Deliverance Longplay (Amiga) [4K]

[@opal817]

Those animations are fantastic.

[@danyoutube7491]

I love the graphics. If the main character could just move faster, maybe with a run toggle or faster default pace, it would be perfect.

[@Dethmeister]

The dragon flame animation was really good.

[@Mike14264]

The electric rays from the coils also looked really impressive

[@thedad7313]

The flame effects on the dragon are gorgeous.

[@besotoxicomusic]

Damn. This game looks badass af

[@rozgrywkasmierci7706]

i never realised how deliverance was similiar to bitmap brothers gods. it looks like deliverance copied lots of gods assets.

[@caspice]

Commodore 64 version looks different.....or is it Deliverance 2?!.

[@OdaVenom]

I love Gods, but I have to admit, it has a considerable disadvantage - no naked smirking fairies.

[@HexenStar]

Actually it does have them.

[@HexenStar]

There is some resemblance, but it is merely superficial. Gods is an insanely tactical game, with strategy and secrets (perhaps too many of those). This, on the other hand - presents itself as nothing more than a poorly designed button mashing. As the good old axiom says, (for a million-th) time: graphics ain't everything ;-)

[@iXien]

I never realized how people make confusion between DELIVERANCE and GODS just because of castle assets in the first level 🤣🤣🤣 IMO, the GFX are really differently drawn compared to the so much recognisable style of the Bitmap Brothers.

[@kraftwerk974]

The leap from the beloved C64 to the Amiga was amazing. What a nice game.

[@iXien]

Clearly, it wasn't an in-house project. Stormord 2 Deliverance from CPC/C64/Spectrum hasn't been converted on 16 bit systems. Guys from Devin'Art came to Hewson offices to show their production and I can imagine Barry Simpson saying something like "Whaoooo, All this game looks like Stormlord with steroids. Just put some naked faeries and I publish it under the name Deliverance!" 😂

[@Lofote]

But no music :(

[@spearPYN]

huge sprites... looks great.

[@SuperKittyPogoDance]

More games need naked fairy collecting minigames

[@soterioncoil2163]

I didn't get to play PC games much growing up in the 80's. I had a friend in the early 90's who always lauded the glory of Amiga. He was a computer wizard who really knew his stuff. He did introduce me to Dungeon Master including Skullkeep. I would have really liked this game and others I've seen.

[@julien_o_67]

Those graphics were amazing back in the days.

[@ΣπύροςΚουκάκης-ι6β]

Amiga forever!!!

[@Sabre_Wulf1]

One of the very best amiga games imo.. i liked gods..but this i felt was way more accessible , and the later levels with fire puzzles were awesome. (Even if most the sounds effects were properly 'borrowed' from other said games)

[@SavicksterTheTrixter]

Yeah, 38 fairies were the most I was able to find as well.

[@josuepereira9782]

What with the naked demon with a flaming head sitting on top of him at the end? Did the warrior fail?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

That's the game over/bad ending if you die - I included it at the end of the video just for completion.

[@blokowisko6455]

This looks sooo gay LOL! I bet they removed genitals in post-production from the game-over screen. ;)

[@clray123]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays I thought the hero turned gay after rescuing all the fairies.

[@Zejoant]

What happened to the amazing music like in the first stormlord?

[@floodd3527]

I remember this game for along time it's so amazing that time :)

[@robertwilson3866]

This has the best game graphics ever

[@alxxz]

@33:33 That's some very impressive rotation effects right there I never thought possible on the AMIGA! I only saw something like this years later on the Gameboy Advance & DS! I wonder if its done via hardware routines or animated hand drawn frame by frame?!

[@RescapeArcade]

Yeah that rotation is amazing. Is this on the A1200 maybe?

[@alxxz]

@@RescapeArcade No, this is on the basic OCS/ECS chip-set AMIGAs with 32/64 EHB colors on screen.

[@matieucastel835]

Brian the Lion or Mr Nutz also use these kind of effect, done via software using the specificities of the Amiga chips.

[@alxxz]

@@matieucastel835 I completed Mr Nutz back in the day but I only remember impressive scaling effects in the huge bosses, but not rotation like this here, It's been ages since I played it so I could be wrong though. Anyway, if this game had cool music like Mr. Nutz it would have been perfect and epic! Now it seems dull.

[@drhmufti]

10:12 i kept getting stuck at this point over and over again for some reason!?🎉 it was particularly hard.

