C64 Longplay: Epsilon IV

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Published on August 14, 2024 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_HVqwIKNys

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Nodes of Yesod (1985)

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https://www.lemon64.com/game/epsilon-4
Shades of Arc/Nodes of Yesod and Monty on the Run. The main character reminds me of the one in Starquake, maybe with a bit of Thing on a Spring. Anyway, this is the “take it easy” playthrough with no sprite collision. It covers getting all 128 gems (instead of the default 80) and visiting all locations, some of which you have to visit several times to get all the gems, such is the devious design. The far-left area of the map you have to visit about 5 or 6 times while leaping over all the pixel-perfect-placed enemies. So screw the sprite collision unless you want a brain aneurysm. It only has 64 screens but it’s a cat’s cradle to figure out. I paused at moments in order to consult the map, marking off the gems I collected on the way.

The 1990 version of this has music by an unknown musician, no in-game music (just some initially charming but eventually annoying sound effects). This version has a scene at that makes the obtaining of one of the gems impossible so this was fixed in the 1993 version. Of which has different music, too.

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Gameplay
Original sound effects and death scenes
0:00 1993 version in-game music – Kent Patfield
1:11 1993 version titlescreen music – Kent Patfield?
6:07 1990 version titlescreen music – (unknown)
6:40 1990 version menu music – (unknown)
7:46 Bomb Squad music – Kent Patfield and Dwayne Bakewell (not used in the game but credited, for some reason)
15:02 Same music onwards from 0:00
18:16 Bug in 1990 version
18:27 Back to 1993 version
29:08 Death scenes