Buffy the Vampire Slayer ROM

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 2000 beat ’em up game developed by GameBrains and published by THQ. Based on the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the game features Buffy Summers, who fights vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities as the Slayer. The player controls Buffy through eight side-scrolling levels, and gameplay centers on one-on-one fights with vampires. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a side-scrolling beat ’em up game divided into eight levels, which include a mansion and the Sunnydale zoo. 

The player controls Buffy Summers, a Slayer destined to fight vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities. Gameplay is focused on one-on-one fights with vampires. Although vampires are the game’s only enemy type, there are six variations: tux, punk, disfigured, tribesman, Euro, and guardian. The player fights two master vampires as bosses: a Viking and a beast vampire.

To defeat them, the player must knock them down and stake them through the heart. A game over occurs when Buffy loses all of her health. Along with attacking, the player can block an enemy’s attack, throw them, and roll on the ground. Levels do not include any obstacles or traps, and while they incorporate platforming, none of the falls are lethal. AllGame’s Brett Alan Weiss described the jumping mechanic as “super leaps”. The game does not have any collectible items or different weapons.

The player can pick up small objects, like paint cans, to throw at a vampire, but they can only be used when an enemy is onscreen. Levels also have power-ups, such as soda cans that provide “super punches and kicks”. Each level ends with a password which functions as the game’s save points that allow players to replay the level. While Buffy is the game’s only playable character, other Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters appear in cutscenes between levels.