I found a small golden owl sticking out of rocks

[A.M.R.]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1672588452
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1672589800
Any idea what is it ?

[jack_of_tears]

Probably just a reference to "Clash of the Titans".

[Lemonjello]

Cool! Is that nod to Bubo from Clash of the Titans?

https://clash-of-the-titans.fandom.com/wiki/Bubo

[A.M.R.]

I never watched those movies tbh

[jack_of_tears]

Originally posted by ;1840188800802397300:

I never watched those movies tbh

The only one worth watching is the original 1981 film.

[UbiCosmos]

I love coming across little cool things in the game like this, looks like you've got a good eye for detail! Thanks for sharing this with us. :)

[The Father]

yah i know, its a golden owl :D

[Mad★Paladin]

you should unlock a new ikaros skin for finding this

[Lemonjello]

Originally posted by howler77:

you should unlock a new ikaros skin for finding this

Cool idea.

[dt Walter Robinson]

It might be a reference to the movie, but based on it's appearance it looks like the Athenian owl symbol that is everywhere in the game, and considering how it's just kinda sticking out of some rocks with no embellishment at all, it might actually just be a bugged object.

[A.M.R.]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

It might be a reference to the movie, but based on it's appearance it looks like the Athenian owl symbol that is everywhere in the game, and considering how it's just kinda sticking out of some rocks with no embellishment at all, it might actually just be a bugged object.

At first glance I thought it was a bugged object but when I looked closely I noticed that I never actually saw Athena's owl just like it anywhere else (and I mean the same size and shape, I thought it was a collectable token but no interaction I even shot it and nothing happened).

[Mad★Paladin]

it looks like the athens owl because it's the robot version of athena's pet owl, given to perseus to help him in his quest.

[dd790]

Soon as I saw it I sent a pic to my sister (big fan of the good version of the movie), awesome little easter egg :P

[dt Walter Robinson]

Originally posted by howler77:

it looks like the athens owl..

Owls are associated with Athena and gold with divinity, independent of and for far longer than the movie made the association.

Therefore, it is possible for it to be a gold owl without it also being a reference to the movie.

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It's placement still bothers me, as it doesn't have any sculptural context, it's just sort of sticking out of the rock.

Also, Bubo was an animate golden owl, why reference him with an essentially 2d image sticking out of some nondescript boulders in a perpendicular fashion?

The appearance of the symbol is consistent with what one would expect a craftsperson in ancient Greece could have produced, and not an obvious Bubo-from-the-movie facsimile.

So, this implies that a character ingame made the object and placed it there, but this makes substantially less sense than if Ubi devs had deliberately made Bubo and placed him out there because what ancient Greek has seen Clash of the Titans?

Sure, Bubo is based on myth, but in the myths Athena's owls are real birds, not golden mechanical ones.



And anyway, he would have been better represented had he been in a tree like in the first scene with him in the movie, not stuck partway in some rock.


Regardless, I'll find it eventually and maybe it'll be clearer to me if I can see it for myself.

[CommandDork]

There's a small (rather cute) cameo for the original movie's owl in the forgettable Clash of the Titans remake of 2010.