Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 Intros
1:52 I - Ingolstadt, Bavaria
8:36 II - The Crypt
19:55 Alternate Exit - Spider Boss
20:55 III - Woodlands
32:04 IV - The Frankenstein Mansion
36:17 Boss - Victor and Elizabeth
37:27 V - The Arctic
44:40 VI - The Alexander Nevsky
54:04 Final Boss
56:30 Final Boss last hit and Ending

The 1994 Frankenstein film was in many ways a companion piece to 1992's Dracula: same production company, Coppola was originally set to direct (with the casting of Robert De Niro being his choice) before Kenneth Branagh took the reins, the official title even included the name of the book's writer (implying a supposed "faithful" adaptation), and the finished film was a visually elaborate, grand, atmospheric gothic romance.

While Dracula was a huge success and is now a milestone for films in the genre, Frankenstein received mixed reactions at best and is mostly remembered as overwrought and flawed. Unfortunately so, in my opinion, it's quite underrated, and 31 years after it's release it still holds up as a gothic tragedy about the perils of obsession and ambition.

Like most movies of the early to mid 90s with any potential of being a hit, a console tie-in was amost obligatory and the game was made by BITS who are better known for infamous games based on classic Scharzenegger movies (Last Action Hero and Terminator 2), plus a game based on a rather obscure sci-fi prison film starring Ray Liota, 1994's No Escape.

It's fairly obvious that the game was designed for SNES with the Genesis version being a fairly watered down replica, with the expected differences in colour palette and soundtrack. It doesn't even take advantage of the Genesis' slightly wider screen frame (both versions are 256x224, that is why the entire video is at 4:3)

Another "remake" of an older video (youtube.com/watch?v=7eWKDM2tR0s) I was not entirely satisfied with, plus an excuse to revisit another film that holds nostalgic value. A bit like a visit to an old friend.

"I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self". - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Film links:
warped-perspective.com/2019/08/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-1994-a-retrospective
filmobsessive.com/film/film-features/film25yl/film25yl-mary-shelleys-frankenstein
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley%27s_Frankenstein_(film)