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Graphics: 10 ‧
Music: 10 ‧
Playability: 6 ‧
Overall: 9
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Graphics: 7 ‧
Music: 7 ‧
Playability: 4 ‧
Overall: 6
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Everyone should play this once, but should they play it twice?
It's technically amazing. The music is some of the Amiga's best. It's superbly fast and smooth. Outdoor visuals are truly stunning, with all that parallax. Indoors still very good for the time, and nicely varied. Bosses are huge. Some sprites lack colour, but I'll let that go.
Playing it now though, the gameplay issues dominate.
First, while similar games of the era mostly got lazy ports from ST to Amiga, their gameplay had more about them. Ghouls 'N' Ghosts has sloping ledges, action on ladders, and attacking from different angles. Black Tiger has the Old Men to rescue for bonuses. Altered Beast has the character change. Forgotten Worlds has a shop. Even Psygnosis' Barbarian at least tries something with the control system.
Beast has no such invention or surprise. Walk, jump, crouch, kick, punch, get the odd bonus weapon or energy recharge, use ladders (while not being attacked), and that's all you get.
It gets difficulty in unfair ways too - the bits of ground from which spikes are about to pop up look identical to the other bits, so even Rick-style progress by memory is tough. Add a dead-end well at the start, and a lengthy loading gaps during and between games, and the motivation to improve at it is limited - especially as the first bit is the most technically impressive. Even the programmers admit that what's under the fancy audiovisuals was thrown together, and you can see the signs.
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The first Amiga game to truly impress me with it's graphical and musical capability. Yes, the sprites often look rather flat but the overall quality provided quite the showcase at the time. It's a tough game and your life is soon depleted if you're not careful. I've never quite finished the game but still aim to do so one day!
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Good quality but kind of weird graphics, it makes an impression in my mind. You may have to do some effort to get abit futher in the game. Control/what to do/solving/aim of the game etc,
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The initial impression was very good, with impressive graphics and great sound.
However once I started playing I found it quite tough and very frustrating. The annoyance towards the design pushed me to stop playing it completely after a few goes. The size of the main character also limits the gameplay. The obsession with demonstrating that they could move large objects around the screen sabotaged in my view the potential for a much better game.
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I bought an Amiga 2000 after walking into a computer store where they had Shadow of the Beast intro screen running on display. I had previously only worked on 8 bit machines which took all my efforts to get a few pixels to scroll across the screen to weak blipping sounds. I was visiting the store because I had envy of the beautiful screen shots of other games found in Amiga magazines and I wanted to see what the hype was all about. But those pictures were just frames with nothing to hear. There was little justice in them as I had NO idea this level of animation and sound was even possible till I walked into that store. After purchase of system and game, I found the game too difficult to play; however, I don't regret having purchased it as it introduced me to the world of the Amiga.
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Another game on the Amiga that shows exactly what this machine can do, breathtaking graphics and sound!!! I understand of course that the game play is a tad shallow and clunky and that the collision detection is a bit off, but at the time of release i hardly noticed, some of it is actually done on purpose and is a certain 'style' of game play. When you first appear as the beast and start running the animation is amazing, with the sunset and mountains in the distance, the layered scrolling and incredible stereo music, it's quite the experience. In short.. A MASTERPIECE!!!!
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Best graphics and music in the whole Amiga Library. Behind it is a rather average side scroller.
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My main issue is the time it takes to change direction. Stellar presentation, so good that no other version has been able to top it.
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Excellent graphics, title and game over screens, animation (rippling back muscles when climbing ladders!) with awesome, memorable music. Gameplay is pretty tedious though. 7/10
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I only bought two games for my Amiga and this was one of them. Loved the t-shirt, no idea where it ended up but played this a lot and was very glad I bought it. I remember having to remember where all the bad guys were and the patterns of their movement to get very far in it as there seemed very little (if any) random factors in their movement. Recently watched a walkthrough video on YouTube and quite chuffed I got about 85% of the way through it.
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Well, this game has it charm, i mean, the graphics are wonderful, with excellent use of the color pallete and many layers of parallax scrolling, and the music is pretty good and fits the game perfectly.
The problem here is the gameplay, is awful, feels unresponsive, and the design is pretty cheap, with confusing level design and enemies and traps that appear right front of you. I give this game a 3/10
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People tend to say this is more a demo than a proper game, but it's astounding in all its glory. One of the first games I've ever played in my Amiga (after several and several attempts to load it correctly in mi Amiga 1200.. But, when I made it, I became the happiest man in the world!!
It's really wonderful, well designed (though it's quite difficult and strange sometimes), but that soundtrack will always be in my mind forever!
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I found the collision detection in this game to be poor, meaning that you have to get your hit timing spot on, This really spoiled the game for me. They should have made it easier by accepting 5 hits (min) before a loss of life! The music in this game is great and the art work is exceptional, but is it me? Sequels 2 & 3 get worse and worse! 9/10 for this one though given the artwork
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Very over hyped game. Poor gameplay and overall the game is really less impressive as soon as you enter the first level. Of course a part of the Amiga legend because of the technical achievement that made sell lot of A500 but for sure a really outdated game that I do not recommend nowadays.
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Shadow of the Beast looks and sounds outstanding and has for sure a special place in the history and mithology of the Amiga. SOTB has a reputation of being unplayable while technically flawless, but that is just half of the truth. It is unplayable indeed but that's mostly because of technical aspects such as controls responsiveness and collisions detection, let alone a game design that is not really on par with the quality of sound and graphics (6/10).
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Actually a very good game.
And i don't speak about the technical side (beautiful) of the game. The gameplay is good and it can be finished.
Of course it is a game released in 1989 and at this time the difficulty was higher than today (no infinite backup...).
9/10
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This awsome website showing SoTB revolutionary 12 levels of paralax scrolling bitplanes in web browser: [www]
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To this day in the ward SONY is the room in Which is the Amiga 500 on which encoded masterpiece "Beast"
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The amiga 500 pushed to his limit in 1989. Ok, very hard, but not impossible, like a beautiful woman.
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I remember the hype and got the game around the time it came out. I agree with other comments that say the game looked and sounded cool as a demo, but when it came to playing it, it was simply annoying lol. Might be able to suffer through and beat the game with an emulator with save state capability now though... Wore the shirt that came with it more than I played it lol Actually, I played quite a bit from time to time, but after getting the western forest part inside the tree done, by the time I got inside the castle in the east, my patience was usually spent.
Also, like someone else posted, every now and then I would load it just to hear the intro music with the red colored wallpaper screen with the three "techno raptors" (???) while I decided what I really wanted to play.
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Incredible music, graphics and atmosphere.
But then there's the gameplay, and it's really awful. Insanely hard and repetitive in the extreme.
The shoot em up section improves things only slightly (that's if you make it that far).
5/10
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I have never understand why people had hype about this game. Dead boring gameplay, absolute nothing in it. Ugly like hell. Looks like a tech demo, has a quick scroll but that's all. I vote 1 - as this thing was and still crap in my eyes. Was a waste of every bit to create this thing. This is personal opinion I don't want to make a flame war over it. Some people loves it, some just sees it as a piece of junk....
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People who dont played in 1989 cant vote this game. This game was 2...3..100 steps ahead technically over the rest, and shows the amiga tecnical superiority in these years. Beside I love the arcade very hard gameplay, of course the game is not perfect but was the best arcade game in 1989. Maybe Monkey Island is the flag of old PCs but Amiga was more than mouse games/movies trying all objects everywhere looking for luck and waiting for a new animation and speech. Of course I like mouse games too but the rating list in this homepage looks a PC list more than an Amiga list, and this is very sad. Sorry my bad english.
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Beast I : an average game that blew me away.
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Yeah, it was the proof that "the Atari ST cannot do it". There are some ST demos here and there that play some Beast 6-7 screen loop with some chip music but i hardly believe they can reproduce this game with full logic, collision detection, sprites, parallax scrolling. Don't mind the music that the vastly inferior ST sound chip (of 1981 technology) is almost a mile away. The Atari 1040 STE is what the standard ST should be in 1987 for not to die in 1991 and again is behind the Amiga 500 of 1987.
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Sorry, but SOTB is a really overrated game
But NO, it's not really a good game as gameplay and level design are definitly a failure ! I don't talk about difficulty as many games were difficult at this time. I'm talking about lots of mistakes that ruin the pleasure : collision detection at the pixel, errors from the player that require to give up and start all over again. Play this game is such a pain !
