Before I consider buying, is it uncensored?

[donatas081294]

Like when seeing updated and for next/new generation most of the time they censor it to high heavens and annoy lots of fans, sure the reviews seems to be positive, but comparing the previous versions is it more censored, the same or by some lucky chance more uncensored and gruesome?
By uncensored I mean everything gore and fan service.

[Jackkel Dragon]

To my knowledge, no Corpse Party game has been censored in the English release. The closest thing I'm aware of is that a translation choice obscured an implication of rape in Blood Drive, but to my understanding that line was re-translated for the PC version to be more clear. As for this game in particular, no version has been censored, though some have claimed one version or the other censored things because of the differences between the indie and MAGES. versions.

[donatas081294]

so it's not censored in any way?
Also this is the full series game or is it part of a series game. Since I am aware there are more corpse party versions out there which focuses on other events right?

[Kowii]

Originally posted by donatas081294:

so it's not censored in any way?
Also this is the full series game or is it part of a series game. Since I am aware there are more corpse party versions out there which focuses on other events right?

This is the first game, but remade from its original.

Well to say

Corpse Party (Old) and Corpse Party (2021) are the same, storywise. There's another thread pinned in discussions explaining the difference between the two

Sequel of this game is Book of Shadows, wich is more visual novel-styled
and then there's Blood Drive, the sequel of Book of Shadows.

Birthday bash is a spin off, but it's pretty hilarious as to say.

[Gabby]

Originally posted by donatas081294:

so it's not censored in any way?

Nope, and usually you can expect no censorship when XSEED is involved. Their staff have literally gone out on a limb over that constantly over the years.

Also this is the full series game or is it part of a series game. Since I am aware there are more corpse party versions out there which focuses on other events right?

This is part of a series, it should be known that Corpse Party PC is the original and Corpse Party 2021 is the remake of that game. The proper title for both is Corpse Party: Blood Covered, the remake adds "Repeated Fear" to the title.

Corpse Party:

Corpse Party (2021) / Blood Covered: Repeated Fear
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Corpse Party: Sachiko's Hysterical Birthday 2U
Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Corpse Part 2:

Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient (Chapter 1 out only.)

[Dragon]

It depends how you define "censored," but I would argue that yes, Corpse Party 2021 has indeed been censored in some ways, due to how Mages drew some of the assets to make them appear more tame & sanitized and less visceral & shocking than they should be.

For example, compare the footage here, at time code 131:42 (note: there are major spoilers in that link, so don't watch it if you don't want spoilers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvM2GPXjhns

...with the 'sanitized' 2021 version of the same scene, as you can see at 1:01:38 here (also, same spoiler warning for this link too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlkPMiFKs4A

Likewise, many of the CGs in the 2021 version do not match either the text descriptions, and/or the gameplay-field-view of the horrific events that have occurred.

For example, the text description might say a character had their (warning: graphic description of gruesome violence) skull cracked open and then the game will display a CG of a perfectly intact body with zero damage to the head.

Or in the big hanging scenes , you can see the ropes in the actual gameplay view, but the ropes are mysteriously absent from being visually represented in the CG representations of those same scenes.

And another example is a character who has her body (another description of gruesome violence coming up) eviscerated by a blade trap, and the gameplay view displays a very gruesome & visceral view of her body turned into a clumpy mush, but the CG representation of that same scene again represents her body as perfectly intact after the trap had already finished activating on her, which makes zero sense.

It was clearly drawn in a deliberately sanitized way in an attempt to avoid controversy, or something.

[Gabby]

Or you’re again misrepresenting things in an over exaggerated way because pixel art doesn’t exactly have the same room for style as fully drawn images.

Also a game developer can’t censor themselves. They went with their intentions. What the person asked was if anything was censored in the localization from the source material. Your own argument proves it was not.

[Jackkel Dragon]

Not even going to bother with a point-by-point on someone who has repeatedly refused to see reason, so I'm going to bring up a specific point:

For dismemberments, the Japanese rating systems do not allow for clear depictions of gore/injuries of that kind. That's why Until Dawn's Japanese release blacked out the screen when a certain character gets halved by a saw, and (more relevant here) why there is always something handily blocking visible gore from dismemberment in the MAGES. Corpse Party games' illustrations. The indie game could get away with a pixel art depiction of a character being bisected because it is so low-res as to skirt the laws involved, and because I don't believe it was rated by CERO. So when that scene was given a high-res illustration in the remakes, it was always going to go for implication more than pure guro simply because console games cannot be sold in most locations with a CERO Z rating. (It's also telling that the theatrical version of the anime adaptation has a similar scene that is fully mosaic-censored because of the same laws.)

So, ultimately, choosing to consider the MAGES. games to be "censored" because they didn't make things as gory as one might have been expecting is placing the blame on the wrong source. Perhaps the project leads at MAGES. didn't want to go that deep into guro. Perhaps they didn't want to break laws or get their game blocked from sale. Either way, saying BR is "censored" because it obeys the rating system in how it depicts a scene that is otherwise identical to BC is a losing battle. By that logic, any game that is given a rating is potentially censored. It leads to a lot of slippery slope arguments that no one has time for.

Lastly, a good chunk of BC/BR's most brutal and violent scenes are done entirely on black screens using text, sound effects, and sometimes a flash of light. If anything, BR removes the mystery for some of these scenes by adding additional art. For the specific case I used above, I prefer the illustration we got in BR to the possibility of a bloodless version of the pixel art from BC, which would make the affected character look like a broken doll. MAGES. worked with their limitations and found a way to imply exactly what happened without breaking any rules, which I think is a pretty big win when making a guro game in a country with laws against depicting gore.

[donatas081294]

♥♥♥♥ guys, all I was asking is it censored like. For example steam censoring word ♥♥♥♥, or censoring gore, nudity, dark themes (like yu gi oh replaced death with shadow realm), scary depictions and so on. No need to be so nit picky.

[Gabby]

Heh, yeah you're good. They didn't censor or change anything. People die, there's gore, it's a pretty freaky series. It's a reason I love it.