THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Longplay & Review +Versions Comparison & Technical Analysis

[Xyphoe]

My new video owes a big thanks to lots of CPC Wiki forum members for their part in the last section of this video (see this thread where I asked for help and input!) - where there's a technical analysis of the surprisingly clever code for the time (1987) - it's not often you see several layers of parallax hardware scrolling AND Mode 1 going beyond the limit of 4 colours.

So I thought I owed it to the game (based on one of my favourite films of all time) to take a deeper look. Which I do here that also includes a comparison to all the other versions of the game on the other home computers, not just the full Amstrad longplay. You'll see why...

Hope you enjoy it!

[lmimmfn]

Excellent video Xyphoe, i thoroughly enjoyed it 

[Xyphoe]

Excellent video Xyphoe, i thoroughly enjoyed it

Thank you! I'm really glad to hear that.

[ervin]

Indeed, it was fantastic.
What a weird choice to have the enemies keep respawning!

[Xyphoe]

Indeed, it was fantastic.
What a weird choice to have the enemies keep respawning!

Thank you as well for the kind words! 

And yea, such a weird gameplay design choice to have across all the versions (except - spoiler alert! - weirdly the C64 one) when unusually for the time Domark employed a 'Designer' for the project and this was kept in...