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>>1367391 here

So I did a re-play of Blood Episode 5 since the original's video/sound quality was marginally poorer than the others as stated in the quoted post. I also got lost a few times in the original and shit like that was probably annoying to watch. I didn't know where the secret level was, either. The new video is ten minutes shorter even including the secret level and I don't fuck up as much. Another thing I like about it is that when I play the secret map it's the first time I'm ever playing it; I never played it before this playthrough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYq82ZL_5zg

Sorry to gloat but this is pretty fucking beastly (if you can handle a low resolution video). Really, watch it, just like half an hour at least. It really shows what Blood is all about and it's easily the best playthrough I've come across on youtube in terms of gameplay. Skip the first level and go straight to 2 if you like as Blood tends to start slow with the pitchfork beginning. Note I don't know where all the secrets are so it's not a walkthrough video.

'Postmortem', the episode in this playthrough, is my favourite because it throws so many enemies at you. It's kinda like, for the original Blood episodes, what Doom II is to Doom. The fifth episode was released later as part of the expansion 'Plasma Pak' and in this they turn the game into an outright slaughterfest with the last maps. It's a lot more combat centric and less focussed on atmosphere in comparison to the other episodes. It also has some really stellar level design, the stand-out being Aqueducts.

There is one unfortunate problem that nags at me, and that's that I didn't adjust the default gamma setting one notch like I usually do. I re-installed Blood to do this video and forgot to change it. Oh well, hope it's not too bad. If you watch the video let me know what you think, thanks. NESfag if you're reading please respond.