A terrifying sequel to a terrifying game.
The graphics in Splatterhouse 2 do a splendid job building the horror atmosphere. The levels are dark and drab giving you the feeling that you are not in a hospitable realm. The enemies die gruesome and graphic deaths at your hands. The music reminds me of something out of the Exorcist rather than the heavy metal style music in today’s horror movies. This pushes up the frightening factor up exponentially. The digitized voices and screams are great. The sound of an enemy who gets knocked into some water makes this great echoing scream. The game is challenging, but I managed to clear it in under a day. This was partly due because I wanted to play through the game as quickly as possible when I did play it. Playing creepy games are a chore, but not in a bad way. Playing a creepy game can be taxing on your endurance since they have you on edge. Splatterhouse 2 controls very well and simply and veterans from Splatterhouse will be comfortable with the control scheme.
My expectations were very high when I got Splatterhouse 2 since the original left quite an impression on me. It does follow the formula of Splatterhouse, so I was very pleased with the Splatterhouse 2 following the same direction. There have been other video games that have frightened me since the Splatterhouse franchise, but Splatterhouse was the first and one of the best.