First saw in October 1989 in Czechoslovakia. Life was so grey for me in that times and suddenly AMIGA500!!! Shadow of the Beast, Silkworm, Xenon 2 Megablast, WOW!!! Earth moved :)
+SpartiateHero This just in, the original amiga game is going to be included on the PS4 version. You also can unlock the ability to play the whole new game with the David Whittaker soundtrack.
I always thought this would make a great story for a movie. A man snatched from his family, turned into a monster, watches his father die by his hand, and turns on his creator.
This game was created from some of the biggest drug trips XD But really, a game that showed how awesome the Amiga could be and the soundtrack is kick ass.
Seeing this game completed, I can finally put a piece of my mind to rest. I remember this was super hard, but you make it look like a walk in the park :)
It's not hard per se. It's just so shitty game design that it's near impossible to understand what must be done. There are several things required for opening certain doors/beating certain bosses that you can't go back to get, resulting in a soft lock.
@Steven Ross-watt This isn't even about that. Shadow of the beast is the epitome of retarded design. A lot of stuff required to beat it has no explanation or hints.
@@renatoramos8834 I played it when I was a teenager, and I don't remember having had much trouble understanding what needed to be done. The difficulty, in my opinion, was to avoid the enemies.
How many times you played this to finish it like that ? Lol you play like it is a piece of cake when this game has damaged my nerves . 25 years and never finished it, jeez !
@@lornemelnyk Well, since the majority of games back in the day was made so that you will fail them as soon as possible to buy more and more coins in an arcade saloon again, no wonder you were not able to win in the game. Nowadays is no better though: you must do microtransactions to win unless you have like a year of free time to compete with those who have money.
great playthough. i wonder if you can help me im looking for an amiga game i dont have a lot to go off but i remember early on being in a forest level. its a 2d sidescroling platformer, i think you a boy but could be wrong. there was some kind of bird or person in a tree crying and at some point you have to get a bucket and run left and right trying to catch there tears. any idea lol i know its very vague.
According to the remake, the foot belongs to "The Leviathan", which is a super huge body that Maletoth uses to crush his foes and showcases his magic talents. Aarbron, once again, is vastly more powerful though. After it's destroyed, Maletoth basically says "Oh, damn you're strong, hey, wanna be human? I can make you human again." and Aarbron is like "Okay, do it."
I just wanted to thank my older brother for allowing me to have such an amazing gaming experience as a kid. So many fond memories of 80s and 90s gaming 🙂
The storyline in the manual says you are turned to a warrior beast servant by magic as a child, see your father die years later and that returns your memory, then you go on a revenge rampage 80s style. Second best part of the game.
This game really showcased what the Commodore Amiga was capable of. Very hard game, with some of the strangest but most interesting mythos ever! This is like the definitive edition, but I love the PC Engine Turbo Duo version because of the CD soundtrack! The music and graphics were far beyond their time.
I'm kinda saddened "Inside the Tree" doesn't get much love in music/remixing communities. I'm also surprised this has gotten no reboot or HD re-release.
I thought this game was taking itself seriously, and then it throws in random jet engines, gives you a laser gun and a jetpack and I get the feeling the game is basically trolling at that point, before taking the stuff away and putting you back in the game it was making itself out to be.
8:32, even the psygnosis logo is an enemy here? i have the master system version but i cannot even get to the first stage because how delayed the controls are and because how fast the main character runs in that version
I know that feeling, I struggled with this in my childhood. I remember exchanging the game with a friend for a SMS Cool Spot. He was mad once he realized what he did.
It seems like they dumped every frigging sprite they made :D At least loads of different enemies. And strenght ups for dude who already one kills everything :D
Amazing play through.. Shadow of the Beast is the basis of my username, Beastifus. This was one of the most difficult games I've ever played...I only got halfway apparently!! Thanks for the video, my knuckles were white the whole time!
MAN that was weird. I mean, i gather it was an alien world and you are a badass tribal alien who punches anything to death, but there are blimps in the sky, and there is a gun underground and a jetpack that you know how to use and fits you, then you're back to being tribal and punching stuff and... I really don't understand much of anything. "The beast" was an ugly giant, and apparently a lot of odd things use the giant bones as masonry for buildings and machines? ... I REALLY don't understand.