Sure, it's very beautiful, and made dream a lot of amigans back in 1989. But only nostalgics can say that it is a great game and not just a tech demo. So sorry, when you can launch only one game to show a retrogamer how the Amiga was a great game machine, stop going to Shadow of the Beast !
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Graphically speaking, SoTB is a tour de force, gameplay wise it falls just shy of the finish line...if only all Amiga games were this pretty...
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1989 I was so happy playing Spectrum games, but one day... I listened and saw one thing... Im in coma since this day.
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Shadow of the Beast is an artistic achievement. It hurls the player into a world of disturbing monsters, colossal caves, and eldritch dungeons. The haunting soundtrack intensifies the feeling of being lost in an utterly alien and hostile place. Revolutionary parallax scrolling renders it with beautiful depth.
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I didn't get very far in this game, but I usually launched it to listen to the music. It's simply awesome.
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This Is A Pretty Game.
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This is just CLASSIC! Cousins recommended me to play it, but the disks didn't work. Pity that I managed to play it functionally for the first time around the year 2003 or 2004. Another (fantasy or sci-fi or both?) atmospheric classic. I can't help myself but I sense a biblical allegory in it as the story of the game is about creature or a man - you, who fight to free yourself from the shadow of the Beast - the dark evil - or power of sin. The creatures are also shaped as demons with wings and demonic heads. For me, it resembles Middle Eastern environment of Old Testament times in some dark shadow. And the castle in this game from exterior and also in Shadow of the Beast 2 looks like Middle-Eastern type of castle with its colour and look. Perhaps it's only my personal view of the game as I started to read much Old Testament of Bible, hearing this music with it together.
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Groundbreaking graphics and sound for the time, but completely overrated as a game.
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I loved this game for my Amiga the Graphics and Sound are awesome plus i only payed £2 for it because i had a copy of it which i used to pay £1 for a disc then i used to have any game i wanted for free as long as i buy the disc's so happy days
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I love this game. An absolute classic.
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Still today Shadow Of The Beast is one of the most impressive games of all time, at least concerning the graphic and sound part. The music is excellent and hauting in every part of the game, especially the epic and tribal theme that starts when you are heading for the castle. The monsters are very original and terrifying, especially the level bosses.
The bad part is of course the insane difficulty, which makes the game absolutely impossible to complete without a cheat mode. You have one life only, 12 miserable energy points, and your character is slow and has extremely limited movements. I remember the price was also very high because of a t-shirt included in the box, and that caused some critics on magazines back then.
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This game is insane. The difficulty level is too high, it's almost unplayable. The music & sound effects are cool, same with the graphic, but it's too hard for me.
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Incredible graphics, beautiful atmospheric music, unfortunately mediocre gameplay but it don't matter, a MUST have and the PERFECT demo of just what your trusty A500 can do... Gave us all the opportunity to say "Atari ST's? Yea, they SUCK!"
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Not as hard as the reviewers of the time made out and nowhere near as hard as the sequel but still a toughie. Playability defiantly came second in this jewel of Amiga technological flamboyance. It was ALL about the atmosphere and by God it worked. The boys (And they were boys at the time!) from Reflections created the most twisted, evil and morbidly disturbing fantasy world with lush parallax scrolling, animation and colour which was perfectly complimented by David Whittaker's stomach churning primal pan pipe soundtrack. A triumph for all the wrong reasons but a triumph none the less! My personal No.1 Amiga game!
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This was a difficult game but i have finished both the amiga,st and 64 versions and i always thought this was the best of the bunch...i also had it on the atari lynx and strangely tho it played better on that system...amazing graphics and sounds even till this day tho!!!
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Very difficult game. I almost finished it.
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Suberb graphics and sound but very shallow gameplay..never completed even if i had infinite lives, i was so bored to roam here and there
7/10
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I owned a C64 when this game came out . When i saw and listened to the intro of that game i was speechless , i mean i was like
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This game really set the Amiga apart from the ST, and may have been one of the "killer app's" of its time. Gameplay is a bit shallow but its worth playing, just to say you did. There was nothing in existence that looked this good
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Shadow of the Beast may have been 1989's graphical benchmark, but its stiff, unforgiving gameplay really shows its age. Still, it's surprisingly varied, and it manages to be rather fun in spite of itself. It's worth playing at least once.
