Parthenon

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Parthenon
It acts as a sentry to a destroyed city...
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Inhabitant	Minotaur C
Quadrant	G1
Stage Number	25
Designer	New: Kazuhiro Numata (nk) Old: Koji Hasegawa (hw) Older: Mitsuhiro Shimooki (sk)
Theme (Preview)

Parthenon is the developer name given to the arena of the 15th colossus.

Description

A cobblestone plaza flanked by buildings on both sides. The huge structures are connected by three bridges, one of them broken. On the other side of the arena is a giant valley where the colossus climbs from.

Location

The arena is located on the northeast side of the Forbidden Lands, inside the Desert Fortress, at quadrant G1.

Trivia

• In the preview version of the game, the theme Lakeside plays when first finding the arena.
• Parthenon is named after the temple in Greece with the same name.
• This stage seems to be based on Propylaea, the entrance to Acropolis of Athens; being strikingly similar in design.
• Near the bottom of the valley that the colossus emerges from exists a massive cave-like hole that the player wouldn't normally see. It's unknown if it had any purpose at some point in development.
• The E3 Demo version of the Parthenon has a major difference. The arena doesn't feature any of the platforms that the colossus needs to step on so they can used as a ramp, and instead has barricade-like objects blocking the stairs leading to the upper floors. It would need to destroy these barricades, clearing the way up.
  • Other minor differences include taller cliffs in the valley that the colossus emerges from with untextured trees at the other side, different-shaped pillars with a crude look, stairs at the entrance which were intact and extra structures at the end of the arena, near the valley.
• The Secret Garden from the E3 Demo has a model extremely similar to the Parthenon. It's possible that models of Parthenon's test stage were used while designing the earlier versions of the garden.
• The valley at the end of the Parthenon matches perfectly with the valley from the unused quadrant 'I1', suggesting that it was originally located at 'H1' and was moved one quadrant west at some point in development.
  • This is further supported by a screenshot from the CG World magazine showing the differences between a newer and older map, seen in the gallery below.

Gallery

• Original
• Remake
• Earlier versions

Stairs leading to the arena.

The columns by the entrance.

Overview of the Parthenon.

Wander inside the Parthenon.

Massive hole at the bottom of the valley.

Top view of the Parthenon.

The Parthenon gate in the PS4 remake.

The halls in the remake.

Stairs leading to the arena in the remake.

Inside the walls of the arena in the remake.

Wander inside the Parthenon in the remake.

Concept art of the Parthenon from the remake.

Concept art of a different take on the Parthenon from the remake.

Parthenon's stairs in the E3 Demo, not broken unlike the final version.

Barricade-like separate object from the E3 Demo.

Stairs hidden behind the barricade from the E3 Demo.

Model of the barricade, named "parthenon_entrance_p1".

Cruder supporting pillars in the E3 Demo.

Extra structure at the end of the Parthenon from the E3 Demo. These are also seen near its entrance.

Untextured tree at the other side of the valley in the E3 Demo.

Image from the CG World magazine showing differences between a newer and older map. Parthenon can be seen in the top right of the picture on the right, being moved one quadrant to the left in the image on the left and replacing Dune. Bought by Shuu and sent to Nomad Colossus, who scanned it.