Last Ninja Remix Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]
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Developed by Eclipse Software Design and published by System 3 in 1990
The Last Ninja series on the Commodore 64 was nothing short of legendary; if you were into games during the 1980s then I can't see how you could NOT have heard of them.
As is the way, various studios converted the Last Ninja games to the Amiga computer, with varying degrees of success. Although a lot of people would argue that they were never as good as the C64 versions, I believe that, in Last Ninja Remix, we have the exception to the rule.
Firstly, this is not the same as Last Ninja Remix that featured on the C64 (Last Ninja 2 with a new music score). Last Ninja Remix for the Amiga is actually the original game, but designed to take advantage of the Amiga's superior graphics and sound capabilities.
The graphics and gameplay made the transition well in this version, but it's the music that really steals the show here. Jochen Hippel took the original, brilliant score by Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees and gave us a superb Amiga version of all the classic tunes; The Wilderness (level 02) sounds particularly amazing on a decent set of speakers!
The game has it's faults for sure. The jumping sections are really hard and there isn't much depth to the combat, but even with faults, the game is still a classic.
So, sit back and crank the volume up to 11 and enjoy!!
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I loved my C64 an The Last Ninja, but when I saw Ninja Remix for the fist time, this was the moment when I decided to buy an Amiga.
Now, sometimes I'm bored with my PS4 and miss the late 80's and early 90's games.
Kurt Pederson
16 bit isn't always automatically better
Wizball was far better on the C64 as was Outrun. Outrun was a mediocre conversion on the C64, but it was a complete SHIT conversion on the Amiga
@Kurt Pedersen This game looks and sounds bad for an Amiga, yes. But this doesn't mean, that it looked and sounded worse than the C64.
@Kurt Pedersen There's no such thing as bad taste. Everything is subjective, so take your gatekeeping crap elsewhere. Ninja Remix is awesome!
@@nebularain3338
Everything is relative. At that time, this music quality sounded like heaven. It sounds now a bit raw, but somehow I can still find some optimistic elements in this music. The music creator was a genius, that he could create so strong feelings with such a nowadays primitive equipment. I'm still listening in awe to this music ... It's weird.
I'm not an expert in musicology. But the this music is still a masterpiece. I would say that it's a mixture of pop, jazz, electro and impressionism and much more. Or maybe I'm completely wrong, we should ask a certified musicologist. For me it still sounds damn good and it's not because of its quality but because of the the optimistic value of the musical tones. It's hard to explain, but if someone doesn't have emotional feelings, he won't be able to enjoy music ever.
I know the Amiga was technically superior but there's something to the slender, all-black ninja from the C64...
But in my opinion, the C64 game is so much better graphically then Amiga
Yes i have C-64 i played very much Last Ninja and very better best Than Amiga… Amiga shit computer only very expensive
Yeah, that's why most c64 owner upgraded to Amiga back then... @@luxbeci2
@@szabolcscsengoi4231 Mert te Amigara valtottal?
@@luxbeci2 Igen, ettől lett akkora siker hogy én arra váltottam.
The Amiga version of Ninja Remix is truly very beautiful 🥰 ❤️ I love it!
The original C64 already had beautiful landscapes.
@@Nikioko C64 version remains the greatest. No doubt about that but remember the Amiga version of Ninja Remix remains the most faithful version to the C64 version 🥰 ❤️ 🙏
This game was the ultimate awesomeness at the time
Not on the Amiga though. The conversion from the C64 could have been much more polished, especially regarding the visuals.
On the C64 in terms of Graphics and Music, but Gameplay wise it was rather clunky (even for its time!) and boring. IMO Games like Pirates, Silent Service, Maniac Mansion or Boulder Dash where FAR better games. These Games can even be fun today. Last Ninja is now terrible to play.
The music in the Dungeons. I'm speechless. On the C64 this was really scary, here- not so
+Captain Klotz Much lost in the creep factor. As a kid the dungeon level on the c64 scared the hell out of me. And this music... holy. You right this song isn't bad but the c64 version was way better.
+Hoshi82 ..Yeah! It was so scary that I always rushed to complete the level and get it over with.
..I was always thinking that if I ever have my own office or a warehouse I would ditch the normal "break in alarm". Instead I would put speakers all over the warehouse, and when a burglar breaks in he will have to suffer to the dungeon music instead.
Agreed - the atmosphere is completely lost on that level. The Dungeons on C64 gave me the creeps - the Amiga far too chipper.
This is the loading tune before the first level starts in tape-version on c64 :)
My little brother got nightmares after watching me play the Dungeons.
Easily the hardest part of the game is picking up items!
