Splatterhouse 30th Annyversary

[Anonymous No.5181349]

For some reason I remembered Splatterhouse, and realized that it is its 30th Anniversary!

You know the drill. Tell me:
>your age when you played it for the first time
>which was it
>your favorite game
>your favorite boss
>which game has the best artstyle

Apart from that, how would be the perfect new Splatterhouse game? (2010 remake doesn't exist).
It would be Splatterhouse 4? A remake? A reboot?

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[Anonymous No.5181431]

Pretty sure 2 was my first, it was new-ish at the time.

Ranking of games: 1 > WG > 2 ≈ 3Jp > 3USA

3 possibly has the best art style although 1 still has better designs if that makes sense... 1 has more variety.

Best sequel would be a throwback to 1 and 2

[Anonymous No.5181497]

>>5181431
The second one was my first too, even though I played it 10 years ago.
3 has the best graphics for sure, but I think the first one is the goriest.

[Anonymous No.5181570]

>>5181497
It's the not-so-gory stuff in 1 that I miss in the others, like the necromancer and the ghosts. By 3, almost everything is some kind of hairless vomiting monster with a face that melts off. The graphics are better-drawn though, especially compared to 2, which has some really bad art in some places.

[Anonymous No.5181616]

>>5181349
>your age when you played it for the first time
15
>which was it
1 and the Famicom one
>your favorite game
1
>your favorite boss
The inverted cross from 1 (I liked the music of that fight more on the PCE version)
>which game has the best artstyle
1 for level design, 3 for intro/cutscenes

[Anonymous No.5181690]

Splatterhouse was my first love. I rented Splatterhouse 2 so many times as a kid the rental place let me just keep it.

[Anonymous No.5182662]

>>5181690
How expensive was to buy it instead of rent it?

[Anonymous No.5182689]

>>5181349
>your age when you played it for the first time
16
>which was it
2
>your favorite game
all of them
>your favorite boss
the fetuses moving in rythm to the music were crazy the first time I entered that room
>which game has the best artstyle
all of them

This my most satisfyin beat em up and I play a shitload of them, even better than alien vs predator or sor2. There's something about Rick going barehanded on these disformed mass of flesh, grabbing them and headbutting their shit in. The games have this rewarding feeling from the very first moments you move and it gets even better when a boss who's a hit away from dying goes into its bullshit spastic pattern and you just catch him and fuck him up after losing patience

[Anonymous No.5182778]

>>5181349
Never played it before, where should I start? Just release date?

[Anonymous No.5182797]

>>5182778
It doesn't really matter but the original arcade game is as good a place as any. 3 plays different from the others, it's a belt scroller like Final Fight.

[Anonymous No.5182825]

>>5182778
Just release date, which is also the chronological order of the games.

The third one is a great evolution from the previous 2 games. Also, it has a great emphasis on story.

[Anonymous No.5182841]

>>5181349
>2010 remake doesn’t exist
But it wasn’t even that bad, though. Especially considering all of the BS that was happening behind the scenes.

[Anonymous No.5182860]

>>5182841
I feel that the atmosphere has nothing to do with the original games. The first 3 games had this horror like film from the 802 with extremely morbid shit (something like Evil Dead movies). But the remake is just a mindless cartoony gorefest.

[Anonymous No.5182965]

>>5182860
This 100%... can't really blame that on the original dev team that got canned, either...

>>5182841
>Especially considering all of the BS that was happening behind the scenes.
It's not the worst thing out there, but the only way to make it look like a particularly good game is to grade on a curve on account of the "troubled development". I guess they at least tried.

[Anonymous No.5183724]

>>5181349
>your age when you played it for the first time
7
>which was it
The first
>your favorite game
Still the first.
>your favorite boss
I don't think I have one.
>which game has the best artstyle
I think it's the first but I credit all of them in different ways. There is a decent level of consistency across the three major games.
The first has the highest quality but I think it has a couple of snares in style.
I think the Mega Drive games are more disquieting in thier own way. The sound is what does it I think. The deep groan of Rick when he takes a hit in Two or the terrible, gurgling sounds the beasts make in Three are very potent. The grainy sound of the machine can be credited there.
Of course, the game affected me at that age, but in a wonderful way. It opened my imagination to horror in a way that would serve me well later in life.

