Later levels do step things up somewhat, with more ghosts and monsters turning the game into a bit of a frenzied race.

The few puzzles and boss monsters can be taken care of with just a tiny bit of exploration and experimentation with things like pulling levers. Most rooms are large enough that you can easily stay a couple of steps ahead of the resident Caspers. There isn’t any serious challenge here, particularly in the beginning, which makes the game good for younger players and those looking for a very casual spookfest. Where before you simply explored the darkened mansion looking for the urn pieces while avoiding the monsters and their ghost pal, you now have to search desks, couches, dressers, and other furniture for all sorts of stuff like matches Allow players to develop their characters, gaining skills or abilities that help them survive the haunting in HAUNTED HOUSE video game.Īfter no more than a few minutes of play you fall into a dull routine where you do nothing but run into a room avoid the patrolling ghosts, rats, and other health-draining denizens hold down the X button to search every piece of furniture and then move to the next room. The old-fashioned Haunted House game mechanics have been expanded, but not necessarily improved.

The gameplay leaves as much to be desired as the plot.

So in the end, you can totally ignore this cartoon yarn and just wander around looking for the three pieces of a broken urn that were also the objectives of the original Haunted House.

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