Trivia / Corpse Party

• Ascended Fanon: Corpse Party Zero, a fanmade prequel for Blood Covered. Makoto Kedouin loved it so much he incorporated the characters as corpse name tags you could find in Blood Drive.
• Banned in China: The franchise is not allowed to be sold in China due to the brutal content.
• Franchise Killer: Corpse Party: Blood Drive technically didn't kill the franchise, but the fallout of that game was bad enough to have left the series in such a state of stagnation that it might as well have been. Billed as the Grand Finale to the Heavenly Host saga fresh after the Anthology Visual Novel Book of Shadows, Blood Drive was utterly trashed critically and commercially, retroactively ruining the first game for many with the amount of Fan-Disliked Explanations that paint the game in a worse light in hindsight. While the original, much more highly-regarded Corpse Party and even the divisive, but still liked Book of Shadows still has its fandoms, the backlash to Blood Drive saw any potentially new installments to the franchise be driven to a screeching halt for the foreseeable future. The original Corpse Party may still get ports to this day, but there hasn't been a new entry to the Corpse Party franchise that wasn't a milking of the first game in almost ten years; with the first chapter of Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient being released in 2013 and only seeing one polished-up port of the first chapter since then. As a result, it's not unreasonable to suggest the series would qualify as a Franchise Zombie hadn't the ports of the first game become literally the only thing still keeping the series relevant and alive.
• No Dub for You: The North America releases keep the original Japanese voice acting, with no option for English voices. XSEED Games said this is because of how difficult it would be to copy the special "3D" / binaural audio the series has if it was given a dub.
• Late Export for You: 2U wasn't released until April 10, 2019 (and only for the PC), three and a half years after Blood Drive's original English release. This made Blood Drive more difficult to grasp for those who stuck to only the English releases. This is because Blood Drive makes references to 2U, most notably by giving the fates of the four Sugatani students, opening up the gym, and showing Sachiko's necklace.
• Schedule Slip: The 3DS version of the game was originally planned for release on August 30th, 2016 in the US. It ended up being released October 25th. However, the physical LE was still called the "Back to School edition", despite school in the states starting in August to early September.
• What Could Have Been: Satsuki was planned to be the protagonist of an official sequel to the original Corpse Party. It was ultimately canned, though it does live on through a fan remake.

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