This house needs some serious cleaning.
Written: Jul 05 '02 (Updated Nov 06 '07)
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Pros: Gruesome creatures, haunting sounds, and blood.
Cons: Too short and a little on the easy side.
The Bottom Line: Before there was warning labels there was Splatter House. Don't be a coward!
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| StarSoldier1's Full Review: Splatterhouse for Turbo Grfx |
A man in blue must survive in an old mansion filled with zombies, hanging bodies, and other gruesome undead creatures with only shot guns, knives, and even his bare hands as weapons. Sound familiar?
Splatter House sure deserves some respect because it's the first real scary video game to be actually scary. Remember Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street on the NES and how badly they sucked thanks to the terrible game play and lack of any real horror? If anybody remembers those slasher movies than they remember all the violent content too (the movies were mostly about teenagers getting brutally killed by a madman or something). The family friendly video games just could not compare. Splatter House for the TurboGrafx-16 on the other hand has blood, decapitated dogs, gut worms, huge bosses and more then enough to erase the bad memories of those weak NES games.
Splatter House lets you play the role of Rick, the man who looks a lot like Jason from Friday the 13th because of the red mask on his face. Although Rick looks a lot like a bad guy, make no mistake, he's the hero of the game and he has to rescue his girlfriend Jennifer from the evil West Mansion (a.k.a. the Splatter House) of Dr. West and at the same time break the curse of the mysterious Terror Mask on his face. This is going to be no easy feet as there are 7 levels filled with monsters, ghosts, and traps but there are also some cool weapons Rick can pick up on the way like Rocks, 2 by 4's, Shot guns, and Meat Cleavers to help him out. The game plays like a traditional arcade like 2D platformer so anybody should be able to play it without any trouble.
The game's graphics are fairly decent with some nice effects like the hanging bodies spilling acid in level 2 to the giant end boss with the rotten flesh that has to be seen to believe. You'll see a lot of other cool things like the second boss is actually a enclosed room that comes alive thanks to a evil spirit. The animation is a little stiff at times because the large size of some the characters and there is no parallax scrolling in the backgrounds either so you won't be blown away by the graphics especially if you play anything for the Playstation2 or Nintendo Gamecube. The music is not only very eerie and creepy, but it is also better than most Turbografx-16 games out there. Even most of the monsters have there own sound effects when they leap out at you or when you destroy them.
Not a very very fine house!
When Splatter House came out exclusively for the TurboGrafx-16, it gave that system a edge until Splatter House 2 was released only for the Sega Genesis (Namco was pretty angry at NEC at the time so they jumped ship). I knew then that my TurboGrafx-16 was truly finished when the sequel appeared on another game system. Although Splatter House 2 and 3 are also great games, the first one introduced me to the series and most importantly proved that horror video games don't have to blow big time. On the down side Splatter House is kind of short and kind of easy, so most video game experts should be able to finish it in a day or two but if you are sick and tired of the usual cute action games like Super Mario or Bonk's Adventure than maybe fighting a guy with chainsaws for hands in Splatter House is more up your alley. Don't expect a happy ending either, so play if you dare....
SPLATTER HOUSE overall rating: 78/100
Starsoldier (Ryan Genno)
http://www.videogames101.com
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