to continue to exist in these sealed lands... one day, perhaps you will make atonement for what you've done" by the priest who sealed the land. These words foreshadow that he can set right what he did wrong and that his soul continues on it's journey even after the events of SOTC. The three are obviously tied throughout time in a way that correlates to asian philosophy on reincarnation. The important element to keep track of is the horns and knowing whom they truly belong to.

Loosely, though enrelated, the 'women' tie SOTC and ICO together. The 'boys' tie ICO and The Last Guardian together. And The Last Guardian beast ties together with the 'colossus' closing the loop. Each previous life symbolically plays a significant role into the next one.

A few theories could be that after the events of SOTC, Wanders soul was exiled. Boys were born with horns and cast away repeatedly until hundreds of years later something different happened. One of these boys escaped and he did a good deed. He had compassion and helped a woman he came across in the castle. This was no ordinary woman though. This was the daughter of the dark queen who lives in a castle full of shadow people like we see in SOTC. Could she be Dormins queen or mistress? What is her connection to the shadows? It's hard to determine but perhaps Wanders soul had achieved something through helping Yorda and killing the queen. She was obviously tied to the shadows and darkness. He also ends up on the shores as if he has been cleansed. Did Wander eventually become one of the guardians he originally slayed? Wanders soul may have eventually earned the right to become guardian and a colossus himself with time. Afterall we know Dormin was split into 16 pieces but we know very little about the creation and existence of the colossus themselves. Either way, this new colossal beast in The Last Guardian isn't blindly being killed like in SOTC, instead it is embraced by love from a boy. The love needed to keep Dormin at bay and seperated. It's original intent and his purpose as a soul. If this beast was met by a warrior surely he would be slayed.