A scythe-wielding character wearing a top that seems to have been made from two handkerchiefs is the wrong kind of fantasy for this game. It also doesn't help that the game wastes time, space, and atmosphere on terrible digressions and bad character design. This is frequently true even within particular scenes: nearly everything bad that happens in Blood Drive occurs because characters stand still when they should obviously move. The plot is a bit of a jumble as a result, with characters' stated motivations and actions never quite aligning. The story therefore feels completely ad hoc no matter how much time the writing spends explaining the intricacies of its world. If anything, I would have preferred less backstory than I got, because I felt that it didn't add anything to the narrative.īlood Drive constantly elaborates lore only to immediately disregard it or work around it in order to move on to the next plot point. Unfortunately, the cast is too large to get characterized beyond the broadest strokes, and most of them feel less like distinct entities and more like manifestations of anime archetypes. The character ensemble and their situation were laid out efficiently so I never felt like I needed to stop and play a previous game. As I was coming in cold on the third US entry in this series, I expected to be terribly confused for a bit while I worked out who everyone was, but this is one of the few things Blood Drive handles well. The Corpse Party games pit doe-eyed anime youth against dark forces inhabiting abandoned schools. Unfortunately, with Blood Drive I merely struck out. The Corpse Party series of games are a blend of survival horror and visual novel that emerged from Japan's dōjin games scene (analogous to Western indie development) in 2008, and build on an RPGMaker original from a decade earlier.Īfter the surprising quality of teen slasher game Until Dawn, I was hoping to strike horror gold again. WTF What is the weird obsession with peeing? ![]() ![]() LOW "Now Loading" okay so can I "Now Loading" but I just want to "Now Loading" HIGH When the school transforms in the late chapters.
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