[@iXien]

Lot of people criticise DELIVERANCE about its lack of variety, always comparing it to GODS. But if you really play this game, you can quickly understand that appart from the badass warrior throwing axes and the first level in a castle, DELIVRANCE isn't a copy of GODS. The main idea here is all about a big let off steam with huge monsters, impressive animation, a game for guys that want to have big balls in a game 😁. So of course, there is not a lot of variety of monsters. But it was a necessary sacrifice to work on a 1Mb system and appart from that, we have here an impressive game technically but not only, with 4 backgrounds and huge monsters offering sometimes a state of the art animation rarely seen in a computer game in 1992. Main music is fabulous and all these explosions and blood, it's just jubilant 😱😍. And have you seen that DELIVERANCE even offers a totally different gameplay in the last level ? I really like GODS, a game created by talented guys that were clearly not designing there first game. But for me DELIVERANCE is another thing, and I really like it too.

[@perihelion7445]

Agreed 👍✊

[@rhysperegrine5100]

I don't want to think about where all those axes are coming from

[@swordsdragon]

Don't even think those axes are made of.

[@NPrescott]

Maybe they are magic and just appear as needed 🤔

[@iXien]

@@NPrescott That's the magic of videogames.

[@CloudStrifeZX]

Stormlord also has a close range 3 or 4 hit axe swings if you mash the button or hold it....i dont remember well but it helps a lot with the demons and another tough enemies around you instead of the normal axe throw

[@ThrowedGenji]

Loved this game I played it alot as a kid and found it difficult but very fun n yes pretty good graphics at the time

[@alxxz]

@21:21 Those fire wall demons are epic & sinister and their animation awesome and fearsome!

[@cbusbyuk]

I remember this game. Very similar feel to Gods. Another one I never finished so good to see the end. I had no idea the last level was a shooting level that is pretty awesome. What was the last screenshot about as well? Did he get his would taken by the 😈? Lol

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

I added the game over/death screen at the end of the video - Lucifer stealing his soul ;)

[@cbusbyuk]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Ah OK that makes perfect sense now lol

[@Jay_76]

I gotta say, this is a _LOT_ different than the Burt Reynolds film.

[@richardcavell]

The one thing most criticised about Gods was the stuttering scrolling/main character movement. That was something that this game should not have copied.

[@burntyper]

His throwing power is so awesome that axes explode on contact

[@nerdiloo9863]

Never saw this game till now but when I heard the (nostalgic) low bit sounds I knew it had to be an Amiga. Back then other PCs weren't delivering this kind of graphics/sound.

[@electrocutedfrog6953]

Yeah they were, don't confuse 1992 with 1988

[@jhsjr1955]

I totally forgot about this game. This reminds of Myth and Gods but this graphics is way better.

[@mrk45]

This looks bloody good for an Amiga game.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The visuals and animation are certainly excellent 🙂

[@mattx5499]

This is just properly made Amiga game, using the custom chips' capabilities. Amiga was like 10 years ahead of it's time and required knowledge about the hardware to create best looking games.

[@NeilusNihilus]

Had the amiga 500+ as a kid, played it to death but this is my first time seeing and hearing about this game.

[@deceiver444]

The boss fight to free the dragon looks and moves incredible

[@hovermotion]

Nice upload..

[@GiacomoSorbi]

So the naked fairies are only in the first level, mostly concentrated over a single fire (and very few randomly set in cabinets), have no mechanical function and just disappear in all the following levels, increasing your final score a bit if you complete the game? Well, if that does not scream "unfinished game design", I don't know what it does.

[@m.x.1800]

Great looking game, but is in need of some epic viking battle tunes!

[@chisoxfan708]

Throw exploding axes at spiders to rid your house of them! Genius!

[@Alianger]

Level-based maze platformer

[@RobertBatchelor]

Where's the health meter? I see you getting hit a fair bit, yet not see any changes at the bottom of the screen except score and fairy count.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Stormlord's face is the health meter - it changes to a skull with a beard as you take damage. It also heals over time - the effect is subtle. Go to 29:09 and you'll see it.

[@GordonBraicks]

The stutter of the scroller routine gives me a headache.

[@OdaVenom]

Where's life bar?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

It's the viking head in the bottom centre - as you take damage it changes to a skull. Collecting coins restores health.

