I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [266] Deflektor @iamironclaw | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
One of my favorite games on the C64. Fond memories of the music and stuff. Never beat it tho as a kid, so was time to try now, but the Amiga version.
Man, this game is BRUTAL! It's not hard to figure out what to do on each level, what's hard is the damn things flying around changing my stuff. Getting though this game took like 5 bloody hours of frustration. One tune on loop for 5 hours.
Also, you are way too often at the mercy of RNG. Sure, I didn't solve some levels in the best way possible, so maybe not that much RNG was needed, but was too lazy to figure out the "proper" way.
I never wanna see this game again :)
There's also Mindbender (aka Deflektor 2), will do that soon as well, I think. But first one I do after Deflektor now is Beambender (kinda like a Deflektor game as well) as it was requested.
One of my favorite games on the C64. Fond memories of the music and stuff. Never beat it tho as a kid, so was time to try now, but the Amiga version.
Man, this game is BRUTAL! It's not hard to figure out what to do on each level, what's hard is the damn things flying around changing my stuff. Getting though this game took like 5 bloody hours of frustration. One tune on loop for 5 hours.
Also, you are way too often at the mercy of RNG. Sure, I didn't solve some levels in the best way possible, so maybe not that much RNG was needed, but was too lazy to figure out the "proper" way.
I never wanna see this game again :)
There's also Mindbender (aka Deflektor 2), will do that soon as well, I think. But first one I do after Deflektor now is Beambender (kinda like a Deflektor game as well) as it was requested.
![Amiga Longplay [266] Deflektor](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRToBH56dBg/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [266] Deflektor
One of my favorite games on the C64. Fond memories of the music and stuff. Never beat it tho as a kid, so was time to try now, but the Amiga version.
Man, this game is BRUTAL! Its not hard to figure out what to do on each level, whats hard is the damn things flying around changing my stuff. Getting though this game took like 5 bloody hours of frustration. One tune on loop for 5 hours.
Also, you are way too often at the mercy of RNG. Sure, I didnt solve some levels in the best way possible, so maybe not that much RNG was needed, but was too lazy to figure out the proper way.
I never wanna see this game again :)
Theres also Mindbender (aka Deflektor 2), will do that soon as well, I think. But first one I do after Deflektor now is Beambender (kinda like a Deflektor game as well) as it was requested.")
![Amiga Longplay [272] Relics of Deldroneye 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bW3n_-JBsQk/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [272] Relics of Deldroneye 2
The best one of the three, IMO. Especially the much shorter intro. The other two had so much text, bleh. This one only lasted like 2.5 mins (or 2 mins if skipping the last golden text part), and had some nice graphics and speech during it, not just walls of text.
Could have used some subtitles during the speech in the outro, like the into had.
I dont like how BIG the font is for the status thingy in the middle of the screen. If the game is started wrong so fonts cant do their thing (as it does stuff to them in the startup-sequence), the middle text is small and much better, but the gap is still just as big. I kept thinking this is not how its supposed to be, but apparently it is. Another thing that kinda seem weird is the first two sequences, they go by so quick, but also that seem to be whats intended.
The game and/or its manual might say the game require an A1200 with 2mb chip (some places on the internet even say AGA chipset is required - hi, Hall of Light!), but all 3 of these Relics of Deldroneye games work on any Amiga with 2mb chip. So no AGA or KS3.X is really needed. But yeah, I can see why they tagged them as A1200, as Amiga0/500+/600 generally cant have 2mb chip.")
![Amiga Longplay [226] Demons Tomb - The Awakening (REUP)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bgXAkBMt2kU/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [226] Demons Tomb - The Awakening (REUP)
(reason for reupload is in a comment under the video)
I rather enjoyed this one. Interesting adventure, nice pictures, smooth and quite advanced text parser. I got stuck for a while here and there, even with a text-based walkthrough, but figured it out.
After Ive read the intro text, I show off some text stuff in the options before continuing.")
![Amiga Longplay [318] Castles](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cRlWJDJewG8/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [318] Castles
Always been curious to know how to play this game, but never bothered to learn, until now. Wasnt too hard tho.
The PC version has way more... artsy stuff (mainly some full-screen pictures) than the Amiga version, but the music in the Amiga version PWNs the PC version IMO, even if the PC version used SoundBlaster or whatever soundcards.
There are two versions - this one that I did, and then an updated version (v1.1) called Castles: The Northern Campaign. They were both released in 1992, and the 1.1 version is only a data disk with which you need to use the normal Castles disks to create a new 3-disks set.
This updated version has some new conquests and graphics, a more extensive commodities market (e.g you can buy and sell stuff). More troop and combat options. Viking units too I think, and other stuff. New plot lines and messenger screens.
But I decided to do this standard version instead of the updated one, as this is the one most of us know and love, and is the true version IMO. If I did the other one, you would miss out on the original plot lines and stuff.
I played through it twice while learning, then did a final recording. I dont play amazingly well I guess, but enough to win (which is not hard in this game, at least not on the difficulty I chose). My castle design is crap, I just wanted to build 50 pieces or whatever. I tried to be as good of a King as I could, which seemed to have paid off as the ending result stuff seem to be everyone loved me.
There are two game modes (worlds) tho. The Real World and the Fantasy World. So after I completed the Real World, I did the fantasy one, at 1:32:15. I was excited to try the fantasy one, as I read it had dragons, orcs, elves and other magical stuff. But was kinda disappointed that it was all just in text-form during the messenger screens. Still tho, was fun to see what happened and how it played out. Each time you start a game in either worlds has kind of a different story. Some stuff I had happen during my training playthroughs didnt happen in these two recorded ones.
