The Mask is still attached to Rick, he has the power of the Mask. It's the Spirit of the Mask that attaches to the Evil One's remains, that's why Rick still has all the powers, because the spirit left, but not the actual power from the Mask itself.
The first time I ever saw this game was as a kid. My older brother invited me over to a friend's house and we watched him play this on his Genesis. The two things I remember most vividly were that mini boss monster eating human flesh and doing a double take when you enter the room and Jennifer's transformation by the boreworm. My brother's friend admitted he'd never been able to save her in time.
One of the best Genesis games ever, I'll always look to enjoy this classic. Unfortunately trying to play this game on touch screen phone is worst than making a pancake with a pot.
You always know you got a bad ending if the scene with the mask breaking has the "I feed off human suffering. As long as there is human suffering I will continue to exist!" Bad endings are as follows: ! David and Jennifer both die. 2 David dies but Jennifer lives. 3 Jennifer dies but David lives.
Zombie dogs and fetuses? Visibly pulsating viscera spilling from the gut of a freshly killed demon? Yes please. It also has some of the most unnerving cinematic scenes I've seen in a video game. I'm not quite sure how this game isn't more notoriously regarded :0
+NintendoComplete Shame the digitized scenes were replaced when they ported this to the Splatterhouse remake on Xbox 360 and PS3 because of legal issues.
+NintendoComplete Some of the best opening cinematics of the era! Great game too, much better movement, combos, specials, etc. than the previous games.
"Dear, I know the mansion was a steal, but in hindsight shouldn't we have listened to that old gypsy woman? I mean, it being on a desecrated native burial ground *and* the site of their massacre..." "I told you you should have taken that job overseeing that ski resort hotel in the off season."
"Hello, Mr Realtor? You never told me this house was built on a former mad scientists house" "Yes I did." "NO. YOU. DIDN'T" "Pretty sure I did" "Well... Not to my recollection... goodbye" "Talk to you later Rick."
This game scared the crap out of me when I first played it at 8 years old. I think the intro was the worse, yet somehow I had to venture on. The Genesis static-ty sound and voice samples made it creepier and of course the blood/gore was the cherry on the top.
tell me about it man! I was 6 years old and that damn intro scarred me lol to this day I really just dont wanna see it ever again. I still played it though n always closed my eyes on the intro kept pressing start
I'm surprised Jennifer isn't super traumatized and in a mental hospital. She was killed, tortured for 3 months in hell, returned to the living, hunted down by demons in their mansion, and had a worm burrow through and start eating her. She should be off her rocker.
Wow, I was WAY too young to play this in 1994. I remember renting it because Boogerman was checked out, and being shocked at the gore and creepiness of it. It was my very first Splatterhouse game, at the age of 8, and I had nightmares for weeks. Thing is, I was lucky enough to never see the infamous "Jennifer/Beast" face, because I freaked out and shut it off. I wouldn't see it until I replayed it in 2004, and despite being 19 years old, it still freaked me out.
I never even played this game. I only played the first one on the phone when I was young (Like 2008, or 9?), but that has left a deep impression on me. So nostalgic!
The still shots of real people used for cut scenes made this game terrifying being a kid playing it. Specially if Jennifer dies and you the scenes with david, shew. Paired with genesis weird music and the graphics not holding back the gore. This game was legit creepy.
There's one useful move you could have used to get through the game just a little easier. When you're Mutated Rick, grab your opponent, and press Up+Mutate button (or the Jump+Mutate button, I forgot which). If you pull it off right, Rick jumps and does a piledriver on his enemy. Very handy for bosses, mind you.
It really doesn't. In Dead Space, everything feels like it is made of wet paper and held together with spit. There's just no weight to the carnage when one single bootstomp severs a grown man's leg.
Thing is, it's one of the few moves that can be reliably pulled off (the controls for the special moves are a bit wonky). And you HAVE to use special moves in order to beat the time limit.
I think making this game with RPG elements could have really helped. The more you used weapons, the more damage and combos you could end up using with them. If you stick to Rick's hands and feet, then those would develop combos and become stronger. Collect hearts to eventually increase your overall health meter and get them when you have full health, you can get defense bonuses. The super meter follows the same format, providing a longer transformation and doesnt empty when you clear a room, you just retain whats left instead.
oh god, this game made me have difficulty to sleep back then, my brother borrow it from a friend of ours and start playing it in the middle of the night and I was watching the game play, Jennifer transformation into a monster was really freaky when we saw it, it was a nightmare fuel when I was younger 😂 I remember I used to hate touching the cartridge or even not looking at it lol! but what freaked me the most was the monster hidden inside the giant teddy bear, my lil sister used to have a pillow size one and every time I looked at it I keep hearing Rick son's laughing in loops inside my head.
