And it feels cutting edge compared to the game's mechanics, whose third-person brawling is lifted straight from the Character Action Game Handbook TM. While Splatterhouse rolls around in Lovecraftian themes that feel pretty tired in 2010, the slightly goofy sensibility takes the edge off of that somewhat. There's even the obligatory frontal nudity as Rick finds fragments of pictures from Jen's purse, some intimate in nature. From there it's a flashback to the gonzo horror sensibilities of the '80s VHS horror boom and movies like Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Demons, and Brain Dead – it's stupid and crass and it revels in it. An ancient mask offers Rick a deal: it'll help Rick save Jen if he puts on the mask and destroys West and his creations. Play The remake of an 80s arcade title (that went on to appear on most home consoles of the 8 and 16 bit era), Splatterhouse starts out more or less the same way the original did – protagonist Rick is lying in a pool of his own blood (and, on closer examination, intestines) as Dr.
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