Bram Stoker's Dracula on the Sega Genesis is one of those licensed games that actually nails the gothic horror vibe. You start off as Jonathan Harker, creeping through shadowy corridors of Dracula's castle—the pixel art does a surprisingly good job making everything feel unsettling, with flickering torches and those weird bat enemies that dive at you out of nowhere.

The controls take a minute to get used to—Harker swings his whip in these slow, deliberate arcs, so you can't just button-mash your way through. And those Medusa heads? Absolute nightmare fuel when they come zigzagging at you. The music's all ominous organs and distant howls, which somehow makes dying to the same skeleton knight five times in a row feel appropriately dramatic.

It's not an easy game, but there's something satisfying about finally nailing the timing on a jump or figuring out the pattern of those floating vampire brides. Just don't expect the story to follow the book too closely—let's say the developers took some creative liberties with the source material. If you're into old-school platformers with a horror twist, this one's worth dusting off.