History NightmareFuel / CorpseParty

* This may be a personal example, but in the first chapter, examining a certain cabinet will display an image of the interior swathed with hair. While unnerving, this wouldn't be a surprise or even a fright to those with a working familiarity with the game. What ''is'' frightening, is the random chance of the image suddenly revealing a creepy face in the hair after a few seconds.

* The 6th chapter is a cooking match between Yoshiki, Kizami, Yui-sensei, Emi and Naomi. The winner gets one single wish and the loser has to undergo a punishment game. The punishment game is NOT pretty. [[spoiler: [[MindRape The loser is turned into one of the ingredients used for one of the dishes, the screen goes black and [[HellIsThatNoise only the sounds of the loser's screams followed by the ingredient he or she was turned into being sliced or crushed are heard]], along with blood splattering on the screen. But it apparently is only an illusion, not unlike [[{{Naruto}} the Tsukuyomi.]]

** Chapter 6's Wrong End. [[spoiler: Naomi is taken by Darkening!Emi to the Death Room on the Bomb Shelter...and the last thing we see is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bo5enLJgLk#t=1041 THIS shot of Emi from Naomi's perspective before she's killed and apparently eaten by Emi]].

* The ending of the 5th chapter has Naomi nearly taken over by the Darkening after the HumiliationCongaLine she suffered in Sachiko's King Game and in her anger towards Seiko [[TheGadfly pranking and flirting with Naomi through the whole thing]] which added to the Conga Line even further,she ''almost kills Seiko again in Darkening-fueled hatred''. [[HeartwarmingMoments Seiko then apologizes for going overboard, pointing out it's been too long since they last had fun like that. The Darkening instantly dissipates within Naomi, stopping her from killing Seiko, and it ends with them smiling at each other.]]

** Mitsuki and Fukuroi's story: At one point, to progress, they must examine a bloody, maggot-covered disembodied head for the key inside. [[spoiler: One Wrong End involves Fukuroi peering through a hole in the Girls' room stalls after Mitsuki sees another eye looking at her from there...and his eye is pierced by a needed before Yuki Kanno emerges and stabs Mitsuki to death with the same needle for allowing Fukuroi to peek. And of course, given they're Byakudan students, they too are targeted and eventually killed by [[AxCrazy Kizami]]]] We are shown how Mitsuki went so deeply over the DespairEventHorizon that she couldn't be talked to or reasoned with. It is ''not'' pretty.

** Morishige's story: First off, the Darkening meter is at its most sensitive in this chapter and if it reaches 100%, you get a Wrong End. [[spoiler:This particular Wrong End plays fully on HellIsThatNoise, with Morishige being in a room with Sachiko, who has Emi Urabe hostage. We are treated to the [[SarcasmMode lovely music]] of Sachiko opening Emi's body with a pair of sewing scissors, ''shoving her face inside and chew on her organs''. Morishige, at Sachiko's request, joins her]]. And the closer you get to 100%, the more disturbing the BGM gets, with the last one being little more than a string instrument playing frantically. [[spoiler:Also, another Wrong End has Morishige go down a hole to pick up Mayu's Student ID, only to find Ayumi dead. After going insane, he decides it's a good idea to take something of her as a memento to her family. His options are her [[BreadEggsMilkSquick uniform, candles, hair or ''tongue'']].

** Nari and Chiyaya: Sudden ScareChord jump scare courtesy of Chiyaya dropping her pouch onto the Piano keys. [[spoiler: Nari also dies being ''burned alive in cooking oil''. In a particular ReplayBonus Wrong End, the same happens to Mitsuki.]]

** Morishige's story: First off, the Darkening meter is at its most sensitive in this chapter and if it reaches 100%, you get a Wrong End. [[spoiler: This particular Wrong End plays fully on HellIsThatNoise, with Morishige being in a room with Sachiko, who has Emi Urabe hostage. We are treated to the [[SarcasmMode lovely music]] of Sachiko opening Emi's body with a pair of sewing scissors, ''shoving her face inside and chew on her organs''. Morishige, at Sachiko's request, joins her]]. And the closer you get to 100%, the more disturbing the BGM gets, with the last one being little more than a string instrument playing frantically. [[spoiler: Also, another Wrong End has Morishige go down a hole to pick up Mayu's Student ID, only to find Ayumi dead. After going insane, he decides it's a good idea to take something of her as a memento to her family. His options are her [[BreadEggsMilkSquick uniform, candles, hair or ''tongue''.]]

