The History of Altered Beast Remastered 2020 edition – arcade console documentary

So who was Stella?

How do I play or get the remastered version of this game (the one that you showed toward the end)? I searched for the remastered version. Steam’s version was the result, which I bought. It is just the sega version.

The play station 2 version was a bit too gory for my liking. Maybe onece or twice a gory transformation but all the time..nahj.. Now I will be chenkng altered beast fan remasterd. Im glad you mentioned that.

I didn’t even realise altered beast had a remaster

There's clear influence from Jason And The Argonaughts, to the point that one of the monsters is straight up listed from the movie.

Thanks for going into the history of the music background and the ancient roman aesthetic and influence...

I wish there was a prototype out there with pressure sensitive buttons and all of the original extras. If they could find that code they could totally release it on the PS5 with its controller’s capabilities.

The worst game from SEGA ever, clunky animation and character movement, story made ZERO sense. LOST ooprtunity for a great game.

My own streamlined lore of Altered Beast, based on the lore from Western and Japanese releases:

A long time ago, a race of people who could use the powers of animals and even be able to transform into ones conquered the world.

Unsatisfied, their leaders wanted to overthrow the Olympians as the new gods, which was what angered Zeus, also known by the Romans as Jupiter, and the other gods.

Some of the beast men disagreed, which could also be something normal that could happen among other races who disagreed with each other over serious points, so the civil wars among the beast men happened.

Having enough of the beast men's affairs that became worse, Zeus released fogs that paralysed the beast men that rebelled against the Olympians, but he spared those who disagreed with their unjust fellow beast men and faithfully sided with him.

The evil beast men were defeated.

Some of them were killed, while others were sealed inside tombstones.

The good, pure-hearted, and unselfish beast men then lived and bred with normal humans while hiding their powers.

Over time, they slowly lost their true powers, but their pride as fellow normal humans, their faith, and their gratitude for Zeus and the Olympians could never perish.

Some of them migrated to Rome, a country that the brothers that the wolves raised as their adoptive children founded, and one of their descendants became a centurion.

Proud, noble, courageous, strong, pure-hearted, selfless, wise, loving, and just, he had fought so many battles and then died a good death for what was right for his country and his people, including his loved ones and even those who were too weak and afraid to save themselves.

He then entered the underworld, where there were so many demons who fought against and defeated Hades, or Pluto to the Romans, the god of the underworld.

Some of the demons turned out to be the souls of the beast men who wanted revenge on the Olympians.

The evil beast men had gathered and provoked the inhabitants of the underworld to fight and destroy the Olympians, starting with Hades.

Athena, also known as Minerva, offered herself to lead an army to fight the demons, the evil beast men, and free the underworld and Hades.

However, the leader of the demons and evil beast men, Neff, overcame and defeated Athena and her few soldiers who survived.

Neff stripped Athena of her powers, turned her into a dove, and caged her, while her remaining soldiers were tortured, enslaved, and even turned into fellow demons.

Neff was the most powerful of the beast men, who were gifted with formidable transformation spells and energy-absorbing spells that could allow him to depower Athena and Hades or even steal their powers from them.

The soul of the centurion was trying to stop and fight Neff and his demons due to his own fears that Neff would also lead his armies on a rampage over the people who were the centurion's friends and families, but he was still powerless, and even the dead could also suffer to near death at the hands of the vilests of the demons.

Neff then opened a portal to enter the mortal realm and began his quest to march towards the Olympians, and even the mortals who had nothing to do with Neff and his demons had to suffer and die in the process, for Neff would never let anyone stand in his own ways again.

In his weakened state, at the bottom of the underworld, he pleaded for help from the Olympians, including Zeus or Jupiter, to defeat Neff and save humanity.

Zeus heard the centurion's pleas and took pity on him.

Zeus then commanded the warrior to enter one of the beast men's bodies that were sealed inside tombstones that Zeus created to seal them, for the beast men were also the centurion's ancestors, who were capable of nearly surpassing gods.

