Shadow of the Beast - Amiga Soundtrack [ProTracker Music]
0Amiga game soundtrack from the game Shadow of the Beast, developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis in 1989.
Original composer: David Whittaker
Arranged for ProTracker: Jogeir Liljedahl a.k.a Maniac
*Playlist*
00:00 Title (Beast-title)
01:31 The Plains (Beast-exploring)
04:09 The Plains (Beast-playtune2)
06:28 Underground (Beast-playtune4)
08:53 The Castle (Beast-playtune3)
11:53 Water (Beast-playtune5)
13:49 Game over (Beast-gameover)
*Shadow of the Beast - The Story*
Many years ago, on a moonless night, a small child was stolen away from its unsuspecting parents. Its mysterious abductors carried it far across the land to the mighty temple Necropolis. There the child was accepted by the mages of darkness, warrior priests of the Beast Lord.
Deep below the temple the child was escorted, passing through a labyrinth of rooms and passages to the Chambers Of Creation. There the evil mages worked their dark arts creating strange creatures, plants and traps to guard the Beast's stronghold. For the child they had a special purpose, but first came years of preparation. Secret potions concocted from the blood of rare creatures slowly transformed his appearance - turning him from human into a strange creature of incredible power, agility and strength. Deep hypnosis caused him to erase memories of his past life completely and become the warrior messenger of the Beast.
Many years passed in his service to the temple as he grew to maturity. Then one day he discovered an awful secret - the horrible truth about his past... a truth that now leads him on a trail of total
and bloody revenge against his masters.
You were that child. Now the time has come to enter the Shadow of the Beast!
- In the Search of the Beast -
In the grounds of Necropolis all was silent and still. The moon, low and large on the horizon, threw long dark shadows into the corners and a cool blue light across the stony ground, disguising the blood-red stains on the sacrificial stone. Not a single creature stirred to disrupt the tranquillity, not a leaf moved on the nearby trees. There was not a trace of life in that sinister place but for a single point of light glinting against the age-worn face of a statue.
Up there in the huge arms of the deity's image sat a lone creature. In its powerful hand it clutched a Globe of Seeing which it moved slowly from side to side examining its reflected features. As it did so it recalled the events of that day: the frightened humans being herded into the central courtyard; the pathetic pleas for help as they were dragged one by one to the sacrificial stone; the final air rending
screams as the knife came down in one swift arc and the life blood ran.
And then a tired, resigned face being pushed towards the stone, a face that seemed of some importance to him. Yet how could that be when the lives of these people meant nothing to him? And, as the gleaming blade struck home, he recognized the agonized face of his father and suddenly the painful memories of all he had been came flooding back to him.
His masters had done this to him. They had been responsible for all that he was, and the loss of all he might have been. Well now they would pay. Now the warrior would stop killing for his masters and begin to exact his revenge.
Standing, he lifted the globe high above his head and, clenching his clawed hand, crushed it to a hundred tiny shards. Now the warrior's head lifted towards the heavens. He searched the sky for the dark hulls of the ships whence his masters had come and let out a roaring howl that spoke his defiance. Nothing would stop him now. He would crush them as he had crushed their globe, and he would never stop until the blood of all of them and their creations soaked into the earth...
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