Not long after the original game was released, Japan got a taste of the rather odd followup, "Wanpaku Graffiti". Splatterhouse arcade version gameplay footage: What did the publishers think people wanted to see when they bought a game called "Splatterhouse"? Were they afraid that parents might mistakenly believe it to be a game about Jackson Pollock? It's a game about sticking your entire arm into a zombie's chest and pulling out whatever you can grab onto. At the end of the day, however, you still have to wonder why they even bothered. The developers also took the time to change the look on one boss character, a giant inverted cross, into a giant skull, which doesn't really seem that much better.įor the most part, however, the port was full of countless little changes designed to tone down the violence, gore, and scariness of the game. First and foremost, the look of the iconic mask was changed to make it a little less copyright infringement-y. Unfortunately, a sanitizing for the home audience was also inevitable. It was so successful that a port to home consoles was all but inevitable. Sure, games like Narc would give you the opportunity to blast homeless people to pieces with a rocket launcher, but Splatterhouse took a more intimate approach to its graphic violence. Pounding a zombie's head in with your first, before picking up a meat cleaver and slicing another monster in 'twain? These kinds of things were unheard of in the distant year of 1988. When Splatterhouse first came out, people didn't know what to do with it.
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