![]() The language used is highly descriptive and often genuinely disgusting, making for pleasantly uncomfortable reading. Rifling through shelves to find key objects, using said objects to clear paths, and absorbing volumes of text are the main activities. Yui Shishido's motherly nature, Seiko Shinohara and Naomi Nakashima's friendship, and even the building within which they're trapped unfurl their mysteries slowly and surely through conversations with ghosts. More important than plot beats are the relationships and personalities that gradually unfold throughout the game2. Learning to read the writing on the walls. They're then separated and advised by spirits to meet up with one another, told that though they won't be able to survive they will at least be able to die together. Kisaragi Academy students perform a ritual involving a paper doll that inadvertently transports them and their teacher to Heavenly Host Elementary, a school that was demolished decades previously after a series of murders. ![]() The diametric opposite to Dead Space's grim and highly detailed space setting, Corpse Party's super-deformed characters are anime in nature: school girls and boys thrust into a seemingly inescapable hell in which you can almost count the pixels. There's just 2D sprites that wouldn't look out of place on the Mega Drive cautiously wandering down hallways, with a soundscape that is technically only shades more impressive than the bleeps and bloops of a Super Nintendo, aside from the full Japanese voice-acting. There are no incredible lighting effects or huge quantities of blood or volumetric fog to set the tone. Which is a pity, because this negatively affects a title that is otherwise a remarkable achievement. ![]() BOO! Did I scare you? I thought so! It's because you weren't expecting it.īOO! Did I scare you again? No, probably not, because you knew it was coming.Īnd that's Corpse Party's Achilles's heel - the issue that takes it from being a really superb and surprisingly scary 16-bit styled horror title to being a bit of a chore to play.Ĭorpse Party demands that you repeatedly trudge through its creepy corridors and oppressive classrooms, experiencing events that shocked you multiple times, to the point that it's no longer even remotely unnerving. ![]()
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