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(laughs) We included lots of vocal samples, but they were all done by us-it was just us going “GWAAA!!” and “GYAAA!!!” into the mics. Kawamoto: The voice recording for Splatterhouse… I wouldn’t say it was difficult, but it was super embarassing.

All we really needed to do was pull all the various horror and splatter elements together into a game. Haya: As assistant planner, I had a pretty easy job this game, thanks to the clear vision we had for the concept of Splatterhouse. I mean, I guess that brighter color for the blood might have been the correct answer, if you consider that it stands out better with all the dark screens/environments. But then management told us, “If your game is going to be about killing, killing, killing, you can’t make it realistic.” Ultimately we had to make the blood a fluorescent green color, while the zombies became more alien. Mizuno: In the beginning, the color of the blood was red, and the zombies were realistic. Haya: Like being told not to use the color red. Mizuno: They forced us to change a lot of parts in the planning document. Here is planner Kazumi Mizuno, who also worked on Yokai Dochuki and Wagan Land.

The team drew fanciful horror portraits of themselves for this interview.

If im too good at a particular video game i might get banned