The second part to Stage V reflects, appropriately, the mirror stage from Slaughterhouse, but you are punching pink versions of those Moonwalker turds as they destroy a zombie scientist’s laboratory just to jump-scare Rick. At this point, the enemies’ sprites are repetitive, as the baddies are reused without consideration to the theming of the stage. Many of them even make the same ” woo!” noise as Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker.įinally, Rick enters the “hidden house”, gunning-down and punching-out everything in sight. The enemies sometimes fall into the same holes Rick “jumps” over, so that is pretty satisfying. I can’t gauge where he will land it seems completely randomized and inserted more as an afterthought by the programmers. The jump mechanic is even worse in Splatterhouse 2 and is infuriating just by the fact that there is more of it. The player is met with more platforming elements when compared to the first installment, which is a problem as Rick lumbers and jumps like a T-Rex. Each stage is over with a boss battle and NA players are able to enter passwords or change the difficulty. Traveling through eight stages instead of the initial seven, Rick once again hacks, slashes, kicks, and most importantly, punches his way to and through a second, unrelated Splatterhouse to retrieve Jennifer from her purgatory within. Splatterhouse 2 is as if the original game dialed-up the gore with a narrative that helps players develop a better understanding of what the hell is happening, perhaps, better than the comic insert of the original Splatterhouse. Oh, if my grandma knew Splatterhouse 2 existed for purchase alongside her gift of the anxiety-inducing, 7-Up soda platformer Cool Spot… I would have skipped my whole “boyband” phase and be that one kid with a Sony Walkman in the 5th grade listening to Immortal. I was three when Splatterhouse 2 was released and although I was already attached to a Genesis controller through Sonic the Hedgehog, I could not imagine how my preference in gaming would have changed if it was my introduction instead. Splatterhouse 2 was a bigger success in the NA region than the first, simply because sales of the Sega Genesis massively towered over the absolute failure of the TurboGrafx – 16. In 1992 America’s love of the slasher was waning, but not without “masterpieces” such as Candyman and Army of Darkness. If this sounds pretty dramatic, that’s because it is.
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