Bloody Paws Unleashed

Bloody Paws Unleashed is a remake and expansion of the 1990 game Bloody Paws, a side-scrolling beat ’em up. You play as a melodramatic werewolf searching for his kidnapped wife, Samantha, and fighting the creatures he encounters along the way.

The search for Samantha

After returning home to find the front door forced open and Samantha missing, the werewolf follows a familiar aroma east to search for her and confront whoever took her.

Creatures and combat

The original game pits the werewolf against eccentric enemies, including invisible men, rope-jumping mummies, off-brand superheroes and the Frankenstein monster. Bloody Paws Unleashed adds color, new levels and additional moves, and restores elements that were not fully implemented in the original because of memory limitations. These include the witch, an enemy brought into the game over 30 years later using sketches found by Juan Carlos Sanchez, creator of the original.

The original game

Bloody Paws was developed in Spain by Mar Entertainment and released in 1990 for the ZX Spectrum and MSX. A completed version followed for the Amstrad CPC in 2020.