Rastan Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Developed and published by Imagine in 1987.
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Foreword: This game cannot be completed without use of a trainer (it's well documented that the game is buggy as hell).
Level 4 has a section at 28:51 where you have to grab a rope to swing over water, but the coders made this impossible. You can't grab the end of the rope since you make contact with the water and die, while if you grab the rope too far up, you can't jump far enough to clear the water and land on the other side.
The only option I had was to play level 4 with use of a trainer that disabled sprite collision so that I could cross the aforementioned section and complete the rest of the game. Even though collision is off, I don't abuse it and play as if enemies and objects can hurt me.
All the other levels are played with the trainer OFF.
The game is heavily influenced by Conan the Barbarian and other high-fantasy lore. Each of the 6 stages is divided into 3 sections: exterior, interior of a fortress and then an end-of-level boss that has to be killed. Along the way, Rastan can collect power-ups and additional weapons to aid him in smiting his foes, which include an axe, mace and a flaming sword that grants him a ranged attack. Enemies can drop vials of poison as well as power-ups, so you have to be careful to check what the enemy has dropped before collecting the item.
It's a real shame that the developers didn't correct the bugs in the game before releasing it since it's a pretty decent port of the arcade classic from Taito. The graphics aren't too bad, all the levels are present and there's a great musical score from Martin Galway. The loading graphic by Martin McDonald deserves special mention as it's easily one of the best for any game on the C64.
Bootnote: The ending is very strange indeed.
Enjoy!
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![Rastan Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Binxdx_Qzb4/mqdefault.jpg)
Once again it is the sid chip that really impresses me. Maybe the best sound chip of it's time, even compared to other chips like the Yamaha in the Atari ST which never sounded that great.
Man I’m sorry new gamers but the C64 had a few music hits that blows away today’s games by far !!!
Not really. This sounds horrible lol. I had to mute the video. It's just your nostalgia that makes it sound ok
So true! Rastan was one of many others with fantastic soundtrack! Waht a great peace of art this game is;-)
I love how smooth the animation of the sword is.
The whole sprite is more or less a slightly less convincing copy of “Barbarian”
yeah you can see with frame by frame that the sword is animated/moved separate to player sprite. -- really shows that smoothness
Martin Galway's did a nice job here with the music.I like it. The loading screen is awesome! The game sprites would have been better, backgrounds very nice drawn, BUT, the last rope on 3d level, in the lava zone, pissed me off so much, that never played Rastan, again!
+TheCodedtestament Are you sure that's Level 3 and not Level 4? I remember beating the boss on Level 3, but Level 4 appeared impossible. And after a while of attempting, the game always crashed, that is, after dying in the wrong Place I had to start stuck inside the ground somewhere, where no way to move at all. I couldn't get anywhere, and I couldn't even die, so I just had to power-off. Sucked.
Despite hardware limitations this is a surprisingly competent rehash of the arcade!
Only downside is the color palette.
@@FadkinsDiet undertale looking shit 😂
Also of note, the cover art was done by Tim Hildebrandt. Yes, THE Tim Hildebrandt, of "Star Wars" Style B poster fame. Never been able to find a decent scan of the C64 cover: the one on Moby Games was taken from a damaged original, and the highest res I found other than that was 750x750 or so.
One of the last games of the c64 i LOVED.
Never mind the rope over the water, I never knew anyone who could make the lava jump on level 2.
Edit: bloody hell, it was still level 1!
I think the original release of the game had a bug at that point
Yes i have read it somewhere, that there was a bug on that point. I cant even go through with quicksave + load combo, tried hundred times.
The whole game is much easier than that rope scene alone :)
Golden Axe, Cybernoid 2 , Last Ninja 1-2, Rastan saga, some of the genial c64 music themes.
I only played the first Cybernoid on NES, I really loved it back then.
Excellent. Other special C64 games for me were Wonderboy, Platoon, Hoppin mad and Beyond the ice palace; like I said those were special and left some permanent audio-visual marks - overall quality is another thing. Many Commodore games had a certain atmosphere to them which of course caught one's imagination. Rastan was one of those.
Man, I had so many shitty C64 games, now with youtube I'm finding out my childhood was lost to so many hours of cassete playing and waiting to play lousy games when there were AMAZING games avaliable somewhere in the world. This is why AVGN speaks to many of us. Shitty Games!
On the other hand, that's why games like Monkey Island were so magical.
That music is incredible!
many thanks for this longplay, i never ended this great game
The music in the C64 version is actually better than the arcade, in my opinion. I just hate the instruments they picked for the arcade version, they make the song sound weak and powerless.
I have to agree here
Yep, totally agree.
Never could get past those ropes early on..
i couldnt even get past the start since the darn game refused to load.
Neither myself nor any of my friends ever made that first lava jump due to the odd timing and spacing of the ropes. We'd have messed ourselves if we'd known there were bosses and a whole game on the other side of them.
I never finished this game, it was a success to finish lvl 2 lol :)
im looking for a similar game on c64, but i dont remember it name. its a "running" game, you can kick in air or pounch, you have about 100 lifes, you lives showed with big number if i remember correctly, if you get damaged, you just flashing & going to ghost mode for some seconds and lost 1 of your lifes.. can you tell me its name?
