From the creators of Mad Father, a class of students find themselves trapped in a spirit infested version of their school as former classmate named Misao reveals that she's a ghost and launches her revenge campaign against all who bullied her.
This one's weird. While Mad Father wasn't exactly the pinnacle of realism either, this one leans deep into slasher camp. There's almost three dozen unique kinds of deaths you can encounter, all of them darkly hilarious and cheap. Examine a piece of paper between some bookshelves? Get smashed like a pancake. Stand too close to the window? It'll shatter and kill you too. Examine a painting? It eats you. The quicksave feature helps encourage the player to actively die, just to see the results.
Its the story itself where things get complicated for me. Misao's bullying is truly horrific and crosses the line to borderline exploitative pretty quickly. The game does offer her a lot of sympathy, but there's a lot of things I don't know if I needed to see? But then again, that's what the horror genre tends to gravitate towards pretty quick.
There's other little things that add up to a really bizarre but fascinating game. Characters from Mad Father act as your hint/save system. And while I didn't play the game again as the male protag, I've been watching clips that reveal there's a LOT of surprising differences between your two protag options. Fem!Aki is more brutal and willing to kill others for the sake of survival, even laughing off the death of a class bully. M!Aki is kinder and less willing to hurt others, which spirals the whole ending into an entirely different climax. The whole experience was just fascinating but bizarrely charming. Trashy horror at its most polished.
This one's weird. While Mad Father wasn't exactly the pinnacle of realism either, this one leans deep into slasher camp. There's almost three dozen unique kinds of deaths you can encounter, all of them darkly hilarious and cheap. Examine a piece of paper between some bookshelves? Get smashed like a pancake. Stand too close to the window? It'll shatter and kill you too. Examine a painting? It eats you. The quicksave feature helps encourage the player to actively die, just to see the results.
Its the story itself where things get complicated for me. Misao's bullying is truly horrific and crosses the line to borderline exploitative pretty quickly. The game does offer her a lot of sympathy, but there's a lot of things I don't know if I needed to see? But then again, that's what the horror genre tends to gravitate towards pretty quick.
There's other little things that add up to a really bizarre but fascinating game. Characters from Mad Father act as your hint/save system. And while I didn't play the game again as the male protag, I've been watching clips that reveal there's a LOT of surprising differences between your two protag options. Fem!Aki is more brutal and willing to kill others for the sake of survival, even laughing off the death of a class bully. M!Aki is kinder and less willing to hurt others, which spirals the whole ending into an entirely different climax. The whole experience was just fascinating but bizarrely charming. Trashy horror at its most polished.