Corpse Party (2021)
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Corpse Party (2021) is a horror, psychological horror and pixel graphics game
developed by MAGES.
and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Released on October 20th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 1,112 reviews of which 1,027 were positive and 85 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 8.1
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-2105
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics / Intel® HD Graphics 3000
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.12
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-2105
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics / Intel® HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-2105
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics / Intel® HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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READ BELOW FOR MY REVIEW + RUNDOWN & FINAL SCORE! STORY ⬜ Masterpiece ✅ Amazing ✅ Great ⬜ Good ⬜ Average ⬜ Bad ⬜ Awful ⬜ None 🔶 9/10 GAMEPLAY ⬜ Perfect ⬜ Amazing ⬜ Great ⬜ Good ✅ Average ⬜ Bad ⬜ Hot Garbage ⬜ None 🔶 6/10 VISUALS ⬜ Realistic ⬜ Modern ✅ Anime ✅ Pixelated ⬜ Unique ⬜ Impressive ✅ Good ✅ Average ⬜ Bad ⬜ Gross 🔶 7/10 DIFFICULTY ✅ Press A ⬜ Easy ⬜ Medium ⬜ Hard ⬜ Easy to Learn/Hard to Master ✅ Puzzling ⬜ Difficult ⬜ Dark Souls 🔶 6/10 MUSIC & SFX ⬜ Heavenly ⬜ Amazing ✅ Great ⬜ Good ⬜ Average ⬜ Bad ⬜ WTF ⬜ None 🔶 8/10 VOICE ACTING ⬜ Superb ⬜ Amazing ✅ Great ⬜ Good ✅ Average ⬜ Bad ✅ Cringy ⬜ None 🔶 6/10 GRIND ⬜ Little ⬜ Average ✅ Lots ⬜ So... Much... Grinding ✅ For 100% Completion ⬜ For Side Quests ⬜ For Leaderboards/Ranks ⬜ None 🔶 5/10 EXTRAS & SIDE QUESTS ⬜ Outstanding ⬜ Amazing ✅ Great ✅ Good ⬜ Average ⬜ Bad ⬜ FETCH ME THIS AND FETCH ME THAT! ⬜ None 🔶 8/10 GAME TIME ⬜ Infinity ⬜ 100-200 Hours ⬜ 70-100 Hours ⬜ 30-50 Hours ✅ 20-30 Hours ✅ 10-20 Hours ⬜ 5-10 Hours ⬜ FOUUUUR HOOOURS?! 🔶 8/10 END-GAME CONTENT ⬜ Infinite ⬜ Large Amount ⬜ Fair Amount ⬜ Small Amount ⬜ End-Game > Main Game ⬜ Not Worth Playing ⬜ There SHOULD be an End-Game :'( ✅ None 🔶 N/A REPLAYABILITY ⬜ OVER and OVER and OVER! ✅ Replay it a Few Times ⬜ Replay it Once ⬜ For Gameplay ✅ For Story ⬜ For Challenge Runs ⬜ With Mods ⬜ None 🔶 6/10 PRICE ⬜ BUY NOW! ✅ Recommended ⬜ Buy on Sale ⬜ Not Recommended ⬜ STAY AWAY! ⬜ Free ⬜ HORRIBLE MICROTRANSACTIONS TO PLAY! 🔶 9/10 BUGS ⬜ None ✅ Very Minor ✅ Some ⬜ Annoying ⬜ Cyberpunk 2077 ⬜ Unplayable 🔶 8/10 PC SPECS ✅ Potato ✅ Windows 95 ⬜ Decent ⬜ Fast ⬜ Very Fast ⬜ Supercomputer AUDIENCE ⬜ Kids ⬜ Teens ✅ Adults The following section may contain minor and/or major gameplay and/or story spoilers! Please read at your own risk! REVIEW: Welcoming myself to a game series that has multiple games with a confusing order to play in, as well as multiple different versions of the same game, sounds like a bad idea on paper. Wait. Paper? Oh, no! Am I trapped in Heavenly Host Elementary? Jokes aside, I highly recommend getting into Corpse Party! [url=reddit.com/r/corpseparty/comments/vcwmmq/corpse_party_series_guide] If you're confused about which order to play in, this guide is 100% accurate and helps a lot! Sure, the game may be rough around the edges at parts, but the writing is what's great about Corpse Party. The typical cliché "school horror" is actually done fantastically and there's multiple "Wrong Ends" for each chapter (as well as a True End). The writing and endings are the core of the game. Admittedly, I got to the end of the game (Chapter 5) and then took a 2 year break before finishing it. I was frustrated at how obscure some endings were to get, without using Google. But! I completely started over and told myself that "it's time to see this through", and I did. I am glad I did. Googling how to achieve certain endings for this game is totally okay, and probably welcomed. To be fair, Chapter 5 was the true annoyance, because of how cryptic it is to see the 2 true endings. I look forward to going back and playing the Extra Chapters (and according to the Reddit guide, wait until finishing ALL the mainline games first). Play this game! UPDATE: DONE! RUNDOWN: STORY Being friends forever by performing a ritual, called Sachiko Ever After, comes at a heavy price for a group of children and their teacher. The characters get separated inside of an unfamiliar school of Hell. Once separated, they are