Once inhabiting the body of a beast man, the centurion would gain the strength, speed, wisdom, senses, and stamina of one, but without the powers to unlock the beast man's true potential abilities because the body was still weaker after Zeus ressurected the centurion.

The centurion fought demons who were roaming on every side of the mortal realm, and he found out that he could also absorb their life forces without becoming one demon whom the other demons corrupted with their evil emotions due to his pure heart and one of Zeus's powerful spells that was installed on the centurion and protected him.

The more demons he fought, the more their life forces he gained from them without being corrupted, making it even more possible for him to become the true beast man with all of the true potential powers at their fullest.

The centurion, as the true beast man with the form of a wolf, the exact animal that raised Romulus and Remus as her own, fought and defeated all of the demons who were invading the mortal realm, and he was close to defeating Neff, but the evil leader escaped and stole all of the powers from the centurion, which was a very critical situation for the centurion to chase Neff as a normal beast man from the start again.

And so, the centurion journeyed through the levels of the underworld from above the earth to the bottom, fought so many demons, gained more powers, gained different forms of beast men, used all of his forms' powers to destroy any obstacles, and then fought all of Neff's incarnations, until the centurion finally found the final level of the underworld, fought the goat men and the other demons, gained more powers that made him the more powerful version of his wolf form, used all of his powers to eliminate any obstacles, and then defeated Neff, who gained the form and powers of a Rhinoceros.

Despite Neff being a beast man who gained the form and powers of a rhinoceros, in the end, the evil master became nothing to the centurion's overwhelmingly pure and strong spirit, will, love, faith, integrity, courage, interest, and determination to never give up and never lose himself in defeating evil and saving everything good.

The centurion forced the weakened Neff to find wherever Athena and Hades were imprisoned at their weakest.

The centurion then demanded that Neff let the centurion take the powers of Athena and Hades that Neff had already stolen.

The centurion could have used all of the powers of Athena and Hades for himself to surpass and overthrow the Olympians.

However, because he was so tired of everything evil that plagued everything, even his life and his home realm, he decided that he would never become any of them, no matter what, so that the same mistakes could never be repeated over and over again.

He then gave all of the powers of Athena and Hades back to their original owners.

Hades regained his place as the god of the underworld, and he, along with Zeus, punished Neff, the demons, and the evil beast men for eternity.

Athena, free from her dove form and her cage, thanked and blessed the man who freed her.

The centurion, still in the form of a golden wolf, humbly admitted to Athena that he was just a normal man who wanted to do the right thing—not a god, not a demon, and not even a beast man.

However, Athena didn't want to see the centurion for his appearance or his powers.

She just wanted to see him for his heart, wisdom, and will.

She even declared that, whether it was a mortal, a demon, a god, or a beast man, for a heart like the centurion had, she would also be glad to love that person.

And so it was, the legend of the centurion, the greatest of his kind, the altered beast.

Or so it was.

Three strange creatures—not beast men, but almost looked like ones, but smaller—the first one was a blue hedgehog, the second was an orange fox with two tails, and the third was a red creature with long hair and two gloves that had two short horns on each of their knuckles—came to the centurion and Athena through a strange ring portal, inviting him to fight with them in a tournament that determines the fates of the multiverse.

In that tournament, there would also be two plumbers from Italian-American descent, a princess from a kingdom, an evil monster who wanted to kidnap a princess, young warriors from unknown lands, a hunter from outer space, a captain who can destroy anything with his punches, a soldier who can hide himself from anything or attack from his own hiding spots, a young male angel, a gorilla, a smaller gorilla, a yellow little rodent that can spark lightning from its body, a boxer, martial artists from some countries around the world, a vampire hunter, a mercenary with a giant sword, a witch with guns, a robot that can shoot from his arm, a cruel fighter who wanted to throw anyone into the depths of hell, and many, many, many more.

It would be up to the centurion to give his own answer to those three creatures and change everything around him.

