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Corpse Party: Blood Drive (PC)

That was not worth it. I'm sorry. This game is kind of a mess and is a frankenstein of several things jumbled together into this "ultimate story". I feel like they made this game just to bring some kind of closure to the series or at least this saga. When it works it works; the horror is still good I guess but not as good as the first one. Like most horror movies, the sequels kind of remove any sense of shock in an attempt to be twice as better and what better what to ramp things up than to turn the ghost story into a cosmic horror story. Not to mention that the original cast are still back and now play a more important role (allegedly) and so they have plot armor now, making the Bad End system kind of fruitless and uninspiring. Bad Ends worked in the first game because you really didn't know who was gonna live or die and there were genuinely scary moments and alternate universes that could've occurred with each wrong choice. The Bad Ends in this game were mostly oh no you picked the wrong thing or didn't choose fast enough, guess this guy mauls you now.

If it was by the numbers I wouldn't have minded probably. But then you got these VN sequences that just appear in the middle of things just to either flesh out a one off character in the game or in a previous game, or just padding essentially. Then you're back in the game and like wtf was that really necessary? In addition certain characters just appear out of nowhere that requires you to have played the spin-off as well as read some of the non-game stuff to get their context which is bs and I was trying to avoid it but here we are.

As a survival game, it was also kind of a tedious effort especially if you're aiming for all collectibles. I understand they needed to up the stakes by having actual pursuers but the layout of a school (hallways with dead end rooms separated by 3 floors) was not a good fit not to mention broken stealth mechanics, cheap obstacles that encourage you to move slower, and an infuriating stamina system. Like the first game had no pursuers save for certain moments and that was fine because of the school's mystique. But here everytime you are pursued you will most likely suffer for it annoyingly. I had to use a guide to acquire those one-shot talismans and thank god they permanently defeated the ghosts instead of just stunning them.

There wasn't alot of puzzling (even though it had more puzzles than the first game) and they surprisingly only came in the last 2 chapters mostly. But they were also fiendish and it took me out of the game for awhile as I had to actually look up how to proceed. Recalling one serious case of pixel hunting and two mind boggling event-driven scenarios.

I was still glad to play the first 2 games before this one which is absolutely necessary if you're investing in this game. While I enjoyed the bigger picture the game attempted to explain, I just kind of didn't like how they essentially shafted most of the original main cast in favor of one and I get it those guys' stories are over but then why use all of them again? In one of the extras, one of the VAs even mention that after he thought he was the hero but he wasn't even a significant character, but a character who "escorted the heroes" and I just feel so sorry for the guy who was already vanilla in his appeal.

That said, this new focus character. She is. soooo dumb. Like, when it was revealed she caused everything and made the situation worse I just rolled my eyes of course you dumb bitch. Everyone told you to stfu and mind your own business and you still followed the beats of a horror game final girl.

Least I'm done for now. Corpse Party 2 is next but I probably won't be doing that for a long time. And its unrelated to this game anyway so no need to worry.

Begrudgingly making this game my worst played this year so far and no I don't wanna count those crappy Painkiller games because I chose to do those knowing they were bad.