Corpse Party: Book of Shadows – Walkthrough

Stuck? Can’t find a key? This guide helps!

Managing Darkening

Note: Credit goes to Morning Gaze

This game has a game mechanic called “Darkening”. Open your menu to see current percent of Darkening. If Darkening reaches 100% game ends.

Some events and bad ends require you to get Darkening above certain point. Easy way to carefully make the Darkening level go up slowly is to find a corpse and examine it repeatedly.

Things that raises Darkening:

• Interacting with environment.
• Examining corpses.
• Being attacked.
• Unavoidable story events.

Usually Darkening isn’t a problem, but in certain very long chapters it might reach 100% if you check everything in search mode.

Chapter 1: Seal

First chapter is quite short and easy.

1. Choose either option.
2. Go to 1-A. Examine the lever on the desk in and choose first option.
3. Go towards the 2F – 3F staircase in the top-right corner. There’s a gap in the floor, pull the lever next to it. Use the staircase and go to 3F.
4. Enter Girls’ Bathroom (3F) when Darkening is 40% or higher.
5. Choose either option. Choose the second option twice “Think of something else” and then the first option.

Chapter 2: Demise

In this chapter you switch between two characters. I have listed their sections as different parts.

Mayu:

1. Examine the door in starting screen.
2. Go to 3-A and examine the corpse. Scroll to the left, scroll back to the corpse and talk to ghost. Choose the first option.
3. Go to starting point (hallway in front of Nurse’s Office). Pick up blanket from the floor.
4. Go back to 3-A. Pick up loose board from the floor and charm in front of the corpse.
5. Use loose board to cross the gap south of Nurse’s Office. Use 1F – 2F staircase and go to 1F.
6. Go to the Exit on the left. Examine the corpse and the note on the wall.
7. Use 1F – 2F staircase on the left and go to 2F.
8. Enter 1-C. Pick up the item on the left.
9. Enter 1-A. Take key from teacher’s podium.
10. Use the 2F – 3F staircase in the north and go to the end of the hallway. Examine the corpse and the note on the wall.
11. 1F: Examine the body at the Exit. Choose first option. Pick up the item on the floor.
12. Use 1F – 2F staircase on the left. On the 2F go north until event starts.

Yoshiki:

1. Examine middle faucet on the right to get some wire.
2. Go north and examine 4-A door. Choose first option, enter the classroom and use the machine.
3. Go to the right, stop at the hallway front of “Bldg. Super” room. Examine the corridor and choose first option.
4. Pick up small chest that is on the floor and examine sliding doors.

Mayu:

1. Choose the first option.
2. Go towards the 1F – 2F staircase on the right until event starts.
3. Go back to Locker Room, pick up bandages.
4. Go back to the hole and choose first option.
5. Examine corpse with yellow clothing twice.
6. Use the left 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F.
7. Go to 2F – 3F staircase in the north.
8. Examine ghosts and choose first option.
9. Use the 2F – 3F staircase and go to 3F.
10. Use key on Ref. Room door and enter.
11. Examine the rightmost bookshelf. Exit Ref. Room.
12. Exit Nurse’s Office.

Chapter 3: Encounter

This is the only chapter without search mode. I have included answers in spoilers to make it easier to figure out what choice you’re looking for.

1. Choose the first option “Stand at the teacher’s podium”
2. Choose the second option “Teacher’s podium”
3. Choose the second option “Make a break for it”
4. Choose the second option “Bag of salt”
5. Choose the first option “Break the glass”

Chapter 4: Purgatory

This chapter has a lot of wandering around, so it might get confusing.

1. Go to the end of the hallway with Bathrooms until you reach a dead end.
2. Go to the end of the hallway north of the Bathrooms, continue until you reach another dead end.
3. Go the hallway that is one step to the right and one step down from Body Pool.
4. Go to he right where you have dead ends both in the north and south. Text informs you that a door has opened.
5. Enter Death Room. Examine buckets on the floor.
6. Choose first option.