Supposedly, the "shadow of the beast" refers to the fact that you have been transformed into a beast and now return to your creator, having to embrace your new beast-form to go through the many obstacles thrown in your way.
Aye. Shortly after I watched the playthroughs of the three games, I did research on them and was quite pleased to learn so much. The remake on ps4 is probably one of my favorite games of all time.
The storyline in the manual says you are turned to a warrior beast servant by magic as a child, see your father die years later and that returns your memory, then you go on a revenge rampage 80s style.
@@DarkKnightTrinity Yeah, after I made this comment, I went and looked it up. Hot damn, it is important as hell to read the book to understand anything going on.
I know it's terrible game design, but somehow, to my child mind, the fact that if you made one wrong move in this game you would be stuck seemed to make the whole game more enticing. Of course, it was only really enjoyably playable with the cheat mode enabled, even for seasoned gamers.
So I'm looking back at this older series because the reboot on PS4 had me curious. So what was the giant you fought at the end? It seemed like the whole game was hinting at the giants arrival. Whne the text at the end said "You have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast", does it reffer to the giant or to you becoming human in the next game?
We need a modern platform that uses a slightly souped up graphical capability, i.e. some 3d elements but same colour pallette and pixellation and DEFINITELY using the same sound hardware. Absolutely beautiful.
Why were the soundtracks on the Amiga way ahead of anything else at the time? Turrican 2, Xenon 2, Hybris and this. I would happily buy an Amiga in 2020 and replay all these classics.
I always thought it strange that the text "Shadow of the Beast" never appears anywhere in the game (except at the VERY end). Also weird that every enemy except bosses are defeated with one punch. Still, one of the great Amiga games. Especially the music.
This is because the original name for the game was going to be “Beast”. Once programming was wrapped up and Psygnosis started to strategise the marketing plan, they suddenly realised that there was another game called Beast and the name was copyrighted. They changed the name at the last minute to SOTB, but couldn’t be bothered with updating the loading screen and various in game texts!
In future upload it in 720p if you can. (well, assuming you haven't started doing that already - I mean this video is 2 years old...) It's what I do with old gaming footage nowadays. I mean, it does mean you have to convert it, but you get 50 or 60 fps without youtube messing it up. It might seem rather silly to upload something that may only natively be 320x240 or less, but due to how youtube works, sometimes that's what you have to resort to for the sake of getting the right kinds of results... XD
I first heard of this game through both the SNES & Genesis versions of Lemmings. This game could've been amazing. The gritty visuals, atmospheric soundtrack, and dark storyline are all very impressive for its time. But the game itself plays terribly. It's cryptic and loves to bombard you with enemies without even a moment of reaction time.
The style is beautiful, the music is inspiring, the plasma sound is for the good old M41A1 Pulse Rifle from Aliens, ...But boy this game is one those "This game is shitty....But it's shiny and i love it so much"
I remember that when I was a kid I made it until the exit of the castle then the game got stuck, now I found out that I had good chanches to finish the game 😭
I agree. Impressive graphics, good soundtrack, solid atmosphere. Unfortunately, as with so many Amiga games, the developers lost sight of the fact that a good game must also have solid gameplay. Shadow of the Beast truly is a dreadful game.
The recent remake just was not that interesting. If I had to do a remake, Id just take this and simply add a bit more animation to background elements. drips of water, slime., blowing leaves. Have the main character and enemies blink. A tiny blood spatter when the protagonist and enemies get hit, and maybe give the protagonist an idle animation. A little extra animation for bosses. Some minor animation for cutscenes. But otherwise stick to the visuals, sound and music as closely as possible. With an option to play the original unmodded game as well.
If a remake was made exactly as you described then it would be the perfect update to a classic gem of a game. As you say, it is only the visuals and some animation that needed updating. Everything else should be left alone to preserve the atmosphere.
Shit ending! Given all the "between scene" artwork and text, I'd have expected something a lot better than a "congratulations" still screen. The game's surprisingly short if you actually know where you're going and where to find specific items, otherwise you just get stuck.
