Rodland (Amiga) - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
45Rodland is a highly polished arcade conversion from the mid 1980's. Its just as fun (and tough) today as it ever was, and deserves some recognition.
Production Notes: (click to view)
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Ripped: 13. 6. 2014
Edit Start: 21.6.2014
Completed: 3.7.2014
Version 4C
Rodland is game I've had in mind to cover from day 1, hence the Rit character showing up on all those intros over the years. I knew I could get to the second level boss so I had two practice goes and then hit record. This was my second attempt at covering this game since one with a 'mouse pointer issue' I tried to record in 2013.
The voiceover needed a 'THREE' added as I originally said the enemies take five shots to knock out, and JALECO instead of JALACO as I said first time around, but apart from that, the one major thing was the volume of the voiceover. I wanted a 'quiet story narration' and something which would blend into the game. The first render was way too loud, the second render was too quiet, and this third/ fourth one is a compromise - but still a bit too loud. Maybe you can adjust your volume to compensate? There is also a very slight lag in some of the in-game SFX due to a weird time-stretch problem I attempted to fix on every screen. There was just one more thing to do with the backgound music breaking in too soon at one point, but after several searches I couldnt find where I found it before making the final render, so that bug is probably still in there somewhere around the one-third mark.
I had just discovered the piano version of the Rodland level 1 theme the week before, and I thought it was great to add it to the end of this review.