To me, the way to do a new game is to try to match the earlier ones in two key areas: atmosphere and pace. Irrespective of what kind of technology the game is made out of, i think this matters. In all three games, the environments are (mostly) very bleak and curdling; and I think they would be perfectly effective without enemies, and would be fine sites of exploration in other games because everything seems to have been festering there for some time; malignant.
But the pace is important. The game's action intrudes on that malignancy, see. Violence erupts wherever the player goes. It HAS to be an action game. The presence of the player disturbs all these dormant things that are desperate to destroy him. The worms burst out of their nests. The dead things rise up. Every room and location revolts against intrusion - but you have to go through it. It has to be relentless. You push forward and it pushes back.
Spatterhouse 3 had a wonderful sense of this, actually. The sound is key here again: the change in tone when you clear a room and the doors open is incredible. A burst of violence... and you're alone again.

[Anonymous No.5183742]

>>5183724
I would also make it a remake of the first.
I know it might not be a popular idea, but I really detest the feeble efforts of the second and third game at expanding the story. The first had the right of it in leaving so much of it obscure. It was tantalising. It would put ideas in your head that you could mull over later, after the action was long over. The others did this too, but to a lesser extent as canonised lore was foregrounded. If nothing else, it was authentic to horror sequels which would sometimes have bloated and unsatisfactory explanations for the best features of their predecessor films.

Although it is a remake I would insist on the complete removal and disregard of the game's last act. I always thought the 3rd last boss and the ultimate conclusion of that stage was the most powerful climax you could get. Going from there to the burning of the house and the credit screen would be for the best. While I do like the actual final boss; I think it is too much. It's overstated and too extravagant when set against the other encounters, most of which have a sort of grotesque intimacy to them.

I would also recommend using some of the monster designs from later games; especially the third. Those phantasms are a perfect match for the first game.

[Anonymous No.5183772]

>>5181349
I remember being afraid of the arcade machine when I was around 4 years old. I would try and only walk around when the intro was playing because I was scared of seeing the in game attract mode.

[Anonymous No.5183835]

>>5181349
Any anniversary things happening in Japan? I got both the punkdrunkers shirts but haven't seen anything else

[Anonymous No.5185025]

>>5183835
News to me

[Anonymous No.5185126]

>>5181349
The theme to Splatterhouse 2 is deadass one of the best and most underrated pieces of videogame music I've ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFxZoQTnKk

[Anonymous No.5185538]

>>5185025
I got both that & the black variant, not sure if they came up with it due to the anniversary or just randomly.

[Anonymous No.5185547]

>>5181349
I actually thought 2010 wasn't bad. You get 1-3 on disc so its honestly worth buying for that reason alone.

[Anonymous No.5185978]

>>5182797
>>5182825
Cheers, just finished the first game (annoying that it actually sent you back all the way to the start but the stages aren't that hard and there are shitload of lives with 0 instakills like falls etc...) really good game amazing art, music, boss designs, controls are just perfect, I also liked some of the bosses having an after death move that can damage you.
Gonna go play the second now. Shame that the series doesn't have that many games.

[Anonymous No.5185991]

>>5185547
>You get 1-3 on disc so its honestly worth buying for that reason alone.
Yeah, I ended up playing those more than the actual game, but now I've got arcade SH1 on my Wii...

>>5185978
Don't overlook Wanpaku Graffiti

[Anonymous No.5186052]

>>5185991
>Wanpaku Graffiti
Seems like a fun game gonna give it a go before 2.
Is the 2010 remake good? Seems like a good way to get all 3 games in one place.

[Anonymous No.5186098]

>>5181349
shallow, overrated belt scroller with a corny “muh 80s horror film” aesthetic

[Anonymous No.5186837]

>>5186098
You got the whole thing wrong, amazing

>>5183724
>>5183742
Quality posts, no arcade game more ably messes gameplay with storytelling, the less explanatory text the better

I can only disagree about the ending the game after the climax though. Rick seeking revenge and facing off against the mask in some fashion seems necessary to me. Second game has its moments too, albeit with a gaping hole of filler material in the center.

[Anonymous No.5186859]

Just finished the second game bretty good as well, I liked the first more the second's controls felt very very sluggish in comparison still a good game though.

[Anonymous No.5186887]

>>5181349
I don't know Nine or Ten. I rented it after Pine Wood Derby for Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts. It was Splatterhouse 3. Thought it was pretty good. Rented it a few times.

[Anonymous No.5187220]

>>5186859
The gameplay in 1 and 2 is quite similar, but 1 is better I guess.

[Anonymous No.5187270]

played first game back on tg16 when it came out. never got past the 3rd or 4th boss i died before the guy with two chainsaws. i must of been 6 back then.