A grey armoured knight names Arthur must journey through an insane nightmare landscape where legions of the monstrous things that go bump in the night are out to take his head as he fights to save his beloved princess from the gigantic emperor of Hell!!! Everyone that had the downright magical system that was the Super Nintendo back in the day will be extremely familiar with this game, the constant streaming monsters and their projectiles that never let up, the good sprite work done on Arthur and the monsters, and all the colourfully detailed levels with their beautifully gothic backgrounds, as well as the nostalgia-inducing excellent music themes that really set the tone of foreboding and doom throughout each stage perfectly and greatly add to the thrill and fun of the platforming. A lot of people who've played it consider it to be crazy-hard like the NES version, but I personally never really had any trouble with it, I always found it very accessible and took to its gameplay fair easily. Maybe it's because I always loved that kind of classically macabre yet fun tone and scary monsters. I just found that once you get a handle of the two-hit death difficulty and calculate where your clunky double-jump is taking you it ain't so bad. You can't just charge through it like you're playing Super Mario World, you have to keep track of where all the bad guys are and plan the right way to proceed and just shoot whatever weapon suits you best like hell and avoid the ghoulish death that awaits you every step of the way! I guess it is a hard game, but from my experience it's certainly more fun than the horribly aggravating original Ghosts 'N Goblins though, that game was a real b*tch on wheels to crawl through! To say the SNES game is only 16-bit graphics with only visuals and music to go on it does have some genuinely spooky atmosphere about it in all the levels, right from the trademark zombie-filled graveyard that shows you no mercy! Another level that sports some pretty fantastic atmospherics is the stormy sea one where you avoid killer giant waves and run through ghost-infested sunken galleons, and there's the snow level where you have to shelter from sudden avalanches and even one where you're in the guts of something demonic and the rooms occasionally turn upside down! It's a solidly made game with a strong addictive quality to it that makes you keep coming back for more. The difficulty actually serves to make it better, it's a game that you felt compelled to beat. A fun ghastly adventure that will keep you hooked and an absolute classic that will scare the armour and pants off you!