(Article is a work in progress, help is greatly appreciated, and i’ll do my best to work on this at least once a week)
About
Corpse Party (Japanese: コープスパーティー) is a Japanese series of survival horror games made for PC-9801, PC, PSP, and PS Vita. The story revolves around a group of teenagers who preform a ritual called Sachiko Ever After, but the ritual drops them into a parallel universe where a school called Heavenly Host, which was demolished in the 1960’s, still exists, is haunted, and is surrounded by endless forest. If you die in the school, there is no Heaven, no Nirvana, you shall simply feel the pain of death forever.
Origin
The series started as a horror RPG called Corpse-Party on the PC-98 platform, the combat is notably similar to the gameplay of the Mother series, a comparison is below.
Left: Earthbound | Right: Corpse-Party
Remake
In 2008, the game was remade and released for the PC platform in Japan as Corpse Party, with all new characters, a new story, and full voice acting, containing over 5000 voice clips. The game has 9 main characters, listed with images of them below.
(I would have used a spoiler but they were being a bitch and not working)
Satoshi Mochida
Naomi Nakashima
Ayumi Shinozaki
Yoshiki Kishinuma
Yuka Mochida
Seiko Shinoara
Sakutaro Morishige
Mayu Suzumoto
Yui Shishido