Of course the C64 version sounds amazing but ive always liked this Amiga version. Its music is so relaxing and atmospheric :) Jochen Hippel is great and doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
One of the most beatiful games ever made.
Damn, that music the last 2 levels is still amazing!!!!
Thx Mr. Hippel! This reminds me of the Dragonflight music, long time ago!
I was actually looking for the movie then found this bit of nostalgia. I always loved this soundtrack thank you for posting.
This is the Amiga version from „Last Ninja“. The music in this version is awesome.
I Love This,Takes me back to my childhood,Thank You
I love this version but the c64 did have the better sounding music.
+Anacronian ..I agree for the most parts, but theres one part on amiga that sounds much better than C64 as well:
25:58 onwards is awesome on amiga. Yeah thats the minute when he takes the final steps to beat this game.
@LastNinjaBB6 Even THAT bit sounds better on the C64 ;)
Stage 1 - wastelands is pure perfectness alone (when listening on my A500 or my recordings). So, not agree ;). Jochen Hippel who converted this soundtrack to the Amiga was the best/most smooth (no edges of any kind) + tiny details, music programmer on the Amiga. His Amberstar Title Tune is maybe my favourite on the Amiga.
Yes, and even though the Amiga technically has better graphics (more colors) there's something about the slender, all-black ninja from the C64 that I prefer...
at least they tried to faithfully rip off the original sid tune from the c64.
My favorite game when i was a kid 👌
This is my first game when i have brand new C-64 computer
good music and sound
love the music ;)
Wow, the Music in Lv4 (the Dungeons) are the loading tune from the Tape-Version on C64 - my favourite Tune...
Is it a good tune? Yes. Does it fit the Dungeons? Nope. What could have worked, being the Amiga has more abilities than the C64, would be if the tune were to change when you fell into the dungeons, to give an audio as well as a visual shock!
Epic music
Epic gameplay
Excelente bro 😎
The graphics is very nice here in this Amiga version.
Music on first level....can't decide if I prefer this version or the c64 original. Both magnificent efforts.
YES! HD Remake for the PC please :)
Pretty darn cool!
'To be continued' suggests they planned to remix LN2 as well! Oh well....
The tunes shit all over the C64 - especially the inner sanctum tune. I was bopping along as you played :)
my first game
One of the best games ever both on the C64 and amiga
Love that music.And wish a new game would be made after so long! Lets hope it will happen C64 version was a real pain it was pixel perfect.
Today was the day I learned that Jochen Hippel did the Amiga conversion of the Ben Daglish classics.
I finished this game when I was little. I'm currently giving it another go, but I can't seem to find out how to change items. In all the other Last Ninja games this was done with F3 or F5, but that doesn't work on Remix for the Amiga. Changing weapons is still done using the space bar, like in the other versions, but I can't figure out how to change the other items I'm holding (like the amulet, the glove, etc) :/
What happened to the screen around the 20:50 mark?
I have a question. I have this for my A500 but, the graphics don't look at crisp as on this video. What could that be guys. Connected to TV using scart cable. 🤔
The sounds are very good !!!
but my favourite version is the C64 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am of two minds here, having played the Amiga and C64 versions, this includes the remixes. I have to say I think the music is okay, but the c64 still beats it for sheer 8bit atmosphere. The Amiga version looks much more colorful than the c64, but i honestly think that they did not do the Amiga version enough justice, no shadows, backgrounds were static (waterfall being the exception and the dragon), I would not say it did not utilise the Amiga's extra abilities that well *except the colors. Again the tunes are good, but I guess perhaps I was hoping they might make it a bit more special. Its a toughie as we have played these games over and over.
I mean if you look at First Samurai for example, the Amiga version is very atmospheric and fun to play. it has all the bells and whistles mind you. The C64 version is good, but it lacks the atmosphere of the Amiga version.
I guess I prefer the C64 version of Last Ninja's over the Amiga then, whereas First Samurai on the Amiga wins all the points vs the c64 version.
Its a tough one this, two of my favorite games that you can really enjoy with a decent sound setup on either machines.
I think this is a bit older than last samurai .
Might be an earlier game for the Amiga.
To be fair it still looks better than the majority of Amiga games.
There are lots of Amiga games better but even more that are worse.
@@leighbyford635 I agree, but i was comparing sound and setups. They are not direct comparisons, but they are very atmospheric sounding games. Its that feeling you get when playing it.
@@darrenc2721 yep sound on both versions are really good
@@leighbyford635 They were some good times!
