Splatterhouse

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Product Details

• ASIN: B000FN78M0
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,471 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Play it in the arcade, May 19, 2006

By	The No Evil Killer "Know No Evil" (Everywhere, Anywhere, Nowhere) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

Remember the movie Re-Animator, based on the short stories by HP Lovecraft? Remember the crazy Doctor Herbert West, played so wildly by Jeffrey Combs? Well it seems that Doctor West has been dabbling some more into bad science and has created an army of freaks and monsters. He's long since vanished but the monsters still live in his mansion. You play a college nerd called Rick Taylor who has to rescue his girl (a popular feature in beat-em-up games at the time) from this house of madness. Rick is aided in his mission by a special Aztec sacrificial mask which gives him superhuman strength and powers to go zombie-bashing.

Splatterhouse is a very hard game to across. Either you play the arcade machine (now very, very hard to find) or you buy a Turbo-Grafx PC Engine and get the home-console version, which is so horribly censored that it even deletes the cut-scenes. Thus making the game completely storyless.

Still, it's a cool-looking game and one can really tell where a lot of Resident Evil's influences came from. At one point in the game, the character of Rick walks through a giant vagina and battles evil foetuses. As a side-scrolling beat-em-up it's pretty weak. There's no real impact to the fighting and the controls feel somewhat sluggish.

Seriously, the Arcade is the only place to go if you want to have a go at Splatterhouse. The Turbo-Grafx version neuters the game to the point of no-fun-ism.

5.0 out of 5 stars Get the Japanese version, June 11, 2009

By	matt (Oklahoma City) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

The US version is heavily censored. Japanese version is not censored at all. you'll need a pc engine system or a hucard converter to play it though.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great port, June 16, 2008

By	mikeg233 "smiley" (indiana usa) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

much like the genesis version of strider the turbo grfx 16 version of splatterhouse holds its own vs the arcade the graphics look great the higher colors that the turbo created shows it was the closest thing you got to survival horror back then this version was censored for home consoles but its just a few upside down crosses whocares its almost exactly the same and scary on the turbo grafx it feels mesnt for the turbopad too the sequals arent close