Splatterhouse

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ps this guy's titles for the soundtrack is cringe.

Sage for triple post.

There was a 2010 Splatterhouse game?

It could have been a lot better, but it was as good a love letter for the fans as any.

Apparently there are shitloads of leftover levels and mechanics that simply had to be cut due to the dev team constantly having to fight with the higher ups.

Double Chainsaw dude is "Biggy Man". he was the boss guarding the chapel and the best way to try and fight him was carefully "juggling shotguns" over to him and pelting him with the required 10 hits he needed to go down.

Oh, and you're thinking of Splatterhouse 1, which an Arcade Perfect version is extremely hard to find, but is included on the 2010 splatterhouse.

Official reviews panned it, and it shows that it's fairly incomplete in several aspects, namely the long load times. However, it is very enjoyable and has SO many throwbacks to the classics:

>none of them do
>it leads to a metal as fuck mirror match boss fight

Seriously, the game is worth it for the banter between Rick and the Mask alone.

This should help set the tone.

Also, there were about 2-3 cut levels where you would find out how the Mask got into that coffin.

>turns out that was Cortes
>Terror mask tricked him into slaughtering the Aztec en mass before tormenting him with eldrich visions before making him lay in his tomb and remain there

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Splatterhouse 2010 would have been a 10/10 for me if only it either 1. cut down on the Splatter Kills being mandatory 2. gave them a lot more variety 3. made them 1 second long instead of 10.

No, I agree 100%. It also leads to fun stuff like players react to that scene so strongly there is apparently not a single round up / review that doesn't say Rick is pissed like all fuck when you continue after killing Jennifer.

But he's wearing a fucking mask and he has no speech clips. It's a pretty damn reliable assumption but for all we know he might be more lethargic and just going ahead because he only has his life left. What matters is that it gets a pretty fucking strong response from the players.

Hell, reading about it on japanese sites it was almost unanimous they regarded the first game as an "action gamer trauma", it was that effective.