@@darrenc2721 the best :)
commodore 64 :D
Great 16-bit remake of the original! I hated terrible Last Ninja 2 on Amiga but this was AWESOME!!!
How to fight & pick item when use joystick?
8:12 they made getting the position to throw the bomb easier than on the C64 it looks like
Jochen Hippel is a very respected Amiga musician, but here he did so many errors, wrong chords and not capturing the original vibes that the original gave. I would have expected much more from him.
Why couldn't they have just gotten Daglish to do the music?
RIP Ben Daglish
@Slightly Right-Leaning Libertarian Atheist
Would've been interesting to hear what the Ben Daglish version would've sounded like with the Amiga's sound hardware.
What he pulled off with the C64's Sid Chip version was unreal.
Love the music on the Amiga much more than on the C64
@Ronaldo Agudelo Because it loses the atmosphere, especially in the dungeon level. The dungeon level is supposed to be scary and atmosphere, not upbeat and chipper. LOL
@@lordevyl8317 It loses atmosphere TO YOU, but not to everyone. C64 fanboys and their childish tribal nonsense is embarrassing. There's nothing wrong with the Amiga port, or its music.
19:33 ... wow, that looks like a body cut in half on the rack.
Young people watching this today: Insert what now?
Lol at 15:13 it looked as if he temporarily lost his balance and was about to fall backwards into the river.
looks like armakuni had been on the saki just prior to his mission ;-)
OMFG! Shit! This brought back allot of memories. In this version, we get allot of help finding stuff. But in the other games, we just had to figure it out our self's. No help at all and no internet to look up clues. The game ends with TBC, did it ever?
Yes - th-cam.com/video/gws9eNrxcyU/w-d-xo.html 😃
Last Ninja 2 is one of the best games ever made for the C64. The Amiga version however, looks & feels pretty bad. Last Ninja 3 is a decent game on both but I think Last Ninja Remix above is the best of the Amiga trilogy.
as much as I love my C64 I much prefer a couple of these versions over the C64 version. In fairness C64 soundtracks can be a little coarse at times but these sound fatter and mellow. Not in terms of the original vibe of course but easier on the ears
5:39 Buddha-Shintoism... New religion unlocked
20:52 whoops ;)
By the way, why did the game always ask for twice a disk swap each time a level is loaded?
The disk loader was a bit glitchy - I'd press fire to continue and it popped up again. That usually means it can't read the disk (or it's corrupt) , but it worked on the second attempt :)
Al82: Retrogaming Longplays & Reviews Oh that glitchy loader is probably also the reason for the graphic glitch at 20:52 ;)
Song give 5 starsssss I had this game in amiga I like it but I never finished it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
second level, climbing down the mountain side never worked for me. Shame, i loved this series but I gave up on the first game. awkward controls, but hey, old school game so what can you do!
I don't recall having so many issues with the walking "angles" in the C64 version.
What do you mean, it has the same issue
Amiga can do 4 instrument at same time. C64 can do 3 but with trickery one "instrument" can contain other instruments. So Amiga version will sound much hollow and simpler. Its possible to sample some parts and repeat them but it will take more chipmem. Amiga version can have better music but not 100% like C64.
never managed to pass the first stagem those jumps and the atrocious fighting system. music was awesome
funny how they kept the dodgy control scheme from the C64 where you had to squat to pick things up and it was really hard to turn your character around. could have been so much better with improved controls
this was an abysmal conversion akin to a 5 year old s finger painting
Ok. The good? The improved graphics. More details. More colors. The Bad? Biggest issue is the fourth level. The music is misplaced, vs. the C64 version. Also, you don't fall directly between the towers here. And just to prove that I'm not unfairly targeting just one level, it's now too obvious where a previously hidden item was in stage 5, and the final boss can be beaten the same as normal enemies. The ugly? The backgrounds are still a bit too static, as commented before.
Wow. The Amiga version seems so much better than the versions released in the US. Obviously more powerful hardware but the sound is so much better too- and most US versions didn't have music in the stages! Apple IIgs sounds nice and looks nice but no music in game!
What kind of ninja runs down a road in broad daylight?
The "lost" ninja. 😄
Someone should hack the Amiga version and put in the C64's version music.
To be continued...
Stops at 6:55
This is incredibly better that the c64 version: control and gameplay unchanged, better graphics and the same music but with better sounds. Totally unlike the other versions of last ninja (two and three) that tried to change graphics and music, ruining everything of this System 3's masterpiece.
giovanni scarfini Well controlling the ninja with the joystick felt better on the C64. You get stuck many times on the Amiga version for no good reason, they should make it more loose, less strict.
