Review HaloBlues 4/5 · Mar 26, 2025
Eerie Fun
I was somewhere in the range of 11-14 when I first played this (God knows what version it was, I can't keep track of them all), which you'd think would psychologically scar me for life, but I came out of it relatively unscathed and with a vested interest in this game that has stuck with me to this day.
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I was somewhere in the range of 11-14 when I first played this (God knows what version it was, I can't keep track of them all), which you'd think would psychologically scar me for life, but I came out of it relatively unscathed and with a vested interest in this game that has stuck with me to this day.
The translation is hilariously bad at times - what the hell was "butter up my pooper" about - and the writing verges on blatantly fetishistic in certain places; the developers really, really want you to indulge in their piss kink. Like, they really do.
Disregarding that, I don't think I'll ever stop being fond of Corpse Party. It's one of the games I go out of my way to get all the endings for, including the bad ones I'm usually too tragedy-averse to make myself experience, just because they're all so varied and horrific. The descriptions of death and the victims' notes scattered around the school are evocative and haunting, and everything about the emotion and fear experienced by characters both past and present is so visceral and palpable as you play through it.
This probably has one of the most horrifying 'afterlife' concepts in a game I've played, what with the feeling the pain of your method of death for every second of the rest of eternity while all of your loved ones completely forget you ever existed. Goddamn. And these are kids!
God. I wish more people knew about this series so I could talk about it. What an embarrassing, devastating, fascinating game.
