Shadow of the Beast 2 Amiga longplay Part 1/3

[TheOCELOTR]

Main screen & music is still amazing.

[Highlander01]

The most unforgiving game of all time. Miscalculate a jump; hit the wrong lever and its game over. SOTB II had amazing graphics for its time and a terrific atmosphere (creepy as hell, even by today’s standards) but the game play was horrendous.

[666iwillkillagain666]

the intro,the opening screen,the music..its like ive just played it yesterday.

thx for the upload:D

[cglenister]

loved this game, grew up with it on the Amiga 500 at a mate's house (as I didn't have one) and played many, many hours back in the late 80's/early 90's

[Waxer3929]

I actually really enjoyed your comments.

I'm an avid fan of SoTB, having played when I was fairly young, it kind of freaked me out honestly, like when the sorcerer transformed into the bird-creature. I really didn't know what I was seeing or playing, but it was one of the more intense side-scrollers at the time.

I'm glad I got to hear at least another persons thoughts.

[howlindan49]

@Waxer3929 Same - I remember this from when I was younger and it was one of the first games I ever played. That intro freaked me out and I never really made it past the first screen!

[Dookiedolf]

@laffer35 WTF! You make this look so easy. I loved Psygnosis games like Agony for music & gfx but were far too hard so I gave up. Watching SB2 were you point out "if you dont do xyz game is ruined", how did you figure them out ? Did you read magazines 4 tips or play over n over because you didnt have many games or just good at figuring it out ?

I just seen a bit of your Project-X. This game I played lots. I think I only ever got to part 3 about twice ever. You done part 4 ? Thats not human ;)

[corgan59]

AMiga.......love This age......Atari, C64, and cpc (don' like but)...good old Time!

[daphscat]

@laffer35 i appreciate the text a lot, its a lot less distracting than people talking over games

[KoruKinshi]

Damn, Aarbron lived in the middle of NOWHERE...

[futureconqueror]

@FixBeatGames

Retarded. How dare you even think to comment on hard work such as his? His commentary is funny, amazing and it's what makes these videos interesting. It passes on info useful for all of us to know and that couldn't realize back then. I just can't see how such people can go down in the world with their idiotic, awkward requests, like the one from this foolish poor idiot. -.-'

Laffer, on his behalf, I thank you for having bothered to respond to him. I'd have simply deleted him. Huge.

[steveonlyintheweek]

Hands coming from the base trees as you walk by.....genius

[lildopDOTcom]

Dude, these videos are just perfection of SOTB :D I watch them all and Wrath of the Demon from start to finish every couple of months. I just love them :D

[ffhaksf]

All this "game is rendered impossible" stuff is quite shocking. Must have been frustrating to play and figure all this out.. But then again, when I was young I was completely absorbed by games like that and invested a huge amount of time to figure them out.

I like the commentary! Cool video.

[afroskullsoftware]

I have done a little lets play shadow of the beast 2 thingy on my channel XD

[lawlawlowned]

Incredibly good music? .... It's just "incredible music"

[lawlawlowned]

@laffer35 It is annoying... theres enough people making comments on youtube videos. So i agree with fix

[1984hermantoothrot]

wooops just seen the coments below. Either way poster is a legend in my eyes for being able to master this game! Well done that man, I never stood a chance as a kid

[1984hermantoothrot]

Ah the memories! Never could get more than 10mins into it.. way to damn hard. Wasnt there a cheat where you say something to one of the NPC's and get unlimited lives or something?

[lilyphilia84]

nice intro...to bad the game sucked monkey balls :)

[sparklebucket]

hey give ishran a break; that was his 5 minutes of fame - although he did let it drag on a bit

[bazfanv2]

The game was rendered impossible the second you thought about playing it.

[namelessguy93]

Man, I remember playing this with my younger brother on our uncle's amiga. The game was too fucking hard for us, but we always played it because of the intro :)

[LordHeath1972]

@namelessguy93 it's funny you say that actually because I bought the AMIGA after seeing the intro to this game!! That's how good it was.

