Meanwhile, Yuri from Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is as I just described: seemingly emotionless in regards to practically everything going on. Throughout the game, in terms of emotions on display, these characters either look confused, slightly startled, or half-asleep.įor all the shit Ethan Winters gets for his one-liners and reactions to things going on around him in the latest Resident Evil games, at least he does react to things. The story is told across roughly fourteen chapters and from three different character perspectives who all have the emotional range of somebody who just woke up and is being asked twenty questions at once.
Without diving into too many spoilers, a big part of this is due to the cast of characters being nearly just as lifeless as the ghosts they’re taking pictures of.
Maiden of Black Water is set on the fictional mountain known as Mount Hikami and deals with plenty of heavy themes and topics such as suicide and ritual sacrifice, and is heavily inspired by the unsettling real-world location known as the “ Sea of Trees.” Combine all this with rich Japanese folklore, and it’s a terrifying setting that is wasted (again) in Maiden of Black Water. Outside of the fantastic setting and spooky ghosts, the ineffectiveness of its horror is thanks to a terrible story, a forgettable cast of characters, and plenty of questionable design choices. Even when it was initially released, games like Alien: Isolation (which came out a year earlier) in terms of pure horror made everything in Maiden of Black Water seem trivial by comparison. Six years on from its initial release, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water hasn’t aged gracefully due to the simple fact it just wasn’t all that scary to begin with. Released: Octo(Octofor the original Wii U release)
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Instead, they put out a remaster of the Wii U Fatal Frame hardly anyone played or liked all that much.įatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, PC)
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However, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Fatal Frame series, Koei Tecmo has graced fans everywhere with a Fatal Frame PS2 collection on modern platforms - oh wait, sorry, that’s just a section from my list of hopes and dreams. Sadly, outside of Resident Evil, pretty much all of them have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another. The PlayStation 2 has one of the most iconic game libraries of all time, including some of the best survival horror games ever made: Silent Hill 2 and 3, the Siren series, Rule of Rose, plenty of Resident Evil games, and of course, the Fatal Frame series. Beautiful horror? More like beautifully dull!
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