Not exactly Call of Duty is it? Still, a great side platformer game from Psygnosis. One of my favourite games on my Amiga 500+. "Ten Pints" for the sequel :P They don't make them like this any more.
@@legionbeast Correction: Back in the 90's an entity known as "Manuel" a being who knew all there was to know about gaming told his followers his knowledge in holy texts we called "Gaming booklets."
Dude should have kept that sweetass jetpack and gun. Coulda seen what that big bugger at the end looked like before blasting his face off. But anyway, great art design.
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First saw in October 1989 in Czechoslovakia. Life was so grey for me in that times and suddenly AMIGA500!!! Shadow of the Beast, Silkworm, Xenon 2 Megablast, WOW!!! Earth moved :)
It's beautiful how a computer with games can make life more colorful. Thank you for sharing this. I can relate!
If you wanna make earth move today: You go Dark Souls franchise... Say no more! 👍
The earth certainly did move.
I came back only to hear the music on amiga.
+SpartiateHero Agreed - I think the music from this game is one of the best in all of gaming history!
+SpartiateHero This just in, the original amiga game is going to be included on the PS4 version. You also can unlock the ability to play the whole new game with the David Whittaker soundtrack.
Yes. Yes indeed
it's my workout music still
Same same :)
I always thought this would make a great story for a movie. A man snatched from his family, turned into a monster, watches his father die by his hand, and turns on his creator.
This game was created from some of the biggest drug trips XD
But really, a game that showed how awesome the Amiga could be and the soundtrack is kick ass.
They used very strong drugs, or a mix of them. XD .
Says someone who has never taken drugs.
Seeing this game completed, I can finally put a piece of my mind to rest. I remember this was super hard, but you make it look like a walk in the park :)
It's not hard per se. It's just so shitty game design that it's near impossible to understand what must be done. There are several things required for opening certain doors/beating certain bosses that you can't go back to get, resulting in a soft lock.
@Steven Ross-watt This isn't even about that. Shadow of the beast is the epitome of retarded design. A lot of stuff required to beat it has no explanation or hints.
@@renatoramos8834 I played it when I was a teenager, and I don't remember having had much trouble understanding what needed to be done. The difficulty, in my opinion, was to avoid the enemies.
i always knew this music was good but now i realize it was a 16 bit masterpiece
The soundtrack to this game was brilliant, I remember buying this for the Megadrive but the sound was awful compared to the Amiga version. Classic!
I'm more annoyed with the MD/Genesis version running to fast. They did the best with the music they could.
The Genesis soundtrack is horrible. Amiga music is way better.
That guy is bad ass. Going around one shotting everything with his fist.
One-Punch Beast
Just remember that: "Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!"
the "crysis" of its time.
People used to sell amigas only because of this game.
Intro music MADE this game, one of the best I've ever heard to this day.
I never had the patience to finish this game back in the 80's. Good to finally see it accomplished.
This game has beautiful music
It had beautiful everything! 👍
Classic Game. Very Hard. Learn as you go, with lots of failed attempts along the way. The Amiga in its prime.
How many times you played this to finish it like that ? Lol you play like it is a piece of cake when this game has damaged my nerves . 25 years and never finished it, jeez !
Yea man I cant even finish it that clean with the trainer running LOL
Lmao. I couldn’t even make it to 12:29. I just remembered I think you couldn’t save the game or something and after a bajillion plays I just gave up.
Well. That was very anticlimactic to an ending for I game I could never finish in my younger years. Now I know!
@@lornemelnyk Well, since the majority of games back in the day was made so that you will fail them as soon as possible to buy more and more coins in an arcade saloon again, no wonder you were not able to win in the game. Nowadays is no better though: you must do microtransactions to win unless you have like a year of free time to compete with those who have money.
Its hard, but stop cryin & go play todays Dark Souls instead... Youll realize the true meaning of a though japanese made game! 👍
November 2019 : Shadow Of The Beast turns 30 !
Happy birthday to this piece of video games history
deceiver - Wow, that means I turn 21 again then! 😝
Reminds me of Krull how they add technology in the high fantasy setting.
