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Corpse Party: Blood Drive (Vita) coming to North America this Fall
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Yes you do!
You do.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Sweet. Subscribed, so I can see when the physical order link goes up.
names2hard4you
Member
I'll be honest I am not a big fan of this cover ^ still getting it for the art book and soundtracks though.
The JP cover is awful and a huge spoiler, I'm glad they're using another cover instead.
Tizoc
Member
Fine I'll clear up a game or two and finish it up =_=
Yeah better than the spoiler, and it's possible that the artwork they were given, didn't give them a lot to work with and/or were spoilery anyways.
names2hard4you
Member
Not even gonna bother searching it up, thanks in advance
names2hard4you
Member
Yup. That and the Corpse Party font actually.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
You mean like this?
I wonder if a trilogy pack for PS Vita or PS4 would be possible in the future for this series...
names2hard4you
Member
This game came out In 2013 if I remember correctly. They already knew back then.
August 2014, same month as Operation Abyss (same week, IIRC).
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Book of Shadows has the lead into Blood Drive.
sturgboski
Member
Figures a game about corpses is coming out on a dead system this fall.
Completely agree. It must be something very important story-wise to be there. I'd prefer the cover without it.
Yup.
Will still get it though. Hopefully the cover art is not 100% final and it can be improved before release.
Kresnik258
Member
XSEED keeping the legacy alive.
I still haven't finished Corpse Party 1 yet. I couldn't tell if I was enjoying it or not when I stopped playing (sometimes I loved it; sometimes it was a chore). Still, I'll probably try this down the line.
I still haven't finished Corpse Party 1 yet. I couldn't tell if I was enjoying it or not when I stopped playing (sometimes I loved it; sometimes it was a chore). Still, I'll probably try this down the line.
There's kind of a difference between PSP and Vita physical copies, given their history...
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
Day 1. I didn't realize this was a conclusion to the story, that's cool. I might even buy the retail version because Sony doesn't want to lower it's memory card pricing for it's legacy platform.
I mean the previous game in the series was skipped entirely and didn't even get a digital release, yet they are confident enough with this to give it a physical one.
calc84maniac
Member
What game is that? I own both Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows digitally.
sixteen-bit
Member
I'll cop the physical release.
Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows have been released in English digitally.
Now, if you're talking about Birthday 2U, that game is not canon, and probably will not be released.
Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient has not been released yet, and is part of a separate story arc.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Actually it has some info about certain things in 2U that you can't get in the other games.
But despite that, it shouldn't affect the story in Blood Drive. I have faith in XSEED.
immortal-joe
Member
Retail, music, artbook. This has xseeded my expectations.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Best news!!!!
Day 1 for me
Day 1 for me
NoctisVsStar
Member
Fucking hyped! Day-0 Based Xseed one of the reasons I bought the vita, I was waiting for this gem.
http://corpseparty.wikia.com/wiki/C...Sachiko's_Game_of_Love_♥_Hysteric_Birthday_2U
Downplay it all you want, they still skipped it despite the previous ones doing so well they felt confident enough to go physical for this one.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I dunno where you got that from but Book of Shadows didn't do as well. I'm sure they're more confident in BD since it's more in the style of the first game.
What difference does it make? At least we're getting Blood Drive. Don't get all angry just because a non-canon, fanservice-riddled game which has little to do with the main story was skipped.
And like InfiniteNine said, Book of Shadows didn't do as well as the first game.
Previous "one." Book of Shadows was nowhere near as popular, unfortunately -- the visual novel style really didn't seem to appeal to people as much as the RPGMaker style of the first game. A shame, really, because the game itself is an excellent follow-up.
That, though, along with the drastic tonal shift, made 2U pretty much impossible to justify releasing. We wish we could've, but the numbers just didn't work out.
For those saying it's "non-canon," though, I do feel the need to correct you: although most of the events in 2U are irrelevant to the overarching plotline of Corpse Party, they *are* technically canon.
Also, for those of you commenting on the box art and/or logo:
The "green glowy thing" in question is a set of two Everafter Stones (as we're calling them in English), which are extremely important to the story of the game. They exist on the front cover because they're part of the English logo, and they're part of the English logo because each previous Corpse Party title has had one element from the game appended to the right side of the logo: the first had the blood splatter, the second had the Book of Shadows itself, and the third has the Everafter Stones.
As for the text of the logo, the "BLOOD DRIVE" is taken straight from the Japanese logo, but the "Corpse Party" part needed to be translated. We were going to just take the English "Corpse Party" text straight out of the first game's logo, but the coloring and stylistic differences between that text and the "BLOOD DRIVE" text looked... really jarring. So we adapted the logo from the first game into something that still looks more or less the same, but is more stylistically consistent with the "BLOOD DRIVE" text.
...Oh, and the box art itself was a no-brainer. The regular Japanese box-art is a huge spoiler for the previous games, and makes the game look like some kind of school dating sim, while the Japanese LE box-art depicts a scene that's not even in the game at all (at least, not as depicted). We elected to eschew both images in favor of something a little more representative of the mood and narrative of Blood Drive -- and that eye pic is both creepy to look at and also has a lot of subtle detail in it (for example, did you notice that there's a word spelled out in the cornea? It's in Japanese, but it reads "Sachi." This is a central plot point in the game).
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Soyongdori
Member
Not sure if I should buy this or not. Played previous games, but not liking the new 3d models.
ShaoranWright
Member
Beautiful
As I stated they seem to be confident enough with this one to not only release it but give it a physical release. Doesn't seem to be the case from what you guys are saying, so I'm not sure why they are taking the risk even with it more in line with the first game.
Get off your high horse. The game is canon and the other games have fan service in them too. I wanted the game localized because I'm a fan of the series, who is "getting all angry"? Seems like it's you with how defensive you've gotten, all I said was that I was disappointed.
Fair enough. I realize you guys are running a business and need to make your decisions accordingly. Hopefully they work out for you.
Also thank you for addressing this.
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