That's true—the bar was pretty low!

Yeah, I think the comedy is a timing thing—like, the exact moment you're sighing in relief about eluding a dozen enraged ghosts, one of those goblins comes flying straight at your head.

The SNES one isn't a port of Ghouls n' Ghosts, it's a separate game. The closest arcade port of Ghouls n' Ghosts was on Genesis.

This is a fantastic insight about the GNG series' appeal. Played these games for decades but this really makes me appreciate them even more. Plus, having grown up in a time when information on Japanese designers and their intentions was really hard to come by, it's always fascinating to learn that your reactions…