Hmmm… too bad that Narg’s homepage has been raided - he had actually quite informative reveiews up - including the game’s storylines.
In a nutshell:
In MinDeaD Blood, the player’s character (Shizuru) has been awakened from being dead into a vampire by the twins Mayu and Mana and he has no memories of what he was before. Actually, the two only wanted to awaken him to a kind of zombie-state (as they did plenty of times before), but apparently Shizuru is something special - thus he becomes again more then just a living body and takes over control - and tries to conquer the entire island - also discovering mosaic pieces of his own past. However, the only one who could clarify the secret about who or what Shizuru was is Mayu’s and Mana’s father - who has been missing for quite some time. After all, the fact that this fun-pair of twin-vampires (whose personalities are almost each other’s opposite) had Shizuru’s body for awakening him means that he was a victim of their father in the first place.
In Gore Sceraming Show, the player’s character (Kyouji) has transferred back to a town where he lived before - finding there in his class at the new school four people he knew from before:
- Akane, who was his childhood friend already when he lived in that town before
- Aoi, who also was back then a friend of both of them
- Shinta, the only male former acquaintance and also a friend from back those days
- Kiika, who actually was in the same class with him in the other town, but apparently has moved at the same time there with him.
However, Shinta tells Kyouji some news about people lately disappering without trace.
Also, there is a guy (Sadashima) in the class who is a troublemaker - and has quite influential parents (his father owns the town’s hospital) and thus can get away with almost everything. Thus he also has a big group of henchmen in the class (about half of the class it seems).
While Kyouji’s parents are in america (because of his father’s job), Kyouji’s guardian is his mother’s cousin (Saitama Yamiko) who writes for an occultic magazine and wants to research a local legend of the town:
About two centuries ago, a man-eating monster has apparently appeared in the area. All attempzs to hunti it down and kill it failed, so apparently the people actually decided to declare that monster as their guardian deity and bound it to a small shrine. Yamiko wants to write that story and for that she wants to researcj what actually happened to that monster that had never been reported since two generations.
Thus, one day Yamiko asks Kyouji to join her for helping her in her researches. Depending on how the game was played until then, others of Kyouji’s friends may join them. And later, after they found the small shrine deep in a nearby forest, Yamiko and Kyouji and friends parted in order to search the area more efficiently.
Shortly after, Kyouji and his friends find a well - and there they are surprised by a little girl who asked them what they were doing there. And while she shows open hostility towards whichever girl the player has chosen to be friendly with so far, she also seems to have quite an affection for Kyouji.
However, this remained only a short encounter, but a few days later, kyouji and ALL of his friends get from their teacher an assignment to draw a map of the forest-area where the shrine is located. And then, they also went beyond that well and found a big mansion in western style, the walls half-covered with ivy.
Outside the mansion, they encountered an old woman with a bandaged eye who asked them to come in in order to give her ailing daughter some company. Because of her illness, she wouldn’t be able to go to school and has no friends…
Of course that “daughter” was Yuka! And she actually shows here first the best manners as a host to her visitors.
… and now I cut my story-retelling. It was just intended to give an impression how the story develops.
As for the original question regarding Gore and Yuka - well, let’s say that Yuka is definitely more than meets the eye and she somehow has control over / symbiosis with Gore.
And Gore is quite powerful. He might be that former monster/god or something entirely else. But he definitely is capable to warp reality itself and to draw other beings into that reality - removing them from the world they actually belong to. Oh, and he has sometimes quite a voraciousness - and prefers female meat over male!
There are - at least in the doujinsoft-domain. You might find what you want on english dlSite.
Actually there already were quite some time ago the two “Metal and Lace”-games that even were localized to english. However, they were released for the Win95-OS - and I have no clue how well they work with the XP’s compatibility-modes.
EDT: Oh, and I just recalled: there is also Duel Saviour!
[ 07-20-2007, 08:16 AM: Message edited by: Unicorn ]