Btw, all those pauses when I stand still = it's loading.
No screen needed, the disk searching sound was the signal.
Sweedy44
Yup, but as no disk sound can be heard in the video, I thought people should know why I sometimes stand still :)
great playthough. i wonder if you can help me im looking for an amiga game i dont have a lot to go off but i remember early on being in a forest level. its a 2d sidescroling platformer, i think you a boy but could be wrong. there was some kind of bird or person in a tree crying and at some point you have to get a bucket and run left and right trying to catch there tears. any idea lol i know its very vague.
Ollie Martin
Sounds like Arabian Nights: hol.abime.net/3289/screenshot
awesome thank you so much. thats it. theres even the screen shot of the bear in the tree about to cry! get knowledge mate.
the final boss is a damn foot? lmaooo
And an Ugaly Foot at that, apparently attached to a blind giant who is unable to feel his foot being punched.
According to the remake, the foot belongs to "The Leviathan", which is a super huge body that Maletoth uses to crush his foes and showcases his magic talents. Aarbron, once again, is vastly more powerful though. After it's destroyed, Maletoth basically says "Oh, damn you're strong, hey, wanna be human? I can make you human again." and Aarbron is like "Okay, do it."
DravenWolfe
Terry Gilliam tribute...
@Jeff Cotten Oh I'm aware. You have to defeat him without consuming an innocent soul when/if you die through your playthrough.
I just wanted to thank my older brother for allowing me to have such an amazing gaming experience as a kid. So many fond memories of 80s and 90s gaming 🙂
David Whittaker at his best
I like the spirit in which this is played.
I remember playing this for Sega Genesis. I can't remember the music being as good as it is on the Amiga!
No wonder - it was a horrible port.
The storyline in the manual says you are turned to a warrior beast servant by magic as a child, see your father die years later and that returns your memory, then you go on a revenge rampage 80s style. Second best part of the game.
I'm glad you posted these. thank you.
It looks still good, even in 2018. Awesome graphics and music for its time!
I really appreciate that you didn't kill the snail at 7:45. When I was a kid, that was one of my favorite enemies in the game!
This game really showcased what the Commodore Amiga was capable of. Very hard game, with some of the strangest but most interesting mythos ever! This is like the definitive edition, but I love the PC Engine Turbo Duo version because of the CD soundtrack! The music and graphics were far beyond their time.
One of the best Amiga games!
Love how the gun he gets has the pulse rifle sound from aliens.
When I think that the multi-layered background was seen as a breakthrough.
I miss the auto fire button almost as much as the Peruvian pan pipes
A very good game, I could finish it many times.
IIRC if you [Don't Touch] the switch at 6:36, then you won't need the wrench to disable the lightning barrier in the castle.
Did they sample the pulse riffle from aliens for the gun in this?!
Sure did.
I'm kinda saddened "Inside the Tree" doesn't get much love in music/remixing communities.
I'm also surprised this has gotten no reboot or HD re-release.
Now this is a masterpiece! The best Amiga game ever!! I still have all three Shadow of the Beast games to my real Amiga 500! =)
I thought this game was taking itself seriously, and then it throws in random jet engines, gives you a laser gun and a jetpack and I get the feeling the game is basically trolling at that point, before taking the stuff away and putting you back in the game it was making itself out to be.
8:32, even the psygnosis logo is an enemy here? i have the master system version but i cannot even get to the first stage because how delayed the controls are and because how fast the main character runs in that version
I know that feeling, I struggled with this in my childhood. I remember exchanging the game with a friend for a SMS Cool Spot. He was mad once he realized what he did.
This game proves all of life's problems can be punched away, even huge boulders.
So many colors.
They pushed the hardware to its limits.
This is pure magic when it comes to gamemusic🙏
It seems like they dumped every frigging sprite they made :D At least loads of different enemies. And strenght ups for dude who already one kills everything :D
that was hp refill, not strengh up.
