At least one game still manages to be scary

I'm sleeping with the TV on tonight. Because I've been playing Corpse Party for the past few hours and it's managed to put me on edge.

The cannibalism made me sick. And the thing is, you don't even see a lot of the deaths in this game. You read about them. Or HEAR them while looking at a blank screen. It's still so effective though.

I hate the way the music cuts out any time I enter a stairwell. I don't mean that as a complaint either. There's just something about it that is so unsettling.

In Chapter 3, the lights seem to go on and off depending on your location, so your vision is limited to a few feet around you. It creates this feeling of paranoia because you don't know what else is in the room with you. You HAVE to move forward, but you don't want to because anything could be waiting for you in the darkness.

These aren't cheap jump scares. A lot of it is psychological. I expected, at most, an interesting story that would be fun to play through. I never thought the game would actually be scary, especially considering the graphics and the fact that I'm playing it on a handheld.

I would even say this rivals some survival horror games I've played. I never felt the need to sleep with my TV on after playing Resident Evil.