This game is a guilty pleasure of mine. Despite that, it's full of problems. Combat doesn't feel great. The collectables being nudes of your girlfriend feels weird. There aren't many glory kills and they get repetitive fast. One of those glory kills is fisting an enemy's anus. A lot of the stage design is uninspired. The 2D sections feel terrible to play. There's enemies that can kill you in one hit by decapitating you. The loading times for when you die are absurdly long. There's a lot against this game.

Despite all of that, I still enjoy it. I like the interactions between Rick and the Mask (Voiced by Disney's Pete). I liked unlocking the original trilogy as a bonus. It has the greatest "#$%@ you" dropped in 7th gen, beating out the one in DmC: Devil May Cry by a wide margin.

Playing Splatterhouse is like ordering Domino's: It's not going to be great to get through. It'll probably find some way to haunt you. You're probably going to go back for more, despite that.

Reviewed on Feb 19, 2023


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