[zachthezombie]

if i remember rightly the megadrive port was un playable

[Octamed]

I completed Beast 1 without cheating or hints, but Beast 2 utterly reduced me to a quivering heap. I couldn't even get past a few minutes of this video WITH an infinite life cheat! Now THAT'S hard :) Games today are so incredibly easy it bores me to tears.

[gmnash]

man i remember the cheat to this, you had to walk left and type 'so and so is a fucking legend' or something, the guy i think is the only/first person to complete SOTB1. amazing, so hard

[whintake]

Ahhh, this game is HARD :P I still got my A1200 + turboboard, and this game still kicks my ass ... HARD :D

[michaelprimeuk]

TEN PINTS :P

[painey86]

I played this so many hours and finally learned what you did in 9 minutes! I never got further! I remember the dead guy in the net (8:37) and being really creeped out.

[chefcook747]

omg, i like graphics and music. but i really have to say, the game is way too hard :( I never did it beyond the beginning and the fact that so many little things you omit could render the game impossible is really mean. MAN ! its evil ! You cant save and had to do so many things right. Someone solved this without a solution from a magazine or that cheat leighhobnob mentioned?

Actually, the riddles themselves are great. But trial and error and starting over and over again is evil dude :( :)

[K4l4mburg0]

Thumbs up, buddy. Q: which version of the game is this? AGA, CD32? I had a 2 disk version, played it on my A600, and I never saw this long version of the intro. This one is so much longer.... Great game,great atmosphere. I often played this one and SotB3 with "7th son of a 7th son" in the background. Screw The Hitman, Doom, MK films, I'd love to see a movie made based on THIS game (and SotB 1&3)....

[laffer35]

@K4l4mburg0

This is the regular floppy Amiga version.

The reason your intro was shorter might be that you were using a cracked copy... I know they removed parts of the intro to make room for crack intros etc.

[vonzox]

@laffer35 Yeah i remember i had the A500 regular chip and had the same intro.. long live the BEAST !!

[jpXt2000]

By modern standards, this game is so poorly designed. But the music is great.

[tuRtLemAn064]

y is the game rendered impossible if you miss one of the coins?

[laffer35]

@tuRtLemAn064

Because you need to pay the snail 36 coins in order to be transported back to Karamoon later on in the game... and there are exactly 36 coins in the game.

[r1978uk]

memories!!!! haha. awesome., scared the bejesus out of me when i was just a nipper :-)

[LoreOfNen]

Oh my....so nostalgic...the music...everything...thx for uploading this...I used to watch my brother playing it,cause I was too small:D I agree with you...it was so cool to play directly from the floppy^^ god I miss those good old days when videogames had this special something....

[retronostalgic]

They should have made this game easier...

[TheRoboticFerret]

Also, how did you get the loading times so fast on WinUAE? Because of the great quality of the video that MUST be what you're using, right? Thanks! :)

[TheRoboticFerret]

laffer35, it's me again, I would just like to know how you got the full intro in your copy of Beast 2. The intro video on my copy starts with Aarbron's baby sister crying. :\

[TheRoboticFerret]

Dude, what's your problem? This game is amazing. Of course, that's a matter of opinion, but it is by no means a bad game. The visual styles are eerie, the story is fairly consistent; excluding the kind of bad ending sequence. :P

The music? The music (again, opinion here) is great, especially for an Amiga computer. If you think this game is hard, try other versions of it. The FM Towns Marty version, for example, is much, MUCH easier to complete fairly.

[3ponfat]

this psygnosis logo scary me too much,the first time i see it is in a game called derby destruction for the PS1.

[fredsta786]

i remember playing this game for the first time when i was 5, my older bro had this as one of his 1st games when he got an amiga 500. the intro of sotb2 would give me nightmares wen i was a kid, especially the lightning and the way the baby wud get snatched lol im grown up now thankfully :-D used get scared i would be snatched while i slept in my bed.........

