Corpse Party

Corpse PartyJapanese: (コープスパーティー Kōpusu Pātī)Stylized as CORPSE-PARTY, found in-game title screen. is a 1996 Japanese survival horror adventure game developed by Kenix Soft released for the NEC-PC9801. It was made using the original version of RPG Maker, the RPG Tsukūru Dante 98 program. It is usually known under the abbreviation Dante 98 (Dante98版 Dante98 Han) in Japan and occasionally as CP98 overseas.
Marked the first survival horror game made in an RPG Maker program, and the first to introduce multiple endings divided with storylines using school-like grades.https://kotaku.com/paranoia-madness-suicide-and-cannibalism-who-says-16-5854847http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/corpse-party-pc-98/
==Synopsis==
The plot concerns a group of Japanese high school students, celebrating their school's culture festival. The group are telling ghost stories when a sudden earthquake transports them to a dilapidated schoolhouse in an alternate dimension. The school is haunted by the ghosts of people who have been trapped there. The group is consistant of Satoshi Mochida, a kind-hearted high school student who is teased by his classmates for his cowardly nature. Three of the other characters are students from Satoshi's class: Naomi Nakashima, Satoshi's childhood friend; Yoshiki Kishinuma, an intimidating yet good-natured student and Ayumi Shinozaki, the class representative. Rounding out the group is Yuka Mochida, Satoshi's younger sister. The game's antagonist is the ghost of a former student, a girl in a red dress who seeks vengeance for her death at the hands of a teacher many years prior.
==Gameplay==
Corpse Party is entirely narrative-driven adventure game with survival horror and minimal role-playing elements. Players take control of a party of five characters, Satoshi Mochida, Naomi Nakashima, Yuka Mochida, Yoshiki Kishinuma, and Ayumi Shinozaki, consisting them as students. Players are tasked to explore the haunted school grounds, reunite with their classmates and solve the mystery surrounding the abandoned school. And to fulfill this task, characters must interact with the environment and surroundings such as picking up objects.
Since the death of a companion, the continuation will still allow the player to beat the game, but based on who survives will unlock a different epilogue.
The game has no battle system entirely except at the end of the game shows up a final boss battle with first-person turn based combat in a style of Sweet Home, a precursor of survival horror game genre.
==Development==
A 22-year-old dojin college student by the name of Makoto “Kedwin” Kedouin, working on a horror adventure game with the company Kenix Soft, under the name CORPSE-PARTY. The game was built on the original RPG Maker program, RPG Tsukuru Dante 98 for the PC-98, and drew heavily inspirations of 1989 Capcom's game Sweet Home, the earliest survival horror game.CORPSE-PARTY (PC-98) - Hardcore Gaming 101 
Unlike most role-playing games, it omitted most of the combat and focused the game on puzzles, essentially making it an adventure game played in an RPG Maker program.
== Release ==
On April 22nd, 1996, the game was published in the Spring 1996 edition of LOGIN Sofcom No.6. On February 26th, 1997, Kedouin submitted the game to a 1996 contest for RPG Maker games; Kedouin won second place in the Second Annual ASCII ENTERTAINMENT competition, netting him 5 million yen.
== Reception ==
The game praised for its story and unique gameplay compared to the 1989 game Sweet Home, often cited as a remarkable watershed of horror and adventure genres in the RPG Maker industry; due to the original game's large popularity and introduction of survival horror subgenre, it produced multiple sequels under Team GrisGris' property and inspired numerous fan projects, and with the help of Yume Nikki in 2004, these adventure games have become something of a minor genre today, popular on the hobbyist and indie scene.
The genre is sometimes called Horror-RPG, though this is misleading both in terms of development tool and narrative genre. True, many notable entries in the genre are horror games, like Ib, Ao Oni, and Strange Men series, but the use of adventure genre revitalized the idea of RPG Makers over the years includes modern classics like To the Moon.
== Remake ==
In 2010, an anonymous member of a Japanese message board give a permission to Team GrisGris for remaking the old version, which was granted. The official fan-remake was released in Japan to the public on January 25, 2011; the fan-remake is mostly faithful to the original, adding only improved graphics and mechanics, and extending one of the endings. Like the original game, it was made in an RPG Maker program. It is usually known under the abbreviation RB in Japan. Currently, the fan game has been translated in Chinese, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
==Trivia==
*The game has significant similarities with Sweet Home below:
**Both were released exclusively in Japan, but it did not give an official English-translation for many years.
**It has five main characters: a party of two males and three females (one of which is a young girl)
**The main female antagonists of both games were mostly similar, with Shinozaki drew significant similarities with Lady Mamiya.
***Both as ghosts with gruesome appearance, dressed in red, and unnamed first names. Additionally, they have different tragic events: Lady Mamiya, in a brink of sudden grief for accidentally incinerated her child and committed suicide, seeks vengeance on anyone in the building who trespassed; Shinozaki, who once a former student was murdered by a teacher, seeks vengeance of her death at the hands of the teacher many years prior before targeting students.
**Both settings depicted in abandoned buildings with deadly traps.
**It has multiple endings, one of them losing lives led to the branch of a different ending.
*These endings in the game are not truly defined as "wrong ends", which was not officially used that term until the remake.
*It is the only game out of all future installments of an eponymous horror game franchise made in an RPG Maker program, despite the fact the sequel has been made in the same program but ended up being cancelled by the developer due to creative differences.
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==References==
===List===
Category:Games (Dante 98/RM95)
Category:Released in 1990-1999
Category:Survival horror
===External links===
Category:RPG
Category:Non-RPG