Play it, and you'll see what we mean.Īs if the title weren't a dead giveaway, you're in for some seriously twisted chills with Gore Screaming Show, which centers around a mysterious being known only as a Gore and the cherub-faced little girl he seems to have sworn loyalty to.
In a nutshell, when School Days goes south, it goes south - we're talking people get killed, and plenty of them.
Where the game can absolutely lead to compassionate and warm endings in which all characters are treated respectfully and given a chance to live happily ever after, School Days also plays host to a menagerie of much darker endings, depicting bloody suicides, murders, and other equally disturbing occurrences that will no doubt jar players originally on board for the drama and H-scenes originally advertised. To be fair, most of the time you're actually playing School Days is spent shaking your head at main character Makoto's boneheaded decisions.
While it's actually a little more depressing than scary, the fact that even one simple wrong move can ensure protagonist Christina doesn't live to see the light of one more day is distressing, heightening the stress level while playing. This independently developed visual novel from Hanako Games appears innocent enough on the exterior, but cleverly disguises a romantic saga riddled with plenty of ways for the heroine to meet with an early death.