A lot of complaints about Level 4, so I just thought I would add a TIMESTAMP so others can enjoy. 26:15
FUCKIN' ROPES
I could never make it past the swinging rope at 28:51. It was either go too low and hit the water and die or go too high and not be able to clear the jump to the other side. Great game, though! I loved this one so much!
sweet C64 music as always
How come 28:51 is impossible? You grabbed the rope right in the middle and had no problem passing the water. Or is the collision detection so bad that you would have "touched" the water without trainer?
Yes - the Rastan sprite hangs so low on the rope that it's impossible not to collide with the water. The only way to progress is to use a collision cheat :(
That damn music, huzzah!
Great longplay. Thanks for completing one of my favorite C64 games. I was unlucky though since, for some reason, I encountered a serious bug that had me stuck in the air on 13:00. I was never able to past that part. But I guess that wouldn't have mattered, since I wasn't aware of the 28:51 bug lol.
I never made it past the rope at 28:55. The way it looks to me, it seems somehow you avoid getting damage swinging into the water. Is there a cheat turned on?
Obviously there is, I saw those chimeras shoot you with no damage sustained.
+FantasyWargnome I did put an explanation in the video description that I had to disable sprite collision for level 4 because it's unbeatable otherwise. The trainer was used for level 4 only, nowhere else.
What an epic song!Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhh!
I love this music!
Yep - another classic Martin Galway tune! 😀
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays This is pretty much the same as the amazing arcade music- but yes, nice adaptation to SID all the same.
The first two bosses die easier if you use the downward thrust that you used on the Third boss. Just try to get into him and keep jumping up and thrusting Down.
Also, the Third boss can be beaten easily by closing, then striking while crouching (shots will miss).
I forgot: greets to all Commodore 16/64/128 and Spectrum fans ...those were the days, huh. I used to spend hours reading the back catalog of Zzap!! (Something like that) at local library.
Harri Virtanen I have all the scans of ZZAP! on an external disk :) They just don't do reviews like em anymore. Wish the old team would start a TH-cam review channel..
In all the magnificent years of the c64 noone ever managed to create a truly convincing bat sprite xD …
Incredible sound music😮
Wow, stages structure are identical to arcade one. very nice one
No problem ;) I think I must have aged about 10 years while trying to clear level 4 though...
The music on this is very good and almost identical to the arcade (and is a better than the master system too). The thing what annoyed me about the game was the throwing of the sword feels very slow and cumbersome (compared to the arcade). And also the axe, and ball and chain, dont seem to give u any further reach and enjoyable advantage. That and the bugs on the rope jumping parts which also led to me significantly losing enthusiasm for the game.
I find c64 music superior to the arcade version.
The Level 1 theme definitely is better on C64
@@alexojideagu Agreed - I don't think the arcade is a good rendition. The AY version is superior as well.
yeah i fricking knew this game was impossible cuz of that jump
At 15:47 he jumps on the rope with axe, then jumps off the rope with a sword. Is there some kind of timer?
Yes, there's a timer - extra weapons eventually disappear and are replaced with the regular sword
Climbing animation looks a bit like when we're having a happy time with my Lady and she's using her head for something more than thinking.
I iz in your brain, stealing ur thoughtz!! I was using a cracked version released in 2004 by Hokuto Force since they'd actually fixed some other bugs in the game that caused crashes etc. A lot of people couldn't get past the 3 ropes over the fire, but they didn't give me too much trouble. The 4th level is simply impossible because of that bloody rope over the water - it's difficult enough to even get on the rope, let alone swing across.
What is that twitching thing in the corner next to the health bar supposed to be? A beating heart?
+Tenraiden Yep - it's a heart 😆
heart with chips is my favourite dish on a sunday dinner.
You are a genius just for beating level 2:)
+Dan Warren (Forgottenretroworlds79) I beat it without hacking the game, but I still ain't a genius.
I would have felt like my parents HATED me, had they bought me this port.
Anyone remember adjusting the heads to load a game
Funnily enough, I never read Zzap!! 64 - I (parents) bought me Commodore Format with it's PowerPack tapes :D
The copy my brother had would crash during lvl 1. You were lucky if you could get to the first castle, and if you make it, it would freeze on the drop at the blue brick.
Highway guy, do u mean to tell me the original game was never finished, and that the complete game is what I watched now?
c64 had the better sound chip! the Sega Master system the better graphics!
The main character moving doesn't feel like the original. Its slower.
Rope stage was impossible.
I never passed those ropes
Exzellent programmiert.
Soundtrack budget: 100%
Sound effects budget: 0%
50 fps realy ist faster than many next gen titles xD
Music is great with the SID chip but the game hurts badly compared to the awesome Sega Master System version. Ok, the C64 is older but i feel disappointed for a computer of such a reputation.
It's much better on the CPC.
It's so slow.
My eyes are bleeding on this conversion.
nah, looks great. unlike the Speccy version
I just now realize how annoying the blocky graphics and the SID sound really were
SID was never annoying....
Everybody's entitled to their opinion, but saying that SID sound is annoying is beyond me (and everybody else, including Spectrum fanboys!)
they stole castlevanias idea! ... oh wait