Besides, it really is beautiful in every way. Shame that it took Amiga developers so long to actually get around to making a good-looking game at all (barring the fluke that was Defender of the Crown), but whatever.
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I remember my best friend who had just bought an amiga decided to convince me to sell my CPC6128 to show me three games:Beach volley, Battle squadron and...shadow of the beast...
this is what i felt:... I think you all know what i felt, just:....
Okay, not the best gameplay but a revolution to me, and almost a whole world created in an artistic way.
just:....
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This game made a very big impression back in the day, however when you view it in terms of playability it simply doesn't rate much.
Nice graphics, good sound from a time when Psygnosis were a power house yet once again the actual gameplay can only benefit this game with a score of 5/10 - Average!
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First game I ever played on the Amiga, absolutley priceless memories, it was remarkable for its time.
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Fantastic game. Possibly the game that the Amiga is more remembered after. Many people say it is "impossible"... It's hard, but it is possible, just watch laffer35 on youtube finishing it without cheats. And the gameplay is there: good level design and enough variation. No need to comment on gfx and sound, everyone agrees they're top!
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An original art-game with immense, addictive athmosphere. Unforgettable.
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A classic game.... Little hard. I love the 3 part of all.
Graphics: 7
Gameplay: 6
Sound: 6
Addictive: 6
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I agree with most of the comments on this. Certainly an all time Amiga classic...but with some flaws in gameplay. Still, I always had a ball loading it up and trying (and almost always failing) to get further and further into the game to see more of the beautiful visuals. It was worth the trouble for me personally and I liked the challenge. I'd say this is a game (along with a list of others like Dungeon Master, Zool, Seni Soccer, etc) that defines the Amiga experience for me personally.
8/10-would be a 10 but the damn thing was just too hard to play!!
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In a few words:
Graphics, atmosphere and music : excellents
Playability and fun : very poor
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Looks and sounds great, which is basically when you have to be extra critical for a game on the Amiga. I thought the gameplay was absolutely below par and no fun to play at all. Didn't like it then, still don't like it now...it's just too mediocre in the end.
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Looks great. Sounds great. Fiendishly difficult. Gave it up after my frustration trumped enjoyment. I admire anyone who had patience to keep going.
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"Very crafted and gifted game. This was what really got Psygnosis into some serious business as it is very influent." That is what people say about this game, I mean that this game still shines after not nearly 20 years. The graphics and enchanting music stood up to me, but the this game is so hard that I don't know why in the screen shots that there are 12 hits. I could end up getting 9 usually, as the inner tree is where I get as far.
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Great game from a technical stand point. Graphics and music really hits the spot, but something about the game play just doesn't speak to me. I play it for a while, then I get annoyed.
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A "pure" Amiga Classic. The graphics are awesome even for these days, it's not a matter of technology, but of style. The music are even better of the graphics, how can forget the music that start when you come out from the well, after have completed the underground level... The game-play is not stupid, it is what you can expect from a side-up-down scrolling arcade adventure: Hit the monsters with punch or kicks, search keys, etc... Its style combined with graphics and sound is the better we can have from an European game before the "japanish" consolish game come to corrupt those kind of games. I saw a lot of comments of how it is bad the gameplay of this game, well, I think a lot of people have played it on a cracked copy using the cheats and:
1- they finished it at the first tryout, and sayd "ok the graphic were OK but were is the gameplay?"
2- they didn't play it a lot cause even with the cheats there were those traps that killed you, so they abandoned it...
It is not difficult, I have replaied it just now, and after all these years, I arrived at the Castle, with no probs. There are a lot of "restore health potions" there around.
It's still playable today, and there is the "wanna complete it" factor. So in conclusion this game plays "very good", looks "as a God", and sounds "as a God". And im not speaking of 1989, but even of today...go to play Nes if you don't like this.
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Fantastic graphics and music, but the gameplay is just stupid. It's basic, slow-paced, poorly controlled, and way too unfairly difficult. If you must play this game, play the Turbografx version - it reduces the delay in turning around and increases the speed of the punch animation, even if the graphics take a minor hit.