[@MEGAMIGA]

Well made but it suffers from the comparison with Gods' unique GFX and enemy variety

[@iXien]

It's a different kind of game IMO. Here the deal was to display big sprites to create an impressive game with big monsters, tons of blood and explosion. But of course it suffers of the lack of memory for such an exercise on a 16 bit systems. GODS is clearly a game developed by more skilled professionals who used to create games. GFX are more detailed, gameplay and level design is more mastered, and the Bitmap Bros were very talented. Nevertheless, I really love DELIVERANCE too as a nice let off steam despite its lack of variety.

[@turrican4d599]

@@iXien They should have made 2Megs mandatory.

[@Andrew-el8xi]

Gods basically...looks really good

[@Elbas_Tardo]

What resolution?

[@dawnbreaker2912]

I gotta say, if I'd been tasked with developing a game based on the film Deliverance, this isn't the route I'd have gone.

[@stavivanackerson6563]

Commodore could have made some kick ass arcade machines...

[@worldsendace]

Well the Amiga Had the same processor as Most arcades or the neo geo. Motorola 68000. But as a whole Computer. The Sharp 68000 was the even better "Amiga" with more MHz. But only in Japan and ass expensive. Those 2 Machines where 10 years ahead of its time. But sadly Commodore failed to Bring the next great system with more power.

[@stavivanackerson6563]

@@worldsendace ibm tried to kill everything....they are like general motors....in the book "hackers" by Steven levy... Portrays IBM as evil monarchy.... Good read... Check it out if you haven't already....

[@stavivanackerson6563]

@Apharmd Battler Capcom system play 3 is badass.... Red Earth... Mag-ni-fique....

[@mattx5499]

There were Amiga based arcade machines out there. They were very obscure though. The problem was that typical arcade machine used ROM medium and Amiga was mostly floppy based machine. Arcade machines were designed to work like cardridge based consoles with some enhanced hardware like using multi-CPU architectures to get the best graphics possible, high frame rate and to avoid limitations that home computers and consoles had.

[@trydowave]

Superb pixel art and animations here; some truely amazing design rarely seen in the average amiga game. I just wish it was smoother, had some music and the gameplay was a little more responsive.

[@danyoutube7491]

All it needs for me is the character to move quicker by default, or have a run/walk toggle key.

[@kwkfortythree39]

Why no music during gameplay?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Because there is no music during the gameplay 🙂

[@kwkfortythree39]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Of course, if the game has no music you cannot create a video with it. What I mean is, why it seems so many amiga games lack music during the game? Is it some memory constraint or something like this?

[@paolobilli7396]

@@kwkfortythree39 Because Amiga had only four channels audio... so you had to choose...

[@iXien]

@@kwkfortythree39 Tons of games offer sound AND musics while playing. Of course it would be nice to have 2 channels more but it's more a question of talent. Making a 4 channel music and don't include SFX or just play SFX without any music was the choice of simplicity. But lot of talented musicians perfectly managed to create superb 3 channel musics that allow to save a channel for SFX. The most talented ones created 4 channels musics using little samples that can be cutted by SFX without being too much annoying. But there is something more that seems to be difficult for console players to understand is that back in the days Amiga was very impressive in terms of sound. Paula was something like the state of the art of specialized soundchip until the arrival of the Gravis Ultrasound anfd more advanced Sound Blasters on PC. So developpers ususally made the choice of just playing a beautiful music that filled all the memory, never cut by SFX. Or conversely, they decided to offer superb SFX spread over the 4 channels in stereo so that they never cut each other. And the Amiga lovers appreciated that too. A perfect example is Project-X (Im' not talking about the fact it's a good game or not). At the time in magazines none of the reviewers complained about the lack of music during the game, on the contrary welcoming a great sound atmosphere. The same in the Alien Breed series. Appart from that, There are musics and SFX in Superfrog or All Terrain Racing. Nobody can discuss the Allister Brimble's talent, it was a real choice from TEAM 17 in some of their games. So here is the deal : you got games offering balanced musics and SFX, other ones with only big musics and at last others with full channels SFX only. whether for reasons of saving RAM, inability of the musician to manage music/SFX on 4 channels or by choice of development, we find these 3 possibilities of sound environment according to each game and that was part of the habits. Here given the place taken by the sounds, I am not shocked by the absence of music.

[@iXien]

@@paolobilli7396 Tons of Amiga games offer sound AND musics while playing, so it's more a question of choice from the development team.

[@RaposaCadela]

This looks clunky as hell but badass

[@perihelion7445]

Not clunky at all, hell of a great game to play, controls for it are seamless.

[@dcikaruga]

Isn't this the sequel to Stormlord?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Yes, although it was never called Stormlord 2 on Amiga, only the C64

[@Midwinter2]

I hate the choppy scrolling in this. Could they not have made it smoother?

