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REVIEW: Corpse Party: Tortured Souls Sub.Blu-Ray


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Brand



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:57 am Reply with quote
I did not realize this was coming out here. Yeah, as someone who played the game, I have some series issues with this OVA. It skips like half the plot and comes up with a whole new and terrible ending. The OP was really awesome though. I just wish this had been better.
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Paul D. Atreides



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:03 am Reply with quote
I saw this OVA before I watched a Let's Play of the game, and speaking for myself I prefer the ending I saw in the OVA because I felt it put much more weight on the trauma these characters had been through (I like things dark is really what I'm saying).

I don't know if you can actually play the game and come out with the same result as in the OVA. Is it one of those games with multiple endings depending on your choices and how well you play it?
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Brand



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:07 am Reply with quote
Paul D. Atreides wrote:
I don't know if you can actually play the game and come out with the same result as in the OVA. Is it one of those games with multiple endings depending on your choices and how well you play it?


The idea in the game is to unlock all the endings (a lot of bad turns and such). But the game does have what is considered the good end. spoiler[Though Corpse Party 2 right off the bat destroys that idea, even if it is the ending it starts off from]. The anime ending is totally original to the anime.
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DigitalScratch





PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:22 am Reply with quote
I usually love horror anime and horror games- so I thought it would be fun having a horror anime game. But Corpse Party not only bored me to tears, I didn't care about anyone enough to hope they stayed alive, or even care enough to watch them die. Even watching Let's Plays of it was horribly uninteresting. :/

So if the anime is pretty much like the game, especially the characters, I may skip out on it. Not because it's gory, but because gory doesn't equal scary and I'm looking to get scared, not watch anime archtypes go around screaming.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:36 am Reply with quote
My main issue with it is that they felt the need to kill off several characters who were originally supposed to survive. I guess they figured it didn't have enough cheap shock value already?

It was still an okay watch but the games are highly recommended.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:52 am Reply with quote
I have never played the games. Do they get anywhere near as gruesome as the anime does, or was that jacked up?
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FeralKat



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:22 pm Reply with quote
Key wrote:
I have never played the games. Do they get anywhere near as gruesome as the anime does, or was that jacked up?


I feel the OVAs are very different and much more violent than the games. Most of the horror in the Corpse Party games is executed though very clever sound design. The gore happens off camera with a lot of raw voice acting and gruesome sound effects. Let's Plays don't really capture it because you need to be wearing headphones to take advantage of the binauaral audio.
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Angel Investor





PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:28 pm Reply with quote
Key wrote:
I have never played the games. Do they get anywhere near as gruesome as the anime does, or was that jacked up?


Not going to spoil anything, but the fourth chapter of the first game had a scene that almost made me want to stop playing because of how messed up it was. And for the record, I consider myself somewhat of a horror veteran. Let's just say that it involved little kids and torture and it made me extremely uncomfortable.

I'm still a fan of the games, though. The lore is very interesting and the characters actually have interesting relationships and development. I'm currently playing Blood Drive on Vita. As for the OVAs and the mangas, I found them pretty terrible, and not doing the original story justice at all. My advise is to stick to the games if you want to get into the series.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:28 pm Reply with quote
Key wrote:
I have never played the games. Do they get anywhere near as gruesome as the anime does, or was that jacked up?


The games can get pretty gruesome but you don't necessarily see it. Due to it's visual novel style with only the occasional CGs and the SNES era graphics you don't get highly detailed gore as frequently as the OVA.

That said, sometimes it becomes more effective. The less you see, the more your imagination fills in the gaps. A lot more effort was put into the sound design. There are many moments where it's just a black screen with a bunch of horrific noises but that's really all you need.
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:49 pm Reply with quote
I really like the original corpse party game/ remake but.....Lets be honest everything else connected to the series that I have seen is rather terrible. Book of Shadows is horrible, and Blood Drive is to say the least lacking. The manga is basically hentai, and this ova..........

While the great soundtrack and sound design make the transition to this ova, nothing else really does. The pacing Ruins the atmosphere, they kill off the fan favorite characters, They remove the little characterization in the games, and make the lore uncomprehensible pretty much.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:11 pm Reply with quote
Tanteikingdomkey wrote:
The manga is basically hentai


Just the one (Musume). The other ones are more serious adaptations/spin offs.
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cloud8100



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:10 pm Reply with quote
Would've been awesome for a full adaption of Blood Covered. It was nice to see an ova come out all the same but I didn't really like the ending or changes.
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ChrissyC



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:29 pm Reply with quote
I am uh suhscared, I shall not watch.
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dtm42



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:53 pm Reply with quote
Corpse Party was just an excuse to show gore for gore's own sake, and I hate hate hate that. Compare that to titles like Asura, Elfen Lied, Akira and Gungrave, where intense violence and disturbing visuals were purposefully used in service of the themes and plot and characterisation, not in place of them.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:56 pm Reply with quote
Oh, I forgot about Asura. Yes, that was a nasty piece of work, wasn't it?
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