Buy this game while it's on-sale because the full price is just not worth it! Important Heads Up! Before anything, I want to mention that Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient just feels like a demo. It's so short in content that you could 100% complete the game the way it currently is in just a few hours. The average player takes an hour or two to reach the good ending. The reason for this is because the game is literally, officially, incomplete. You heard me right. This is a paid, incomplete game. It is still in development as of Fall 2024. This makes me wonder though...whose idea was it to release the game like this? There's only 1 chapter and 1 extra chapter. This sort of release obviously does not satisfy most of your community. The game is still in development as of 2024, but it seems like there hasn't been any development in years in reality. I'm assuming development on this game was frozen a while ago in order to pursue development on Corpse Party 2: Darkness Distortion which is a game coming out in a month or two that's unrelated to this game but is thematically similar, taking place in a hospital setting just like this game. I'm hoping when Corpse Party 2: Darkness Distortion releases, it's the full game and not an unfinished game like this. I'm also hoping that once Corpse Party 2: Darkness Distortion releases, development with this game will continue. About Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient High schooler Ayame Itou wakes up on a hospital bed with amnesia in Amare Patriarcha Crucis Hospital. She has no idea how she ended up in the hospital and why she suddenly has lost all of her memories up to the point of waking up. The hospital seems abandoned at a first glance but there are what seems to be ghosts as well as soldiers roaming around the hospital...and they don't seem to be friendly. Ayame's mission is to find the exit of the hospital...but is this story as simple as waking up with amnesia in a hospital building and exiting to the outside world with no care at all? Play to find out! My Thoughts on the Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient Usually when I write a review, this section would discuss my final thoughts on the game, but it's really too early for me to craft a conclusion as this game is literally incomplete. Rather, I just want to share what I've understood as the plot in this game. It's just one big spoiler. Please read it after completing the game and let me know what you think. Ayame Itou suddenly collapses while in class at high school. Her classmates then bring her to the school's nurses office and then to a hospital via ambulance as only medical professionals could address the issue. While Ayame was passed out, an "illness" (probably some sort of curse or dark magic or spell in reality) called the "deathbringer" spreads in the hospital. I wasn't able to catch the source. Meaning, I don't know if somebody random just caught it from somewhere out of thin air and then spreaded it to the hospital or if it was created by the hospital as a sort of bioweapon and that hospital staff are testing it inside of the hospital. All we know is that the deathbringer made its way inside of the hospital and began to spread. Judging by Ritsuko's memory of a mother going berserk by murdering her child and then taking her own life, and then her child coming back to life at the end, we can assume that either the berserk mother or the child that came back to life was probably the first or among the first infected with deathbringer. As deathbringer began to spread, the hospital decided to lock itself down in order to prevent word of this new disease (or "scandal" as described by Ritsuko) from spreading. This would explain why TV works inside of the hospital but phone reception does not. Whoever was pulling the strings decided to equip hospital staff with military-like uniforms and make the soldier-like staff quarantine the non-infected and eliminate the infected. This would explain why survivors seem to be forced into hospital rooms and why the soldier-like medical staff mention areas being cleared. The string puller also likely ordered non-infected patients to lose their memories in order to prevent word of the disease from spreading. However, judging by other non-infected characters we meet, it seems that this order was not fully enforced (perhaps it was just being enforced by the time Ayame woke up) or that there could be some deeper unknown reason we have yet to discover. Maybe such another reason could be as simple as that Ayame had died and because she had died, she lost her memories. Because after all, the ending suggests that when Ayame collapsed at school...she actually died. When she woke up, she was likely infected with the deathbringer illness that brought "her back to life". It would explain why she was restrained on her hospital bed. If such as a reason is the case, then I also want to add that it is likely that Ritsuko had died, lost her memories and was brought back to life thanks to deathbringer as well because of Ritsuko's reaction to learning Ayame being an amnesiac as well as because of Masami's "dead patient" comment at the end towards both Ayame and Ritsuko. By the way, because of the ending, I also have a strong feeling that the string puller I mentioned earlier or basically the person who caused all of this is likely Masami - Ritsuko's boyfriend, or it could be Ayumi Shinozaki, who we saw at the prologue. It wouldn't be the first time Shinozaki has attempted to bring someone back from the dead (remember the end of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows!). Maybe Shinozaki's depressed as this time she succeeded in bringing someone back from the dead but it went a bit unexpectedly wrong so she's keeping it a secret. Who knows! I don't know. From what it seems though, whatever deahtbringer is, it can bring the dead back to life. And from what I can tell, this hospital isn't in some sort of cursed parallel world/dimension like Heavenly Host from Corpse Party 1 was; it seems that these bizarre events taking place in Amare Patriarcha Crucis Hospital are in our real world at real time. What I Like About Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient In this section, I just want to discuss what I think Team GrisGris has improved on after Corpse Party: Blood Drive. 1. I love that we can run a little more! The stamina is fair! In CP: BD, our stamina was so low that running was a pain! I'm glad that pain point is addressed in this game! 2. It might just be me, but I love the smooth gameplay! The game feels quite smoother to play in comparison to CP:BD! 3. I love how some characters we meet for the first time in this game are connected to Corpse Party 1 characters For example, in the extra chapter, you'll meet Morshige's dad who is a doctor! My Pain Points For Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient 1. Lack of voice acting!!! There's full voice acting for insignificant side characters in this game but no voice acting for the important main characters? What??? CP:BD has a voice acting issue as well! Why haven't you learned Team GrisGris!!! ):<<< 2. Hospital staff soldier hitboxes are a pain! They can hit you at a somewhat far distance! It needs a little nerfing! 3. In order to go full screen, I had to go to config in the game files. Why not allow the game to go full screen when alt + enter is inputted on a keyboard? Anyways, I just hope that development on this game continues soon, I cannot wait to continue playing, I love what it has so far! Overall Rating: Too Early To Rate (Not Applicable)
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