Shadow of the Beast: Difference between revisions

 

As well as the [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Crowning Music of Awesome]], the change in the hero is also somewhat notable. In the first game, Aarbron can only use melee attacks outside of a few special items, in the second game Aarbron uses a spiked ball on a chain that allows for some minor ranged ability, and in the last game, while Aarbron has lost his superhuman strength, he has apparently gained some inexplicable ninja skills as he uses shurikens throughout, along with a couple of other ranged weapons.

* [[Actionized Sequel]]: Notably completely inverted. The first game has lots of combat and various corridors full of enemies, the second game has quite a bit of combat, but still less than the first game and the third game has very little combat at all.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The plot summaries above are not explained in the games at all (with the possible exception of the second game's introductory cutscene).

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The series' biggest claim to fame, to the point that the art still holds up very well today.

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: The first game seems to establish a somewhat medieval world (albeit a very alien one)... Then you face biomechanical monstrosities and get a jetpack and laser gun for a [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|shoot-'em-up sequence]]. This continues throughout the series, and gets even weirder in the third game, in which Aarbron becomes an [[Indiana Jones]] [[Expy]] with ninja stars who flies a very 1930s-looking airplane.

* [[Title Drop]]: [[A Winner Is You|"Congratulations! You have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast!"]]

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: Most puzzles in the series can be broken quite easily, rendering the game impossible to complete. By the third game you were finally allowed to try again without restarting the game. Any attempts at [[Sequence Breaking]] will also render the first two games unwinnable.

 

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