Creating an Unsettling Sense of Dread. What Makes Splatterhouse 3 The Scariest Splatterhouse Game

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Every great story has at three acts, and this is the final part of Rick's blood-soaked journey through Hell in 3 houses. This time, he faces off against THE EVIL ONE, who has kidnapped NOT ONLY Jennifer, but their only child, David. Unlike Rick's last two brushes with the insane Dr. West At Splatterhouse and Shin Splatterhouse, the Evil One is playing for keeps, and will kill or alter Rick's family forever if he can't make it in time!

Simple combat gets the boot as alternating paths and an all new beat-em-up engine are introduced, to help Splatterhouse 3 stand out in the original trilogy of games.

Join me as I bludgeon, throw and splatter my way through 6 floors of Rick's palatial mansion. Do I make it in time? You'll just have to watch and see!

Sources.

Splatterhouse 3 gameplay captured through a backed-up ROM of the game played through Kega Fusion with a Logitech F310 game pad and recorded using OBS Studio at 60 frames per second. Splatterhouse 3 is the property of Namco.

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Gameplay segments from other games and media included in the video are listed with their respective owners below, and are presented under fair use.

Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti: Namco

Sword of Sodan: EA Games

NIGHTs Into Dreams: Sega

Air Zonk: Red

Robo Pit: Kokopeli Digital Studios

Deep Fear: Sega

Seinfeld: NBC Television

The Simpsons: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company

Southpark: Comedy Central

Family Guy: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company

Sonic Jam: Sega

Mr. Mosquito: Sony Computer Entertainment, Fresh Games

Star Fox 64: Nintendo

The Naked Gun: Paramount Pictures

Ghostbusters: Columbia Pictures

Saturday Night Live: NBC Television

Night Journey of Dreams: Sega

Batman Returns: Warner Bros. Pictures

Streets of Rage: Sega

Maximum Carnage: Acclaim

Diehard Arcade: Fox Interactive, Sega

Final Fight: Capcom

Adventure Time: Cartoon Network

Day of the Tentacle: Lucas Arts

Spongebob Square Pants: Paramount Pictures

Short Circuit: Tri-Star Pictures

Power Stone: Capcom

Beavis & Butthead: Viacom Television

Splatterhouse: Namco

Splatterhouse: Namco

Splatterhouse 2010: Namco

Dracula Dead and Loving It: Columbia Pictures

John Carpenter's The Thing: Universal Pictures

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: Universal Pictures, Gramercy Pictures

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Dreamworks Pictures

Mallrats: Grammercy Pictures

Knight Rider: Glen A. Larsons

Hackers: MGM/UA Distribution Co.

Revolution X: Acclaim

They Live: Universal Pictures

Lance Boyle Footage from the game “MegaRace” by Cryo.

A HUGE thank you to the Retro Game Squad podcast, for promoting the show and lending their voices to this episode's RNR Mailbag! They often have me on to talk about more obscure Japanese games! You can find them at http://www.retrogamesquad.com.

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