one of Japan's premier Famicom researchers turned up an unseen Namco promo VHS with five minutes of footage from SPLATTER WORLD, an unreleased Famicom RPG and sequel-of-sorts to Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, that was absent from all the common online listings & books written on unreleased FC games.
The video had it dated for release on March 19, 1993 and the footage and associated material certainly suggests it was close to being done, if not complete, so who knows why it didn't come outβthe author speculates that it was probably just a case of the game not receiving enough orders from retailers, which seems entirely plausible for such a late Famicom game.
What's also interesting is that the characters and designs seen in Splatter World clearly match those seen in the art that's briefly shown in this Namco Museum of Art video on the Splatterhouse series, which begs the question: if they have the key art, do they still have the ROM?
(The author did ask one of their ex-Namco contacts about the game, in order to try to ascertain any further info on who might've made the game, but all they could offer were vague memories about seeing and possibly test-playing the game at some point.)
OH MY GOD WHAT??
Officially my lost media holy grail holy shit
