Illbleed
"Illbleed starts with the main character, Eriko, giving a speech for a 12th grade speech contest. She talks about her troubled childhood in which her father, who was a horror theme park designer, tested out all his new traps and props on her until she was 6 years old, when her mother left him. At age 7, Eriko only watched horror movies and then later, at high school, she created the "Horror Movie Research Club". All of Eriko's friends are in it. After Eriko's speech, Eriko, Kevin, and Randy meet outside to discuss Eriko's speech. In the middle of their conversation, Michel excitedly runs up to them holding invitations to "Illbleed" received as a Petco promotion, rumored to be the most exclusive horror theme park to date. The invitations also state that the first ones to clear all the traps and exit alive will be rewarded with $100,000,000. They beg Eriko to go with them, but Eriko remains unimpressed and is certain that the park is just a hoax with cheap props and scares. Smitten with the idea of victory, Kevin, Michel, and Randy all set out for Illbleed and leave Eriko with her ticket. A few days pass without word from her friends. Eriko decides to head to Illbleed in search of them."
So you're running through a trap-filled theme park, with levels designed like fun houses based off horror films. And I do mean trap-filled. The idea of Illbleed is to slowly explore areas because you never know where the next monster or trap will be. While you find multiple characters to make it through levels, death can whittle your supply of characters quite easily, and there's a very complex system of health to maintain. Players must watch their stamina and adrenaline, maintain a steady pulse, and keep themselves from bleeding to death.
There's also a sensory system that will help locate the large number of items that deal with these four health systems, or identify traps or clues. The four senses are sight, hearing, smell, and the sixth sense. There's also a strange item called the horror monitor, which will spot objects the player can check out, but it costs adrenaline(so effectively it hurts you to use it).
The game has a bizarre sense of humor, including critters like the Cake from Hell and Zodick the Hellhog(a parody of Sonic). Levels are named things like The Homerun of Death and Killerman.
Heck, check out this trailer to get a good look of what the game's like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QObaNgEvhk
Unfortunately the title didn't have a PAL release, but both NTSC-J and NTSC-U regions did.