randomly grouped up in different "spaces". These "spaces" are multidimensional versions inside of the school - yet intertwine with one another during earthquakes. Picture your favorite author, someone that writes beautiful stories. Now think of that same author, as if they were conveying disgusting and atrocious child body parts being mutilated, along with bodily fluids being described in various horrific manners. Children as young as 7 years old! This is what you will find. That being said, it's undeniably well written and paced. It does a (mostly) good job of giving character backstories. They also don't actually show anything TOO horrific, besides some blood, as well as a 'suicide' by hanging. But, it describes a LOT in great detail. So even if you don't "see" something awful, the writing will definitely leave you with uneasy imagery. The 5 Chapters come together very well, as the children make their way to finding out the truth behind this mysterious and nightmare-inducing school, and regrouping. One minor gripe: Yuka reconvenes with Satoshi and Naomi. She doesn't bother to tell them that there was a sister-napping-friend-murdering-psychopath on the loose that was JUST after her. It doesn't take away from the well written story, though. GAMEPLAY Basic. You walk around various locations inside of the school and solve very minor puzzles. The exploration makes the game oddly.. exciting. Finding out new locations, or somewhere you couldn't go before and you can after doing X - it's almost like a Metroidvania (RPGVania, no?), which is unique. VISUALS The art style during gameplay is basic RPGMaker stuff. The characters have modern anime portraits, though. They're alright. There's a few "fan-service" moments - that LITERALLY involve children - which is downright disgusting! Thankfully, it's only done once or twice. The candle-like font the game has is AMAZING and fits in perfectly! DIFFICULTY Although the game has a lot of "what the hell am I supposed to do next" moments, in a way, I like this. It ties back into the Metroidvania aspect of revisiting old locations that you couldn't before. But, SAVE YOUR GAME - you have 5 save slots for each Chapter, so if you mess up at one point, you may as well start fresh if you're lost on what to do. I wish there were more.. and it's why I relied on Google. But it's not "difficult"; you literally just walk-n-click A. The puzzles are acceptable. And F the bug pit. MUSIC & SFX The music is fine, although some loops are messed up. The SFX were basic, but fine. VOICE ACTING You're probably wondering why I said it's great, average and cringy. This is the first game I've played that has Japanese VA only, so I didn't want to get too harsh on this. It sounds... fine.. to me? But sometimes I would skip the text because of the *CRIES* and *SOBS* and *SNIFFS* and *AHHHHHs*. It got annoying. It scared my cat whenever someone cried, haha. One time, when confronting Naho, Naho's cat-like-eerie-demonic laugh scared the hell out of my cat! Lol.. GRIND Redoing stories a LOT in order to find all endings is the only grind. Luckily, you can skip text fast. EXTRAS & SIDE QUESTS You can collect Student IDs. Woo. But there are Extra Chapters to play! GAME TIME It'll take you around 10 hours with Google and 20 hours without it. END-GAME CONTENT N/A REPLAYABILITY You'll want to replay the Chapters to get "Wrong Ends" and the "True Ends". PRICE If you like horror stories, buy this game. BUGS Minor but annoying bugs. When starting up the game and connecting an Xbox Controller, it wouldn't work until quitting the game. Some audio loops are weird. PC SPECS Your dad's old flip phone could almost run this thing. AUDIENCE MATURE. ONLY. MY SCORE AVERAGE: 7.2/10 MY PERSONAL SCORE: 9/10 [url=https://anotepad.com/notes/4j6ime9g]Click here to check out even more of my compliments & complaints on this game!
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I really enjoyed this game but getting the true ending in chapter 5 is more of a chore than anything and I had cloud save issues between steam deck and PC. Other than that it was good.
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Honestly did not expect the storytelling to be this great, an incredibly good story with plenty of twists and turns to keep you interested. Also one of the chapters entire plot is about someone having to pee, just pee in the goddamn corner god fucking damnit.
