Last Ninja 2 Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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- Developed and published by System 3 in 1988.
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The original Last Ninja was a smash hit, so it seemed inevitable that a sequel would be made. Sure enough, merely a year after the original was released, The Last Ninja 2 hit store shelves and it was a critical and commercial success.
It improved on the previous games with even better graphics and less punishing gameplay. It was still a tough game, make no mistake, but at least the agonising stepping-stones that plagued the original with the need for precision jumping were ironed out.
The story picks up where the original left off with Armakuni being transported through time to face his old foe, Shogun Kunitoki, in the new battleground of modern-day New York.
The oriental-themed music from the original game was replaced by a more contemporary, gritty set of tracks from Matt Gray which were excellent. In fact, I still prefer these to the tracks from Last Ninja Remix, which included a whole different musical score from Reyn Ouwehand and Anthony Lees; although they were good, I don't think they fitted the atmosphere as well as Matt Gray's music.
Enjoy!
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I'm 42. I played it as a kid. Wow. That brings memories...
37 here, played it as a kid also. Never really got far but I didn't care, I was still blown away by the music and the super-detailed (at the time) environments.
Same, music is amazing!!
Makes you wanna no back.....
Yeah remember this with last ninja 1, amazing games, even for the c64, I'm 46 now and back then was truly magical....
@@CopiousDoinksLLC Same here, I never knew where I to go in the game and the Last Ninja games bored me quickly, but the music and graphics are amazing.
This game (and soundtrack) belongs in the top 10 best games list ever.
A true story. I managed to complete all three Ninja games on the C64, but it took me years to do it. The third one took me until the mid 90s. In the mid 2010s I replayed all three games to see if my brain and hands were up to it. Back then they still were and I remembered things and how to do stuff. One thing I remember having nightmares about was The Basement in LN2. Years went by in the late 80s/early 90s for me to figure out where the poison was and then how to jump on the boxes. Every time I hear this music I'm back there, more than 30 years ago, stuck. And then one day I figured it out. But this level, for me, is the most haunting one. I love the music but love/hate the memories. Hard games, but they did open up the mind. Those were some amazing times for games in general. You approached them with caution because you knew they were going to smack you in your face.
Man, Last Ninja had some really amazing music scores.
Listen to this: th-cam.com/video/eTVzkftwYgM/w-d-xo.html
What do you mean "had"? It still does! The tunes are friggin' timeless!
2 is good too
No excessive looting, no rewards, no in-game-buying, no ranking, no upgrades - just pure FUN!
What a rapid trip down memory lane. I had the version of this on the Amiga that came with a rubber throwing star and full pullover ninja hood. Great times
The music is amazing, even the loader music. The Commodore 64 version is much better than the Amiga version.
7:40 I love the nod to Zak McKracken on the grafitti... another well loved C64 game that definitely needs a HD remake
All last ninja titles has nice music, but this one for me has the best music ever made for a video game. Matt Gray made an awesome work here!
Matt Gray's masterpiece! 👌
Those were the great days. No social media, but just good cartoons after school on TV and great video games 🎮 on C64. Not forgetting going out on my BMX bike.
Best C64 game ever. Back in the 80s, I used to spend some afternoons in the school's computer room, which was equipped with C64, and one of them had a big color TV (the others green monochrome). Was I lucky when "the one" was available and I could go for LN2!
Memories...
Love it as a kid . Pre Nintendo and snes.
Incredible music .
22:33 you can disable the Alarm by going into the other room, that way when you fight the guy in the stairwell he will not almost kill you with his boosted power when the alarm is tripped.
22:52 you can flick the lights on before entering the dark room where you have to figure out the path. Also for added fun each time you switch the lights on/off you get 500 points... you can do this as much as you like to boost your score.
I loved this game as a kid - the soundtrack is still so good!
long time ago... i miss the 70´s and the 80´s
Good thing Armakuni knows to wait for the lights to turn green before crossing.
Aged 40 here and played this so much on my C64 as a kid. Having to get the monthly magazines for the hints and tips/walk throughs. Classic times.
I was so exicted when one of the magazines pubished a walkthrough of a game i was struggling with. I couldnt wait to buy it lol
my favourite mag was C+VG (computer & video games) .. i collected nearly all of em between 1985-1992, however im not sure if i still have them in the loft.
I have a lot of Xerox(yes people, that was what people called copy machines back in the 80's), copies of those same magazine pages that I paid about .10/page to copy off those same magazine tips/tricks at the regional library. The trick was to get there before all of the older kids would get to it and rip out the pages like the jerks they were. No way my parents would spring for anything but Time and Nat Geo subscriptions to our house and I think most of those personal computer mags even back then were about $1.10 and up so, that was my only option to fuel my C64 addiction, haha.
Thanks for giving me some childhood memories back. 👍
Matt Gray also made excellent music for Tusker.
This game have unbelievable music. :}
This is amazing!!! I loved this game as a kid, I could never get past the carts. Watching this and then seeing the final level brought all nostalgia back.