[@ladenses8245]

Where's he keep all his axes? I don't see any pockets.

[@rogerwennstrom6677]

This is nothing compared to similar styled game Gods though :)

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Superglued to his back 😁

[@sunnyg7038]

He has Magic Pockets get it Magic Pockets🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@illegalquantity]

Fantastic game, it looks very nice. It is similar to the game, "Gods"

[@Wasabialt]

Looks like Gods (1991)

[@deceiver444]

A Gods inspired game but without the depth.

[@perihelion7445]

But this is *technically* more impressive. Gods was better to play but this is still a great game👍

[@deceiver444]

@@perihelion7445 the problem with most Bitmap Brothers games was that they were developped on the Atari ST first then ported to the Amiga. Hence the slightly jerky scrollings and 16 colours palette.

[@turrican4d599]

@@deceiver444 Yeah, but despite of that, their games look more beautiful than Deliverance.

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

Awesome ! Like

[@Lofote]

Turrican got in game music from C64 to Amiga. Here it seems other way round... No idea why they don't play any music, thats just not good.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

The game looks great, too bad it's not running at 50fps.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

I don't think it hurts the game - Gods didn't run at 50 FPS either :)

[@iXien]

If it had to run in 50fps, it would have been impossible to keep so big sprites on screen on an Amiga with only 512Kb ChipRAM and 512Kb FastRAM.

[@turrican4d599]

@@iXien By 1992 they should have just made 2 Megs mandatory.

[@remnantoftheeye5580]

Not quite the Mac version but still interesting.

[@LogrusUK]

Has a bit of a Myth feel to it, but not as good, in my eyes.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

As a combat game Deliverance has the edge, but there's really no variety to it.

[@pnvgordinho]

Cool game.

[@AbyssalManta]

Damn, what an awful game. It's like this came from an alternate dimension where not a single good game design practice was ever discovered, for some bizarre reason.

[@filevans]

just like gods

[@user-it2ex8mi1z]

1.000.000 Power Hits

[@hopetagulos]

I recommend: overclock

[@AmigaA-or2hj]

Looks like SOTB.

[@danyoutube7491]

It's interesting that both this game and Myth, another ancient/fantasy melee platformer, opted to have a final level which is a shoot-em-up in contrast to the rest of the game.

[@Tommi1981]

As well Kid Icarus for the nes

[@AndrewAHayes]

I prefered GODS to this game I had them both but always gravitated to the GODS game

[@iXien]

DELIVERANCE copied the concept but I think it's just the idea of a badass warrior that destroys demons with an axe in corridors. But after that, it's really different games. GODS is a maze game with lot of keys and some puzzles. DELIVERANCE is more an action game with different backgrounds, ending in an outdoor map and even a shmup part. I loved the two games and can play them for hours even nowadays 😁

[@esathegreat]

Final level..wtf Whats up with the gay pic at the end??

[@rogerwennstrom6677]

What gay pic?? The (admittedly slow and repetetive) end scene seems to be the main character letting go of all the angels picked up during the game.

[@rogerwennstrom6677]

Never mind, now I understand what scene you mean. See Carl Busbys similar question below for the answer.

[@bastardtubeuser]

Never seen far in this, it just gets too boring, The ewok village looks difficult.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The worst part about that level are the giant flying insects that try to steal your fairies. There's no way to retrive them once lost.

[@ivaerak]

lol looks like sh-. C64 version is where it's at

[@perihelion7445]

You need glasses.

[@Stevieboy74]

A Gods rip off that was inferior in every way. Wasn't fit to lace its shoes!

[@kaidzaack2520]

A good game…but it seems the producer is addicted to occult symbolism…and bondage plays. Also, the Player can jump like a pro - but when walking it seems he has lead in his shoes…and the monsters are “Alien” ripp- off’s in pink imho…😝

[@snipethecage7637]

Shit game...but nice pixel art!

[@ИванПетров-ь7ь9л]

Отвратительно. Первый Stormlord может и имел какой-то сексуальный подтекст, но едва различимый. И при этом имел шикарные визуальный стиль и музыку. Эта игра целиком ушла в сексуальные извращения и при это ещё и уродливая и без музыки.

[@urmo345]

gods rip off

[@Antonio-hx7yh]

another game immensely underrated. Much better than the overrated, slow, boring Gods

[@alucardhellsing5245]

Execellent game 🤘😝