Loved Alex kid in miracle world
Very fun game

Came bundled with my Sega Megadrive. Sold it immediately to my local video rental shop and 2 weeks later they had about 40 copies for rental and stopped buying them. Absolutely horrible game, just here for the queefs from Patman

Keep calm and WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE!

😂" i havent seen anything this small since i went to bathroom"

I had a cousin who owned a sega and had this game. Definitely a great palette cleanser to play between other games.

I remember having this game because it came boxed with the Genesis. I was such a little kid back then that the werewolf transformation would scare me so I wouldn't play it alone, I'd only play if my brother was playing too lol

So, Zeus can resurrect someone from the dead, but he cant rescue his own daughter?

Message from your ex wife: next time she see's you, she said she's going to "welcome to your doom!"

Great video. I remember the first time I saw it in arcades, it instantly caught my attention.

Altered Beast isn't a sophisticated game even among games of the era but what it lacks in depth is makes up for in style and uniqueness. It's honestly a shame more hasn't been made of the IP. I think an Altered Beast action-rpg would be the tits.

I always felt that Altered beast was heavily influenced by Clash of the Titans and the American werewolf in London.

I will always remember the Christmas when we got the Sega Genesis and Altered Beast.

annnnnd disliked
cringe

Excellent review as always Pat.
I'm going to go against the grain somewhat and admit that I've always been indifferent towards Altered Beast, mainly because it feels like a rehash of Golden Axe but with all the fun removed. What made Golden Axe so much fun is the choice of 3 warriors (giving more re-playability), the ability to walk in/out of the screen, plus the option to ride dragons and blow fire at your opponents. Altered Beast comes across somewhat drab and clunky and once you turned into a beast (in some cases, quite early in the level) then it becomes a pushover.

Ahh, this is why I remember the console version looking a lot better than it did, I was remembering the arcade version

This game used to scare me so much to play… I never got to finish it either … it was too hard

Dude you are hilarious, this channel has unlocked many awesome memories from my youth. Thanks for making these, please keep em coming!

"Rise from your grave" is iconic, those voice clips stick in my brain.

Excellent video, I've been playing this game for decades and I thought I knew everything about it, looking forward to you other videos.

Thanks!

Wow

WHERE DO YOU GET THOSE FIGURES 😢

Great content. What's up with the jokes though?😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Wow thank you for this! Never knew they had remakes for this game. I'm about to search and buy them.

WHAT! I've played this game since it came out and I'm now 40 years old hearing that it was all just a show? The SEGA Genesis version is the only one I've played and it never showed this!

The History of Altered Beast Remastered 2020 edition – arcade console documentary

I used to have the original version of this game as a kid. Used to scare the crap out of me.

Actually the Japanese Famicon (NES) version isn't that bad. The first level isn't so great but it gets better & even has a little animated cut scene at the end showing father & daughter reunited, I believe in the arcade version it's only shown in still pics. Plus you get a bonus level taking place under the sea where you transform into a shark to fight an octopus boss. The great Kenji Eno did the music for this version & more than likely had some involvement with the extra level being included as well. Nice review/discussion. :)

Good vibes

Can you believe that, back in the day, we kids were actually trusted to walk to a school bus stop and wait on the bus, and the big bad pedophile monster didn’t get us. Well anyway, our stop was in front of a convenience store/laundromat and guess what game the laundromat had among others… We missed the bus and had to walk the 3 miles to school, so many times because we just had to get through the game one more time. Those were the days.

Whait how I get that ending

Awesome vid!

So, wait, you're going to call the MSX version, which is basically a ZX Spectrum port, as running slowly... but then you're going to praise the ZX Spectrum version as running fast as the arcade, when it instead seems to be just as bad? The footage of the two appear to be running at comparable speeds and seem virtually indistinguishable. This is confusing, to say the least.

Couldn't imagine being a kid playing this in the arcade then getting a home version and u put in the MSX version
. No kid should have to endure that. Thank God I had a NES first.

Never used or seen Amstrad in real life. Every clip of it u show on any game is awful. Why was it around with so many other better options? Like to see a history of Amstrad and other consoles.

'Welcome to you doom'