I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [317] Guy Spy @iamironclaw | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
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 didn't suffice. Didn't 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 PAL's 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 couldn't 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 doesn't 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 it's way easier than I make it look, as you pretty much just duck, wait until they've 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 couldn't land any of my backhanded slaps. The manual says I have to wait for him to attack first to get close enough. Well, I couldn't pull it off, so mainly just punched instead.