Splatterhouse 2, released on the Sega Genesis or Mega Drive in other regions, is set 3 months after the first game, in which the Terror Mask torments Rick and keeps telling him (translating the JP text on the intro scene) that “She’s not dead.”, “If you want to save her, find the hidden manor.”, and “Once you arrive, I shall give you that power.”, Rick accepts and comes face-to-face with the Terror Mask once again. Such a somber story told in 4 stages in a concise manner, so nice. He then faced the house’s womb and the resurrected Hell Chaos, setting the mansion aflame with the former’s death and the latter being resurrected from a soul escaping from the Terror Mask and taking over an unmarked grave.Īfter that grueling battle, Rick is left all alone, the memory of Jennifer dying in his arms haunting him and the Terror Mask blowing apart to pieces, but reforming once again once Rick disappears. However, fate has other plans and he had to kill the mutated Jennifer, seeing her soul disappear in his arms as her physical form crumbled. There, Jennifer was kidnapped by monsters and Rick was attacked and left for dead when the Terror Mask found him, and forcing itself onto his face, gave him enough power to slaughter any and every monstrosity standing on his way to rescue Jen and get away from the mansion. The first game which came out on the Arcade and the PC-Engine or TurboGrafx-16, had the start of this story where we first meet Rick and Jennifer, a couple out to seek shelter from the rain in the West Mansion, also known by another name: Splatterhouse. That being said, we’ll follow the JP Canon Storyline, Famicom release Wanpaku Graffiti ignored for ease considering it is a disconnected entry at worst and a loose prequel at best, with this retrospective seeing as there are only two major differences between the two: Jennifer’s fate between the first and second games, and the involvement of Dr. The original trilogy and the remake are both huge gorefests with the amount of body horror you face and give to enemies, especially in the latter, but there’s something that overpowers it: The series, in all games, is the story of a doom-driven man out to rescue his girlfriend and see her safe, no matter who or what stands in his way, be it monsters, ghosts, possessed household items (Rick PUNCHES knives and flying chainsaws, FIST TO BLADE, and WINS!), and even eldritch horrors from beyond the grave or realm of the living. February is the month of love, so most people say, so what better way to send it off than doing a retrospective on one of the most underrated love stories in all of gaming: Splatterhouse, however, we’ll be focusing on the concluded story of the original trilogy as the remake ends on a sequel-bait cliffhanger, but will still be talked about.
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