** Morishige's story: First off, the Darkening meter is at its most sensitive in this game and if it reaches 100%, you get a Wrong End. [[spoiler: This particular Wrong End plays fully on HellIsThatNoise, with Morishige being in a room with Sachiko, who has Emi Urabe hostage. We are treated to the [[SarcasmMode lovely music]] of Sachiko opening Emi's body with a pair of sewing scissors, ''shoving her face inside and chew on her organs''. Morishige, at Sachiko's request, joins her]]. And the closer you get to 100%, the more disturbing the BGM gets, with the last one being little more than a string instrument playing frantically.

* The many Wrong Ends in this game. [[spoiler: Either Ayumi dies in a shower of acid blood, stabbed by Yuka, strangled by Yoshiki or drowning in blood like Yuka did in the PC-98 game. And THEN, in the final chapter, there are also the Wrong Ends involving either Yoshiki or Yuka possessing Ayumi and killing Sachiko in the incinerator or body pool, or one ending involving a possessed Ayumi pushing Sachiko and Naomi off a cliff when they are tied unable to do anything about it.]]

* This came puts the emphasis on the "Corpse", featuring ''zombies'' that can ambush you from ''anywhere''.

* One Wrong End, out of nowhere, gives us Kaori ''beating'' Shiho to death with the Iron Lever that was picked earlier. As Shiho is dead with her head split open and her corpse blood-covered, Kaori lefts and reveals...it wasn't actually Kaori, but the girl in red.

!!Fatal Operations.

!!Other
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPp4qUqoCs 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 [[spoiler:the states of the four missing children when they were finally found by police.]]
** At one point, the screen flickers and part of the text from the report changes into [[spoiler:"You will surely die here."]]
* Thought the murder of the ghost children was bad already? The trailer for the OVA makes the scene worse.Yeah, the detail on the frightened children's faces doesn't make it better,
* The ''Tortured Souls'' OVA doesn't hold back at all. [[spoiler:Remember the kid who had half her head cut off? The OVA '''shows''' that half of the head as it's discarded.]] Not to mention the horrible deaths of [[spoiler:Yoshiki, Yuka, and Satoshi]], in all their gory detail. [[spoiler:Well, maybe not that last one.]] Including:
** Seeing the ghost children move is horrifying. In the game, the children were frightening, but they were still images and had a relatively peaceful face on. In the OVA, their expressions are more fit for serial killers than children. Hell, the boy ghost has the most deranged look on his face, [[spoiler:when he attacks Ayumi for his tongue.]]
** Morishige takes multiple levels in crazy after finding out the corpse the likes the most is [[spoiler:Mayu]]. In the game he [[spoiler:commits suicide]], while in the OVA he [[spoiler:goes Axe Crazy by killing anyone he finds and taking a picture of their corpse in a sad way of giving Mayu company, as he believes Mayu is in his phone. His death is upped as well; in the game, he dies off screen. In the OVA, Kizami kills him by stabbing him in the neck.]]
** Kizami is even more [[spoiler:messed up; he goes from friend to maniac in less than 5 minutes.]] We also get proof that [[spoiler:Kizami is the anatomical model in chapter 5 when he kidnaps Yuka; he is half transformed into the model.]]
** [[spoiler:Yoshiki's death is depressing. He holds by a door to stop Yoshikazu from killing everyone. Yoshikazu just breaks through the door and pierces Yoshiki's stomach and then through his mouth. You even see his head get deformed by Yoshikazu's hand.]]
** Even Satoshi gets hit by this. [[spoiler:He blocked a scissor attack from Sachiko, which pierces his hand. He attempts to fight off Sachiko, but she slowly overpowers him and slowly stabs him with the scissor. At the end, Satoshi sacrificed himself by using Kizami's scrap and all that's left of Satoshi is his arms.]]
** [[spoiler:Yui's death was just cruel. In the game, she performed an epic heroic sacrifice. In the OVA she was beheaded by a random board that fell.]]
* Kibiki's death was already terrifying on its own, and it was only [[HellIsThatNoise heard, not shown.]] ''Then'' the manga goes up a notch and actually shows what actually happened. First, the main 5 find him killed by what seems to be a black spirit with nothing but its eyes visible from its pitch-black humanoid form. Then we are treated to a flashback of Kibiki's death. [[spoiler:He's found by a Sachiko-possessed Naho that is speeding up the Darkening within Naho until she becomes covered in it, turning into the pitch-black being that was seen earlier, crushing Kibiki's throat. And as if that wasn't enough, that allowed Sachiko to get Naho's powers, which was how she got stronger and how Heavenly Host, by extension, got stronger as well.]]

