Corpse Party: Book of Shadows on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
An anthology series that serves as a Corpse Party sequel, prequel, midquel, and alternate universe tale all in one. Rejoin old friends for a deeper dive into the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary...
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is a horror, gore and violent game
developed by MAGES. Inc. and 5pb.
and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Released on October 29th 2018 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 460 reviews of which 404 were positive and 56 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. π
The game is currently priced at 14.99β¬ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10
- Processor: 1.5 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 64 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Sound Card: Compatible with DirectX 9.0c
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Highly underrated game. The chapters being associated with alternate timelines, past events, and giving filler for what happens during the first game can be weird and the exploration is a little tedious, but the visuals of each location and the addition of the Darkening gauge was brilliant. It adds to the thriller and Darkening makes it feel you're watching the character gradually lose their sanity in real time, especially with the first chapter. Top tier thriller.
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READ BELOW FOR MY REVIEW + RUNDOWN & FINAL SCORE! STORY β¬ Masterpiece β¬ Amazing β
Great β¬ Good β¬ Average β¬ Bad β¬ Awful β¬ None πΆ 8/10 GAMEPLAY β¬ Perfect β¬ Amazing β¬ Great β¬ Good β
Average β¬ Bad β¬ Hot Garbage β¬ None πΆ 5/10 VISUALS β¬ Realistic β¬ Modern β
Anime β¬ Pixelated β¬ Unique β¬ Impressive β
Good β
Average β¬ Bad β¬ Gross πΆ 7/10 DIFFICULTY β
Press A β¬ Easy β¬ Medium β¬ Hard β¬ Easy to Learn/Hard to Master β¬ Puzzling β¬ Difficult β¬ Dark Souls πΆ 8/10 MUSIC & SFX β¬ Heavenly β¬ Amazing β
Great β¬ Good β¬ Average β¬ Bad β¬ WTF β¬ None πΆ 8/10 VOICE ACTING β¬ Superb β¬ Amazing β
Great β¬ Good β
Average β¬ Bad β
Cringy β¬ None πΆ 7/10 GRIND β¬ Little β
Average β¬ Lots β¬ So... Much... Grinding β
For 100% Completion β¬ For Side Quests β¬ For Leaderboards/Ranks β¬ None πΆ 7/10 EXTRAS & SIDE QUESTS β¬ Outstanding β¬ Amazing β¬ Great β
Good β¬ Average β¬ Bad β¬ FETCH ME THIS AND FETCH ME THAT! β¬ None πΆ 7/10 GAME TIME β¬ Infinity β¬ 100-200 Hours β¬ 70-100 Hours β¬ 30-50 Hours β
20-30 Hours β¬ 10-20 Hours β¬ 5-10 Hours β¬ FOUUUUR HOOOURS?! πΆ 9/10 END-GAME CONTENT β¬ Infinite β¬ Large Amount β¬ Fair Amount β¬ Small Amount β¬ End-Game > Main Game β¬ Not Worth Playing β¬ There SHOULD be an End-Game :'( β
None πΆ N/A REPLAYABILITY β¬ OVER and OVER and OVER! β
Replay it a Few Times β¬ Replay it Once β¬ For Gameplay β
For Story β¬ For Challenge Runs β¬ With Mods β¬ None πΆ 6/10 PRICE β¬ BUY NOW! β
Recommended β¬ Buy on Sale β¬ Not Recommended β¬ STAY AWAY! β¬ Free β¬ HORRIBLE MICROTRANSACTIONS TO PLAY! πΆ 9/10 BUGS β¬ None β¬ Very Minor β
Some β
Annoying β¬ Cyberpunk 2077 β¬ Unplayable πΆ 6/10 PC SPECS β¬ Potato β
Windows 95 β
Decent β¬ Fast β¬ Very Fast β¬ Supercomputer AUDIENCE β¬ Kids β¬ Teens β
Adults The following section may contain minor and/or major gameplay and/or story spoilers! Please read at your own risk! REVIEW: Ain't no party like a Corpse Party. Our friends are back, all of them! Plus more! And now there are 1000 (More) Ways to Die: Corpse Party Edition!! Thank you, Sachiko-san. Despite having a few story flaws, I loved this game. I loved seeing more of the characters and it did a hell of a good job. Even more so than the first game did in exploring character plots. I immediately dove into this game after my review of Corpse Party (2021). The reason to play this game?: if you enjoyed Corpse Party (2021). If so, I'm sure you'll love it too. RUNDOWN: STORY The story elaborates much more on character backstories and introduces a lot of new characters. The plot is very similar, but it's told in different perspectives/alternate universes (even though it's canon?). It relates to an alternate True End in the first game, where Satoshi and his friends keep looping. But the looping isn't really explained towards the end. I'd even go so far as to say it was forgotten. It felt a bit pointless. That, and Chapter 7, which unfortunately felt rushed. I really wanted to explore more of Kizami's "friends" reacting to his psychopathic nature for a longer time. The horror is great and still disgusting as ever! There were a couple of times I'd even look over my shoulders, scared, after playing! But yes, much like the first game, there were fair amounts unnecessary bits in the story. Some of it was downright gross and not in a good way (Yuka's wet panties?! WTF...) The ending SHOCKED me and sets up a great plot-twist for a sequel (Blood Drive). GAMEPLAY Being a visual novel, I almost feel bad for scoring the gameplay - but there's point-and-click too. The exploration is not nearly as