[retronostalgic]

I hate the sound of crying babies too! And kids in general to be honest...

[laffer35]

Yeah, me too! Can't stand kids.

[ffhaksf]

@retronostalgic There was actually a study done once about how annoying/uncomfortable/unbeara­ble some different sounds were and the cry of babies was at the very top. Above scratching on a blackboard and the sound of someone puking! :D It's human nature.

[retronostalgic]

@ffhaksf - I reckon Rap, RnB and Hip Hop should have been top of the list....

[Markyboy28]

I remember this game came free with the Amiga 500 xmas bundle. Thnx for the memories :)

[BrokenBoone]

I'm currently trying to complete this myself.  I think this game was made for save states.

[AKSBSU]

I remember buying the original Shadow of the Beast for my Amiga back in the day. I had no idea what sort of evil brand of sadistic torture awaited me...

Those games are SOOOOOOO freakin' difficult. I'm impressed with your gamer skillz. Nice job.

[ZDWario]

I'd like it if you did more with comments, its like dvd extra stuff.

[surf3rsnapper]

they were awsome games hey.

damn hard tho i still consider this one of the hardest games ever no lives no save nothing. i sitll got it on genisis bit different tho. ishraun or whatever is easier 2 kill if you rush him. great graphic for the days. awsome skills 2

[jamescropley]

Ten Pints please!!

[bobbyzox]

ten pins indeed lmao

[132000Volts]

This game was so bloody hard it's unreal, you are a pro at games however! Great job

I used to die just getting passed the bridge. I wouldn't have even figured out half of them puzzles either.

It's a shame as the graphics are amazing, the sound is amazing but for a casual gamer it's way too hard

[ChristianMiersch]

Please re-release without comments.

[laffer35]

No. It's not hard to find other ones without commentary, if that's what you prefer.

[LeighHobnob]

This game was so hard, well in fact impossible without the cheat.

[Todeshand666]

oh how right you are^^ but great game ;)

[ofxxxthexxxflowers]

I loved this intro, but the little remarks underneath just ruined the pointless nostalgia for me :(

[86108610]

yeah, its pretty gay

[deviletk]

"i always liked this logo". Amen brother :)

[taranramshaw]

lol did tht intro take up disc one?

lol

[Piledriver86]

Sooooo essentially the guys who made this game hated their players?

[Aldorigen]

Yes.

[retronostalgic]

Some people completed beast 1 quite easily, so the programmers obviously went all out to make this very difficult - they call it value for money and lastability or something. Trouble is they made it way too hard...

[halidefox]

How in the flying fuck did anybody even COMPLETE Beast 1, much less QUITE EASILY? My only recollections of that game were a brutal and painfully slow torture from which my tattered psyche will never truly recover, nor translate into images which I can even conjure to my mind's eye at such a late point in my development.

Seriously, if I ever see the developers of that game on the street I'll stab them. In the eyes. With a fountain pen.

[retronostalgic]

I've completed beast 1 although it took a lot of effort and tons of goes but it was still easier than the sequel. Beast 3 finally got the balance right...

[leopies]

Oh my good god. I don't think any youtube video has made me joy quite as hard as this. Do you have a video of the bit which me and my brother called 'attack of the goblins'? (Which is an unfair, since the player was clearly was attacking them, and always during their afternoon nap too.)

[handsars]

remember pulling a sicky from school to stay at home and play this!! was the best game for amiga

[jesuspunkrockkid]

i'm gonna be honest i have never heard of this games. i'm guessing it is for Sega.

[BigRod1989]

you are a retard these graphics are nowhere near Sega.

[RacistKeyBoard]

I remember my dad playing shadow of the beast, cant remember which one, but he kept getting stuck at a certain part. Running into a trap, and then the character would fall to the bottom of the screen and be stuck forever.

