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From: sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help with Psygnosis' Shadow of the Beast
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Date: 23 Oct 89 21:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: sutherla@orange9 (scott sutherland)
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	I posted this to rec.games.misc, but I am afraid that not many
people reading that group will know of this game. Thus, I am also posting
it to comp.sys.amiga. Please note that all my future, non-Beast postings
will be directed to rec.games.misc. If you want to alleviate band-width
waste, please either EMAIL responses to me or post to rec.games.misc.
Thanks.




	I just purchased Psygnosis' Shadow of the Beast for the Amiga.
Great game! Killer T-shirt! The negative comments about it are justified.
Now, I have a quick question. 



******* MINOR SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!!!********




When you first start the game, if you go left, you hit 2 boulders and
4 bat-like creatures, a claw-like trap hidden in the ground, and find
a door in a tree trunk. If you avoid this door and continue left, you 
eventually hit another "large tree" (maybe 2 screen-widths left of the
obvious door). Every time I try to pass this tree, a hole opens up in
the ground and I fall in. I die. The game ends. I wait 45 seconds and
try another approach. I have tried walking slowly, running, jumping,
and a running jump, to no avail. What I thought was the best option was
the running jump. But I seem to collide with the tree trunk and fall into
the hole, or the hold sucks me down into it. 

	How do I get past this obstacle??

Scott Sutherland
sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu