Shadow of the Beast

Shadow of the Beast is one of those digital releases that is worth its price. A videogame that is incredibly well designed, with a considerable duration, addictive, can be played multiple times and has an amazing graphic design.

It surpasses its predecessor by articulating a horrific but heroic myth underneath the clothes of a traditional platformer and beat-'em-up.

Shadow of the Beast was a beautiful game and it still is. This remake returns with the whole aesthetic of the original game, but we've seen better recoveries. So it is not very fresh or surprising.

Shadow of the Beast is a small and passionate videogame, perfect for nostalgic players, but that doesn't stand out for any particular feature.

Shadow of the Beast is an average arcade brawler that offers a smooth combat system that has a surprising amount of depth to it. With a playtime of around 4hrs to complete, the game relies heavily on whether or not the player wants to trek through the dull levels for a second or third time to discover all the game has to offer.

Shadow of the Beast has the atmosphere and raw beauty of an alien, hostile world going for it, but other than that the game is simply boring. [07/2016, p.61]

If Shadow of the Beast is in any way effective, it's as a cautionary tale of the dangers of nostalgia.

Awesome game!!! So much depth, looks great, plays superbly. You've got to take it seriously though, the fighting is technical! Think Virtua Fighter rather than God of War. Combat requires precise timing and using the virtually instant block to keep yourself safe, it's super rewarding when you get into it!!! PLUS you get 2 games for 1, the original Amiga game is there! Ignore the negative reviews, they clearly didn't get it. If you love TECHNICAL fighting games get it! This is a GEM!

Interesante juego de acción/plataformas el que nos propone Sony en este exclusivo de PS4. En realidad se trata de un remake de un clásico de Amiga, que fue convertido a consolas en los 90. En el encarnamos a Aarbron, un hombre que es convertido en una bestia por parte de un malvado mago y que parte en busca de su redención una vez se libra del yugo al que está sometido. En cuanto a mecánicas tenemos un plataformas lateral en 2,5D con un diseño artístico bastante currado, algunos puzzles no demasiado complejos y un sistema de combate interesante. Este es cercano al hack’n slash, pero pule un poco la mecánica, teniendo que calcular bien en el momento en el que se dan los golpes o se ejecutan las acciones para que estas tengan el efecto deseado, o que no nos golpeen y nos cueste vida. Si algo hay que decir en contra es que la duración es escasa. Lo cierto es que el juego es rejugable, pero es muy corto. En un par de **** te lo ventilas. Aún así tiene bastante material extra para desbloquear, lo que va a provocar que tengas que jugar bastante y tratar de conseguir el 100% en las diferentes fases para poder comprartelo. Si sois aficionados a los plataformas de acción con aire retro y aspecto moderno, este es un juego decente e interesante. Entretenido.

The reboot is an brutal arcade with good look, old GoW style, controls are not very responsive sometimes also for its arcade intent, sometimes it's painful for it. The storyline is present and is ok, but you must to find more of it with some unlockables and segrets, so the short game will be little longer. The Bestiary is well detailed too as part of storyline. The loading screen level is about 1 minute, if you play it in harder mode you could use 1-2 hours of the loading screen of your life, not a good thing.. Shadow of the Beast is an Arcade Reboot. Deal with it. Realised good? Yeah.. It offer what it should.

Boring old-school gameplay, boring design, boring battles - all these results in negeative score. Nothing special in art design, music and sounds. No characters or reasonable story.

Story - This game has the same style of storytelling with games like Dark Souls/bloodborne series, Team Ico games and Playdead games. Which tells little to no storyline but shows it through scenes or showing things leaving it for the player to give their own opinions. However, this game did it badly, in the fact that you need first to collect some collectibles to unlock the story telling in between missions as well the dictionary of the enemies language you encounter for you to understand them to actually get a grip of whats happening or the plot. Regardless, the story is about a monster named Aarbron who was freed from slavery and use by Maletoth (the main antagonist) and in his path of vengeance, redemption and to cure his curse to be human again. A pretty short and mediocre and predictable storyline in my opinion. Thus, a score of 3/10. Gameplay - The genre of this game is regarded as a 2D action-platformer. The good part is it did exceptionally well on one side, but somewhat lacking on the other. On the good side is in its action elements, by the use of timing buttons to get high criticals and damage to your enemies, the reaction time of the controls are great, its flawless, exciting and great. However. on the lacking side is its platformer parts, Its pretty mediocre and really lacks in game. There is only one stage in the game which has an OK puzzle while others are pretty linear and also has 1 to none platforming stages. Another con for me is its scoring system, it takes away the fun of its battle cause you tend to get focused more on not getting hit and getting a higher score than focusing to unleashing your wrath. In addtion, boss fights are rather easy and despite the diversity on how you battle them, its kinda unenjoyable. Regardless, an ok score of 6/10 for me. Graphics - This game is gorgeous in my opinion and its graphics are top notched. The environment is pretty, smooth as well as the character motion and animations are silky smooth. FPS rarely drops during battle or cutscenes, the finishing animations of enemies are good. Character design are decent, my main issue though is in its enemy design, which lacks diversity since they only tend to recycle the image with few modifictions like colors etc. to show you it's a "different" monster. Regardless, a good score of 8/10. Sound/Music - Ignore the voice action, its almost non-existent in this game. Only voice in my opinion you could actually understand without subtitles or isnt a mumble of monster noise is the story narration you could collect in game. Thats about it. Music is also kinda meh, With nothing really made me notice it whatsoever. A score of 1/10. Fun Factor - Despite that this game has a lot lacking to be considered good, I enjoyed it personally, especially the battle mechanics of the game and how smooth its gameplay and animation as well as its gorgeous and diverse stages from living to dead to a tomb to a volcano. Only thing I could have wished is that they should have made it longer and just included a normal style of narration to actually understand its plot. Overall, a score of 6/10. Total average - 4.8