Shadow Of The Beast Part 2, world map, by Tom Slater.

This is a hastily drawn and poorly photographed attempt at mapping Beast 2 from the Amiga (and Atari ST… maybe there was a Megadrive port? I’m not sure). I used to love the game as a kid; fantastic music, great graphics… terribly unforgiving gameplay.

One afternoon, maybe 11 or 12 years after having first played the game, I finally beat it. Maybe I should have been busy writing an essay on French New Wave cinema, but I was determined to beat it… I still had a day to meet the essay deadline… And I did! Only to be greeted with a static page of text saying “Well done. Buy Beast 3.” After 12 years, it was something of a disappointment.

Anyway, there’s probably parts I’m missing and I haven’t even attempted to draw the internal areas you visit, but I’m surprised how much of the game world I was able to piece together in my mind. There’s one part where you have to go into a whirlpool after having collected 36 coins and buy a trumpet from a snail (of course) or something, but I’m not sure where that should go.

If you can’t make out my handwriting, you’re really not missing much. Does anyone even remember this game? If you’re unfamiliar, I’d recommend a quick youtubing of it.