Looking up and down is accomplished by tilting the Wii Remote – not pointing it at the screen, mind you, just tilting it up and down. You also spend a fair bit of time fighting the control scheme, which is probably a deliberate design decision.Ĭase in point: When you are looking through the viewfinder of your camera, you aim left and right using the thumbstick on the Wii nunchuck. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a completely stand-alone game, and it’s my understanding that the upcoming WiiU game will likewise be its own thing.Īs in previous entries, the basic gameplay revolves around exploring decaying and borderline ruined buildings, piecing together a mystery from journals and audio snippets, solving simple puzzles, and fighting off ghosts using a spiritual camera. The first three Fatal Frame games make up a loose trilogy – 1 and 2 don’t have much in common, but 3 serves as a sequel to both games. Wow, that was possibly the most pretentious writing I’ve ever inflicted on anyone reading this blog.
They’re seriously creepy games, not gore-fests they get their scares from unsettling environments, superb audio work, and stories that are like onions of awful, with each revelation serving to peel another layer of horrors back.
FATAL FRAME 4 STORY SERIES
This is a series I claim to love, by the way.Īnd I do, really, clunky controls and weird premise and generally opaque plots aside. If you had trouble following that, I can’t say I blame you. I bought the second game in December of 2004, actually played it in 2008, played the first game in 2010, bought and started the third game shortly after finishing the first game, put it aside for a few months while I went to Japan, bought the fourth game while I was in Japan, never got back to the third game, and just finished the fourth, five years after buying it and seven years after it was released. I am utter crap at playing games in a timely fashion, and also pretty terrible at playing series in order.Ĭase in point: The Fatal Frame / Zero series.
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