Fandom: Fatal Frame III: The Tormented Media: Video Games Genre: Survival Horror
Premise/summary: You are Rei Kurosawa, who recently lost her fiance Yuu. One day, you are taking photos of a random house when you see your fiancee standing nearby. Chasing him, you are drawn temporarily into a strange mansion and chased by a ghostly priest who wants to kill you... and then you wake up, now adorned with a strange tattoo. You find yourself drawn into this strange world night after night, not knowing if you will wake up the next morning. And as you investigate in order to solve the mystery, you find others suffering too - including your assistant Miku and your fiancee's friend Kei. Now you must save yourself, your friends, and everybody by breaking the curse.
Trigger/Content warnings: This is a very Japanese Survival Horror game, which means strange rituals, a fair amount of blood, people killing each other, and people killing themselves. Also, because this is Fatal Frame, lots and lots of creepy ghosts. There is also mention of child abandonment/deliberate exposure.
Review/promo: This is (as one can guess from the title) the third game in the Fatal Frame (aka Project Zero if you're in Europe or Australia) series of games. Four games in the series are nominated for Yuletide - the second, third, fourth, and fifth - and they're all worth playing. However, I'm centering on Fatal Frame III, because I like the way that it (mostly) ties up the storylines of the first two games, plus the Manor is delightfully creepy and I love the fact that since it's a dream mansion, players of the first two games get to see bits of the games they loved in this one.
If you like creepy stuff, you may well love this one. It's different from most of the Survival Horror sphere because your weapon is a camera with often limited film that you have to ration as you'll be using it to get pictures of non-hostile ghosts (you'll get points for these shots, though, which will allow you to upgrade your camera) and relevant areas. Each different ghost has a different way of attacking and the camera limits your width of view, so you have to make sure you're not inadvertently giving a ghost a chance to blindside you.
While you will get more out of this if you've played the first two games in the series, it stands alone. Rei keeps a notebook that will update during the game, and that notebook gives you the relevant details for the first two games.
Also... did I mention the cat? Yes, there's a cat. The cat's name is Ruri. You can pet her. Yes, there is a control for that!
My only gripe - a gripe that many players share - is that there is so much backtracking through a very large mansion. You will be very sick of it - I know I was!
Mini-promo/review for Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Media: Video Games
Genre: Survival Horror
Premise/summary: You are Rei Kurosawa, who recently lost her fiance Yuu. One day, you are taking photos of a random house when you see your fiancee standing nearby. Chasing him, you are drawn temporarily into a strange mansion and chased by a ghostly priest who wants to kill you... and then you wake up, now adorned with a strange tattoo. You find yourself drawn into this strange world night after night, not knowing if you will wake up the next morning. And as you investigate in order to solve the mystery, you find others suffering too - including your assistant Miku and your fiancee's friend Kei. Now you must save yourself, your friends, and everybody by breaking the curse.
Trigger/Content warnings: This is a very Japanese Survival Horror game, which means strange rituals, a fair amount of blood, people killing each other, and people killing themselves. Also, because this is Fatal Frame, lots and lots of creepy ghosts. There is also mention of child abandonment/deliberate exposure.
Review/promo: This is (as one can guess from the title) the third game in the Fatal Frame (aka Project Zero if you're in Europe or Australia) series of games. Four games in the series are nominated for Yuletide - the second, third, fourth, and fifth - and they're all worth playing. However, I'm centering on Fatal Frame III, because I like the way that it (mostly) ties up the storylines of the first two games, plus the Manor is delightfully creepy and I love the fact that since it's a dream mansion, players of the first two games get to see bits of the games they loved in this one.
If you like creepy stuff, you may well love this one. It's different from most of the Survival Horror sphere because your weapon is a camera with often limited film that you have to ration as you'll be using it to get pictures of non-hostile ghosts (you'll get points for these shots, though, which will allow you to upgrade your camera) and relevant areas. Each different ghost has a different way of attacking and the camera limits your width of view, so you have to make sure you're not inadvertently giving a ghost a chance to blindside you.
While you will get more out of this if you've played the first two games in the series, it stands alone. Rei keeps a notebook that will update during the game, and that notebook gives you the relevant details for the first two games.
Also... did I mention the cat? Yes, there's a cat. The cat's name is Ruri. You can pet her. Yes, there is a control for that!
My only gripe - a gripe that many players share - is that there is so much backtracking through a very large mansion. You will be very sick of it - I know I was!