TW: I cuss in this one
Janky, glitchy, derivative, the loading times are atrocious, there, I said it, there's the cons to Splatterhouse 2010. It's obvious that a ton of content got pruned out during a terrible development process. It's a shame. Now let's get into the good shit.
The voice acting is way better than this game deserves, featuring Josh Keaton and Jim Darkwing-goddamn-Duck Cummings, and the plot is good! You end up wanting way more of it but what's there is campy fun. Jim as the Terror Mask is hilarious, deranged, and he's acting the hell out his lines. It really is amazing.
I want some half decent Lovecraft content in a game just once in my life, and this does tap a little bit into some eldritch horror themes as well as your normal campy gore fest - the amount of mayhem is astounding and the combat is slick and satisfying. This is one of those games that kind of gets easier as it goes on and you unlock upgrades and combos. The splatter kill QTEs get a little old a lotta fast but they don't drag the game down too hard. This is the one game where I performed a QTE and my Significant Other left the room after I literally fisted a giant monster to death in front of him. Truly the finest moment of my gaming career.
It's so sad the game got cut basically in half and the ending was a cliffhanger, because we probably won't get anymore of this insanity any decade soon. There was a lot of potential to be something excellent and it's a great lot of fun as flawed as it is.
It also comes with the three old-school games as a nice bonus.. These glowing claw skeletons can get fucked, though.
Janky, glitchy, derivative, the loading times are atrocious, there, I said it, there's the cons to Splatterhouse 2010. It's obvious that a ton of content got pruned out during a terrible development process. It's a shame. Now let's get into the good shit.
The voice acting is way better than this game deserves, featuring Josh Keaton and Jim Darkwing-goddamn-Duck Cummings, and the plot is good! You end up wanting way more of it but what's there is campy fun. Jim as the Terror Mask is hilarious, deranged, and he's acting the hell out his lines. It really is amazing.
I want some half decent Lovecraft content in a game just once in my life, and this does tap a little bit into some eldritch horror themes as well as your normal campy gore fest - the amount of mayhem is astounding and the combat is slick and satisfying. This is one of those games that kind of gets easier as it goes on and you unlock upgrades and combos. The splatter kill QTEs get a little old a lotta fast but they don't drag the game down too hard. This is the one game where I performed a QTE and my Significant Other left the room after I literally fisted a giant monster to death in front of him. Truly the finest moment of my gaming career.
It's so sad the game got cut basically in half and the ending was a cliffhanger, because we probably won't get anymore of this insanity any decade soon. There was a lot of potential to be something excellent and it's a great lot of fun as flawed as it is.
It also comes with the three old-school games as a nice bonus.. These glowing claw skeletons can get fucked, though.