www.recordedami... Played by Nox1911 Sure one of the most frustrating games ever. - Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!
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@timsartsite10 жыл бұрын
if anyone was wondering the art art for Shadow of the Beast was created by Roger Dean
@doctorvanya6 жыл бұрын
The opening cut-scene was the thing that terrified me the most as a child. I came here today to face my fears!
@robl33611 ай бұрын
Same, I remember hiding under the covers every time it played 😂
@ForestKicks4 жыл бұрын
We got this game as part of the "Screen Gems" A500 bundle for Christmas 1990... Legend has it my brother is still sat somewhere trying to complete it
@SerenityNoww8 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up if you needed the cheat code "ten pints" to help you complete this game.
@PierLu_776 жыл бұрын
I couldn't complete it even with ten pints
@drakie70246 жыл бұрын
Game is hard as hell, that music though!
@BornSlippy20066 жыл бұрын
Same
@d0nKsTaH4 жыл бұрын
lol everytime I used the cheat code... I still got trapped somehow. The cheat code didn't stop some things from getting permanently screwed up like certain switches and destructible things
@_Reynolds_4 жыл бұрын
"This one is for you Roger. Cheat mode is now active."
@elmexingles5 жыл бұрын
Remember playing this as an 11 year old on my own in the house and shitting myself because the opening scene was so freaky
@jfs27619 жыл бұрын
The hardest game ever. Very impressive. I had to put my Sotb tshirt to religiously see you doing this.
@Slapdash866 ай бұрын
Only the first game was harder!
@dribblesbarbax75708 жыл бұрын
It never felt right releasing those prisoners so they may inadvertently clear the spikes for you further along. May they rest in peace.
@RUTGERMORTENSEN4 жыл бұрын
Pahhh they were goblins
@jstookey23 жыл бұрын
I always took this to be the defining moment for the series. You are at exactly the halfway point between being the beast from Beast I to becoming the compassionate human in Beast III. This action was necessary for survival but will weigh on the character's conscience forever. The moral consequence of this choice is the Shadow of the Beast. Questioning the morality by you, the player, marks the transition of the character from beast to man.
@sam-sharp3 жыл бұрын
Considering that at least one of the prisoners was locked up for trying to stop Aarbron's sister being kidnapped in the first place. "Thanks for trying to save my sister, er, let me get that door for you..."
@AshTheMohican10 жыл бұрын
This game and Alien 3 on the Megadrive used to scare the crap outta me as a kid. I really had to muster up some serious courage to pick up the controller for this game. Good times! :)
@Karanthaneos5 жыл бұрын
Ever played the Jurassic Park games on Genesis? The cutscene at the beggining was nightmarish. The overall aesthetic of that game is so realistic it's really scary
@Beetrecca4 жыл бұрын
The Fighting Stork me too
@acidtester30310 жыл бұрын
I can still remember the cheat for this game lol "Tenpints" was cool to watch this as I was about 7 went I used to play this and I had no idea what I was doing , cheers for the upload
@ContentsMayDiffer11 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this game back in the day when I was 8 or 9. The music and the overall vibe of the game scared the shit out of me. The part with the guy in the door of the first building jogged some memories, I had nightmares about that face. Thanks for uploading this, it was great seeing it again.
@nothankyoutube9 жыл бұрын
The intro and art is amazing.
@Jeromealdebaran7 жыл бұрын
Grahics, animation, music : Truly, this game released in 1990 on Amiga was as good as games running 386/486 DX in the early 90's (1992/1993) ! Amiga was by far the very best computer of this period...
@paulhunter1237 жыл бұрын
i want to go back to the early 90s everything was so fresh
@nastywoodsman8 жыл бұрын
Is that the ending!? Jesus christ, 7 year old me would've been so disappointed if I could have actually completed it.
@PowderClaws8 жыл бұрын
They don't make games like this anymore. It has that feeling to it. That darkness, that certain edge to it. The characters, the design, everything. It has that certain touch that made it unique
@matacachorro40906 жыл бұрын
Lights254 totally agree with you.
@bubullus11696 жыл бұрын
Actually they made a remake of the first one in 2016 on ps4
@spearPYN6 жыл бұрын
Lights254 exactly! Amiga games had that feeling that is impossible to replicate...it was the apex of human computer creativity. After this era everything went downhill.
