Chances of a perfect happy ending?

[The Male/Man]

I hear this game had no completely happy endings.

[Gabby]

FUFUFUFUFUFUUFUFUFUFUFUGUGUFUFUUUUU

[Jackkel Dragon]

To give a more serious answer, there are no fully happy endings in the series. Some of the games have endings where something positive happens, but only after a lot of loss. Can't really be any less vague without spoilers, though.

[The Male/Man]

Originally posted by Jackkel Dragon:

To give a more serious answer, there are no fully happy endings in the series. Some of the games have endings where something positive happens, but only after a lot of loss. Can't really be any less vague without spoilers, though.

Yes or no answers are completely axe-eptable.

[Redds]

The end of the Book of Shadows is much more surprising, I think it was the best of the three games, a happy ending in Corpse Party? who knows.

[Quincy Quinn]

I would say the happy ending to this game would be the "True Ending" to the previous game, seeing as the jumping point from for Book of Shadows (excluding the Blood Drive prelude) is as a continuation of one of the Bad Endings from the previous game. You really can't look into this game for any more happiness.

It's a game called "Corpse Party". Don't expect good things to happen.

[Gabby]

One basic thing to pay attention to is in the first game it is explained that the school is a collection of dimensions and timelines. All of those bad endings actually happened, as do the clear and good endings.

The question is what truly is the true ending.

[Pepe Silvia]

^^^^^ This

[WeskerBot3000]

>Corpse Party
>Happy ending
pick one

[JRTheKnightwalker]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!
In all seriousness the game is called "Corpse Party" doesn't sound like a game that will have a happy anything

[Saralene]

Really? But it's a party...

(Serious reply: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash is debatably a happy game.)

[The Male/Man]

Originally posted by Sara:

Really? But it's a party...

(Serious reply: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash is debatably a happy game.)

I guess it's true what they say... It's not a real party until somebody dies!

[Gabby]

Sachiko is Dothraki, confirmed.

[Travis the Moonstar]

Sort of Spoilers ahead. Well, yes, spoilers.

There's a lot of media from Japan where the intent is to make you feel bad. Lot of H stuff where the boyfriend has his girlfriend stolen from him and doesn't get her back. A lot of games, espeically horror, where the good ending is you doing everything right and seemingly getting a good ending only to have the bossman go "LOL, JK, YOU LOSE." A lot of movies do the same thing, like in The Grudge and The Ring.

There's a specific term for it that artdouches use that I've forgotten. I personally call it "you lose media."

This is the go-to example of a you-lose-media game. The story itself is interesting, but the ending just ruins it. I was hoping the 2nd game I had access to (I don't read/speak Japanese) would have a more satisfactory ending than the first but there isn't anything there. The ending isn't even good from a storytelling perspective. It would have been better if it was a prequel or side-story completely that just reinforced the idea that the school is inescapable.

BIG SPOILER, but if you have a problem with you-lose-media, read it and don't buy this game:

The bossman pulling the rug out in the last minute of the game was one of the worst endings I've ever seen and it ruined my interest in the series forever. An invincible omnipotent bossman isn't interesting at all.

So yes, there isn't a happy ending. Even if you do everything right and even address the issue that created the bossman she decides to continue being an evil ♥♥♥♥♥ because it's a you-lose-media trope of there just being "an evil place."

[Gabby]

Based on your spoiler, you quit early on an assumption.

I'd temper that and get all the way through Blood Drive, because you're actually wrong. <_<;

[Travis the Moonstar]

Originally posted by Seraphna:

Based on your spoiler, you quit early on an assumption.

I'd temper that and get all the way through Blood Drive, because you're actually wrong. <_<;

This is the board for Book of Shadows, and I didn't quit early.


The prologue, which I took to be the furthest point in the main storyline, ends with a good witch saving the day, only to then have her head explode/removed because Sachiko can't be beaten because no-bossman-wins-no-matter-what-YOU-LOSE.

I'm not going to play all the way through another game after having my face shat on twice.