Chapter 5: Shangri-La

Welcome to the longest chapter in the game! Three playable characters this time. Remember to save often as it is easy to reach 100% Darkening if you like to examine everything you see.

Mitsuki:

1. Examine door at the Exit.
2. Use 1F – 2F staircase and go to 1F. Enter Music Room and examine piano.
3. Go to north and enter Exit. Examine corpse in the shelf and choose the first option.
4. Use southern 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F. Use key to enter Art Room.
5. Examine leftmost canvas and take palette knife. Return to Music Room (1F).
6. Examine piano and choose first option. Examine shelf behind the piano and choose first option.
7. Use northwest 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F.
8. Go to the hallway past Girls’ Bathroom (three steps to the right). Pick up item on the floor.
9. Go to the hallway in fron of Girls’ Bathroom. Examine door and choose first option. Enter Girls’ Bathroom.
10. Examine the first closed door. Choose the second option and then choose the first option.
11. Return to 1F and go to the Exit.

Morishige:

(Morishige’s starting point is at 1 screen north and 1 to the left from 1F Exit.)

1. Examine corpse on the floor.
2. Go north and enter classroom 5-A. Examine shelf on the left and choose first option.
3. Use bottom-right 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F.
4. Go to classroom 1-A. Examine shelf and choose first option.
5. Go back to Morishige’s starting point on 1F.
6. Examine the hole in the floor and choose first option twice.
7. Go to Exit.
8. Use bottom-right 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F. On 2F go north and use 2F – 3F staircase and go to 3F.
9. Enter Girls’ Bathroom. Pick up item on the floor.
10. Use 2F – 3F staircase and go to 2F. Enter classroom 3-A and examine teacher’s podium.
11. Use northwestern 2F – 3F staircase and go to 3F.
12. Go to hallway in front of Ref. Room. Examine door, clues for combination are in the class logbook. Solution: 8 2 4 3 2 2
13. Enter Ref. Room and examine the center bookshelf.
14. Go back to 1F. Head for Locker Room and choose second option.
15. Use key to open door to classroom 4-A (1F) and examine shelf.
16. Head for Locker Room and choose first option. Enter Pool.

Nari:

1. Head for Staff Room until you are stopped by a gap in the floor.
2. Use either 1F – 2F staircase and go to 2F.
3. Go to hallway where three hallways cross (between Ref. Room and Art Room) and pick up item on the floor.

Morishige:

1. Examine the corpse beyond the gap.
2. Choose the second option.

Chapter 6: Mire

It’s easy to get 100% Darkening in this chapter so be careful.

1. Choose either option, then pick up bottle of pills on the floor.
2. Use any 1F – 2F staircase and go to 1F. Explore 1F until you enter a new area.
3. Go to Girls’ Bathroom. Pick up the loose board on the floor.
4. Go to Body Pool.
5. Go to Death Room.
6. Go to Girls’ Bathroom.
7. Examine the pile of mattresses.
8. Choose the second option.
9. Go to Body Pool.

Chapter 7: Tooth

Stairs are the true main character of this chapter.

1. Use 2F – 3F staircase and go to 2F.
2. Go to the hallway in front of Nurse’s Office.
3. Use 1F – 2F staircase south of Nurse’s Office and go to 1F.
4. Go towards north side of the 1F until a gap in floor stops you.
5. Use 1F – 2F staircase on the right and fo to 2F.
6. Go north towards the 2F – 3F staircase until a ghost stops you.
7. Use 1F – 2F staircase in the south to return to 1F and go to Exit. Examine ghost.
8. Return to 2F and go to the staircase where ghost stopped you. Examine ghost and choose first option.
9. Choose either option.

Chapter 8: Blood Drive

Last chapter, here we go!

1. Examine everything.
2. Choose either option until you enter search mode.
3. Go upstairs, enter top-left room and pick up a key on the desk.
4. Enter the top-right room, examine the box in the middle of the room. Examine the safe on the right side wall.