Written Gamerology: Splatterhouse

You play rick, and hes fucked. Rick finds himself bleeding to death from a chest wound on the floor in a strange mansion. He doesn't know where he is, or why hes dying. He only thinks of his girlfriend whose being dragged away by an insane doctor. All that's left for him to do is listen to the creepy mask laying in front of him. Its speaking to his mind. Its telling him to put it on.

Are we fans of the 3d beatem up? YES! This is that standard game however. The design is simple. Kick the crap out of monsters and move on. Get points and level up your hulking monster to beat more stuff up. Its a very basic formula that works. They spruce it up with weapons and a good camera but its basic in the end.

The game play is also standard fair with a few minor alterations. As Rick we fight using light and heavy punches. There is a ram, a throw, and monster attacks as well as a monster mode the player can transform into. The biggest notice is the monster attacks. Rather than healing over time or picking up regenerative items the player heals using the monster attacks. These attacks require blood. So the player is left to decide between healing or going all out brute force.

Ever force a hand through someones body? Rick has now. There are buckets of blood in this game. The look and feel of this is almost laughably fake. Not in a bad way but there is so much blood it feels like being at a horror movie set. The whole mansion and other dimensions visited in the game really all speak for themselves. We found tiny gems of artistic glory everywhere. However, the heavy metal seems a little over done and after you've seen one persons terrible death animation there are no more surprises. Also, there is a particular creature that dies so horrifically I had to kill them without the special animation.

Horror and excitement. That's what this game wants the player to feel. Did we? The game does a few things wrong. It had a few bugs where we'd kill a boss but die for no reason. The difficulty is unfair at times going from easy to monstrously too hard. And once the three to six death animations have been seen they are very repetitious. Is the game worth it? Yes. A solid story with a few bugs here and there but over all a very engaging fun but bloody experience.