I would only recommend this game if you are a corpse party fan and care abt the lore. There are many things that I absolutely hate. The 3D chibi models are so ugly and annoying. The stamina bar sucks and there are phantoms who are trying to kill you. With your sucky stamina, its a guaranteed death. Don't get me started on some sus weird looking tentacle that comes out of the ground. Apparently this thing adds to ur darkening. Literally WHY??? Out of all the things in the world to choose from, its a tentacle. Lastly, I am further reminded of dumb characters like Ayumi. Also, why is Yuka alive? She should have died and Seiko should have lived. Great game for a corpse party fan, tho you would have to live with these annoying things.

I want to preface this review by saying I'm a super corpse party fan. I have 100%ed almost all of the games, and replay blood covered every time it gets released to a new console. It was a pivotal cornerstone of my childhood, so to say I'm a corpse party fan is an understatement.

That being said, I really didn't like Blood Drive. I can best summarize the experience as: "It lost the plot." This statement can be applied to every aspect of the game. The tonal dissonance between the narratives of Blood Drive vs. BC and BoS is really jarring. Blood Drive scales up the plot so drastically that it feels like a game for a completely different franchise. The occult aspects and witchy phenomena were always an undertone in the previous titles, but with Blood Drive, it is a very loud overtone, and there are a bunch of new characters that feel more at home in a persona game than corpse party. It's so odd to see a relatively self-contained franchise with a small, solid cast, clear messaging about loss and cycles, take a turn to become witches ex machina. The art style and the 3D chibi style also feels like it lost the plot. The visual novel style of BoS and the Pixel art of BC were gritty and balanced the atmosphere and the detailed background CGs well. The chibi art style is, honestly, a choice. It diminishes the old styles' horror and grit, making the game look like an amateur student game project. The gameplay isn't special, it can be tedious and repetitive at times, the story is extremely messy and disorganized, and the art direction is fairly underdeveloped compared to its predecessors. I've heard people describe this game as being more like a corpse party fanfic than a canon continuation of the games, and that's honestly a fair assessment.

The only people I saw who honestly liked Blood Drive were people who either weren't familiar with the original games or didn't like the original games at all. Every person I know in the Corpse Party fanbase usually pretends the canon ended with BoS and tries not to acknowledge this game at all. It just doesn't really do it for Corpse Party fans.