4/10. Great aesthetics can't make up for poor gameplay.
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I finished this game again after reading that poll in the forums where this one came out on top just to see if I'd like it better.. But no, I still think it's far worse than the sequel. It's a decent game but it has many flaws.
It's not really too hard though as many accuse it of, you just need to learn some enemy patterns and such and you'll be able to finish it every time you try eventually.
I'd give it 7.5/10.
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Too many difficult for me. Nevertheless, a great game.
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Amiga's legendary game, 'Amiga Seller'. Great graphics & musics but lack of playability. But legend is legend!
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Classic. I don't think any other boring game made a machine sell so well
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The key word is "watch" cause this was great to watch ,more than great to be honest, but not to play...
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It's a pitty that a legend of an era has only 7.58 score points! It deserves more than 10 doubtless!
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This episode was really hard but the atmosphere, sounds and graphics were sooooooo good! Anyway I almost finished it a couple time without any cheat. Second and specially third episode in the trilogy were more easy tho.
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This was wat set the Amiga apart from the ST - there wasn't actually much game there once you got past all that 16 level parallax scrolling and the 880k of music compressed onto 2 disks - or however the advert mentioned it.
But still, showing this to ST owners at the time and seeing their jaws drop was a sight!!!
The ST version was not actually that bad either - lovely sample of the music on the title screen, the scrolling and colours not the same but still.
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Yes it was ridiculously hard to play........ BUT...... At that time this was technically astounding, multiple layers of parallax scrolling, detailed sprites, and music to die for. At the end of the day there were a lot of "hard" to play Amiga games, this one just looked so much better, and for its age it laughed in the face of it's wannabe's.
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In the year of publishing it was a technical masterpiece. The game itself is extremely difficult, requires a lot of skill and by some players it can be treated as overrated. Looking at the graphics, it can be described as awkward - nicely drawn with a unique touch of transparency but sometimes objects or enemies do not go with the atmosphere (not to mention the shooter section by the end of the game). Sound is unbelievable and unforgettable.
In overall, this is the game everybody should see an play. Back then it was good because of reasons that today are completely different.
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Very proud to say this came from my roots, reflections based in my hometown and when I got this game it was when I first got my Amiga, loved it too. Lush GFX and decent sound, made me play it for hours on end, yeah it was hard but damm at the time was one of the impressive games on the Amiga
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I loved this game. It was the reason I bought an Amiga 500. It also introduced me to Roger Dean and got me interested in David Whittaker and tracking.
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I remember seeing the title screen of this on a TV in shop and was blown away by the parallax scrolling, then the game starts and that scrolling is actually in the game!!! Still, when all the jaw dropping had stopped and the playability was sized up, it was actually quite a tedious run around with no real substance. Not to mention very difficult. Still, in my opinion this game done the Amiga's reputation a well deserved push as it showed off just exactly what we had spent 4 or 500 quid on to see. And it made ST owners green with envy!
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F*ckin hard and f*ckin good. I recently bought it wit a lot of joysticks for a second time and NOW I will finish it! And someone try to write at least short review ...
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I actually came really close to beating this game without cheating. However, I will say that the gameplay does come up far short compared to other platformers. It boils down to a memory game. Remember where monsters/traps come from and jump/duck/punch at the right time. Play the game 100 times and you'll start getting somewhere. Not necessarily fun though.
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Was this one more difficult or Beast 2? I wonder if it matters actually, when both have difficulty levels approaching infinity.
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All presentation and no gameplay.
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Not a particularly fun game (frustratingly difficult), but nevertheless a milestone in Amiga game history. Amazing graphics, memorable music.
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Guys wouldn`t u all agree how much time we dedicated to this ground-breaking game(+all the other classic Amiga games)?it`s one of my favourite games that I had learned to finish just with one play,so imagine how much love I had and still have for the AMIGA-DAYS!!!!I still sometimes watch during my sleep nostalgic Amiga dreams nad then I wake up ,load WinUAE and try to make it happen all over again!!!wonderful ,ain`t it?
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Superb graphics, atmosphere and music. But yeah the gameplay was terrible. Shallow, basic, dull. Yeah it was tough but so is Project X and thats fun. Shame. Could have been so much better.
