Name:	Splatterhouse series (2 titles) Splatterhouse 2 Splatterhouse 3
Author/Vendor:	Namco
Released:	various
Type:	Fighting
Language:	English
Premise:	It has been some time since your escape from that awful place, and only now have you regained your sanity. Even so, you are still haunted by the nightmares - dreams of your beloved Jennifer, who never escaped that place. "We can still save her," comes a voice from one side. You look, and it is what you expected it to be. It is the mask - that terrible mask with its supernatural powers - and wearing it will give you the only chance of defeating the demon-infested Splatterhouse and rescuing Jennifer from a slow and agonizing death at the hands of the creatures within.
Impressions:	Original in concept, which breathes new life into the tried and true platform fighting genre. Nice graphics, appropriate sound, fiendishly difficult gameplay. The latter of the two games is better in most respects than its predecessor.
Variations:	The first game in the series, Splatterhouse, was only released for the Turbo Grafx 16. Splatterhouse 2 (1992, your first trip back - limited side-scrolling action, but at least you can pick up and use the weapons and power-ups you find along your route) Splatterhouse 2 Alpha Flight trainer hack (gives you infinite lives, but you have to restart whatever level you died on) Splatterhouse 3 (1993, your second and final trip back - great graphics, pseudo 3D action, level design is such that you can go all over the house instead of always to the right, nice intermission cinemas that help advance the plot - this is the Splatterhouse game to get)
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