Don't listen to what anyone else says, this is a classic game.

User Rating: 8.5 | Shadow of the Beast: Mashou no Okite GEN
This is one of those games, that only about four people have ever completed, due to it's insane difficulty, and yet it wont stop you from trying. I have only completed this about twice, but I've tried about a hundred times. It's a credit to this old piece of gaming gold thaat I still enjoy it, and a hell of a lot of other poeple do as well.
It has a typical old-school console storyline, AKA, there is a beast, stuff has happened, now go kill it, and that is a credit to it as well, that it doesnt labour itself down with a storyline, and forget the actual gameplay as loads of games do today. you only have one attack, the control scheme is easy as hell, but this game is so damn hard, you will be tearing your hair out at the same time as you are praising the universe for it's existence.

so yeah, good game.