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It did, and still does, look and sound beautiful but the bad design and gameplay flaws drag this down. It's better than 'Beast 2' because it's possible to actually get somewhere but it's still far too hard, especially later on, and stupidly unfair at times.
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Got this as a xmas present when I was eight and I did not felt that gameplay had been a major problem. But of course now I see that it could have been better. Still, I feel that many people here are just bad players spoiled by easy games that are for pussies. I did not finish this but I reached the end-of-game monster with the help of a walkthrough I found from a magazine. Both soundtrack and sceneries are breathtaking.
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Looked and sounded great. Didn't play great.
Horrendous loading times.
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Rating
4-10 Then
6-10 Now
While the graphic and (particuliarly) the sound are wonderful, this was the eras "Steam" (Think HL2). By that I mean it was incredibly consumer hostile. Sure the grfx/snd whores loved it but they know that by having plunked down $49 or so they've been owned. Games such as this that prevail with style over substance will continue to excel even as it spits in the face of the consumer. For that matter think MS$
In retrospect I enjoy it more now as a footnote than I ever did while nursing bruised nuckles (punching the Pysgnosis logo on the moitor) then. T-shirt or not this "game" was a tech demo gone haywire and the iriony is that Psygnosis build a reputation as being "a leader in design" while the true greats like Epyx were lost along the way...
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A classic game, very nice backgrounds (the monsters looked slightly pale in comparison) and stunning music. Notorious for its difficulty level, which was OK in the beginning but jumped up quite quickly. The infamous Game Over sequence really adds to the frustration. But the t-shirt was cool.
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Seth Paul: hearty congratulations, you wrote one of the best reviews ever. Like I said below, I just loved Beast. In fact I loved it so much I think it was not that difficult - just tuned to enjoy the sheer beauty of it long enough to appreciate it. A masterpiece.
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A classic showcase of Amiga's power at the time. A classic David Whittaker soundtrack, classic graphics and... Classically difficult! Man, this made you feel like feeble and incompetent! If you fancy yourself a games player, try Shadow of the Beast to learn some humbleness.
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Yeah Seth's review was top notch, I wanted to email him but his email address was hidden.
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Far to hard for my short attention span and yet still a fave of mine. One of the true jaw dropping gaming experiences of my life. Maybe one day Ill attempt it
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This game's so hard you can crack nuts with it.
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It could have been an absolute masterpiece if the difficulty level ...
Another milestone from Psygnosis
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Showed how much better the Amiga was to the st .
beutifull GFX and music but sadly the game wasn't so good.
still a decent blast from the past tho
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Yeah, completed it without trainer. The combat was hard, but you also got frequent power-ups that "forgave" all mistakes, unlike Beast 2 where it was bloody merciless all the time. Also liked the setting & protagonist most of the Beast games, the caveman & Indiana Jones-clone don't radiate real ultimate power nearly as much as the original beast...
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Cool as hell and smooth as well!
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A terrible waste of quality graphics. The game showed off the Amiga's performance nicely, but beyond being an impressive graphic demo it had no other reason for being.
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Ah, yes, Shadow of the Beast. This massively overpriced and stupidly difficult platform game, with numerous dead ends, would have vanished without a trace if it wasn't for the gorgeous soundtrack and decent graphics. How it's come to be regarded as any kind of classic is beyond me, because it's nigh-on unplayable. Still, it was useful in foreshadowing a time when gameplay would take a back seat to presentation.
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There's something magical about this game. The title music, the Giger'esque graphics and the atmosphere makes you put up with this stupidly hard platformer. The gameplay isn't its biggest quality (it's too hard to finish), but still you just want to behold it's perfection. First art in gaming in my opinion. Have anyone finished this game without a trainer by the way?
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I think this game made a lot of people buy an Amiga, myself included. The graphics and music were ahead of anything else out there. Quite a big game with a lot of variety in enemies (some really big) and levels. A classic.
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Another game that really demonstrated the power of the Amiga. It featured truly groundbreaking graphics, but sadly the gameplay wasn't at the same level at all.
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The graphics of the Amiga version of S.O.T.B. Look so much better compared to the ST. It seems the Amiga version is the only decent version of this game available.
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