+giovanni scarfini Except that they changed the dungeon music and the new tune that they used doesn't fit at all.
The dungeon music is supposed to be DARK, not upbeat and fucking chipper like it is in the Amiga remix. It's a dungeon, not a fucking SPA
@@lordevyl8317 If I'm not wrong, the music we hear in the dungeon level is the same used for the loading. So it looks like they didn't really choose to change the music, it's more like they didn't have the time to rewrite it for the Amiga version. So it's probably a logistic, not artistic choice.
Come on. Did anyone other than the person who played through truly ever get over those stones?
You need to stand a meter or more from an item to take it - fantastic. This part is even worse than LN2.
Wait a minute?!?! You can actually pick up items without fetching the bag first? That renders the bag pointless!
Anyone forgot the red Rose ? ;D
I prefer the C64 version. The SID music sounds so much better. The Amiga samples in title screen are mixed terribly. Everything is overly bright and loud, it almost hurts. Some high pass filters and balancing the volume of the tracks would have done miracles. The later tracks are a little better but there's still too much high frequencies and a lack of warmer, more melow sounds to balance the mix.
Hrmpf, why is there no edit function on Android???
Of course I meant low pass filters instead of high pass filters to reduce the high frequencies.
I agree. This is like a mediocre port of the C64 version. The graphics and music are not what I would expect from an Amiga game.
considering the amiga's hardware step up this should have looked way better.......epic on the 64 pretty average for the amiga......tunes are good still
though...apart from the creepy 64 dungeons tunes.......made that level well brown trousers lol
It's just an St port like most amiga games of this era. C64 music is better but has a real synth chip - the amiga just plays back samples..
They even ported the horrible controls of the C64 version. :)
This raped my eyes and ears!
c64 did a much better job!
Still prefer it on the C64
I have wonderful memories about this game. Graphics: Awesome! Sound: Amazing! On both, Amiga and C64. But to be honest: Gamplay sucks! IT SUCKS!
It was good on c64 I think but I didn't like it on Amiga.
Of course the c64 version is better but for amiga not bad. See the LAst Ninja 2:(
c64 version is far superior in every way.
Best Last Ninja version on any platform.
Let him like the game for God's sake.
Obvious troll. 😌
@@xeroxed7766 God doesn't exist
The remixes are really terrible in this version. They even replaced the highly atmospheric Dungeon music from the C64 original with the Level 1 loader.
Not the true tune that is on C64 17:50 this is the true tune th-cam.com/video/shLboPmbibM/w-d-xo.html
This is the first time I have seen the Amiga version (not idea why I never got it for the Amiga) however it is a shockingly bad conversion. The music sounds way better on the c64, the hud looks better on the c64 verision, with the score and time and the ninja head. Hardware wise the machines are worlds apart, yet this looks marginally better at best and sounds worse. What a poor job.
"The ninja head"?
Together with the rest of your comment, It makes me think you are talking about Last Ninja 2, which is NOT this one.
@@mrtomlovin That is true, remix on the c64 was a remix of the 2nd, kind of odd they did the first on the amiga....
@@chriscowey7464, it was probably because on the Amiga the first one was NOT present. So, with the Remix they included it.
Yeah no all good but the C64 version is still the C64 version 😉
C64 version looked and sounded better!
@igakoga2481 I am eternally grateful for you pointing out that my opinion is subjective. Thanks!
He is a Ninja but can barley move or walk. The game is great but the control and feel i terrible
If you had to sell your C64 to afford an Amiga this was a great makeshift solution!
How does the amiga version look and sound shitter than the c64 version ,,,, for shame!
I heard 2 of the programmers committed suicide over the Amiga version of this game!
come on man I'm a diehard C64 guy (never had an Amiga) but this looks better , and the music is almost as good
EvilKris agree, music is very good, it even has its own title theme, which is amazing
@The Trigger. You want to get to Specsavers mate.
@@dean8553 Just been to spec savers. picked up hearing aid too, this still is a travesty!
The original C64 version is still many times better than this, a good example of a superior system like the Commodore Amiga 500 failed to the little brother the Commodore 64 of a so called updated version.
They ruined the soundtrack.
***** Depends on your taste but the C64 sounds are nicer, real synth and more atmospheric. The Amiga version have nice arrangements, but the sounds they used I associate with general midi (GM) sound sets.
+jimbojv75 Check out the Acorn Archimedes version, you'll soon wish you were listening to the Amiga version :)
6581 punk Good god! I want my 10 seconds and my soul back...
I still think it sounds good, can't change my opinion
Good graphics and music...shity gameplay...the controls...the combat...really bad.
This is a terrible version.