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And let’s be clear: this game is horrifying, in the best possible way. That’s really important for a horror game, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen any horror story with a setting as creative or as well-implemented as Corpse Party‘s. Because time is also disconnected, minor details in an earlier chapter might turn out to be the results of a later chapter’s climactic finale, and it all helps to establish a feeling that everything that happens here is set in stone, and that there is no escape. In chapter 2, in the same location but a different dimension, you find a letter by the sister’s corpse cursing the other girl for abandoning her and asking where she went and bitterly explaining how much she hates her. To use the least spoiler-y example I can: in chapter 1 you find a letter next to a girl’s corpse telling her sister how much she loves her and how much she hopes she’ll be able to escape and how sorry she is that they got separated. But what’s far more impressive is the way it’s used in the story. From a gameplay perspective, it leads to a few Day of the Tentacle-style puzzles that require making contact between dimensions, with the absolute goal of somehow bringing all of the children together to escape. The dimensional setting is absolutely brilliant. Only a few things remain constant between dimensions – most notably, the corpses of any of the characters who die. The nexus is made of several dimensions stacked on top of each other, so although all nine characters are trapped in the same space, they can’t see or interact with each other as they have been scattered across different dimensions. If you have any interest in either of those things (and haven’t already played it), stop reading the review, avoid all spoilers, and go buy it.įor those of you who need more convincing, Corpse Party is a psychological horror game featuring nine playable characters – eight high school students and their teacher – who find themselves inexplicably trapped in a dimensional nexus that looks like a ruined version of Heavenly Host Elementary, a school that was torn down years ago to build their high school following a series of tragic incidents. It’s a fantastic adventure game that brilliantly blends story and gameplay, and despite the chibi art style it’s also one of the most genuinely chilling horror games I’ve ever played. So you can trust me when I say that the 3DS port of Corpse Party, whatever you want to call it, is an absolute masterpiece. In general, I don’t even like anime games all that much, and coming off of the abysmal Omni Link I didn’t have very high expectations. I certainly hadn’t heard that it was getting a remastered version with extra content for the Nintendo 3DS, a version that’s called Corpse Party in the eShop, Corpse Party: Blood Covered…Repeated Fear on the menu screen and Corpse Party: Back To School Edition online. Nor had I heard of the anime series, manga works, live action films, or (of all things) theme park attraction spin-offs the game inspired. Until the code landed in my inbox last week, I’d never heard of 1996’s Corpse Party.