The sound track still bangs to this day!! Many feels were felt 😂🤣😂🤣😂
It's a shame this and the 1st one weren't included in the retro console.
My thoughts exactly. The 64 games included in the mini were definitely not the best 64. I'd say a quarter are good another quarter playable and the rest not worth putting on. Fortunately it is pretty easy to ad games to the mini through USB. It's the only console I been playing the past few months and I have a ps3, Xbox and others.
Yep, the music was great. I never did really understand why they bothered making Last ninja Remix when the music in this was so good.
This is Last ninja 1, not nr 2. ROFL.
Whoa this music is intense! Wouldn't have expected.
Central Park boat jump....still sweating just watching it
najlepsza gra, a zarazem czensc gry ktora wyszla na c64.
Oh man I have to say this just to prove I'm not original - whose watching this in 2020 ?? Oh yeah baby!!!!!!
Soundtrack is crazy awesome. Can't stop dancing during all game tune
The central park music....OMG! It was sooooo freaking awesome!
What do you mean "was"? It still is and always will be!
The music in this game is so good, I had this long ago, wish I never sold my c64
I totally hated this part in the basement, where you had to jump over the boxes. I died there dozens of times
If funny how the ninja can survive a long drop at the beginning of the Cental Park level but dies from little falls later on...
The key to it was to use the MODE CHANGE option by pressing "J" on the keyboard, pressing J twice would make it so which ever direction you tapped it would face that way, it made it tons easier. J Twice, then tape the joystick the direction you wanted to face then J to revert back to default control.
You reckon that's annoying, what about the office stage trying to work out how to proceed and get further! Got the code and then after a hour gave up. Secret door was too secret, no hints at all the you have to pull some secret stick to open the door, and what about that high powred fan !!! Other than that the game is perfect. I can't believe I finished this as a kid without a walkthrough - mind you I had a friend who we would work together in sharing our knowledge.
Danger level seems just about right for NYC in the 80's
19:23 - What a view! I remember playing this as a kid, thinking about the possibilities of future graphics.
Now it's 2020, and I'm about to load Mirror's Edge: Catalyst.
@@kheechung That's Superman? I'd always thought it's a hang glider.
@@kheechung Than Superman it is :)
Did not know there was a sequel until today, but its nice to know you can one shot the final boss with a shuriken just like in the first one haha.
This brings back memories!
Soundtrack from childhood. Genius
Omg that music
Damn, this looks hella fun, I want to play it now!
I bought this and Amiga Bubble Bobble together. Couldn't get home quickly enough. If the Sewers loading tune were female I'd marry it (and there are some pretty tunes here for sure!).
Ray C best comment ever!👍
Great videogame
1:32 The scroll actually has no use. The computer code at 18:00 isn't random but equal to the play time at the start of the Office level. 19:25 if you wait for a short while here, you can see Superman flying by. Awesome game, awesome music.
The scroll makes any objects that you can pick up flash, but yeah, if you already know where they are, you don’t need it. 😊
im here only for the soundtraks no more :)
Najlepsza gra na C64 miażdżyła mi mózg w 92 i miażdży teraz, to arcydzieło stworzone przez System 3 wyprzedziło swą epokę tak jak ich inne dzieła....
Music in "The Office" part is truly amazing :)
This music is on another level
I completed this wonderful game 🎮 on the C64.
I played C64 a lot in the 80s but I never really cared about Last Ninja, I never knew where to go etc, but the music and graphics are awesome! :)
Legend
Blinking ninja at the end :)
loved the music
💪💪 great work 🖐️👍
personnaly i find this games the last ninja One and two and three just incredible for their time
The music for "The Basement" (12:29) is still cool as shit to this day. Matt Gray did a bang up job taking over the music from Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees from the first one.
If you enjoyed this then keep an eye on the channel - I've got a new QHD recording of the game coming soon :)
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays I will! I remember seeing, hearing and playing this one on my real C64 years ago and it was a great experience. The only thing I can compare it to, musically, was the first time I heard Rambo:First Blood Part 2's *AMAZING* intro and high score music. To me, at the time anyway, it was light years ahead of anything else at the time as far as music goes. Still makes me smile to this day whenever I hear it. The game itself was so-so, but the music was 10/10 (in my opinion).
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Also, have you seen this live band rendition of the Central Park theme from LN2? Sounds great! th-cam.com/video/ZYupKsqwDuM/w-d-xo.html
👏🏻 I love it 👏🏻👏🏻 … memories
this game was my entire youth
No argument from me :) Mike Clarke did a good cover of the soundtrack for the Amiga, but the game is really quite sluggish when compared to the C64 version.
Is this original soundtrack or remastered/remade? It's magnificent
Wanted to see how to get down from the stupid roof w. the stick...
Ended up listening to the music in the background, forgetting everything about the game.
Nice!
Too bad the loading tracks are skipped so soon
Last Ninja 2: the 2nd to the last
19:59 - this segment reminds me of the end of the first map of the first Mirror's Edge (2008) game.
