Haunting Starring Polterguy

"A very funny game that rules until... the final boss"

If I look back at the days I played my sega, I could easily say that games with humour where those I prefered. Why? Because very few games had decent stories and the I didn't even know what an RPG was. What's also true Is that was 10. Your basic goal is to creep an rich italian family out so much they'd escape from their houses(4 of em). To scare them you must enter objects and make them do something funny, gross or sometimes even scary. Some of them are boring, and the best ones are usually in rooms that members of the family rarely enter. This giving it a good replay value if you wanna see them all. To talk about the game engine, it had very nice and detailed graphics with nice animations. The music wasn't something to scream about, but the sound FX ruled. But where the game goes wrong is against the final boss. He is UNBEATABLE. To beat him you would need incredible talent mixed with big luck(the kind that makes you win the new york lotto). I could accept the fact he was hard because of his own skills, but the only reason he is hard is because the controls suck royally. You start out fighting and beat the first monster easily because he dosen't move very much. But after beating him you must face a damned clan of huge flea's. You need to throw balls at them but listen to this, you can't control the the throw's distance, making targeting very hard, you sometimes can't even see the flea's on the screen, making the targeting pure luck, each time you kill a flea two other appear, this pattern reapeats itself until a certain number of times and you have a time limit to do that, HORRIBLE. I never beated the game, I passed soooooooo close on many occasions, but time had the better of me. FL-NA

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 11/01/99, Updated 11/01/99