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Shadow of the Beast II

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platforms. The Mega-CD version had drastic changes made to it, the most noticeable being a new soundtrack complete with voice acted dialogue sequences and added FMVs. The in-game graphics were also slightly enhanced, and some areas of the game were redesigned to be less difficult than the original.
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finds the hero Aarbron in half-beast form, wandering the lands of Karamoon in search of his kidnapped sister. She had been taken away from her mother's cottage by the dragon-form of the Beast Mage, Zelek, servant to Maletoth. Along the way, Aarbron befriends the wise dragon Barloom and must defeat
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gave the Sega CD version one out of five stars, saying that the game had been good at the time of its release on the Amiga four years before, but was now horribly outdated: "Even though the designers tried to spruce it up by adding better music, digitized speech, and a few rendered cut scenes, it
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still doesn't help much considering the game's overall stilted animation and poor control."
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and the game was packaged with a promotional black T-shirt that featured Dean's artwork.
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Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (May 1991). "The Role of Computers".
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was ported to the Atari ST and FM-Towns computers, as well as the Mega Drive and
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contained a total of 17 tracks, most notable of which are the
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theme, both of which feature real sampled electric guitars.
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the evil dragon Ishran. Tree Pygmies in the forest and the
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where both games received ratings of 5 out of 5 stars.
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Index

Shadow of the Beast 2

Roger Dean
Developer(s)
Reflections
Publisher(s)
Psygnosis
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Tim Wright
Platform(s)
Amiga
Atari ST
FM Towns
Mega Drive
Mega-CD
EU
NA
Genre(s)
Platform
Single-player
platform game
Reflections
Psygnosis
1990
Shadow of the Beast

Amiga

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