My childhood
90s gaming had some awesome music, Xenon 2 springs to mind 👌
Amazing play through.. Shadow of the Beast is the basis of my username, Beastifus. This was one of the most difficult games I've ever played...I only got halfway apparently!! Thanks for the video, my knuckles were white the whole time!
Best 16-bit era computer game imo
devs did some amazing games back then with only few kb and very limit hardware.
The BEAST !
Never finished... too hard for my young boy's skill. Now I'm doing the easy way because the games can't offer more to me :(
Damn, cozy feelings...
I’m only here because every comment on James and Mike Monday said about this version.
I spent months on this game and never beat it. Now I find out it’s 25.00 long…
MAN that was weird. I mean, i gather it was an alien world and you are a badass tribal alien who punches anything to death, but there are blimps in the sky, and there is a gun underground and a jetpack that you know how to use and fits you, then you're back to being tribal and punching stuff and... I really don't understand much of anything. "The beast" was an ugly giant, and apparently a lot of odd things use the giant bones as masonry for buildings and machines?
... I REALLY don't understand.
Supposedly, the "shadow of the beast" refers to the fact that you have been transformed into a beast and now return to your creator, having to embrace your new beast-form to go through the many obstacles thrown in your way.
Aye. Shortly after I watched the playthroughs of the three games, I did research on them and was quite pleased to learn so much. The remake on ps4 is probably one of my favorite games of all time.
Unfortunately the ps4 game wasn't that good, it's sad to see such atmosphere and story wasted.
The storyline in the manual says you are turned to a warrior beast servant by magic as a child, see your father die years later and that returns your memory, then you go on a revenge rampage 80s style.
@@DarkKnightTrinity Yeah, after I made this comment, I went and looked it up. Hot damn, it is important as hell to read the book to understand anything going on.
Reminds me of a combination of Altered Beast and Zelda 2. Did Altered Beast influence this game or was it the other way around?
I know it's terrible game design, but somehow, to my child mind, the fact that if you made one wrong move in this game you would be stuck seemed to make the whole game more enticing. Of course, it was only really enjoyably playable with the cheat mode enabled, even for seasoned gamers.
How can I play this today on my iPhone ?
I made it once close to the end but boy was that a frustrating game.
Imagine what kind of hardcore drugs the developers had to come up with something like this.
So I'm looking back at this older series because the reboot on PS4 had me curious.
So what was the giant you fought at the end?
It seemed like the whole game was hinting at the giants arrival.
Whne the text at the end said "You have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast", does it reffer to the giant or to you becoming human in the next game?
We need a modern platform that uses a slightly souped up graphical capability, i.e. some 3d elements but same colour pallette and pixellation and DEFINITELY using the same sound hardware.
Absolutely beautiful.
Why were the soundtracks on the Amiga way ahead of anything else at the time? Turrican 2, Xenon 2, Hybris and this. I would happily buy an Amiga in 2020 and replay all these classics.
@ 8:33 its funny to remark how the Psygnosis Owl served as an acual enemy in this game.. 😄 👍
Wow I loved this game and the music! I played this loads but I’ll be honest I didn’t know to go left so I just always ran right forever 🏃♂️👀
I always thought it strange that the text "Shadow of the Beast" never appears anywhere in the game (except at the VERY end). Also weird that every enemy except bosses are defeated with one punch. Still, one of the great Amiga games. Especially the music.
This is because the original name for the game was going to be “Beast”. Once programming was wrapped up and Psygnosis started to strategise the marketing plan, they suddenly realised that there was another game called Beast and the name was copyrighted. They changed the name at the last minute to SOTB, but couldn’t be bothered with updating the loading screen and various in game texts!
@@jejese1503 Makes sense.
One of the best soundtracks
Qual é o emulador que você utiliza?
*What is the point of "strength"?*
The main daemon character kills any and all enemies with just one hit anyway.
Absolutely AMAZING!
I'm missing something here. Why do you even need to do the tree level? What's stopping you from running straight to the castle to finish it that way?
You need the keys found in the tree
The key. You can’t enter the castle without the key.
Too bad the video doesn't do justice to the 50 fps glory that this game was
In future upload it in 720p if you can.
(well, assuming you haven't started doing that already - I mean this video is 2 years old...)
