27 endings?! What?

Glad to see you enjoyed it and could get some scares and mood out of the game's simple graphics style.
 
I can't stand horror things usually because it drives me crazy as soon as a character performs some action which no normal person would ever think was a good idea. Being that that is basically the crux of the horror genre, its not surprising I haven't played many of the games or watched the movies. Still, its always interesting reading about other people's experiences with this type of thing, especially because how well someone likes this type of game or movie tend to hinge on if they were able to be affected by the ambience of the game.
 
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27 endings?! What?

I'm not a fan of games with multiple endings. I don't have the patience to revisit the same scenarios, even though the outcome may be different. It's especially true for long games. That being said, the premise to Corpse Party is interesting to me, so I may give it a shot someday.

The manga was awwwwwful T_T

Reluctant to try this out, but I probably will. At some point in the future. When I get the appropriate hardware >.<

@MooseyMcMan said:

27 endings?! What?

That's nothing, quite a few commercial visual novels have got this number of endings. But then again a lot of them simply give you a 'bad ending' rather than a game over screen when you mess things up, so the number of endings tends to accumulate fast over the length of a game.

@Xeiphyer said:

I can't stand horror things usually because it drives me crazy as soon as a character performs some action which no normal person would ever think was a good idea. Being that that is basically the crux of the horror genre, its not surprising I haven't played many of the games or watched the movies.

Characters acting like morons isn't the crutch of the horror genre by a long shot. It could be considered a crutch of the 'body horror' genre because a lot of lazy or hack writers rely on people acting like dumbasses in order to get them killed in gruesome ways, but that's a subset of the horror genre.

Psychological horror like the one written by HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, for example, relies mainly on people having to deal with things - mainly supernatural - that are so utterly alien to what they and the rest of humanity are used to that not only are they terrified, but they are stumped by what they should do and ponder how much potential damage to their sanity it would cause for them to investigate further. Some VNs I've played drummed up drama in a similar style - the killing is very short and not all that graphic, but the panic and anxiety the character feels is explored at length, to great effect.

That's only one style of psychological horror. A lot of Asian horror relies on psychology rather than body horror(although there are tons of that and a lot of movies actually combine the two beautifully) to really good effect. You should give movies like "Three... Extremes" a watch sometime. (although I have to admit I watched only one of the 3 mini films in it so far, but I greatly enjoyed it >.>)

@MooseyMcMan said:

27 endings?! What?

Basically if you stuff up and die the character gets a 'bad ending'. All that means is I usually die the first chance I get to see what happens, then finish the chapter properly.

I started to play it, got half way through the just started to read the manga and haven't played it since. The game lends itself better to a horror manga than it does a game, the writing is b-grade managa quality so why not. Its a surprisngly well drawn manga as well (although there are 2 different manga's. One with MEGA FAN SERVICE, and the other follows this game step by step.) I just love the way the ghosts are drawn in the manga, very very creepy.

The basic idea is, these kids fall through a hole after doing a scary story and end up in this old school that was ripped down years ago. There are dead bodies all over the place and they are seperated into very small 'teams' you could put it, ghosts basically tell them there is no way out but to die and if you do die the pain you feel at that moment will be what you feel for eternity. Then they are left to wander around and basically 'die', it sounds boring but watching the kids slowly loose their minds is quite disturbing and keeps me going. I haven't gone far enough to see any ending but I will say that the story does seem to expand a fair amount later on.