Listening to them ruminate on tales of awful murder while staring at their cutesy portraits is strange, to say the least.Īnd it’s not always good. Though, unlike Higurashi, Corpse Party’s character designs don’t scream full-blown moe, but their enormous eyes and “W-w-w-watashi wa…” stammering cut it close. Both series share a need to inflict violence on impressionable youngsters. The combination of cute and horrible is immediately reminiscent of the Higurashi visual novels and anime. Seven-year-old antagonists with sugar-sweet voices and holes carved into their faces is a weird sort of dichotomy, but if Japanese horror loves anything it’s murderous undead children. You’re hearing strange voices on the wind, you’re reading violent bulletins posted on the walls, and all you can think about is that the ghost of a murdered seven year old could show up at any moment and drag you to an early grave. Instead, horror games ply their trade by making you run away from a scary ghost for five minutes and then spending the next fifty minutes threatening you with fakeout scares.
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So horror can get away with a little less gameplay, because an entire game where you run away from serial killers would be exhausting. Was it ten minutes ago? Was it half an hour? You don’t know if your assailant will kill you in one hit. Put that same chase in a game and it’s not funny anymore.
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When watching a Halloween movie you can laugh at the moron who can’t even get away from the snails-paced serial killer. Arguing against “why didn’t they just write a book?” is an uphill battle, but if there’s any genre where story can trump gameplay it’s horror. Unlike visual novels, Corpse Party has you actually walking through the world instead of fading out between text binges, but the core conceit (click through dialogue to progress) is in full effect.Īny game where you read more than you play is a hard sell. Immediate comparisons can be drawn to Sweet Home-the seminal Dragon Quest-styled Survival Horror-but it’s easier to liken it to a visual novel. It’s had some remakes and a couple manga series, but it’s still pretty much about RPG sprites exploring tile-based rooms. They are doomed.Ĭorpse Party started as an RPG Maker project in the mid-90s. A chanting ritual deposits a group of fun loving high school students in a collapsing school created by the psychic suffering of four murdered children. As someone who suffers the odd Bloody Mary nightmare, Corpse Party’s opening scene holds an immediate resonance.
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