I absolutely love the campy horror stylings of Splatterhouse, enough that I was hoping it would overcome the arcade beat-em-up frustrations; but this is a game that's tough even when you try and brute force it on an emulator with infinite money. The checkpointing is really tough; you don't respawn on the spot when you insert a credit, you often have to repeat a lengthy segment to get back to whatever boss messed you up... wait a minute... is this the first ever Souls-like?!

Anyway, I might try the Turbografx version - if that plays nicer with save states etc, I may see the end of this game yet, but it wont be the arcade.