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Of course, Japan is known for its love of the horror genre, but even so, IвЂ™m a bit of a hardened horror fan, and there were parts of Corpse Party that made me shiver and look around to make sure that nothing had appeared in the corners while I was focusing on my PSP screen. IвЂ™d wager that gamers new to this type of title could be somewhat taken off guard by the brutality and haunting images that it chooses to use in the telling of its story. And perhaps youвЂ™ll follow, because you canвЂ™t seem to help yourself. Corpse Party chooses to beckon to you, opening the door and showing you a mutilated mess of horrors. Watching a horror film has its own strange appeal, but playing a role in which you make decisions that can change the course of a story has a different resonance altogether. Many gamers would be frustrated to have вЂњwasted timeвЂќ on the bad ending, but these are actually desirable in Japanese titles, as it gives the player a different perspective on how their story could come to an end.

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Sure, the goal is to survive вЂ¦ but if you want the full experience of Corpse Party, you want to see what depraved lows it can go to almost more than you care about seeking out its highs. Many of these are вЂњbadвЂќ endings in which your character dies, usually in a pretty gruesome way. One thing Corpse Party boasts is multiple endings, and it even has a star system within the menu so you can keep track of them all and try to unlock them. It could be stale, if it chose to be, but the writing is compelling enough here to keep us enrolled in the events and eventually to become interested in what role each of these characters play in the bigger picture. The characters of Corpse Party are very much the typical stereotypes you expect to see in any visual novel: Satoshi Moshida, the shy and cowardly guy who gets picked on, Naomi Nakashima, the tomboy with the fun attitude, Seiko Shinohara, the cheerful best friend вЂ¦ and the list goes on.

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Naturally, since the school in question was torn down years ago after a series of ghastly murders, you can only assume that the worst is going to come. Corpse Party tells the individual stories of nine characters and their adventures inside a haunted school by the name of Heavenly Host Elementary, which they are transported to by way of a mysterious earthquake. The horror visual novel is its own niche altogether, however, and while Corpse Party has more action factored into its formula, the influence of visual novels is obvious in its format. There are also rare instances where a visual novel gets a proper US release, as in the case of ChunsoftвЂ™s 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, which tells the story of a group of people trapped on a sinking ship together who must try to escape.

While the visual novel may be a big deal in Japan, it hasnвЂ™t really found its footing in the US, although there are certainly dedicated fan translators out there who have gone to great lengths to make sure that hardcore fans can play some of the most well-known ones, such as Higurashi no Naku Koru Ni.

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