The music and sound effects of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water are on point and easily provide some of the best auditory experiences on the Wii U. Luckily, the lighting and phantasm effects redeem a lot of Maiden of Black Water's graphical shortcomings, just don't expect anything that looks anywhere near as good as Until Dawn. Nevertheless, the game's character and ghost models easily grab your attention whenever they're on screen, though some features (especially the layers of hair) look out of date, as if they were taken from Dead or Alive's last-gen engine. While it's scarier than it sounds, Koei Tecmo's overt treatment of its female characters might be a turn off and just feels like bizarre design choices that needlessly standout when trying to craft something that is supposed to be scary. Within the game's first couple minutes, you're playing as a girl in a near see-through top who falls into water and gets surrounded by a half-dozen female shrine ghosts who all have their cleavage hanging out. Fatal Frame veterans might be surprised to see how well endowed most of the females in this game are and how they dress when compared to the rather toned down female protagonists of the first three games ( Fatal Frame 4 never got an official Western release). Given Koei Tecmo's decision to use part of Dead or Alive 5's graphics engine, the female characters of Fatal Frame 5 look quite familiar and have rather sexy looks. The character models of Fatal Frame 5 are captivating for the most part. Once you get stuck in the more cramped indoor areas, you'll notice that a lot of the textures look muddied and dated in quality. Hikami and its dreary locales look eerie and gorgeous.
Despite its solid attempts at spirit photography, there are some basic parts of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water that feel underdeveloped, which can ruin the overall shot.Īt first glance, Mt. In an era when survival horror has skewed into action-oriented gameplay or defenseless first-person perspectives, Maiden of Black Water is a welcome, old school-style callback to survival horror's glory days. Unfortunately, Fatal Frame 5 suffers from simple control issues pertaining to its core gameplay that should've easily been ironed out. This new Fatal Frame purposely maintains a slow burn in order to properly build up suspense, bringing back the ghostbusting gameplay of the Camera Obscura, which now utilizes the Wii U's GamePad to exorcise the dead. As the Silent Hill and Resident Evil series have started to stray and stumble in maintaining survival horror, Maiden of Black Water ups the frights. As they struggle to stay alive, Mio draws closer to uncovering the horrifying truth of the Crimson Sacrifice Festival.Koei Tecmo and Nintendo may have skipped out on taking the Wii's Project Zero: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse out of Japan, but the House of Mario decided to cave to fans' demands and give Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water a digital release for Western audiences. This place, where time stagnates and morning never comes, is rife with violent spirits that lash out at the young girls. Led by a crimson butterfly, these twins find themselves in a village thought to have vanished long ago. The unending night leads Mio closer and closer to the truth about the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual. They explore the village, fighting off the spirits that have been there since a tragic event took place. Mio & Mayu Amakura The twins Mayu and Mio are guided to a lost village in the woods by a red butterfly. Anyway, Maya is somehow trapped inside the diary, and it's up to you to take photos with the Camera Obscura to unravel the mystery surrounding Maya and this diary. Anyway.Maya has been trapped inside, and you must use the Camera Obscura (Nintendo 3DS Camera) to solve the mystery! They say those who see words that shouldn't be there on the pages of the purple diary turn into.faceless corpses! AAARRRGH! Um.
They say that a woman dressed all in black takes the faces of those who get trapped in the diary, robbing them of their faces and their lives! AHHHHH! Ahem. Mio and Mayu Amakura from Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, of which Nintendo published a Wii remake, share a trophy in Super Smash Bros.
Maya from the augmented reality-based spin-off Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir appears as a trophy in Super Smash Bros.