Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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1. Welcome 3:13
2. Home 5:14
3. Approaching the Castle 15:32
4. Castle 19:32
5. Jetpack 25:44
6. Necropolis 30:12
7. The Beast 32:44

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This is an update of a previous Shadow of the Beast comparison (Amiga & MD - youtu.be/FQQVlwltUvQ ) adding PC Engine and the unreleased SNES version.

I prefer recording my own gameplay for these comparison videos, but this is one of the only times I used videos by others. If a game is a bit too hard, and there are already good playthroughs showing pretty much everything that is to be seen, I don't see much of a point in recording new ones, at least when the gameplay is not the focus.

There's no doubt which version is the definitive: Shadow of the Beast=AMIGA. What I find fun and interesting about these type of videos is not which is better (in many cases it's personal preference), but instead how the versions look next to each other, the details. This is why I try to do full-length edits of entire longplays. IMO there's no clear winner among the three, each version does some things better than the others, but the SNES here is maybe the weakest (it's an unreleased game anyway).

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Source Longplays

AMIGA (50Hz) youtu.be/e-U6HUaAONI
MD (50Hz) youtu.be/PlWEIuiPZa4
PCE (60Hz) youtu.be/SCER25vx49k
SNES (60Hz) youtu.be/www-sT333lI

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Intro music by Game Play - 8bit Metal
youtu.be/XbDZbtk3qwE