These range from cooking competitions to scavenger hunts, all with a dark twist.
Presented in a visual novel style, Sweet Sachiko is divided up into eight or so chapters detailing the different events Sachiko decides to have for her birthday. Yes, this game is, somehow, a comedy spin-off of a rather gruesome horror series. She wants to throw the best party ever, and everyone in Heavenly Host is invited! Even those that have died have been brought back to life for one day to participate in this *ahem* Hysteric Birthday Bash! Sachiko is also a young girl, and she’s really excited for her upcoming birthday. For years, unsuspecting people have been finding themselves within the walls of her domain, and if they die there, their souls are doomed to remain for all eternity, reliving their painful deaths over and over. Heavenly Host Elementary – an otherworldly site of grotesque horrors, ruled over by a malevolent and vengeful spirit named Sachiko. and published in the west by XSeed Games, Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash was released on April 10th, 2019, exclusively for PC. Having worked on bringing the mainline Corpse Party games to the west for the past few years, XSeed has seemingly decided it was time for us to have the chance to read the horror franchise’s own “fan disc.”ĭeveloped by MAGES. It’s these unusual releases, though, where XSeed Games shines. We’re already talking about a niche genre here, so releasing a game for a specific niche within that niche just doesn’t really make sense to most publishers. Obviously, it’s rare for visual novel fan discs to make their way to English speaking audiences. Secondly, the plots contained within these games are often side-stories or unimportant to canon, keeping them from being considered a true sequel. For one, fan discs usually rely on players already having the background knowledge from the games they’re based on, and won’t go out of the way to assist in bringing in newbies. I don’t mean that in the sexual terms its often used for (although that kind of fanservice is common for these kind of releases), but rather as “content created specifically for fans.” Hell, it’s right there in the name: fan disc.Īs such, these kind of releases are most definitely not the place for newcomers to jump into a series. Often, these fan discs are utterly drenched in fanservice. That’s where the fan disc comes in – a game release with a bunch of extra content, often a brand new story, letting these fans spend more time in the world they’ve fallen in love with.
After pouring hours of life into reading through a story, some people will surely come to care for the characters therein and want to spend more time with them. The “fan disc” is a relatively common thing when it comes to visual novels.
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