@matheusyamanishi86846 жыл бұрын
IMO, the souls game series have the same spirit and this is why they were so well succeeded. The deepness of these works are amazing, makes me want to know more about their world and about their stories. I'm happy to find this great game here, I just knew the first one.
@lessavini4 жыл бұрын
@@matheusyamanishi8684 Was about to say the same. Souls games (including Demons Souls and Bloodborne) are among the few games that managed to replicate this kind of atmosphere nowadays.
@MrSmith060111 жыл бұрын
man that music took me waaaay back, the prophecies were true, i got old :(
@cloudskipa10 жыл бұрын
All the effort Reflections went to with the sound and visuals which were exceptional for their time and yet they couldn't even be bothered to make a decent end sequence! Watching this longplay brought back a lot of "oh yeah, I remember that!" moments, I think this player completed it quicker than I did with the TEN PINTS cheat LOL
@jammerc6410 жыл бұрын
Agree. I don't remember many games that had game over sequence so much better than ending.
@Nicholas_Steel9 жыл бұрын
jammerc64 Extremely likely because game cartridges were exceptionally small in data capacity back then (Cram the gameplay in, everything else is optional), it wasn't until towards the end of the NES life that cartridges up to 1MB or so became cheap enough for mass production for video games. SNES featured cartridges up to around 4 or 8MB I believe, N64 had only a handful of games use the largest 512Mb cartridge (64MB) and then everyone transitioned to CD's.
@jammerc649 жыл бұрын
***** Amiga games came on 880kB 3'5 disks and could use more of them at cost of uncomfortable disk juggling ;)
@Nicholas_Steel9 жыл бұрын
Ah floppy disks, okay then ignore my previous comment.
@Invidente79 жыл бұрын
I think that the genesis version had an extended ending sequence...but isn't really all that long anyway
@GameScares12 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I just watched somebody finish that brutal game, you are a legend sir.
@toutagamon10 жыл бұрын
It's one of these videos that you click like before the video starts! :D
@MetatroN19792410 жыл бұрын
Εpic
@knutheg7 жыл бұрын
This game sure was a beast to master, I played it on and off for a at least a year when it was released, but never got past the Crystal Caverns. I kept playing it over and over because of the intro and the incredible music, graphics and immersive feeling of the gameplay. Hard? Yes. Would any 10-year old have the patience to play it today? I doubt it.
@SecretOfMonkeyIsland7846 жыл бұрын
I never had this game but remember being amazed by its graphics and music on my mates Amiga 500 when i was like 10-11 years old. Shadow of the beast games have excellent music
@rashy1234569 жыл бұрын
wow this game brings memories. I used to play it on amiga back in the days when I was a kid
@flyingcumshot10 жыл бұрын
This was a good game but christ was it hard, i used to wear the t-shirt that came with it. Kids think the games today are hard, they wont know the meaning of the word hard until they play this.
@bganonimouse27549 жыл бұрын
Never managed to complete it back in the day, in fact didn't even make it halfway though...
@saporob9 жыл бұрын
bg anonimouse i had no idea what to do till i find the cheat and a guide. I think no one completed the game till the cheat "ten pints".
@rainyjay81569 жыл бұрын
I remember I had the first game on the genesis when I was like 10 and I was clueless I got to the point of just running as far right or left I culd without dying after seeing how to play through these gamea theres no way I culd figure it out even nw that im 22
@Karanthaneos5 жыл бұрын
There's a difference between hard and poorly designed. Making a game unbeatable because of some obscure way of solving a puzzle isn't good game design. Of course, this was years ago before some of those concepts were better understood. It's a nice piece of nostalgic software and has a lot of good stuff going on, but it's by no mean a great game. It's ok, at best. The atmosphere, art and music is great tho. Is mostly the concept of the gameplay that sucks so hard.
@joshpeterson22035 жыл бұрын
My brother and I used to argue who got to wear the shirt that came with it lmao! I'd basically forgot until I read your comment!
@CrashUK282 жыл бұрын
the intro in this game is a work of art
@MegaAshWilliams6 жыл бұрын
When the Game Over screen is more impressive than the ending screen...
@anttam1174 жыл бұрын
I was never good at this game, so I’m glad to find these walkthroughs
@v509-cassiopeiae3 Жыл бұрын
This game, this world, this atmosphere, this melancholic mood, this music, in the form of Elden Ring. It would be a revelation. A huge, cryptic open world, as hard as Elden Ring but with the style of Shadow of the Beast II. Who's for it?
