Jim Cummings, who has done countless voice rolls, delivers an amazing performance as the Terror Mask and this enhances gameplay immensely. Well thankfully the developers saw fit to place a veteran voice performer as the voice of the Mask. After a certain while enemies just don’t feel new anymore and when you encounter the same demonic enemy again and again it puts a damper to the new environment you are fighting in.Įarlier I mentioned the fact that the Terror Mask has quite a voice on him.
However the amount of different enemies available to fight is surprisingly small. When Rick is damaged heavily enough and you are able to see the actual damage on his body it is very impressive.Įnvironmentally Splatterhouse delivers a creepy and satisfying amount of different levels and variety to keep the player interested. This is quite a feat especially when Rick enters his Berserk form and tears apart enemies like a hot knife through butter and sends limbs flying satisfyingly around the area. While the gore aspect was handled great with limbs separating and body parts being smashed with great enjoyment, the blood just felt half-hearted.īeyond the blood disappoint however Splatterhouse does have good aspects as Rick’s performance and animation is very well done. Sure it is Splatterhouse, but the blood sprays around like water it feels just as consequential. With so much blood flying around at times the amount of it just becomes unbelievable at points.
Whether the mask is making fun of Rick, swearing at him (quite a lot of imaginative curses in fact), or supporting him and retaliating they make a great team together.įor a game with so much blood and gore, it is slightly disappointing that the actual blood and gore feels like one of the lesser graphical points for the game. Sure at first it may appear annoying but when most enemies themselves don’t talk the best interactions are between the Mask and Rick. But things aren’t always as they seem and the different twists to the story that players come across will leave them thinking.Īnother note worth mentioning is the fact that Rick and the Terror Mask interact flawlessly with one another. First of all with the addition of Henry West players now have a clear cut goal on who they have to destroy and what they are striving for as they slaughter their way through waves of enemies. Now the storyline is right in line with the older Splatterhouse titles but does revamp it for more modern appreciation.
Rick is hell bent on saving his girlfriend and may Cthulhu help any twisted creature that gets in his way. Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but at this point anything seems better than dying in a puddle of my own blood but things get even better when the Terror Mask calls to him and tells him that he will help him but they must make a deal.Īfter accepting said deal he places the mask on his face only to literally hulk out by becoming an extremely large man with muscles rippling on his body. A mysterious mask falls out of a sarcophagus and falls next to Rick. It just so happens however, even though the monsters smashed Rick’s chest in and sent him flying back into a few sarcophagi, all is not lost. After they arrive West kidnaps Jennifer and leaves Rick for dead after sicking creatures he summoned with a Lovecraftesque phrase. Now Jennifer has to interview a man named Henry West so that she can use him for a college paper but the only problem is the fact that he isn’t a normal man. He may be a pretty spindly looking college boy but he has an amazing looking girlfriend named Jennifer Willis. splatterhouse.Įverything seems right in the world for Rick Taylor.
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However in this version it takes a step from 2D side scroller to a full 3D slaughterhouse, or should I say…. Now Namco published the original game and they are back again to publish it again as Namco Bandai. The original game was a side scrolling beat ‘em up styled game that featured plenty of different monsters and plenty of gore which put the game on a whole new level back in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
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Now some may recognize the name Splatterhouse and remember a series that used to be an arcade game, and then make its way onto the home consoles on the TurboGrafx-16.
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