But really, with a game like Splatterhouse, did you really need that deep of a story? Yeah, Splatterhouse‘s story boils down to a “rescue the girl” cliché that was pretty typical for the time. With that, Rick sets off to find Jennifer. He awakens to find the Terror Mask, an ancient artifact said to have spiritual powers, stuck on his face. The next time we see Rick, he is lying on the ground in a dungeon below the mansion. ![]() Once inside the mansion, the door slams, and Jennifer screams. ![]() Rick Taylor and his girlfriend Jennifer Willis are two college students that end up taking take refuge from a storm in West Mansion, also known as the “Splatterhouse”, due to the rumours of the experiments conducted there by renowned parapsychologist, Dr. But now, with franchises like Resident Evil having fulfilled that for a new generation, what’s to say of Splatterhouse? It’s been thirty years since Namco unleashed Splatterhouse into the arcades back in November 1988, and for many horror fans back then was the ultimate send-up to the genre. ![]() On one hand, it can reinforce just how good your favorite game/film/song was (and still is), or show you the ugly truth of something aging badly. Time does something weird to the things you love.
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