Classical sega gore games, I really loved this videogame. I always kept the Mask power bar for the boss room but the monsters defeated me and I lost everything LOL
I think it would be badass myself if they would remake it for the systems now a days but with that, kinda change it up a little bit like it’s separate in its own time and with everything included in today’s world.
I remember going to FAO Shwartz in the early 90s (must have been around the time this game was released) and they had it on display up on a huge screen TV. I was pretty young and I found it disturbing but somehow mesmorizing. I wouldn't learn more about the series until more than 15 years later, but it's one of my favorite horror franchises. It's so unsettling to watch and stressful to play due to the difficulty.
Apparently, there exists one room in the second stage with the mangled mass of flesh for a corpse amid living hands. Whatever unspeakable atrocity happened to that victim is best left unanswered.
I know the little guide after he menu is crazy important for the game but I find it hilarious because of the way it's framed like the mask is telling rick to press the start button or the A button
I would try and rent this game every weekend. I remember turning lights off and loving this game so much. Of course dying a million times. Hence renting it over and over. No saving on genesis!! The good old days....
So, Rick rejects his humanity in order to destroy the Red Stone of Aja? Great playthrough. The Splatterhouse games were brutally tough; don't know if it was due to collision detection issues, or just me being too jumpy, but I never made it far. Good job.
My fav monster designs in this were: One I like to call Fat Mouth. The lard monstrosity that walks on its knees and has a gaping mouth. The little blue goblin guys, Worm boss.
The overall aura this game gives is nerve racking and nightmare fuel. I remember I was curious and picked "no" to continue on the Game Over screen....Worst mistake of my life as the music and what happens still gives me the chills. Beyond that however SH 3 has a nice,refined gameplay style,cool bosses and is fun to play. can't say the same for the other two games as the game play needs a re-work IMO. Just remember if you don't want to play through put in the password "Fenix" or was it "phenix"? >_< damn memory.
i played this game as a kid, because my parents forgot to hide it from me. the room where the teddy bear turns into a monster gave me so many bad nightmares and the music that plays... ~shivers~ every time i saw my teddy i got scared and heard the music playing in my head
Dude! You played these games! I absolutely loved these games, growing up. This one was hard and I never beat it. Can't wait to watch your Splatterhouse 2 playthrough after this!
@@NintendoComplete Indeed they are, my friend. Splatter house 2 was my first experience with video game gore and it simultaneously scared the shit out of me and had me enthralled. And that soundtrack is so chilling. It filled me with dread.
This vid may be over a year old, but seeing footage of this game tickles my fancy! But I wonder, with the prices I've seen on eBay and Amazon for such a rare game... Is it still worth getting?
Sure'd be a better investment than playing it as an unlockable in the remake... That version of the game, aside from the altered cutscene images, has sound and music issues. (Worse than those found on the Dracula X Chronicles vers of Rondo of Blood and SOTN) Though I'll only get the remake for the sole purpose of hearing Jim Cummings' deliciously marvelous 4th Wall breaking banter as the Terror Mask and the supposedly arcade-perfect, uncensored version of the very first Splatterhouse.
The battle with the mask freaked me out when I first saw it... because of the time. The game always really good at giving you JUST enough to beat it, and suddenly, you get an hour? I was wondering what the hell kinda brutal fight was this going to be? Turns out its just for show. Wonder if anything happens if you can somehow run out the clock?
Namco sure loves using that basic 8x8 font and garggly sample audio playable, even in their arcade games (mainly Namco System 1 games, where Splatterhouse 1 was on), huh?
Maybe this game is where the movie creators for the original "TED" got the idea for the fight where he says "I wish I had a Teddy Ruxpin" and then Ted says "Say it again!" and he says "Teddy Ruxfucking PIN!" and then Ted goes ape shit on him.
I just realized the Evil One looks a lot like that glowing blue whatever-it-was that persues you in Splatterhouse 2 after you break Jennifer's crystal. And that thing that pops out of it'a chest looks loke the eyeball ghost, too.
The strongest move by far is to transform and then do Rick's throttling move after grabbing an enemy. Even bosses can't escape from it and it trivializes almost every one of them. A single throttle does 1.25 times more damage than even his outburst super move.
