/vr/ - Retro Games

Gakkou Deatta Kowai Hanashi S is an enhanced port of a Super Famicom game. It's a visual novel in a pure sense of the term with very little direct interaction; you just click through dialogue and scenes, continuing the story. It is a compilation of fifty different scary stories and urban legends set in and around Japanese schools and featuring students, though the stories have recurring characters.

The reason why this game may be worth playing to someone who doesn't know a word of Japanese is because it's so hilarious to just look at. It features a full cast a real-life actors who were motion-captured for the scenes of the game, with incredibly cheap-looking special effects tacked on. The resulting reaction is usually humor as opposed to horror. In that sense it is similar to the cheesy FMV games of the early 90s like Night Trap, which haven't aged well at all. The fact that this game is divided into bite-sized, manageable stories also helps it be accessible to a non-Japanese speaker.