This game has solid atmosphere and a neat concept but is riddled with annoyances. Ridiculous amounts of backtracking combined with slow movement speed and same-y rooms and hallways. Fixed camera angles but without tank controls so re-directing yourself every time the camera angle changes (which is a lot) is a constant annoyance. Every time you make a little bit of progress you get blocked by a seal or something and have to go backtrack halfway across the mansion to undo it. I personally didn't like the combat at all but I might just be bad at it, I don't know. It was just a lot of taking a picture, running 5 steps, turning around and taking another picture over and over again. The story also wasn't really gripping and the voice acting was generally bad.

No início o jogo me ganhou na ambientação, destacando a estética sobrenatural japonesa, que é excelente. O enquadramento de câmera foi bem executado gerando aflição e alguns sustos. E suas mecânicas que são deveras interessantes cumprem bem seu papel, te dando a sensação de ser indefeso contra seus inimigos.

É uma pena que tudo isso vai de vala depois da segunda noite pelo fato de você já estar super overpower e qualquer desafio ser resolvido facilmente, e o que resta depois disso são pequenos vestígios e alguns sustos ocasionais. A história é entregue de forma interessante, visto que você precisa explorar o cenário para descobrir mais detalhes, pena que o final é patético, puta que pariu kkkkk.

Enfim, não teve nada de crítico que me incomodou de fato no jogo, até diria que no geral ele não comete nenhum erro significativo, é um título sólido para o começo de uma franquia que ainda estava começando a dar seus primeiros passos.

Fantastic atmosphere, terrifying enemy designs, unique and engaging survival horror gameplay/action, and a gripping story. This made me actually scared, fully immersed, and was just a fun time. Definitely recommend playing with the Japanese voices if available to you.

This game is still fresh over 20 years later, this is my first time playing it so I have no nostalgia for it. The environmental design is some of the most solid I've seen, the manor is a character in itself, very memorable and interesting to traverse. Everything just feels great, even the visual design of things as simple as colors correlating to certain characters, and the uniquely inspired design of ghosts. The Japanese setting is just fantastic, from the buildings to the history to the tone to the enemy designs, it all breaths a unique Japanese lens of horror that honestly should be used more. Of course other greats like Silent Hill or RE are made by Japanese devs but few are actually set in Japan like this.

The story starts vague but piecing it together is so engaging, every note or flashback you come across genuinely had me excited. Puzzles are simple but enjoyable, requiring me to bust out a pen and paper a few times for easily recalling information/numbers. And by the end I was very invested in the story of the manor and its central tragic character. It made me feel things! The Japanese voice acting is also fantastic and very emotional... Unlike the stilted and awkward English voice acting.

All in all I highly recommend it!

This game is scary as hell definitely caught me many times. The idea of a horror game where you have to look directly at the things chasing you while standing still is genius, its made to get you tense and scared. The setting of this large abandoned Japanese mansion is really neat and the outside environments were extremely cool. Biggest knock against the game is the story and dialogue which seems to be the victim of a poor translation, many lines repeat themselves and go in circles. Also there are some major emulation bugs which make them game p difficult but that is my own fault anyway overall fantastic game.

I usually don't play horror games but one of my friends wanted me to play this and I do not regret it!

I was always on the edge of my seat. The story is very interesting and I think it's told in a good way through cutscenes and files. The more you explore, the more you get background information.

Unfortunately the gameplay is quite rough. It just has the PS2 tank controls. The camera controls are not that fast. Switching films reminds me of the good old Ocarina of Time days.
The exploration of the mansion is a lot of fun. It opens up the more you play and always go back familiar places, I really hope the sequels keep it that way.

Also I really have to praise the sound design, you hear noises everywhere and it scared me so much.

Onto Fatal Frame 2!