Shadow of the Beast (PS4)

[Yoshi]

I had to Ctrl-F through 23 pages of GD to find this thread, thanks to the broken search.

Anyway, there's a new PlayStation Blog update. I really like the second screenshot, but this still looks early.

edit: Eurogamer also has a more detailed preview.

[raystorm]

Looks alright. I'll always give a game like this a chance. The Shadow of the Beast games were fucking garbage. I didn't like 'em anyways.

[Frogacuda]

That looks a lot better than I was expecting. Not totally sold on the button mashy beat em up stuff, but there's potential here.

I love the original. The gameplay feels stiff by modern standards but it felt like playing through an awesome fantasy painting. It was just so atmospheric and had a real sense of being a distinctive world. This new one also seems very atmospheric, if perhaps a bit too brown in its present state.

[Yoshi]

I agree. I'm a fan of the original. In the video above where they were talking about the music missing, I wanted to yell this at my monitor:



The song could have been written as the soundtrack to the game.

[Will]

Looks decent and the style looks on point.

Hopefully they'll improve the animation and stiffness how it looks, not sure what to think of the combat and platforming though so I hope there's a good balance there.

[Yoshi]

I was disappointed this wasn't shown during the conference yesterday, but apparently it is at PGW:

[Low]

This and No Mans Sky are about the only current gen games that interest me. The GoW combat model seems to break the pacing, hopefully it avoids being repetitive.

[YellerDog]

I like that weird mouth fish monster, but I dunno. I don't have a lot of love for the original to start with.

[kedawa]

The SotB games were always technically impressive games with broken gameplay. This looks like a technically competent game with decent gameplay, so I guess that's progress.

[Yoshi]

My biggest concern out side of the gameplay is that there won't be enough to actually make it obviously a SotB game. It's potentially a lot like the Spanish Castlevanias in that way.