Ever play Corpse Party?

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If anyone is willing to listen, I'll tell you about a series I have recently begun to love the crap out of.
Corpse Party, and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. Both good games, I gave them 10/10.
The plot? Well, think "Hell on Earth" but in Japan, and on cursed school grounds.
The main antagonist is a ghost girl who pretty much owns this school place you play in.

And according to that girl, every time a person dies there, their death gets worse, each time getting worse.
This is shown in Book of Shadows when one of the characters ends up dying, but not from being hanged like in the prequel.
Instead, she gets decapitated by a razor sharp wire trap.

I love scary games, so I enjoyed being scared crapless. And there are dead bodies (Skyrim joke, anyone?) all over the place.
I recommend both titles, and they're cheap for PSP games (20 bucks each).
Can't wait for 2U, actually. Okay?

Yes, Corpse Party is one of my favorite series from the past few years. The thing I like about it, is that it's scary without resorting to jump scares, and it's not that gorey, all things considered. Also, it manages just fine without having to fight any enemies, and instead focuses on horror, which is the thing I'm missing from a lot of fps that are mislabeled as survival horror. Sure, there's no English voice acting, but the Japanese voice acting is some of the best voice acting I've ever heard.

Besides, if you want to know where I stand regarding English dubbing, look up a game called Calling for the wii. I'm not opposed to English voice acting in Japanese games, but that's some of the worst voice acting I've heard. If a company does an English dub, I want them to do a good job, and Hudson Soft(rest their soul), didn't. The game itself sucks too. Pretty much everything Corpse Party does right, it does wrong. Motion control? Check. Unnecessarily large, repetitive environments with next to nothing in them? Check. Heck, they couldn't even be bothered to translate a lot of the in-game text. You're best off looking up vids online. Normally, I think a gamer worth his or her salt would play a game that interests him or her, instead of just watching vids of it, but I wouldn't recommend paying any money for, or playing Calling. Besides, you'd probably have to order it, since it's only available in physical form, and I don't think it's that common.

I watched ChaoticMonkey (or Cry, as he is better known) play it. It looked like an intense game. I'd like to give it a shot when I get the chance.

I've been considering it; but my mom is going to ask questions and I don't want to deal with convincing her, nor the amount of talking when I actually do ;-;

Well, as surprising as it sounds, I didn't hate it. I wouldn't admit that to anyone, mind you. I also played it before I came across Corpse Party, and Corpse Party addresses pretty much every issue I had with the game. Plus, it's easy to acquire Corpse Party and its sequel. It's not easy to acquire Calling, I don't think, so it's especially hard to recommend Calling, except to those who either have a wii and not a psp or vita, but want to play something like Corpse Party, or someone who loves Corpse Party and wants something for the wii that has some similarities to it.

A little motion control is ok, but you may not like having to hold your arm straight to properly aim the camera, because your arm will kill you. If you can get through Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, this game is fairly similar in terms of gameplay. Much like SH:SM, the story has a couple decent moments, particularly the end, so I'd give it a plus for that, and I kind of like Calling's use of the wiimote's speaker function for the phone feature. There are more environments in Calling than just a school, but I much prefer the 16-bit aesthetic of Corpse Party to the bland, Shattered Memories style environments in Calling. While I did appreciate the kana practice, the average NA gamer won't be able to read a lot of the in game text at all. What I could read was all cheesy stuff like "scary", "danger", "I will return" etc., so it wasn't that great anyways, but it's a matter of principle. The game isn't scary, but the voice acting's kind of frightening, so maybe that counts. The writing isn't nearly as good as Corpse Party's, despite the story having a similar premise.

Ok, the game was an impulse buy when I saw it on sale for $10 new. I bought it expecting a bad Japanese horror game, and that's what I got, so I wasn't disappointed. I've played worse games, but don't expect Shakespeare. I guess it's a good reference point for why I like Corpse Party as much as I do, since I know where it could have gone. For the record, I suppose fans of SH:SM might be interested in Calling too, but I also think SM is the better game of the two.

Well I'll have to get a PSP or find another way to play it, but it sounds pretty awesome! I just got Organ Trail for my phone, and it's like Oregon Trail but, vs zombies

Or a JP PC and CP2: Dead Patient! I saw that game and it looks much better than the PSP games.

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This is the recent trailer. Releases April 2013. I'm gonna Import if I can by May 1st!

That does look pretty awesome, and is it for psp or pc? I was a little confused.

PC. Gonna import the sucker by 1st of May! You know, since it hits JP shelves sometime April! :p

Sweet that's my birthday

Alright! Sounds like a great thing!

My birthday is a great thing, you should get me a pony lol just kidding haha. Lame joke

But I am def gonna have to check those games out. Any other suggestions? Have you played Death Smiles?

DP chapter 1 comes out 4/25. Yaaayyyyy! XD

Uh, SMT: Persona?

Hell yes to Persona <3 <3 <3

I have 1, 2, 3 fes, 4, 4 arena and that's it. For some odd reason the Mmo client would never work for me. I don't have a psp. Just a playstation 1, playstaion 2, game cube, wii, n64, super nintendo, game boy advance, game boy ds, xbox 360, pc/lap top, game boy sp, and game boy color lol

I need to put some emulators on here DX

Like any other Atlus games, Did you try Catherine?