@jimmyrich114 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite games of all time, the whole atmosphere was completely unrivaled at the time, and still is in a way lol
@billMcLatentspace13 жыл бұрын
@cubex55 you legend, on a major Amiga nostalgia trip, really awesome to see this. This game was so difficult, it drove me crazy when I was a kid, but I loved the visuals and music. So cool.
@sausagedogandmrv12 жыл бұрын
I am convinced you are some sort of God for actually managing to complete this game :)
@lbat527611 ай бұрын
Still amazing, even in 2023. The atmosphere is unique.
@Antonio-hx7yh10 ай бұрын
so true. The dark fantasy vibe is great. Also the sound impressive and crystal clear. Very classy game, very smooth. But playability is so-so
@nostyleja17 жыл бұрын
I bought posters of this game and a Roger Dean artbook because of it. Yet I had never played it. I only had the songs in .MOD files which I listened to religiously. It was great to see the game behind the music. Much spookier game than I thought. Thanks!
@Highlander151813 жыл бұрын
I'd still say that SOTB II is the hardest game I've ever played, even to this day. I feared this game as a kid. SOTB II had a very creepy and palpable atmosphere like no other game. It boasted an unforgettable intro sequence & amazing graphics but the developers put no thought into the actual gameplay. The gameplay had many pitfalls: vague clues for ensuing puzzles, traps that if done incorrectly the game was over, no save points & you only had one life. ....two words: ten pints.
@emmaevans94988 ай бұрын
Nice one, Roger, this one's for you 👍
@nebularain33384 жыл бұрын
This game was just dripping with atmosphere. I didn't even need good gameplay to enjoy it, the visuals and audio were worth booting it up for.
@thonyman10 жыл бұрын
I remember this being viciously hard. Looks like my memory is right. Good times though
@reinaldosilva13099 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the post, i had a amiga 500 and this game was the best at the time
@mistresspirotessa908511 жыл бұрын
I remember letting the intro music play for quite some time before actually starting the game This brings back memories of a time when the Amiga was ahead of any PC of the time. Amazing graphics and true stereo sound, I was lucky enough to own an Amiga 2000HD. Wow, I am so old now.
@Eufeion14 жыл бұрын
Still one of the most spooky intros to a game & one of the most "strange" world game series ever!!
@trydowave11 жыл бұрын
Just realised that the 2 prisoners you rescue are simply there to be sacrificed in order to get passed those spikes. I always ran along in line with them to save them. I would get hit. Then they would simply dissappear a bit further along!!
@MudderKuzz6 жыл бұрын
Oh how i looooved this series. Freakin amazing games back in the day.
@liamahern19316 жыл бұрын
8 mins and he's gone further than I ever managed on my Amiga 500!
@mikebarclay17 жыл бұрын
Played this years ago, REALLY difficult! I never knew about the ten pints cheat til now. The whole game creeped the hell outta me at the time, really atmospheric. Classic.
@prowokator13 жыл бұрын
Great that people still share these cool games. You happen to remember what was the game (adventure game if I recall correctly) that started from a small stone house and you were locked into this small room, and there was some sort of ogre that was living in that house. You had to get out from the room and then something... damn can't remember much..
@ptekptek17 жыл бұрын
Congratulations! As you said this is the more difficult and frustration game I tried to play!
@Snowpiercer25 жыл бұрын
Just as eerie and ridiculously hard as I remembered
@Embryonicboy15 жыл бұрын
wow. not seen this since i was a kid. Fantastic upload!!! great music as i remember!
@greenhowie3 жыл бұрын
The video itself is a relic by this point, how wonderfully meta.
@AmericanHero9119 жыл бұрын
14:32 - Like anyone would figure you could destroy that slime thing by jumping on it more than once...
@AmericanHero9119 жыл бұрын
***** Oh well I would of never of figured that out
@AmericanHero9119 жыл бұрын
***** Thanks for the grammar correction matey. And yes, it's the most evil game I have ever played, but also the most beautifully darkest ;)
@mattvantech95088 жыл бұрын
+Bruce Hood You could also screw yourself over at 13:48 by diagonally jumping between the branch and ground and falling thru the map. Lots of ways to put fist thru keyboard.
@AmericanHero9118 жыл бұрын
Matt Vantech lol
@cbmeeks17 жыл бұрын
Love this freaking game. Long live the Amiga!
