I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [320] Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon @iamironclaw | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Much better than the first one in the series, but way harder and more frustrating. Too many things had to be timed perfectly. If you did it like 1 second too early, or 1 second too late, you had to redo a lot of previous steps to get back to where you were on the screen.
For faster loading, I used the WHDLoad version, and an instrument in the music on the water level (the one with the octopus and "mermaid") is broken. Just basic A1200 settings in the emulator with 2mb chip and 8mb fast ram, also cycle-exact, so shouldn't be a settings issue.
Much better than the first one in the series, but way harder and more frustrating. Too many things had to be timed perfectly. If you did it like 1 second too early, or 1 second too late, you had to redo a lot of previous steps to get back to where you were on the screen.
For faster loading, I used the WHDLoad version, and an instrument in the music on the water level (the one with the octopus and "mermaid") is broken. Just basic A1200 settings in the emulator with 2mb chip and 8mb fast ram, also cycle-exact, so shouldn't be a settings issue.
![Amiga Longplay [320] Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_rUbWlTyDgQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [320] Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon
Much better than the first one in the series, but way harder and more frustrating. Too many things had to be timed perfectly. If you did it like 1 second too early, or 1 second too late, you had to redo a lot of previous steps to get back to where you were on the screen.
For faster loading, I used the WHDLoad version, and an instrument in the music on the water level (the one with the octopus and mermaid) is broken. Just basic A1200 settings in the emulator with 2mb chip and 8mb fast ram, also cycle-exact, so shouldnt be a settings issue.")
![Amiga Longplay [235] Abracadabra (Coktel Vision)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aEetleSfi9I/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [235] Abracadabra (Coktel Vision)
There are two version of this game - Abracadabra and Baba Yaga. Theres a lot of differences between them, like graphics, creatures, fonts, items, etc, but are mainly the same game.
In Abracadabra its winter and you are delivered by a dragon. The evil dude of this version is Satanicus, the horrible magician.
In Baba Yaga its summer and you are delivered by a stork instead, and the evil person is Baba Yaga, the wicked witch of the swamp.
I guess they both cater to different audiences. In Slavic myths, Baba Yaga is the wild woman or dark lady of magic, she has chicken legs. There are many stories about her in Russian folklore.
You have no control over the text/dialogues most of the time, so you have to wait for the next one. In some places the scene fades out at the same second the last text is shown, so cant be read unless you pause. Sometimes its a bit too fast. Anyway, its not me clicking or anything, just so you know :)
The graphics glitch at 02:24 wouldnt go away.
When selecting the look of our hero, the two left-most portraits look female (Im sure they are, or at least the one to the farthest left). So, I decided to be male (Adam) in abracadabra, and female (Eve) in Baba Yaga, but turns out the game doesnt know this and still call her he/him in the dialogues, even if I select the first one from the left.
If you dont select a head, clothing or name in time, the game does it for you, and you get the default colors and the left-most head, and are given the name of Nemo.
I cant help to laugh at the German voice during the animal names part :)
One thing that is kinda fucked-up is the baby is delivered to those poor woodcutters. They are POOR! The last thing they need is another mouth to feed, IMO.
Most of the time you find the item after the 4th try, EVEN if you click on the SAME thing all those times, lol. The dungeon scene is different and will pop the item after the 7th different thing youve clicked on.
In Baba Yaga I played on hardest difficulty (and was the first of the two games I played through). the difficulty is too high and Im sure they didnt play-test it. Because of this, I played Abracadabra on easy.
When you die you are just moved one screen/scene back.
After the ending, I right click to bring up the menu and select to return to the menu, then to get dropped at the castle instead. After the first room has been completed, I bring up options again in the next scene and quit, because from her on out, its the same as the previous journey via the woodcutters.")
![Amiga Longplay [262] Rygar - Legendary Warrior](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/anGruAl1ZPc/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [262] Rygar - Legendary Warrior
An excellent port of the arcade version, released 2019.
Bit glitchy tho. Tried the latest version (ofc) on both WHDLoad and ADF, with the basic A1200 quickstart config and modified one. Usually when graphic errors etc happens in a game, it might need cycle-exact to be ON, but in this game that just made it worse. I checked some recordings of this game on YouTube to see how it looked like in their videos, and they had the same glitches and graphic corruptions as I did. Ive manually removed most of those frames (1-3 here and there, so the jump/hiccup shouldnt be too noticeable).
So, nothing game-breaking, except if you jump off the rope too far up when you yet cant see the ground, that will stop the vertical scrolling and when you land, you might only see your head for the rest of the level, thus cant see the ground or enemies.