The Fantasy World playthough went better than the Real World one, as I learned a bit more during the longplay. So built the castle a little bit better, did some better management of stuff, also showed off how you can reverse the view so you can look behind the castle by pressing the F key, which I saw none of the videos on YouTube show. Same was with the T key, which you can push during the messenger screens to show the amount of gold and soldiers you have. One Amiga guide on YouTube of this game gave the advice that you need to write down these stats every now and then so you know how much you have when people ask for gold or troops from you, as theres no way to view this info during the messenger screen. Well, just read the manual and you would know there was/is a way ;). Theres more keys that does different things, but F and T were the important ones.
My favorite moments was... I think during the Fantasy World run, where this dude who kept killing my deer (or whatever the animal was) over and over again, and I kept pardoning him over and over again :P. Eventually the other knights werent happy that I kept doing this so they wanted him dead or whatever, but I just ordered to let him be, let him hunt. Then one day he disappeared, so it was probably one of the knights who finally had enough :). Too bad, I kinda miss him now lol, we had many meetings.
To win the game you just need to have all the placed pieces completely built, and youll then get the question if you are done with the castle (this probably only happens after youve built enough pieces, didnt test it). What happens then is the final battle begins and the computer comes at you with some units, just survive and you win, ez pz. The longer I played, the more the stories seem to kept unfolding, so I was kinda tempted to keep going during the fantasy one, but decided to finish the game so completed the last pieces of the castle and defeated the enemy. I got the evil magical portal to close (chose to send the nun there to close it, which seemed to work, wonder what would have happened if I picked another option), and my deer poaching buddy was killed or just disappeared (forgot), so decided to end it there :)
There was one thing about this game that annoyed me, its how I often accidentally click away messages and stuff the second they appeared (especially the ones telling me from which direction the enemy comes), as I was currently busy clicking on stuff. So it was often important messages was unread as they came and disappeared just as fast.")
![Amiga Longplay [296] Frantic Freddie](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cTMfP7TLYXA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [296] Frantic Freddie
It has two intros, the first one has no sound at all and is slow and looooong, so its sped up at double speed to get it over with quicker. Second intro tho is better because music and stuff. I dont include cracktros (obviously) in my longplays, these kinda look like that stuff, but theyre not so included them, mainly because they have a lot of information I wanted to preserve (as no one else seem to have, only the game itself) that is not shown/mentioned in the scrolling text during gameplay.
That scrolling blue text is soooo hard to read, bleh. Also, this intro is a bit taller, but theres nothing special being shown outside the cropped area, only thing maybe worth mentioning is the text has a bit of shadow at the bottom. I decided to crop this to this size as thats what the game is, instead of adding a lot of empty black space above and below.
Hmm, what else... well, seems they really didnt want anyone else to end up on the highscore table :D (well, I could add my initials if I wanted to, easy to change via memory or file edit)
Anyway, jump to 15:25 for the game.")
![Amiga Longplay [317] Guy Spy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fOYfijDpias/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [317] Guy Spy
PLOT: Guy is summoned before the chief of international security and informed that the evil Baron Von Max has located the whereabouts of the legendary Crystals of Armageddon. Max needs these crystals to power the doomsday machine he has constructed in the mountains at an unknown location.
I longplayed this game over 11 years ago and it really needed to be redone for many reasons. Back then I had trouble getting two of the tunes to play properly, and even this time around as well, as normal Amiga 500/1200 settings didnt suffice. Didnt matter the ROM, chipset, cycle-exact on or off, etc. But what finally worked was turning on fastest possible (weird, I know). Now all tunes played perfectly, so now that problem is fixed. And, the music plays too slow compared to the music modules, but plays perfectly if I use NTSC, so seems to be an NTSC game. So for once I longplayed a game in NTSC (60hz instead of PALs 50hz).
So, this new version have better audio and picture quality, properly playing music, more moves and deaths shown, more pixels (as I cropped the old video a bit), and maybe other stuff.
All the different difficulties seem to do is to make it... harder. I guess more enemies spawn and stuff. At least on the gondola ride the enemy are way more hasty with throwing dynamite :)
There are a lot of ways to die, but for some reason I couldnt get any of the Egypt maze doors that go up and down to hit/hurt me, not even the spikey one. One would think those would be part of the deaths. Only way to die by them if I jump into the second one and fall down, as you see in one of the deaths at the end of the video.
The mummy fight is just stupidly easy compared to everything else. All you need to do is slice away right from the beginning, no need to move around. Just turn around to face him and slice until you win, as you seem to do more... DPS than he does :). I moved around and fought him from different angles just to show that stuff off. Same thing with the Arabs, no challenge, but using the two dodge moves is futile as there doesnt seem to be enough time to dodge the attacks. Maybe if I started dodging the first frame they attack, then it might work. Still tho, no need for the dodges, just slice away. I started off by showing those two moves before slicing away.
The bar fight is also easy, just punch left and right, and when the enemy ducks, you knee him, repeat. But I wanted it to look more of a challenge and last a bit longer, so used useless blocks/dodges and did random stuff. At the last few seconds I just punched and kneed, as one should to make it easy and fast.
The log fight was a bit harder, but its way easier than I make it look, as you pretty much just duck, wait until theyve attacked and they you hit them and duck again. So, again I just goof around to make it last longer and stuff. The last 3 enemies I do this strategy tho.
On the last fight with the knives, I couldnt land any of my backhanded slaps. The manual says I have to wait for him to attack first to get close enough. Well, I couldnt pull it off, so mainly just punched instead.")
