Together Retro: Splatterhouse

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

I took the coward's way out by using my game genie to beat SH 3 on Genesis. I tried and tried without it but I became so frustrated with it that I couldn't take it anymore and I wanted to see the GOOD ending.

[Czernobog]

I cannot beat level 4 of Splatterhouse 3. It sucks. Everytime I get up to the boss, and I feel like if I had all 3 lives, I'd probably beat him. But I'm usually down one life and have like half of the second. Sigh.

Get good at the spin kicks, and always approach enemies at an angle. Anytime I tried going at them from their horizontal plane they would hit me. You can even get close enough to grapple them without getting hurt. (which is pretty much required for a couple bosses) The spin kick knocks enemies down and makes you invincible for a few seconds, and is damn near required to beat levels within the time limits.

[noiseredux]

thanks for the tip. I'll work on the spin kick (it's B + C, right?)

[Czernobog]

thanks for the tip. I'll work on the spin kick (it's B + C, right?)

It's back, forward, punch I believe. The timing seemed a little odd to me, so it took some practice.

[noiseredux]

BACK, FORWARD, (C) Spin Kick. This is by far the most useful move in the
game. This will be used more than you'd like after a while, as it has the
strength of 2 punch combos, is easily done, knocks guys down, and provides
invincibility for 5 seconds. This allows you to kill most lower baddies in
one move, often in pairs. Good for keeping time.

[Czernobog]

^Yep, that's pretty much dead on. I used the move constantly to get through stage 4 & 5. Didn't seem like the invincibility lasted as long as 5 seconds to me though.

[Czernobog]

BACK, FORWARD, (C) Spin Kick. This is by far the most useful move in the
game. This will be used more than you'd like after a while, as it has the
strength of 2 punch combos, is easily done, knocks guys down, and provides
invincibility for 5 seconds. This allows you to kill most lower baddies in
one move, often in pairs. Good for keeping time.

I was just looking through the instruction book, and it says you have to press back, forward, B (punch default), and hit them all in succession within 1 second.

[Pabstblueribbon]

I picked up the new Splatterhouse on my Xbox360 for 20 bucks used the other day. I had heard it wasn't terribly great but when I saw it had the other 3 games on it unlockable I figured it was well worth it.

I really am enjoying the new Splatterhouse thus far. Yeah, there really isnt a lot of depth to the game play and its just running around and killing while occationally doing a little platforming, but I am having a blast. I just got laid off and over the top violence and a lot of button mashing is exactly what I need right now!

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

A bonus to the first 3 SH games as unlockables is that they give you the uncensored Japanese arcade version of the 1st SH and not the TG-16 version! Not that there's a real difference in gameplay between the two versions as far as I could tell but I just prefer the Japanese version.

[Pabstblueribbon]

A bonus to the first 3 SH games as unlockables is that they give you the uncensored Japanese arcade version of the 1st SH and not the TG-16 version! Not that there's a real difference in gameplay between the two versions as far as I could tell but I just prefer the Japanese version.

Thats cool, I didn't know that. It will be interesting to compare the two as I've played the TG-16 version before.