There are so many things to despise about Splatterhouse 3. The original game was unique and fun. Not "great" but good enough to push a few TurboGrafx-16 systems. Splatterhouse 2, which appeared on the Genesis, followed the formula and was decent enough. Splatterhouse 3 decided to go a step farther and was a disaster.
It added a plot with cut-scenes scattered throughout the game. That would be fine if the dialog was even remotely intelligible. I think we have the rare combination of extremely poor writing and extremely bad translation going on here. Like using Babelfish to translate 9/11 conspiracy theories.
The game's difficulty is astounding, nearly impossible. See the timer that's highlighted in the bottom screenshot, it's at 00:06, as in "six seconds left before your girlfriend dies". I'm about halfway through the level at this point. Maybe I suck at Splatterhouse 3, maybe I chose the wrong door took a bad route, maybe the game is a total abomination, I'm open to all possibilities.
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