It's what I do with old gaming footage nowadays.
I mean, it does mean you have to convert it, but you get 50 or 60 fps without youtube messing it up.
It might seem rather silly to upload something that may only natively be 320x240 or less, but due to how youtube works, sometimes that's what you have to resort to for the sake of getting the right kinds of results... XD
I first heard of this game through both the SNES & Genesis versions of Lemmings. This game could've been amazing. The gritty visuals, atmospheric soundtrack, and dark storyline are all very impressive for its time. But the game itself plays terribly. It's cryptic and loves to bombard you with enemies without even a moment of reaction time.
The style is beautiful, the music is inspiring, the plasma sound is for the good old M41A1 Pulse Rifle from Aliens, ...But boy this game is one those
"This game is shitty....But it's shiny and i love it so much"
I salute you, for years I had this game and never got anywhere.........f@*king game!!
I finished it on Genesis. The Amiga versions seems a little harder.
I remember that when I was a kid I made it until the exit of the castle then the game got stuck, now I found out that I had good chanches to finish the game 😭
Ahh the nostalgia.
That music.... haunted me as a small child. :)
Pretty bad game, though....
I agree. Impressive graphics, good soundtrack, solid atmosphere. Unfortunately, as with so many Amiga games, the developers lost sight of the fact that a good game must also have solid gameplay. Shadow of the Beast truly is a dreadful game.
Same here that music has stayed in my head since me and my bro got it one Christmas spooky at that time and I still thinks it's dope
The recent remake just was not that interesting.
If I had to do a remake, Id just take this and simply add a bit more animation to background elements. drips of water, slime., blowing leaves. Have the main character and enemies blink. A tiny blood spatter when the protagonist and enemies get hit, and maybe give the protagonist an idle animation. A little extra animation for bosses. Some minor animation for cutscenes.
But otherwise stick to the visuals, sound and music as closely as possible. With an option to play the original unmodded game as well.
If a remake was made exactly as you described then it would be the perfect update to a classic gem of a game. As you say, it is only the visuals and some animation that needed updating. Everything else should be left alone to preserve the atmosphere.
Memories.....
Shit ending! Given all the "between scene" artwork and text, I'd have expected something a lot better than a "congratulations" still screen. The game's surprisingly short if you actually know where you're going and where to find specific items, otherwise you just get stuck.
Pulse Rifle sounds from Aliens? Someone noticed?
I bet he was pleased when he got that gun. I bet his fist was in agony
Thanx for this because I’ve never seen the flying part and the ending haha.
This was the Crysis of that era . Stunning graphics but piss poor boring gameplay
8:36 lookee here an Easter egg :^)
Dark Souls of the 1990's :)
Was this game even given a American release?
Not exactly Call of Duty is it? Still, a great side platformer game from Psygnosis. One of my favourite games on my Amiga 500+. "Ten Pints" for the sequel :P They don't make them like this any more.
I like how he punches a ghost into oblivion.
Gdzie Moonstone komercho ?
Ouais les souvenir de mon Amiga 500 d'ailleurs ma falu une extention de mémoire pour super jeu que je n'ai jamais réussi à finir d'ailleurs
Wrath of the demon ?
The rolling demo sold more Amigas than Commodore's marketing department. That end boss though! Got to rank among the worst ever.
Why is every ending like that?
+Rhys Owens Because back in the day, 90% of the story was in the manual.
@@legionbeast Correction: Back in the 90's an entity known as "Manuel" a being who knew all there was to know about gaming told his followers his knowledge in holy texts we called "Gaming booklets."
Oh, this thing is getting a remake for the PS4.
And the remake is incredible and very very faithful.
12:30 BEAST ATTACK!
The game I remember is way to hard though to enjoy, just random stuff like.
This game made me want to buy an Amiga computer. That was it. I was done with the C64.
sick beats
Cinemassacre sent me here ❤️
Dude should have kept that sweetass jetpack and gun. Coulda seen what that big bugger at the end looked like before blasting his face off.
But anyway, great art design.
Gun sound pinched from Aliens.
Shadow of Lovecraft?