Before the upcoming game Splatterhouse let players choose a ācowardā difficulty setting, the gameās developers were going to call their easy mode āpussy.ā This is no gentlemanās game.
Weāve already called Namcoās revival of Splatterhouse the bloodiest game we saw at the big E3 show last June. During a demo of the game shown to Kotaku last week in New York, I learned that it could have been more graphic
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Oh, but if Rick could do that at any time, it might make the game too easy? The player would essentially always have a potential weapon handy? The naive games journalist is answered by the developer who says that wouldnāt have been the problem. Organic weapons in Splatterhouse tend to fall apart quickly.
You can rip enemies apart in Splatterhouse. You can brawl and slice through them. Their body parts will be weapons. The Namco developer estimated they can be chopped into seven pieces, three pieces usable as weapons.
All this violence has two purposes. One is to connect the plot points of hero Rick trying to rescue his girlfriend from a maniac in a mansion, of Rick having his guts-spilling wounds healed by a mask that plumps him up as a muscled berserker for reasons unknown.
The violenceās other purpose is to be fun. Like so many other action games, the pleasure of the game will be in the crunch of buttons, as they let Rick punch and pound the monstrous enemies in this horror adventure, no mercy. Do you mind a game that revels in the ways you can rupture the abdomen, mouth or anus of the monsters you fight? For historical reference, the three original Splatterhouse games are hidden in this new one
The soundtrack to this limb-ripper of a game is heavy metal. The aural growl and thunder sounds right.
This is the kind of game that would call a player who chooses easy mode a pussy. But games canāt decide such things. Corporate headquarters can, the developer told me. Corporate didnāt want the players to be insulted. So, somehow, some way, this is the toned-down Splatterhouse. Could have fooled me.
