Rascal - PS1 - Full Playthrough (Semi Blind)
19This is a re-upload, to fix an audio issue. Originally uploaded March 2019.
A complete playthrough of Rascal, played semi blind. This PS1 exclusive 3D platformer was released in 1998 and was developed by Traveller's Tales, it was their first proper 3D game after Sonic R. You play Rascal, a kid who travels through time, armed with a bubble gun. The evil Dr. Chrono has kidnapped Rascal's dad, Professor Casper Clockwise, he needs to rescue him, and defeat Chrono and his minions.
You access the game's levels through time machine portals found in Rascal's house, which is the central hub of the game. As you beat stages you get keys that unlock more rooms in the house and more stages. It's a set up similar to 40 Winks, another PS1 platformer released later.
This is a mix of blind and non-blind gameplay. The reason being, that although you can revisit boss stages, you cannot revisit regular stages. As such, there is no way of grinding for extra lives like you normally can in hub based 3D platformers. Therefore, it would be entirely possible to finish a stage with no lives remaining and hardly any health, thus rendering the game almost impossible to finish. With that in mind I would often quit and restart a level if I felt I'd lost too many lives. There are, however, some I beat first time without restarting, they are level 2, level 11, level 14 and the final level. Many of the other stages I only partially completed before restarting, so it's generally always my first ever time completing them.
Sound is a little distorted at the start of the intro movie, not sure why, but it's only for a few seconds.
If you're looking for a particular level I've spit this playthrough up into separate videos here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI2o6Uusv62oNDf-Zavcco_F3jzcMrFlq