Only real complaint I would have, or more of a request, would be to start loading the next stage during the score counting part. As its right now, it doesnt start loading the next stage until all scores are done counting, making you have to wait there a while before the game continues. Sure, no problem if playing the game from a harddrive (WHDLoad), but I prefer floppy when I play and record, as I often get problems when using savestates with WHDLoad. I did use Turbo and 800% speed, but neither make it fast enough. Maybe 30% or so of the movie is just waiting for it to load the next stage. Normally I edit loading out, but theres music playing during it so didnt want to.
As always, I dont care about score in games, which shows :). Jump and bounce to victory!
I killed myself on the boss level as I dont think I showed the death animation thingy before + wanted to make it more of a challenge as I lose all my buffs/items. Was still super easy, especially the boss, lol.
The items are as follows, from left to right:
1: Star Power (Increases the weapons range to nearly the length of the whole screen)
2: Crown Power (Increases the weapons fire power, letting you kill several enemies with a single shot)
3: Tiger Power (Lets you kill any enemy instantly by jumping on it)
4: Cross Power (Limited invincibility lasting 10 - 45 seconds depending on the round. If you collect a second Cross Power and the first hasnt expired, extra invincibility time isnt added on nor do you score another bonus)
5: Sun Power (Allows greater control over vertical firing)
Theres also cheat codes and special codes for secret messages. I usually record and put those in a separate unlisted video (the messages that is, as I dont show cheat codes if they are not special enough) and link here. Might do it later and update this text.
Anyway, they did a killer job on this port.
AMIGA FOREVER!")
![Amiga Longplay [277] Santa & Rudolph Do Christmas](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/apu9kd7Z_Qw/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [277] Santa & Rudolph Do Christmas
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Yippee!
You can play as either Santa or Rudolph. They both play exactly the same, as far as I could tell, and the only difference is the levels are the same when playing as Rudolph but in a new order and have new names.
I checked a couple of videos of this game before longplaying it, and one person said he prefers Rudolph as he handles better. Lol? Again, to me they were exactly the same. Another one said he replayed the game as Rudolph as hes already done a longplay with Santa, but ye, same levels, just new order and names, so IMO doesnt warrant a new longplay. Not much else to see if already done with one of them, except maybe the few frames of animation with the other character.")
![Amiga Longplay [329] Banzai](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/axWjoHv9ITg/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [329] Banzai
I longplayed this game over 12 years ago. At the time I could only find one version of the game, which had some graphics and sound problems. Distorted graphics happened mostly when the planes bombed, and the broken sound is one of the instrument of the tune of level 2.
Today I found 4 versions, 3 of which have the same graphics error, but all 4 with the same broken tune on level 2. So, this time I used the version that didnt have glitched graphics.
I never care about scores in games, but after beating the game, my score was 98.40%, and I didnt even try. I didnt know this games score worked like that, I just expected points and stuff, so didnt even think about the scores until after I beat it. So, in this case, just for the hell of it, I would not have let some soldiers escape so I could get 100%, as that sounds more fun than points :), but too late now. Still got to first place tho. Had to kill myself tho for the scores to show, because if you beat the game, it ends on the ending screen and wont follow with the highscores. When I killed myself at the last boss, I spawned at the spot you see at the end of the video, and I let the rest of the lives go there as well. Out of curiosity I checked to see if the % would go up if I killed the soldiers (again) on that screen, but it didnt. So seems each soldier = a %, and killing the same one twice doesnt add to it.
Anyway, KICK ASS music!
Annoying beeping in the sound, and every video on YouTube of this game has it too. Even one that is supposedly recorded on the real hardware. So doesnt seem like an emulation issue. I dont use an audio filter for most games I record via emulation (WinUAE) as I like the sound when its clearer/crisp and plays more like the source audio files if listened to separately. With filters the audio is just too muffled, but this is the default setting and is what 99/100 people use. Thus, beeps might hear clearer with filters off, but still noticeable in those videos with filter on as well.
02:53 - Day One
09:03 - Day Two
14:36 - Day Three
21:36 - Ending
23:16 - Highscores")
![Amiga Longplay [335] Bug Bash](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bLdjVRD_l2o/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [335] Bug Bash
No wonder no one has recorded a playthrough of this game on any system its available on, as its frickin HARD. Starts off pretty easy, but the last 2-3 levels were brutal. Dont think it was playtested properly. Only managed to beat it after like 150+ savestates. You only have one life, if you die; its game over. No continues, its all the way back to the first level.
02:33 - Day 1
05:08 - Day 1 boss
06:03 - Day 2
09:19 - Day 2 boss
10:24 - Day 3
14:10 - Day 3 boss
15:05 - Day 4
19:28 - Day 4 boss
20:03 - Day 5
24:14 - Day 5 boss
25:03 - Day 6
28:08 - Day 6 boss
29:08 - Day 7
33:09 - Day 7 boss")
![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.")
