Monster Bash HD

This is an excellent remaster and it really helps get you into the Halloween holiday season. Works very well with an Xbox controller. Still worth buying the original as well. These games just have an unbeatable atmosphere even by todays standards. Monster Bash was and probably still is one of the best platformers on pc. You are doing yourself a great diservice if you do not play this masterpiece at least once in your life.

It's worth having over the DOS version. Just runs a little better on modern machines, with a little better graphics. The gameplay still holds up today. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I was pretty excited when I purchased this game, I grew up on the nes and figured this would tie in nicely with some of those 80s retro feels. Boy was I wrong! I don't hate this game but it seems to be very poorly made. I am not certain where I should be going or what I should be doing and EVERYTHING wants to kill me. What has this young kid done to invoke the anger of all these...these...creatures and objects of death? I will likely give it another go sometime but to be honest it is pretty off putting for me to feel so utterly lost in a video game. I feel the controls are sloppy and you just have to get used to going in circles saying what do I do now? Follow the arrow I guess. Maybe it would help if I knew what the story was or what the objective is here. I have no clue I just go around saving dogs I think? From what I assume to be a horrible fate! It is not clear to me. After maybe 40 mins to an hour of sloppy controls god awful audio playing constantly I shut it off and pondered my life. Has it all be in vain? No clearly this just isn't the game for me and I should look elsewhere for my retro fix. They clearly tried here, but I am sorry this doesn't cut it for me.

PROS: -The sprites and the horror theme are all awesome. CONS: -The game controls like you are holding your controller immerged in a bathtub full of mashed potatoes.

I really like Monster Bash, it is a very addictive game. Monster Bash HD is definitely a good remake, but I think graphics could be even better, with more level of detail and more realistic.