Corpse Party/Nightmare Fuel



With a name like Corpse Party, you already know you're probably in for a nightmarish ride. Throwing in subtitles like Blood Covered and Repeated Fear isn't exactly encouraging, either...


 * Finding your friend Seiko in the toilets. You've got two choices - try to free her or try to find something to help hold her up.  And  And of course, all this happens while.
 * That pile of gore splattered against the wall in the first chapter? The one that's played for (slight) comedic effect when our heroes unwittingly step in it?  Even more disturbing is.
 * Sad-looking ghost of a five year-old boy with trickles of blood oozing from his mouth - cause of death = . And if he catches you  ! Or . He's not that picky.
 * How about the ghost who lacks an eyeball, leaving a constantly bleeding eye socket? Cause of death =  And if she catches you  ! And for that matter, let's consider the circumstances surrounding her death:  Now imagine that the little girl in question,.
 * While we're talking about creepy children, in the second chapter there is a display case that can be examined to find a child's crayon drawing - four children and  their teacher  . Our protagonist is suitably unnerved.
 * What about those green heads that damage you for stepping over them? They have faces, for a start...
 * Any number of Wrong Ends! Let's go through the list...
 * The piano playing itself in the Music Room. It stops if you approach it... and starts again as soon as you leave the room.
 * Or the toilet that screams at you when you open the door...
 * In the original PC-98 game, there's a point where Naomi waits outside while Satoshi takes Yuka in to use the restroom. She shuts herself in one of the stalls, with Satoshi asking after her after a while... only to get silence in return. Lots of silence.
 * How do you reveal that someone's a Nightmare Fetishist? Easy! Just have them ! Or you could just . That works, too.
 * Kizami:
 * Or the friendly tough guy helping cute little Yuka try to find her brother...
 * He's so nice, acting like a big brother to Yuka.
 * The Darkening itself: While being trapped in a horror dimension, just being scared erodes your mind, and being alone just speeds it up. Once it gets high enough, whenever you get close to a situation where you can conceivably kill yourself or someone else? You will black out and take it, only to come back to your senses as soon as it's too late to do anything about it, not remembering anything. It's not uncommon for people to find themselves covered in their best friend's blood or dying slowly from hanging while having no idea what happened at all. And even if you manage to somehow survive, it eventually makes your body rot away while you're still alive, though by that point there's barely anything left of your mind so you can't even care anymore.
 * One of Chapter 5's many Wrong Ends involves deciding to Murder the Hypotenuse by ensuring they can't escape Tenjin, destroying their own chance for survival before their very eyes. But don't worry, because !
 * The English launch trailer. Gory, frightening images from the game flashing by in a second, the swelling, harrowing music, and all of it is broken up by black text being typed on a grey background, describing
 * At one point, the screen flickers and part of the text from the report changes into
 * The final chapter of Book of Shadows sees Ayumi and Naomi attempting to fight fate by attempting another ritual, with this one involving . The results aren't pretty:
 * Good thing is there to save the day! Except, as soon as  is giving Ayumi a comforting hug,  right in front of Ayumi.
 * The escape sequence after . You have to get outside before, with the frightening knowledge that if you can't get out before then, then you have lost the only way to escape the horrid place,.
 * Okay Yuka, we finally found you a goddamn working toilet. Now get in there and relieve yourself already. ... What? You can't go because the toilets are 'all full'? Goddammit, you stupid girl, it doesn't matter if the toilet's haven't been flushed, just get in a stall and