| Illbleed | |
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| Developer(s) | Crazy Games |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Tetsuro Sugimori |
| Producer(s) | Shinya Nishigaki |
| Programmer(s) | Kazuaki Yokozawa |
| Artist(s) |
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| Writer(s) | Shinya Nishigaki |
| Composer(s) | Yukinori Kikuchi |
| Platform(s) | Dreamcast |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Illbleed[a] is a survival horror game developed by Crazy Games and released for the Dreamcast in 2001. It was published by Crazy Games in Japan and Amusement Interface Associate (AIA) in North America. The game follows Eriko Christy, a high school student who explores a horror-themed amusement park to find her missing friends. The player explores six haunted house attractions based on fictional horror films, detecting and neutralizing hidden traps and enemies which can harm or frighten Eriko and her friends.
Crazy Games was known as Climax Graphics until a month before Illbleed's release. As Climax Graphics, they developed and published Blue Stinger (1999), an action-adventure game for the Dreamcast. The team wanted to explore horror themes in their next game, and so drew inspiration from haunted house attractions and horror films to create an original scenario that would differentiate it from other horror games.
Illbleed was released in the months following Sega's discontinuation of the Dreamcast. It received mixed reviews, with praise for its original concept, dark humor, camp style, and horror B movie qualities, but criticism for its game design, controls, and playability. It was a commercial failure, only selling a tenth of Blue Stinger's figures; a port for the Xbox was planned, but canceled.
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