Powerslave

"Welcome to the nightmare of Ramses' Tomb. Destination: The ancient Egyptian city of Karnak, Alien forces possessing horrifying powers have sealed off the once thriving community from all outside contact. As a covert operations specialist, you have been trained for all forms of contingencies. Nothing can prepare you, however, for the nightmare you are about to enter.."

Based upon the pc game by Lobotomy Software that used an early version of the build engine. Lobotomy software has built the slavedriver engine to transfer Powerslave, Duke3D and Quake to the Sega Saturn. In doing so it has managed to make fully playable first person shooters on hardware that was thought to struggle with such games. However the game is quite different to the PC original especially with the level layouts The PlayStation conversion that appeared a little later is much closer to the PC game.

The controls can be a bit awkward to work with but you can configure button assignments and play with the 3D Pad analogue mode. One of the things that make this fps game standout for the time is the need for backtracking through levels to open locked doors requiring items from later levels. However the downside is that you have to clear out the level again each time you visit or at least up to a point where you need to take a different path. Weapon and Health powerups reappear though so they can be useful for recharging and then going back out to the map screen. Pots are scattered around every level and destroying these could award a weapon, health and other temporary powerups or nothing.

In this longplay I playthrough all the levels in order as required and collect any dolls and transmitter parts along the way without backtracking. I miss a couple in the first run as I hadn't quite got the hang of bomb boost yet but are otherwise still reachable at that point in the game. This leads to the bad ending. I then go back into the game to cleanup any missed dolls and collect the final transmitter part which shows the good ending and unlocks Death Tank and Eagle Mode?. Finally end end with showing a very quick run of the first level with new perma flight ability followed by Death tank. Unfortunately you have to reset the game to have these so I couldn't jump into any of the more interesting levels to fly around. You also now swim just as fast as flying.

Key: (D) = Doll collected (T) = Transmitter collected

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:15 - Ramses Tomb
00:07:05 - Karnak
00:08:45 - Karnak Sanctuary
00:14:25 - Karnak
00:15:50 - Sobek Pass (T)
00:19:30 - Sobek Mountain Shrine
00:25:50 - Karnak
00:31:25 - Amun Mines (T)
00:39:00 - Set Palace (T)
00:42:40 - Set Arena (D)
00:46:20 - Amun Mines
00:47:55 - Cavern of Peril
00:53:05 - Nile Gorge (T)(D)
01:00:30 - Thoth Treasure Reliquary
01:06:30 - Karnak Sanctuary (D)
01:08:30 - Heket Marsh (D)
01:14:35 - Sunken Palace
01:22:10 - Deserted Slave Camp (T)
01:30:05 - Selkis Path
01:35:20 - Selkis Burrow (D)
01:39:55 - Sobek Mountain Shrine (D)
01:42:20 - Magma Fields (T)(D)
01:45:50 - Horus Peak (D)
01:50:35 - Thoth Treasure Reliquary (D)(D)
01:55:30 - Canyons of Chaos (D)(D)(T)
02:04:40 - Kilmaat Colony
02:10:55 - Kilmaat Haunt (D)
02:15:25 - Bad Ending
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02:20:45 - Ramses Tomb (D)(D)
02:22:40 - Karnak (D)(D)
02:27:15 - Amun Mines (D)
02:29:50 - Cavern of Peril (D)
02:34:10 - Sobek Pass (D)(D)
02:26:10 - Set Palace (D)
02:38:05 - Selkis Path (D)
02:42:05 - Heket Marsh (T)
02:43:00 - Kilmaat Haunt
02:46:10 - Good Ending
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02:52:30 - Quick fly in eagle mode
02:53:55 - Death Tank unlocked