Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Platform:Wii U
Release Date: Oct 30,2015
Developer: Nintendo
Author: J.M
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, the survival horror paparazzi simulator, will come out on the WiiU during the spookiest time of the year. The game is set to release on October 22nd in North America, and on Halloween itself for European countries and Australia.
Fatal Frame is a survival horror series where in order to survive, you need to take pictures of ghosts with the Camera Obscura, a device which will capture lingering souls. In this particular iteration you will play as Yuuri Kozukata, a young woman with the ability to see certain paranormal things, as you attempt to find your client’s friend in a forest known for being a favoured suicide spot.
I always wanted to catch a ghost on camera….yah…
The game will use the GamePad as the controller, with the GamePad screen working as the Camera Obscura’s viewfinder, and will use the controller’s gyro sensors to help aim the camera. Of course this means that a large portion of the game’s scarier moments will be on a screen that is closer to your face, allowing for some high tension moments and some horribly scary jump-scares that would make Freddy Fazbear proud.
Nintendo seems to be taking a page out of Sega’s book in terms of release, as like Sega’s upcoming Yakuza 5 western release, Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black water will only be available from the eShop, in North America at least. Europe and Australia will see a limited retail release (where the game will be known as Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water). While this may upset some fans, it must be noted that the series’ fourth instalment, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, never saw release in the west. In fact it has been 10 years ssince the last western release of a Fatal Frame game, so let’s not make too much of a fuss about how they are getting the game to us.
The game has been out for a year now in Japan, and has received favourable reviews (Famitsu gave the game a 33/40 based on four reviews at 7/8/9/9). It has been noted that the use of the GamePad as a camera has added a lot of atmosphere to the game and was quite frightening. Hopefully this, combined with Nintendo’s timely release of the game, will help boost sales of the game, so that we may see later titles in the series.
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