Just like here we reach the roof with a ladder. On our left is a taller building where our friend Celeste is waiting for us. To our right there is a sack. AND forward is the direction we need to go to catch a flying helicopter to finish the map.
Coincidence?
This game was great, when it loaded and let me play it
Ahh, great games and great memories. If you stick around for a few seconds at 19:25 Superman flies past!
Went to that point to see that and he didn't do it in the play though
wow the intro music
super music
6:12 if you let him live, you are not the last ninja ;)
the tune at 15:50 Wow
So many hours played.... and I never made it to 'The Street'
I could never get past the fan.
23:14 i never bothered to work out the steam puzzle because if u walk right and head to the bottom of the scenery you can finish the level anyway. Did that by mistake on my first go.
The fucking bees used to piss me off no end!
My childhood copy always glitched in the middle of the first level so I never got to experience the whole game.
The soundtrack in this one is way better than the nes version.
Tape > Disk when OST
What happened with Last Ninja:the return game?They wanted to make a modern version to pc.What happened?
I hear there is a remake in progress by System 3?
There was a prototype that System 3 were working on for the original Xbox that got canned, but I hadn't heard about anything more recent - it wouldn't surprise me though 😃
Blink syndrome at the end
Music kick ass Like LasT Ninja !
So much better than the NES port... ;)
took me weeks to figure out 4:28 you would have to go right to the end before jumping or you land in the water
0:47 music beat made in doom
CAPOLAVORO!!
Classic game, but lack of console homebrew and also arcade version (such as The Last Ninja 1 CPS Dash Remake and The Last Ninja 2 CPS2 Remake)
I prefer the C64 version to the Amiga version by far, even the graphics look nicer overall.
The Last Ninja games were all better on the C64 - 16 bits really did nothing to improve the games 🙂
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays They really could have though, so its a shame. But thankfuly the C64 versions shine and give us what we know the Last Ninja games to be. The game developers should really be proud of what they achieved, as this game was revered by nearly all commodore 64 users back in the day.
Due to being shit at this and thus unable to correctly time my jump onto the first boat I was unable to get out of Central Park and have been stuck in there since 1989. This game is wonderful, it is great to be able to see it in its entirity.
Honestly I think 1& 2 are way much better than the 3d. Enviroments are less detailed but have more personality, music is awesome and gameplay makes more sense with recognizable objects and enemies.
2:57 What was that?
One half of a pair of nunchuks can be found inside the toilet block 🙂
Looks like the ninja gained a few pounds since the first one! More binge-a!
20:05 I could never grab the helicopter :-/ Had a friend do that bit for me so I could continue.
It required pixel perfect precision, just like the ridiculous jumping puzzles!
From memory, if you don't grab the chopper in time, you need to redo the entire level for it to re-spawn.
I honestly think that is the hardest part about this game is the controls :(.
First few times I think I jumped at it. Didn't work
If you missed it you could jump at the very edge of the screen and you'd still go the next level :)
@@Chilliconcarnage true but extremely hard to work out in 1988 without internet and walkthroughs.
HOW DO YOU PICK UP THINGS GODDAMIT!
To pick up items - hold down the fire button then pull the joystick bottom
right or bottom left diagonally.
@@Henrik_Holst Thanks! It works but not always.
There was a 2?
There was a 3 as well 🙂
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My time was 18.54
pigs man....
OH FFS! So you did not have to fight every single one :-O = I was a very shitty ninja in 1988 :-/ Still my first BIG game to complete
15:25 Ah! Here we are ☠️ I REMEMBER (poor joystick) ..jump puzzles...sigh
Them dang boxes had me stumped for a while 🥱
AVGN done a Last Ninja review on the Nintendo version, of course using the worst kind of controls for the game so he didn't have a good experience with it.
I linked your video for AVGN's viewers to come take a look at, so they can see how it actually goes when you use proper controls, and also to enjoy this awesome SID music.
th-cam.com/video/7CixRRG64HM/w-d-xo.html
the first ninja was harder, this was to easy
never got past central park
Listen to the second entry on youtube rather then this mess.
#Januar2011
Maybe they did the remix because Matt Gray's soundtrack was plagiarized.
Personally, I don't care. This is great.
Matt Gray plagiarized the soundtrack? Where did you get this from?
Well some of it, listen for yourself:
Tangerine Dream: Alchemy of the Heart = Last Ninja 2 Mansion stage
Tangerine Dream: Midnight in Tula = Last Ninja 2 Office stage loader
I don't know if there are more.
DeckerFI Was he fired for plagiarism?
***** Absolutely not. I don't even know if anyone's noticed until recent years.Also, I don't think anyone cared at the time, if you made direct C64 covers of actual songs.
Matt's still a well respected C64 musician to this day.
WOW, thanks for the info bro. I never knew about this. Matt's version is much greater, but still easy to hear it's a remake of Tangerine Dream =) I would love to know the original artists of the other tracks (if also they are remixes). Nice to hear the original version. Matt made them BADASS though =)
#Januar1988
every policeman in NY bring shuriken with him,thank you presidend Trump.
Those were fake news samurai henchmen in disguise