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Ah, a classic horror from my days in high school, and I now return older than the teacher character... how cruel time can be... So yes, I've loved this series for a very long time, for better or for worse. But the best of the best is no doubt its first entry, which already had a different iteration on Steam, I'll get into later. Corpse Party , for most of its entries, are a masterclass in combining text, sound, and voice acting to truly paint horrific scenarios in your head, even more so here for its first entry where there are pixel sprites. And the quality of what's depicted in the CGs feels so unique and iconic to look back on it now. And some newcomers may be put off by some mutterings of fanservice and yes, I must say... that is a weakness in this series, especially in that the bloody horror genre doesn't lend itself well to random panty shots weirdly placed in otherwise disturbing CGs. And it's much worse the further you go, especially by the time you get to Blood Drive, but that game is another matter entirely. For the here-and-now with this game, you can rest assured it honestly isn't too bad. If you're not looking for it or focusing on it for more than a second, then what you're left with is really solid horror that spun off into a whole franchise for a reason. Now between the two, Corpse Party and Corpse Party (2021) can mostly be differentiated by the art used, including character halfbody sprites and CGs. This alone, in my eyes, makes this version (as well as just about any other port) the superior version, and being the most recent iteration as of now means that it also has the most to offer in terms of EX chapters. Not to say that someone couldn't enter into the story just as well as from the old version, but this feels like the far more definitive entry point that I would recommend to anyone. Good for achievement hunters too! Very straightforward goals. Literally just "get every ending (including Wrong Ends)" and "pick up all the collectibles". Don't even have to work to unlock every single CG for the gallery like I remember doing for my PSP version! Goals that feel good to achieve, not too frustrating overall. Having not yet had the pleasure to play through the 3DS "Back to School" edition (which is a shame because those little Seiko & Naomi figures that came with them are SO CUTE), there is a series of EX Chapters I enjoyed that, technically, are old news. However, with each edition they add more. There is a new EX chapter set in 2020 that feels like a loveletter to the fans, even if they had more fart fetish and Blood Drive connections in there than I would like. And another one that secretly follows a character's Wrong End, in which I was thrilled it took me by surprise after I mentally tried to place the timeline for the chapter before the heartwarming reveal. The added content is good content. And to any newcomers who see all the Corpse Party titles on Steam and need someone to break down a play order and how they related to each other, here it be: Corpse Party or Corpse Party (2021) - these are the first entries that cover the same story. For the reasons listed above, I recommend this 2021 version, but both are available and would largely convey the same thing. The change in art style moving on from the first Steam Corpse Party will be pretty wild though. Corpse Party: Book of Shadows - The prologue and epilogue are canon and will lead into the opening of the more traditional sequel, Corpse Party: Blood Drive . The Chapters in-between, however, will either act as prequels and/or AU short stories based off of a very important Wrong End from the first game. Very non-linear, but still great horror and really goes into detail on the lives of certain characters and how certain events of the first game came to be. Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash - largely non-canon comedic and often fanservicey fluff that lets the horror take a backseat while you kind of chill with the characters in wild scenarios. Obviously people might have gripes about making a comedy out of a horror series, but imo if you go in knowing what it's supposed to be it's actually an amazing time and even until this point Corpse Party still hasn't missed. Weirdly also ties into Corpse Party: Blood Drive . Corpse Party: Blood Drive - We actually hit the first full canonical sequel, wow. And it's uhhhh.... Ok, yeah, don't recommend it, but it's there. NOW Corpse Party officially missed. Yeah, this is pretty much "leave the fandom" bad, but I'm still locked in. You can read my review or others for more detail, but yeah that's what comes next. And then we now have warring concepts for a Corpse Party 2 on Steam. Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient - as far as I and others are concerned, this was an incomplete demo for where they wanted to go after the "Heavenly Host" arc of Corpse Party . New scenarios, new characters, new location. The story didn't seem bad at all as far as I could tell, but mechanically it needed some work. Pick it up or don't. This was the last word we had, aside from the occasional port, about Corpse Party UNTIL Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion - That will apparently exist. As of writing right now, it's not out yet, store page isn't even up yet, but it's happening. Physical "Ayame's Mercy" Collector's Edition looks sweet. Looks like they finally ditched the Blood Drive chibis. I'm guessing this is what the development for Dead Patient eventually lead to? It does still seem to take place in a hospital. So we'll see? Closing thoughts: this fandom needs a resurgence; please play it
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Mega fun! This version has all the extra chapters from previous ports, which is nice! Not super gorey, so it's accessible even to casual fans of the horror genre.
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Online players
9
Developer
MAGES.
Publisher
XSEED Games,
Marvelous USA, Inc.
Release
20 Oct 2021
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