** ''Cross Fear'' also gives us the insane doctor that tries to kill Kaori, Seita and Sayako in exchange for his freedom. Even before that, he was already a creepy doctor, taking pleasure in tormenting patients and attempting to rape Kaori.

*** [[spoiler: And if you don't pick the Notebook and Student ID before running into Yoshiki, Nana gets her legs lopped off by Yoshizaku as they cross a hole. Nana doesn't die, but she still ''loses both of her legs''. From this point on, no matter what you do, you get a Wrong End. If you hide into the Science Lab, you find Nana's friend Nari ''burned to the bone'' and then [[FromBadToWorse Sachiko appears with Yoshizaku in tow]]...with ''Chiyaya's severed head'', using it as a pupped. Disturbing beyond belief.]]

* The final chapter of ''Book of Shadows'' sees Ayumi and Naomi attempting to fight fate by attempting another ritual, with this one involving [[spoiler:resurrecting Mayu]]. The results aren't pretty: [[spoiler:It works, but Mayu comes back wrong, shambling and moaning with her face blotched out... and when her paper doll ignites, those moans rise into strangled screams as sigils appear on her joints, then ''explode''. While Ayumi and Naomi are still freaking out over that, the sigils appear on ''Ayumi's'' arms -- ''her'' doll caught fire, and Naomi's attempts to put it out spread it to ''hers''...]]

* Kibiki's death was already terrifying on its own, and it was only [[HellIsThatNoise heard, not shown.]] ''Then'' the manga goes up a notch and actually shows what actually happened. First, the main 5 find him killed by what seems to be a black spirit with nothing but its eyes visible from its pitch-black humanoid form. Then we are treated to a flashback of Kibiki's death. [[spoiler:He's found by a Sachiko-possessed Naho that is speeding up the Darkening within Naho until she becomes covered in it, turning into the pitch-black being that was seen earlier, crushing Kibiki's throat. And as if that wasn't enough, that allowed Sachiko to get Naho's powers, which was how she got stronger and how Heavenly Host, by extension, got stronger as well.]]

* "Purgatory" is terrifying. Focusing on Naho's story prior to the events of ''Blood Covered'', [[spoiler:it shows that Naho was cursed by Sachiko after investigating the Shinozaki Estate to the point that Sachiko can manifest in the human world, have her voice appear in a recorded interview between Naho and Sayaka, and give a cardiac arrest to the show's Director. And ''then'' we are shown that Sayaka too is afflicted with Sachiko's curse since the interview, and that Naho decided to end the Tenjin Elementary investigations, only to find out that Kibiki went over without her. The catch? If "Mire" is any indication, the ensuing FreakOut was so strong that it allowed Sachiko to influence the Darkening within Naho, which led her to post the wrong info about the charm on her blog, much like Ayumi can be corrupted into an AxCrazy {{Yandere}} in a Wrong End near the endgame. And [[RuleOfThree ''then'']], as if that wasn't chilling enough, we are treated to a solo play following Sayaka after she got separated from Naho on their cross to Tenjin. But imagine being by yourself in a place you know nothing about, only that it's haunted. Now imagine that at one point, you're in a section of a long, dark corridor where a female child's voice can be constantly heard singing the folkloric game song [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagome_Kagome "Kagome, kagome"]] endlessly, echoing through the halls and getting progressively louder and slower... as if a child ghost is approaching you, creeping closer and closer to you. Eventually, more child voices are heard as if calling you out to play with them as you progress through the bomb shelter. And then, after seeing how this place was eating at Sayaka's sanity, we get to Nana's death mentioned above.]]