fun as the first game, mainly because there are LOTS of samey-feel halls. It features slight puzzle elements and you can make choices to affect the Chapter endings. VISUALS The more I got into the series, the more I loved the character art. They're identical to the first game. The backgrounds are good enough, except for the overused-samey school hallways. DIFFICULTY Just save a lot. I barely used Google for this game, unlike the absurd amount of times I did on the first one (which is a plus!). The real difficulty is to not get disgusted at some depictions of death. MUSIC & SFX This music is better than Corpse Party (2021). A perfect example is the new "Wrong End" theme - a melancholic tune that resonates with the feeling of inevitable failure, but also accepting that you did all you could. Some audio loops are still messed up. The SFX are *still* basic, but fine. VOICE ACTING So, originally, I felt the same as the first game - it's great, average and cringy. Sachiko's voice was as creepy as ever, though. Morishige's voice actor really went all out during this game too. Sayaka? ... Just no.. So, really? Almost everyone did fantastic and the game is almost FULLY voiced. Why didn't I score this higher, then, you ask? It took me a while, but I appreciate Japanese voice acting. Not being able to understand Japanese is tough. But, I ended up having a newfound respect for the VAs. The only two reasons I didn't rate the VA a 9/10: 1) It took me until the final few chapters to appreciate the language barrier. 2) There are absurd amounts of cringy *MOANS* and *GAAAHs* and *ORAAUGHs* and *GROANS* - just like the first game. It's not the voice casts fault; it's the writer's fault; but I still had to listen to (or skip through) some of it. Without all the crying and screaming, I'd probably give it an 8/10. GRIND Redoing stories in order to find all endings is the only grind. Luckily, you can skip text fast and you have 64 save slots (THANK YOU FOR ADDING THIS MANY SAVE SLOTS!). EXTRAS & SIDE QUESTS There's artwork from the game, "Gallery of Spirits". I've already seen the artwork while playing, so.. eh? The "Cursed Phonograph" which contains all the soundtracks from the game. An "EVP Machine", which is rather pointless, but it doesn't affect my scoring. And yay. More Student IDs to collect. I still collected as many as I could, though (OCD thing). But the real GOAT, and the reason I appreciated these Japanese voice actors even more? It's the "Soulful Testimonies". Whether you're like me and don't care for Japanese voice acting, or you love Japanese voice acting, PLEASE - listen to these after playing the game. They're funny! If you want to know why I LOVED these, click the link at the bottom of the page, for more of my compliments and complaints! GAME TIME It'll take you around 20-30 hours to finish. END-GAME CONTENT N/A REPLAYABILITY You'll want to replay the Chapters to get "Wrong Ends" and the "True Ends". PRICE If you enjoyed the first game, and want more character backstories/plots, buy this game. BUGS Some annoying bugs. Starting up the game, having 3 monitors and 1 TV hooked up really screwed with getting the game to even show up. I spent 2 hours trying to fix it and once I did, I had to manually click A a LOT to change the res/FPS. And this happened multiple times. Weird FPS drops (on a visual novel?) that caused lag when pressing A on the next text, on Chapter 7. I fixed it by closing out the game, but everything was acting slow. Overall, it's not buggy, but if you have 2+ monitors, good luck :)! PC SPECS Has a lot of different choices for resolution and frame rate - trust me, I know this π (see "BUGS" section to see my pain). AUDIENCE MATURE. ONLY. MY SCORE AVERAGE: 7.3/10 MY PERSONAL SCORE: 8.5/10 [url=anotepad.com/notes/egca5djy]Click here to check out even more of my compliments & complaints on this game!
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The stories are pretty good, but they might have been better off sticking purely to the visual novel format. The "gameplay" is just annoying. Seeing the more minor characters get some spotlight is pretty cool, and like in the first game there's lots of gorey bad ends! It's worth your time.
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πInitially I didn't like the controls in this part of the game but then I got used to themπ πI hope there will be new parts of this game I really like this storyπ πγ
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It's pretty decent if you're a fan of the series, but I feel like it has a lot of potential that gets lost pretty early on. It also feels like it's just trying to one-up the original in terms of gross crap, which I think takes away a decent bit from the plot because it's not as well as the first one. All that aside, I think it's worth playing if you've played the first one.
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Developer
MAGES. Inc.,
5pb.
Publisher
XSEED Games,
Marvelous USA, Inc.
Release
29 Oct 2018
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