@john14200715 жыл бұрын
My family had an Amiga 500, I played so many great games on it from the age of 6 or 7 until I was 14! It stopped working and we couldn't fix it so we put it in the bin. We were lucky to have played games like Shadow of the Beast 2, Lemmings, Rainbow Islands The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 etc.. Good times!
@Agaroki12 жыл бұрын
I miss games with poorly animated video seqeunces. Just the fact that this game had a video sequence was such a novelty for the games i had back then that it impressed the hell out of me.
@chazbrennan963210 жыл бұрын
This game looked great but you screw up up one tiny part of it, or forget to one thing, and you're doomed.
@leopies16 жыл бұрын
I like the 'attack the goblins' music. Looking at this 18 years on is still a haunting experience..
@jamesroman957610 жыл бұрын
Jesus, this video brings back memories! This is one of my favorite games of all time. The upcoming PS4 version takes place in Karamoon as well...hope it does the series justice!
@emikochan1310 жыл бұрын
***** the new one looks a lot like the first one.
@RobbWilliams1110 жыл бұрын
Brings back some great memories:).
@37Retro11 жыл бұрын
Just managed to complete this with cheats and save states and it was STILL hard. The bit with the dog monster thing was tricky to judge jump wise and the goblin underground cavern was nuts, can't imagine how many Amigas I would have destroyed if I played this through legit, you have more dedication than I do! It's still a great game but there are just too many areas where if you do even one thing slightly wrong you simply cannot win the game. That intro though :)
@MegaBastard16 жыл бұрын
The music was awesome, especially the guitar solo when you died!
@3AMJH13 жыл бұрын
Damn, amazing to finally find this game. I just remembered playing it as a little kid. It also scared me a lot. xD I never forgot the intro and the guy opening the door. Never got far though, it was far too difficult for me.
@LeShark7512 жыл бұрын
Remember getting this as part of the Screen Gems pack back in 91. Plugging the Amiga into my JVC Hi Fi Aux port was mind blowing at the time. Good times.
@DeanH929 жыл бұрын
Hands down the hardest game ever made. I'd put it up against your Battletoads and Silver Surfer any day. Also, the Idiots who complain about Dark souls, I'd like to show them this.
@Danblukk8 жыл бұрын
+Dean Humble I would tend to agree with you but then I played Navy Moves on the Amiga/C64/Speccy etc. I can't get more then 30 seconds in.
@o_o_o_o_o-o_o_o_o_o4 жыл бұрын
Silver Surfer is pretty easy actually. It's super punishing until you get used to it and build up some firepower, but then you can breeze through for a while until you die and lose your upgrades again. Several years ago I purchased and played it as an act of reverence to Tim and Geoff Follin, and although I thought it was hard at first, two hours later I had finished it, during my first and thus far only session with it. Battletoads, on the other hand, I have never finished. I couldn't as a kid; I came back as an adult and still couldn't. But I did get further in it than I ever could in Shadow of the Beast II...
@Jayce_Alexander4 жыл бұрын
Hard for all the wrong reasons. At least Ninja Gaiden is a good game.
@SamuraiHonor11 жыл бұрын
had me scared shitless when i was a little boy......
@uriahh49326 жыл бұрын
I always loved the art style for the shadow of the beast games. You really don't see this level of creativity in todays video games.
@PanicKernel200811 жыл бұрын
How lucky , you had an Amiga 2000 :). By the way this game was really awaysome, It is one the best amiga best technical game ever
@neversever198515 жыл бұрын
still got my Amiga, gona have to dig it out, ah the memories
@lintfordpickle15 жыл бұрын
i just loved this game - but i never got very far. The music is great and I used to love the background, which gave the game an eerie feeling
@Sjeng12 жыл бұрын
You gotta love that Psycnosis logo!
@tweaklab17 жыл бұрын
AWESOME stuff man, our copy of SOTB 2 was one of many Amiga disks to eventually fail, I remember the intro scared the sh!t out of me as a kid LOL it's still pretty dark and sinister for an older game! Sick stuff :D
@prnfl10 жыл бұрын
I remember first seeing this intro and thinking it was amazing. Haha
@turricaned12 жыл бұрын
@sasfcps Not worse, it just used the hardware differently. Beast 1's infamous multi-parallax effect was limited in that you could only move left and right - the tree cavern and castle levels were loaded separately with 1 parallax layer. Beast 2 they tried to make more seamless (note how the rear parallax layer scrolls in both axes), but it meant that the parallax layer was restricted to 2 colours. By Beast 3 they'd figured out a way of doing Beast 2's scrolling with Beast 1's parallax effect.
