Walking through the forest, you’ll find the ghosts floating down a river or jumping off a cliff, in case you’ve forgotten what the location is notorious for. It’s a strange disconnect from witnessing how people took their own lives while being expected to be quick on the button and take a picture of it for points. It isn’t helped by how the game gives you opportunities to capture moments where spirits relive their suicide. It’s not an uncommon theme in horror, but it is a very personal and confronting one. If it’s not ghosts recreating their moment of committing the act, it’s notes left around talking about it.
This might not be the game for you if you are particularly affected by suicide or suicide themes. You don’t get to choose which character you’ll play for each chapter, so you’ll get used to them all. Fatal Frame allows you to take multiple shots and staggers the ghost back.Įach of the three characters carries their own camera, and each has different abilities. The more focus points you can get in the frame, the better, and if you time it right just as they’re coming in for the attack, you can unleash a fatal frame attack. Using a camera called the Camera Obscura, you can take snaps to damage the ghosts as they try to attack you. Project Zero’s hook has been that you’re fighting ghosts and spirits by taking photos of them. Throughout the game, you’ll witness the deadly hold the mountain takes over people, as well as a tale of ritual sacrifice.
It helps each of them have their own Camera Obscura, your only defence against the deadly ghosts infesting the mountain. Yuri Kozukata, Ren Hojo and Miu Hinasaki all have their reasons for returning to that mountain time and time again. You play as three different characters their paths across the story overlap and intertwine as they’re all investigating the eerie mountain. It’s very much inspired by the real Aokigahara or the ‘Sea of Trees’. This mountain has been affected by a landslide and has become a known location for people to be inexplicably led to commit suicide. Maiden of Black Water is focused around Mt Hikami. Whether you know it as the Project Zero or Fatal Frame series, the real question is, does it still capture people’s attention?
Finally freed from its Wii U prison, Project Zero Maiden of Black Water has been unleashed on all current consoles.
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