Shadow of the Beast | Amiga, MD, PCE, SNES | Comparison - Quad Longplay

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 -    • Shadow of the Beast | Amiga & Mega Drive/G...   ) 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)    • Amiga Longplay Shadow of the Beast (a)  
MD (50Hz)    • Mega Drive Longplay [139] Shadow of the Beast  
PCE (60Hz)    • PC Engine Longplay [106] Shadow of the Beast  
SNES (60Hz)    • SNES Longplay [162] Super Shadow of the Be...  

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Intro music by Game Play - 8bit Metal
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