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Publisher: Jaleco
Developer: Crazy Games
U.S. Release Date: Apr. 25, 2001

What is ILLBLEED? This isn't easily answered. This Dreamcast title would likely be considered Survival Horror, but it doesn't resemble any other game in that genre. ILLBLEED doesn't really resemble any other game, period. Developed by Crazy Games, the developers of DC launch game Blue Stinger, ILLBLEED seems like it was developed to be the video game equivalent of a Z-Grade horror movie. It''s outrageously terrible, but in a way to make the player want to see what happens next.

The plot of the game follows high school student Eriko Christy, as she ventures into the horror-themed amusement park called ILLBLEED. Created by mysterious filmmaker Michael Reynolds, the park gained noteriety due to a $100,000,000 prize being advertised to the one who is able to make it through all of ILLBLEED's attractions victorious. What happens to the losers? No one knows. But Eriko's friends want that prize money, and vanish into ILLBLEED. Eriko follows them to discover what happened to them inside the park, only to find that Michael Reynolds' park is far more dangerous and ridiculous than she could've imagined. Much more ridiculous. She'll discover six attractions, each modeled after one of Michael Reynolds' movies. Each attraction has its own little self-contained storyline of horror(?) which will need to be completed to advance through the park. And each of them will try their best to murder Eriko and her friends.

Right, this is a game about an amusement park that kills people. No, not like that one in Silent Hill. That's a completely different thing.

The player won't expect what's in store for them when they start up ILLBLEED. The gameplay is very unusual, in that your main enemies are the levels themselves. While there are monsters, the problems they can pose for the player takes a backseat to the traps that each area of the park are plied with. Survival in ILLBLEED requires taking a slow, careful pace, so as not to set off a series of traps that can kill in various ways. This can be frustrating to the first-time player, as death will come very quickly to someone who doesn't know how to play the game. However, seeing all the traps is one of the entertaining parts of the game, so I've interspersed footage of these traps into the gameplay in these videos. When I defuse or evade a trap, it will be followed by the "Trap-Cam", in which we'll see what would've happened if the trap was sprung.

In addition to the unusual gameplay and storyline, ILLBLEED also proudly features some of the worst voice acting in video games. Maybe it's not *the* worst, but that's not for a lack of trying. Combine that, the unintuitive gameplay, and add graphics that were poor at the time the game was released, and you end up with something that could've just ended up just plain bad. But Crazy Games would not be denied. They tried their damndest to make THE worst game they could, and they succeeded at making a game so terrible that it's awesome. Maybe some people would say that they should've tried to make a game that's good in the traditional sense, but I think the world is a slightly more interesting place with ILLBLEED in it.

This LP shows all of the traps, characters, and endings. There are three endings: bad, good, and true. The bad and good endings are shown at the end of the first run through the game. The LP then restarts, and becomes a speedrun through the game as the way to get the true ending is shown. The speedrun was streamed live when it was recorded, and the commentators in those videos were in a Skype call during the course of that stream. The final video concludes with the true last boss and ending.