* 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 [[spoiler:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THEY'RE ALL FULL OF HANGED GIRLS!]]

* The final chase in the game. [[spoiler: Yuka has to run away from a deranged Kizami whose voice echoes through the halls saying "Yuukaaaa?", "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you Yuka! Hey!" and "Come out from wherever you are." It doesn't help that it's [[ThatOneLevel That One Chase]].]]
* [[spoiler: Yoshie's diary.]] Calling it disturbing doesn't even ''begin'' to describe it!

* In the first chapter, [[spoiler:Naomi gets the chance to save Seiko from hanging, and succeeds. However, once Seiko gets a good look at her, she screams and runs out of the bathroom. Naomi chases after her, but then Seiko trips and stumbles down the stairs--and gets decapitated by a wire that was at the foot of the stairs. Sachiko arrives and tells Naomi as she cradles her friend's head it was fate. She could delay her death longer, but the way she would die would get worse. [[FromBadToWorse And then Mayu's chapter appears...]]]]

** Of course it then gets even worse in Chapter 4 when Sayaka Ooue watches in horror as [[spoiler:poor Nana, still with both of her legs chopped off, is strapped down to a table and dies screaming as Yoshikazu takes a pair of pliers and rips her tongue out of her mouth. The image you're given right after of her face, frozen in fear with both of her bloodshot eyes wide open and a pool of blood in her mouth, is something right out of a nightmare.]]
* Chapter 6, "Mire" is probably the most horrifying in the entire game. It starts with a recreation of an optional/bad ending moment in Chapter 5 of Blood Covered where [[spoiler:Kizami is getting ready to cut Yuka open as she's tied up on a table]] and just gets worse from there. Even after you [[spoiler:escape, Yuka falls into the basement]] and you are only able to wander around and realize there's no way out. The absolute worst happens when [[spoiler:Sachiko shows up...pretending to be an innocent girl and wanders with you with the intent on wearing through Yuka's confidence by personally Darkening her spirit.]] Watching all this unfold and knowing there's no way to escape it is truly the stuff nightmares are made of as it gets more and more disturbing and gory and comes to a brutal conclusion.
* "Purgatory" is terrifying. Focusing on Naho's story prior to the events of ''Blood Covered'', [[spoiler: it shows that Naho was cursed by Sachiko after investigating the Shinozaki Estate to the point that Sachiko can manifest in the human world, have her voice appear in a recorded interview between Naho and Sayaka and give a cardiac arrest to the show's Director. And ''then'' we are shown that Sayaka too is afflicted with Sachiko's curse since the interview, and that Naho decided to end the Tenjin Elementary investigations, only to find out that Kibiki went over without her. The catch? If "Mire" is any indication, the ensuing FreakOut was so strong that it allowed Sachiko to influence the Darkening within Naho, which led her to post the wrong info about the charm on her blog, much like Ayumi can be corrupted into an AxCrazy {{Yandere}} in a Wrong End near the endgame. And [[RuleOfThree ''then'']], as if that wasn't chilling enough, we are treated to a solo play following Sayaka after she got separated from Naho on their cross to Tenjin. But imagine being by yourself in a place you know nothing about, only that it's haunted. Now imagine that at one point, you're in a section of a long, dark corridor where a female child's voice can be constantly heard singing the folkloric game song [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagome_Kagome "Kagome, kagome"]] endlessly, echoing through the halls and getting progressively louder and slower...as if a child ghost is approaching you, creeping closer and closer to you. Eventually, more child voices are heard as if calling you out to play with them as you progress through the bomb shelter. And then, after seeing how this place was eating at Sayaka's sanity, we get to Nana's death mentioned above.]]

