Frankenstein: The Monster Returns

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14K plays 1990 #Action#Platform

Frankenstein: The Monster Returns is an action video game developed by Tose. The game has a player confront the recently resurrected Frankenstein's monster who had kidnapped Emily, the daughter of the village elder. The game has the player moving through side-scrolling levels collecting fighting monsters while collecting weapon and health upgrades in order to rescue Emily from the monster.

Like other games that draw influence from the characters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), it predominantly is influenced by the iconography of the Universal's Frankenstein films. It was published by Bandai America on July 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game received unenthusiastic response in Electronic Gaming Monthly who found not standing out from various other recent action games, while VideoGame found it exciting with a challenging final boss.

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NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

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  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

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Frankenstein: The Monster ReturnsNES

2.5 Could be better

Critics 64 · 2 reviews

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Key wordscheappreciseexcitingdifficult

Scores

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 6/10, 6/10, 5/10, 6/10
  • VideoGame (Brazilian magazine) 7/10

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 52/100 · 13 votes

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  1. 1.00+
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  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

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