16-Bit Platformers Based On Halloween And Evil Dead Announced For Switch

Also somehow WayForward is involved

Looks like a scary good time. Might have to give this a chance when it comes out.

That's interesting but man, why not make the two games cross over? Unless they do and that's the "exclusive content" for grabbing both.

Maybe like a Zelda Oracle thing where you get a secret code after beating one to change the story in the other. Also locking not only playable characters, but characters with "their own story" to preorders is an odd choice, though it'll surely be available within a few months of release.

They look pretty fun but a little pricey. I’ll have to see what the reviews are and how much bang for your buck you get. They’re two of my fav horror properties so I may just have to get em…

@IceClimbersMain At the end of the trailer it seems to suggest they do cross over if you get both. Lol.

Wait so, is this one of the Halloween games.

This isn't going to be another Ninjabread Man/Anubis II/Rock N' Roll Adventures scenario where it's basically the same game under the hood, but they just swapped out the graphics, is it? Because that's what it looks like.

I'm sure the games will be fine since WayForward tends to do good stuff, but the whole thing comes across as interchangeable and generic. Here's hoping that's not actually the case.

I love the idea of this game but I am not paying what they are asking for. The box art looks like it was made by a small child on their phone.

The over the top gore works very good for evil dead, not so much for Halloween. In all the good Halloween movies the brutal stuff is more suggested than seen. Halloween 1,2 and 4 are my favorites and I can’t think of a scene with a truly messy gruesome death scene.

My GOD the licensing involved 😆
Ok... didn't see this coming. And WayForward is involved? And John Carpenter was involved? This is a lot to take in. Fist impression I see a modernized Splatterhouse. Not sure why Mike is sho-ryu-ken-ing victims but hey... I'll see what the review is talking about. I might just be up for these and this RetroRealms series.

Wow, these actually look really freakin cool. Hopefully they turn out to be good.

I wonder if Bruce Campbell will be lending his voice talents? That's something he's traditionally done in most Evil Dead games.

These are clearly not 16 bit.

This here is my BOOMstick!

Anything Evil Dead is insta-buy for me. Looks like it should at least be cromulent platforming fare. (edit: Wayforward is developing, I'm not worried about lack of quality with their name on it).

Wow These Games Look Absolutely Amazing. I Sure Hope They Eventually Do Freddy, Jason, Chuckie, Etc... PLUS The Legendary WayForward is Involved So You Know They're Going To Be Gems Of Course! I Don't Think They've Made A Bad Game Really.

Looks amazing wooo

Surely a standard edition will surface without all of the unnecessary tat. You don't license these mammoth properties only to sell overpriced boxed editions to the minority of diehard fans.

Give me a physical with both of them on there, YES PLEASE!!!!
Love Evil Dead

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Anyone here recommend the Evil Dead show the game is based on? I've only ever seen the movies.

AGHHHH.
Yes!

I was so bummed we didn't get the latest Evil Dead game on Switch despite it being announced as for it.

Hold on this actually looks really fun lol, the pixel art is also amazing as well, I might actually pick this up.

@Kingy Gosh YES! It is wonderful. It is so funny and well done. It is the best version of Ash in a way, as Bruce Campbell is able to use all his experience since then to play it even better.

@OldManHermit He normally does and he said he is always open to voice him, but retired from him in live action. I would have thought they'd show it off though. Be a bit sad if we don't at least get a 'groovy'.

October 18th is also the day Bruce Campbell's new show Hysteria comes out! Well, he has a role, not HIS show, but he plays the Chief of Police. It will be on Peacock.

I'm a sucka. Gonna pre-order so I can play as Kelly too.

Nice but not 16 bit at all

There is also this shared yesterday by your sister site pushsquare by a strange coincidence: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/08/random-youll-wish-scrolling-beat-em-up-resident-evil-survive-was-a-real-ps5-ps4-game

I actually prefer not to play as Michael Myers but as one of his potential victims. The horror element of it is gone if you are controlling the killer.

Kind of interested, but those prices for these kinds of side scrollers seems a bit high. But it's WayForward work... yeah, that's going to be hard to resist.

lol

The Evil Dead one looks fine, but is it too much to ask that a side-scrolling Halloween game has at least a little bit of atmosphere to it, like the Splatterhouse games?

Then again, Halloween is the same franchise that saw its famously immortal lead get defeated by Busta Rhymes, so what do I know?

I love how it costs more to get the bundle.

Pump it into my veins!

Looks fantastic, definitely watching & waiting for reviews.

Interesting!
Just saw preorders open for a physical twin-pack of the games on VGP.

I was hoping Michael Myers would be the antagonist, though, like the old Friday the 13th on NES. I loved that game.

The Evil Dead universe is my favourite horror series ever. I will get that at least. Maybe Halloween further down the line.

Physical editions of the dual pack are up on Best Buy, Target, etc

There’s also a collectors edition that’s different from the exclusive one on the publishers website.

@John_Deacon Its Wayforward. Their games are usually great.

Kind of cool. Never into the Evil Dead IP much but I found Boomstick during 6th to be cool picked it up I think last year or year before. No interest in the multiplayer modern one. A 2D platformer is probably fine something the series hasn't experienced before I think don't remember GBA or DS/PSP entries/ports at all. So fair I guess to have these but I think like the others to explore those worlds and whatever horror game design in a modern way would be cool.

Absolute BANGERS. Going evil dead first though.

@MeloMan Wayforward involved is a good thing isn't it?

While it's admittedly a little silly seeing Michael Myers agilely hop through side-scroller levels and this style of game probably fits Ash a little bit better, I'm just glad to see classic horror franchises in a video game that isn't Dead By Daylight or yet another Dead By Daylight wannabe.

@Ralizah Halloween is embarrassing besides maybe three movies.

For anyone wondering, the developers, WayForward, made the Shantae series, River City Girls series, Dawn of the Monsters, etc.

@LikelySatan The original is still one of the scariest movies ever made. Pity it wasn't simply left alone.

If I had to introduce someone to the sequels as well, I'd probably just show them Halloween II and H20. As a trilogy of films, those work pretty well (way better than the embarrassing David Gordon Green trilogy, and whatever the heck the Thorn trilogy was going for).

I've still yet to see the Rob Zombie remake duology, lol.

@Ralizah I’ve seen the first Rob Zombie remake, it sucks. He tries to make Micheal a sympathetic character with an abusive childhood, which I think ruins him. He was way scarier when he was a soulless murder machine with no clear motivation, just pure evil.

And I know it’s divisive, but I actually like Halloween 3 Season of the Witch. It’s when they tried to turn Halloween into an anthology horror series, with each movie being a self contained horror story that had nothing to do with Micheal Myers. But unfortunately it flopped, so they just went back to bringing Micheal back in every movie. Anyway, 3 is worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.

@OldManHermit Yeah, that lines up with what I've learned from clips/reviews/etc. Not sure how Michael Myers went from the elegance of The Shape (practically death personified and who seemingly melts into the shadows of the world the moment your eyes aren't on him) to some generic white trash serial killer with issues at home.

I think there's a place for Zombie's type of slasher film, but it does a disservice to the original concept.

I need to watch Halloween 3 again. Haven't seen it since I was a kid. I think they could have gotten away with it if SotW had been Halloween 2, but once you make two movies with the same world and concept, that's what people are going to be expecting going forward.

IMO A Nightmare on Elm Street faired way better. The first three movies are all excellent, at least (as is New Nightmare).

@Ralizah it's Halloween but with rednecks cursing. So it's a Rob Zombie film.