@DrafiDeutscher13 жыл бұрын
OMG i would have given up this after 3 Minutes. The gameplay itself looks already frustrating. Respect to the walkthrough
@loveinstructor16 жыл бұрын
Thanks man! Keep making nice old Amiga videos...
@Alpha999mars11 жыл бұрын
the best amiga game for me, I finished it with the cheat, and even then it was hard as hell, took me 3 month at least. At the time I was convinced it was imposible to finish it normaly, as you had to play it flawlessly to get somewhere. On the other side, the level design was great as you could see 90% of the game even without the cheat. Btw. Does anyone know a way to do the big dog room? with the key and without "tricks", it still puzzles me how it was meant to do it...
@buntefuss11 жыл бұрын
Love the music. got it as mp3 and listen to it while in the car. It´s amazing!
@MetatroN1979245 жыл бұрын
amazing tracks,beast 1 and 2 had great music,atmospheric primordial dark tone
@Prinnyblackbeard12 жыл бұрын
this game scared me so much when i was a kid, the intro is freaky
@Stake216 жыл бұрын
I still remember the awesome intro... Possibly the coolest up to that time IMO.
@ForestKicks4 жыл бұрын
This intro was beyond harrowing to me as a child
@penlad11111 жыл бұрын
best intro to a game ever :)
@spderweb8 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this on Genesis back when I was a kid. Took ages before we figured out how to even get to the seesaw puzzle, and then that bit was just as insane.
@john14200715 жыл бұрын
I used to be scared of this game as well. I played Shadow of the Beast 2 on my families Amiga 500 for many years!
@RealNC14 жыл бұрын
Two things I remember about this one: Incredibly difficult and incredibly short.
@andersdenkend13 жыл бұрын
Good lord, the intro!
@corgan5910 жыл бұрын
the best Beast for me is the third.
@yeraysantanaaday68273 жыл бұрын
Great game...I played the first and third version of the game, but not the second...i try to get a copy for christmas...
@frankyjayhay14 жыл бұрын
Far better on KZfaq, I didn't have to go back and start again once.
@mephisto4015 жыл бұрын
The intro to this game used to give me nightmares! lol Still f**king love it though, the music for this series is still some of the best around.
@ffg21544 жыл бұрын
I loved the Amiga 500
@earthwolf8217 жыл бұрын
I just loved the music in this game. I remember just sitting my character on the spot to listen to the song in Karamoon.
@wm88939 жыл бұрын
remember this bein the first game I played on the amiga 500 .. was buzzin with the intro but the game I give up on.. was way too hard lol
@cjbaxxter12 жыл бұрын
Ahh man, you're a legend, this game was so hard!!!
@ptekptek16 жыл бұрын
The ingame music was trully amazing
@DeimosFacility11 жыл бұрын
Beating something such as Ninja Gaiden next to this, looks like a cakewalk.
@sandcat-maurice4 жыл бұрын
I would love to see this game ported to the Switch. And the soundtrack......best ever! I’ve actually bought the remastered soundtrack, released as 16bit. Really great.
@Bigboss23314 жыл бұрын
Weird and obscure game series. I love it =)
@wonderboy240214 жыл бұрын
This game needs a remake, though the difficulty was insane the atmosphere and style of the game is amazing.
@666palerider17 жыл бұрын
"ten pints"....this one's for you roger! That was the cheat, and the reply to this game!
@oldmombasa711 жыл бұрын
Those were the days. Amiga games had place on 3 disks, each with 750KB.
@algo29576 жыл бұрын
that intro is fucking amazing
@kcapehorn16 жыл бұрын
I just tried to complete this game using savestates. I had to restore my game at least 100 times!! I'm amazed that you can do this. I never thought about leaving the parchment up top when you go into the caverns. Smart idea. I am better at beating Zelek than you though... :-)
@laffer3517 жыл бұрын
The game is hard, no doubt about that.. however, it's far from one of the most frustrating games ever. I had a lot of fun trying and failing in this game, I can think of tons of other games that frustrated me a lot more. Good video though and great game!