From “Real Ghost Footage” compilations on YouTube to staged ectoplasmic photographs, our species has been fascinated with attempting to record the supernatural ever since it first became possible to do so. I mean, spirit photography was popularized almost immediately after the first camera was invented, so it makes sense that we’re still chasing spirits from behind the safety of a lens well into the new millennium. Naturally, this obsession with the paranormal would eventually find its way to video games, with one specific survival horror franchise turning haunted cameras into the basis for an interactive J-horror experience.
Often referred to as some of the scariest Survival Horror titles ever released, Fatal Frame I and II are almost universally recognized as classics even by those who’ve never played them. However, this love doesn’t extend to the third installment in Tecmo’s iconic series, with The Tormented often being...
Often referred to as some of the scariest Survival Horror titles ever released, Fatal Frame I and II are almost universally recognized as classics even by those who’ve never played them. However, this love doesn’t extend to the third installment in Tecmo’s iconic series, with The Tormented often being...
- 9/19/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s hard to talk about the fourth entry in the long running Fatal Frame franchise in anything but a retrospective manner. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was originally released for the Nintendo Wii nearly 15 years ago and was a collaboration between series creator Makoto Shibata and director/writer Goichi “Suda51” Suda (of No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw fame). The game had a troubled development and broke away from norms established in the earlier entries, featuring a new camera angle that was positioned behind the player and motion controls that took advantage of the Wii’s hardware. It was a next generation jump from previous PS2 and Xbox hardware.
… and then it never came out in the United States. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was a game that eluded even the most devout of Fatal Frame fans due to a lack of publisher in the region. To make the situation even more frustrating,...
… and then it never came out in the United States. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was a game that eluded even the most devout of Fatal Frame fans due to a lack of publisher in the region. To make the situation even more frustrating,...
- 3/9/2023
- by Reyna Cervantes
- bloody-disgusting.com
2022 was a great year for gaming, all things considered. From seeing Supermassive finally break away from their Dark Pictures Anthology with The Quarry, to Resident Evil: Village finally delivering on its Dlc promise, to the long-awaited Dead Space successor The Callisto Protocol finally being released, horror in particular had a pretty eventful year.
2023 is shaping up to be another landmark year in the world of video gaming. To help cut through the noise, here’s a list of the horror games we’re looking most forward to in 2023!
Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse – March 9th, 2023
Fatal Frame is one of the most undersung franchises in all of horror gaming. The second installment, Crimson Butterfly, is a game I consider to be an absolute masterpiece in the execution of horrific storytelling and gameplay. One entry always eluded western audiences, though. Back in 2008, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse...
2023 is shaping up to be another landmark year in the world of video gaming. To help cut through the noise, here’s a list of the horror games we’re looking most forward to in 2023!
Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse – March 9th, 2023
Fatal Frame is one of the most undersung franchises in all of horror gaming. The second installment, Crimson Butterfly, is a game I consider to be an absolute masterpiece in the execution of horrific storytelling and gameplay. One entry always eluded western audiences, though. Back in 2008, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse...
- 1/17/2023
- by Reyna Cervantes
- bloody-disgusting.com
Anxious to see just what Koei Tecmo have done with their upcoming remastered release of the previously Wii U exclusive Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse? The devs have just the thing, having released a new gameplay video with commentary by the remastered version’s producer, Yutaka Fukaya, and the original version’s director, Makoto Shibata.
The nearly 8-minute video features the duo playing through a segment of Rogetsu Hall, which is referred to as the “new building” by the island locals.
Mask of the Lunar Eclipse centres on Rogestu Isle, where a decade after five young girls mysteriously disappeared during a moonlight festival, two of those girls are found dead just days apart. The remaining three teenagers head back to Rogestsu Isle to solve the mystery of their friends’ deaths and their hazy memories, while encountering the frightening spirits that inhabit the land.
Along the way, they will enter the Haibara Infirmary.
The nearly 8-minute video features the duo playing through a segment of Rogetsu Hall, which is referred to as the “new building” by the island locals.
Mask of the Lunar Eclipse centres on Rogestu Isle, where a decade after five young girls mysteriously disappeared during a moonlight festival, two of those girls are found dead just days apart. The remaining three teenagers head back to Rogestsu Isle to solve the mystery of their friends’ deaths and their hazy memories, while encountering the frightening spirits that inhabit the land.
Along the way, they will enter the Haibara Infirmary.
- 1/15/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
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