** Kizami is even more [[spoiler:messed up; he goes from friend to maniac in less than 5 minutes.]] We also get proof that [[spoiler:Kizami is the anatomical model in chapter 5 when he kidnaps Yuka, he is half transformed into the model.]]

* Kibiki's death was already terrifying on it's own, and it was only [[HellIsThatNoise heard, not shown.]] ''Then'' the manga goes up a notch and actually shows what actually happened. First, the main 5 find him killed by what seems to be a black spirit with nothing but its eyes visible from its pitch-black humanoid form. Then we are treated to a flashback of Kibiki's death. [[spoiler: He's found by a Sachiko-possessed Naho that is speeding up the Darkening within Naho until she becomes covered in it, turning into the pitch-black being that was seen earlier, crushing Kibiki's throat. And as if that wasn't enough, that allowed Sachiko to get Naho's powers, which was how she got stronger and how Heavenly Host, by extend, got stronger as well.]]

** [[spoiler:Yui's death was just cruel. In the game, she performed an epic heroic sacrifice. In the OVA she was beheaded by a random board that fell.]]

* How about the ghost who lacks an eyeball, leaving a constantly bleeding eye socket? Cause of death? [[spoiler:[[EyeScream Getting stabbed in the eyes with a pair of scissors]]]]. And if she catches you [[spoiler:she does the same to you]]! And for that matter, let's consider the circumstances surrounding her death. [[spoiler:Imagine you and three other children have been kidnapped by your insane teacher. He blindfolds you and lines you up on the floor. You can't see the two before you being killed (via disembowelment and the top half of her head being cut off, respectively), but you can hear it. Finally, it's your turn. When your blindfold is taken off, what do you see before your eye is stabbed out? Your teacher is cowering in the corner, while ''the fourth kidnapped child has you by the hair, a pair of scissors in her hand, covered in blood with an insane expression on her face''.]] Now imagine that the little girl in question, [[spoiler:upon getting her eye back and letting Ayumi and Yoshiki go back, basically forces Ayumi to experience what she went through. To be fair, the girl DOES warn Ayumi that it would be really bad, and Ayumi insists on seeing what happened, but she probably doesn't realize just how BAD it'll be]].

*** That's not the toilet screaming, that's the Gentlemanly Ghost that is talked to by Nana and friends in their chapters.
**** YMMV, this troper [[NightmareRetardant thought it was hilarious.]]
*** The horror is pretty much completely evaporated by the first extra chapter, where it is revealed that the ghost inside said toilet is basically the nicest dude around.

*** He's so nice, acting like a big brother to Yuka. In the manga, [[spoiler:he catches her, ties her hands to a table, and begins to cut at her throat. The worst part? He does this as he starts to climb on top of her in what looks ''unnervingly'' like a rape scene. The fact that he unbuttons his shirt does not help.]] In-game, [[spoiler:there's a bad ending associated with him capturing her and delighting over how many faces she'll show him before she dies.]]

** Incidentally, this is a situation where the game messes with your expectations. In the previous chapter, you receive a warning not to read a newspaper, when you have to in order to get out of the room you're trapped in. So when you see a notice warning you not to read the Victim's Memoirs all the way through, you think "Oh ho, you can't fool me, game" and go about finding them all. Then, once you finish the last one, the whole atmosphere seems more tense than normal. Then Yoshiki [[spoiler:realizes that he's been eating Ayumi]].

* The voice acting can get a little hard to listen to. The characters can sound so terrified that it can be hard to hear what they're saying exactly, even if you can read the text. Furthermore, in this game, the voice actors used a dummy head mic. This means that if you're wearing headphones, the sounds and voice acting end up making it seem like you're really there.

* The voice acting can get a little hard to listen to. The characters can sound so terrified that it can be hard to hear what they're saying exactly. Furthermore, in this game, the voice actors used a dummy head mic. This means that if you're wearing headphones, the sounds and voice acting end up making it seem like you're really there.

** In the "Soulful Testimonials" from the voice actors, many admit to being frightened by the content of the game. One (Taira Kikumoto, who plays Fukuroi) even admits that while just reading the script in a coffee house people started giving him odd looks due to his reactions