[deancorleone]

im pretty sure thats the exact bit i always got stuck on, i loved this game, am now looking forward how to over come that part ... and the music .. wow !! :-D

[MrGparadox]

I have this game. But I can't get past the intro screen. What to do?

[laffer35]

I don't understand.. you just press the button to continue. Or press space to access the options menu (where you can disable the game over screen.. it's cool but it gets annoying if you die a lot to have to watch that every time).

[MrGparadox]

Sorry, I meant SB1 not SB2, my bad

[laffer35]

Well it's the same there, just press the button.

You have to watch some of the intro screen though before it lets you proceed.

[MrGparadox]

I have tried but failed (both with UAE and the real Amiga). Shall try once more.

[laffer35]

That's very strange. You must use the joystick in port 2 obviously like in pretty much all Amiga games but if you even have a real Amiga, you already knew that.. so I have no idea what the problem is. Perhaps your copy of the game is buggy? I don't know.

[MrGparadox]

To be perfectly honest, I thought I just could use the keyboard (at the Amiga time I only played Settlers and was very young). That explains a lot, thanks!

[Tigerfog]

"do this or the game is rendered impossible".

:P

The good ol days when the games were relentless...

[MasterOfCrapFilms78]

this game bring back the good old days of a classic game i used to play thanks for the trap down memory lane

[retronostalgic]

The animation on the main sprite was amazing. You never saw anything like that ever on the megadrive and snes. So much for them being superior...

[ILLUMANOV]

LOVE the commentary

[retronostalgic]

I completed this game this morning on my old A500 without cheating. But laffer35 now lets see you complete Reflections' space shoot-em-up "Awesome" without cheating. This is a game so damn hard it makes Beast 2 look like a cakewalk.

[kalsolarUK]

I still have the free T-shirts that came with Beast 1 and Beast 2!! This game was so damn hard..I got nowhere near completing it.

[retronostalgic]

"Kal Solar"? Wasn't that the character from Psygnosis' Infestation game?

[kalsolarUK]

yep. damn good memory there, well spotted! A similar name was also used for a pilot in the playstion wipeout game. the name changed to Kel Solar. Two completely un-related games and platforms but both published by psychnosis.

[retronostalgic]

I liked infestation but i never understood why you had to go to the trouble of clearing every single alien egg from the base and then blow the whole base up at the end. Why not just blow it up to start with! Talk about holes in the logic!

[kalsolarUK]

It was a game with great atmosphere, but you do have a point there!

[retronostalgic]

What, do you still keep them as collectors items? Might be worth something now on ebay. Oh how i used to love those old Psygnosis games with the black packaging and monsters and everything...

[kalsolarUK]

Yeah, I keep them really for the nostalgia, but they certainly had a lot of wear!

[retronostalgic]

The biggest problem with this game was that the character's weapon was so feeble, as well as the "once chance and you're knackered" puzzles...

[retronostalgic]

Really really tough game. Great tips though!

[clongoram]

Great Job! I always wanted to play this game when I was younger but I never could buy it. Now I know what I missed out on:) Cheers!

[Kirkwuk]

The Amiga music was just too good. They should have a club with all the music playing. :)

[eighthcircuit724]

I like these better with commentary.

[tehvalli]

Wonderful stuff, after all these years I've finally learned what I was supposed to do with that horn. :D (nice commentaries btw)

[Myth7867]

lol i fucking love ur commentary ;)

[haavar90]

good job:D nice commentary, and a good game

[deadroo]

Awesome stuff, long live Amiga.... :D

[Hakarfox]

Gee, quite a lot of things make this game impossible, don't they?

[Raven266]

and I must say Laffer I love your commentary, its even more fun to watch it this way haha

[Raven266]

full intro! whooaa :D

[seuden]

Awesome video. You're still a c**t. :P

[blade004]

Awesome longplay Laffer :) and the written commentary makes it 10 times more enjoyable to watch! I love it mate :) Great Job!