Corpse Party Review

<p><em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> is a unique game&comma; to say the least&comma; and while it may not be for everyone&comma; it is a game that will reward those who give it a chance&period; The main appeal of <em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> is its gripping story&period; It wants to take you on a journey and it&&num;8217&semi;s one certainly worth going on &&num;8211&semi; if you can get past a few hiccups and don&&num;8217&semi;t mind the subject matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I should start by saying that one of the reasons I wanted to tackle this review is that I had never played any of the <em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> games&period; Most of our staff had already played one or more of the games&comma; and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about&period; I love a good story and there&&num;8217&semi;s plenty of that to be found here&period; Now&comma;  I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to spoil anything because the story is the game&&num;8217&semi;s main draw&semi; there isn&&num;8217&semi;t a lot of traditional gameplay here&period; <em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> plays out like a visual novel in a 16-Bit RPG&comma; but without any enemy battles&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t let that keep you from playing it though&comma; as navigating through this world is as fun as it is unsettling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112510" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112510" style&equals;"width&colon; 690px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-112510" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;02203805&sol;20160902193132&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Corpse Party&comma; XSEED" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"518" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112510" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Corpse Party&comma; XSEED<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> starts off with a group of friends in a school&period; They are all saying goodbye to a friend who is moving away&comma; and they decide to engage in a dark ritual that will more or less keep them together always&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s after this that a catastrophic event happens&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s an earthquake&period; Everything becomes &&num;8230&semi; different&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not until a little bit later that you learn you&&num;8217&semi;ve been transported &&num;8230&semi; somewhere else&period; It isn&&num;8217&semi;t one hundred percent clear at first&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s the cornerstone to this game &&num;8212&semi; figuring out where you are&comma; escaping&comma; and being a part of the chaos as it all unfolds&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t let the graphics fool you though&semi; this game&&num;8217&semi;s atmosphere is superb and it will transport you to this dimension too&comma; if you let it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It primarily plays like an older adventure game with a top-down view&period; You are mostly going to be navigating around the school while you interact with different objects and characters as you explore to progress the story&period; I personally had to use a guide here and there because I have a tendency to overlook things in these types of games&period; It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t too frustrating but it did break the immersion&period; There were times when I was a bit frustrated in discovering what the solutions were because sometimes they really weren&&num;8217&semi;t anything that I would have thought of at all&period; Other than this though&comma; I enjoyed most of my time with the game&period; It does a wonderful job of building a convincing world and surrounding you with it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first thing that struck me was the music&period; I actually turned it down sometimes because of how eerie it sometimes felt&period; It puts you on edge and transports you into the struggle of the characters &&num;8211&semi; and that&&num;8217&semi;s just the music&period; There are more modern games that have the advantage of &&num;8220&semi;better&&num;8221&semi; graphics that don&&num;8217&semi;t get atmosphere this good&period; The atmosphere here is just so well built&semi; the graphics don&&num;8217&semi;t need to be modernized for you to be convinced that you&&num;8217&semi;re in this world&period; The music and sound effects will throw you right into the story&period; I would recommend this to anyone who likes story as much as&comma; or more than&comma; gameplay- just so long as mature content isn&&num;8217&semi;t a deal breaker&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112511" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112511" style&equals;"width&colon; 690px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-112511" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;02204040&sol;20160902192909&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Corpse Party&comma; XSEED" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"518" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112511" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Corpse Party&comma; XSEED<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> does feature some suggestive content and features a lot of violent and gore-based deaths&period; These may not be graphically detailed but&comma; due to the nature of the presentation&comma; it can still be very unsettling&period; I personally do not like sexual content in any way&comma; but luckily it isn&&num;8217&semi;t as frequent in later releases or in the community itself&period; If that&comma; the violence&comma; or both will bother you&comma; then you will definitely want to steer clear of <em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> as they &lpar;particularly the gore and violent themes&rpar; are repeated throughout the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of enjoyment to <em>Corpse Party<&sol;em>&comma; though&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a great story and it&&num;8217&semi;s all presented very well too&period;  I encountered some frustrations here and there when I would get lost or not know what to do next&comma; but this was not always the game&&num;8217&semi;s fault&period; About half the time it was just me not knowing what to do and the solution I&&num;8217&semi;d find in a guide would make perfect sense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112512" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112512" style&equals;"width&colon; 690px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-112512" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;02204200&sol;20160902192937&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Corpse Party&comma; XSEED" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"518" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112512" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Corpse Party&comma; XSEED<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Corpse Party<&sol;em> is a great price and well worth investing time into&comma; so long as you don&&num;8217&semi;t mind the horror genre or mature content&period; If you aren&&num;8217&semi;t as into story-heavy games&comma; then I would at least consider picking it up during a Steam sale because there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of content here and an unforgettable journey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&lpar;EDITOR&&num;8217&semi;S NOTE&colon; Corpse Party is 35&percnt; off during the 2016 summer Steam sale&period;&rpar;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center"><em><strong>A PC review code for Corpse Party was provided by XSEED for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;