~Sea of Twilight~
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, hime-chan♥ Sorry, I have to split up this review because I still haven't finished the Alternative Ending of chapter 5. I will add the second part during this week or so, for now I am pretty sure you'd have enough to read now xD
HAJIMASHOU!
Aiya, so I am doing something akin to a review/summary/ranting thingie about Corpse Party for my husbando hime-chan~~ (And why is this no proper review? Because I put my own thoughts and judgments into every part already, not just the conclusion/whatever.)
Also, this is a game that uses the Dummy Head Mic technique, I think. Meaning that you should use headphones to get maximum effect of the sound effects. IT IS CREEPY BUT REALLY, DUMMY HEAD MIC IS LOVE!
First and foremost, the premise of this PSP horror game:
After the cultural festival and a few horror stories told, a group of teenagers perform a Sachiko Ever After charm to make sure they will be friends forever. …instead they are subsequently trapped in a school that should no longer exist: Tenjin Shougakkou (or Heavenly Host Elementary School if you go for the USA
Let's start with the main characters:
Mochida Satoshi
Technically apparently the main character. 17 years old. He is easily scared and that makes him victim to the class representative's horror stories. In serious situations (as seen when playing as him in the games) he gets quite courageous. That makes him a somewhat generic boring main character but oh well. He also has a little sister, who is, unfortunately, also part of this wonderful horror trip… By the way, his seiyuu is Shimono Hiro, which I think is UtaPri's Shou?Mochida Yuka
Sweet cute little Yuka is Satoshi's younger sister. She is really cute, be careful not to get cavity. No, really, she is cute. Except…sometimes really annoying. Especially when you realize she is 14 and acts like 6. AND is terribly in love with her onii-chan. (Which really I wouldn't mind if she didn't act like a tiny 6 years old!)
Nakashima Naomi
Our second protagonist, I think? A tsundere girl, type B. Meaning she is usually kind and nice but when it comes to her love interest she is quite tsun. She is also easily provoked, doesn't easily admit things…yeah, a tsundere. Her love interest? Satoshi of course. They are childhood friends. And he doesn't know she is crushing in him. In my opinion a bit generic and boring tsundere, sorry.Shinohara Seiko
Ah, our perverted Seiko, best friend of Naomi and big sis promoted to mom in her household. She is…really perverted sometimes (the manga puts much emphasis on it) and really likes Naomi's big boobs. Comes from being in love with her best friend. …but she actively tries to matchmake Satoshi and Naomi so yeah. Hide your lesbians? Poor girl. But she really tries to cheer up the mood as much as she can. I really grew to like her when I at first didn't like her because of her seiyuu. Nothing against the seiyuu herself but I just didn't like the sound. But…Seiko is one of the cooler characters~Shinozaki Ayumi
Class representative and avid horror stories and occult lover – while really being a scared cat. She is also the one with the highest spiritual awareness which makes her quite valuable in warnings like not doing this and that…but also making her prone to being possessed. She likes to tease Satoshi – a sign of her affection to him. Yes, she is also in love with our hero. I am not sure why but I like Ayumi the most. She is a scared cat, can be bitchy and yandere at some point, can be stupid and inconsiderate, but she is no boring character and has character development and…well, I like her.
Kishinuma Yoshiki
Most important thing: His seiyuu is Nakamura Yuuichi. (What, I am seiyuu biased, okay?!) He is somewhat of a thug or at least looks a bit like the rebel next door. Poor guy is in love with Ayumi (who doesn't realize his feelings save for one…WRONG ending). Poor guy is really actually quite nice and tries his best to protect Ayumi. Suzumoto Mayu
A girl who was supposed to transfer out of the school one day after cultural festival. Instead she got wrapped up in this. She is essential for Sakutarou, with whom she has a brother-sister-relationship of the platonic kind. The bad news is, she dies early on because she is too much of a kind, cheerful soul and trusted the vengeful spirits.Morishige Sakutarou
Somewhat of a generic guy at first, he is a megane who absolutely cannot see without his glasses (as one epic extra chapter revealed) and gets mostly little screen time. Revealed to have some actor skills but never really exploring them because he isn't popular. Later you get to see that he is rather creepy (the manga is much better at showing it, though), or is at least kind of disturbing, needing the suffering of others to keep himself sane (in form of passively taking pictures of the corpses). That and Mayu's presence was what kept him mentally stable all this time. He does not take it well when he finds out Mayu died. Also, his seiyuu is Kakihara Tetsuya, who is originally from Germany
Shishido Yui
The teacher of the class, a young woman who is damn awesome! (Not to mention she has awesome Sawashiro Miyuki as seiyuu~) Cat-lover, single (I felt the need to mention this because it was topic in one extra chapter xD) and very brave. Let's just say when a ghost is pressing a shelf with blades down on your back asking you to beg for your life and she instead dares the ghost to hurt her students…yes. Yes, she is a fine teacher.
Prologue:
The prologue starts with the group minus Yuka and Shishido gathered around candles in the classroom, horror stories and then a creepy authentic imitation of the horror story just told, courtesy to Shishido, who wanted to give them a good scare. Yuka joins to bring her brother an umbrella because it is storming outside like mad and the group wants to finish cleaning up the classroom. Because it is Mayu's last day, Ayumi gets the brilliant idea to perform the Sachiko Ever After that would fail if you don't chant the spell correctly. And after they chant the spell, an earthquake hits them, the ground opens up and they fall to their demise.
