love the girls and their amazing outfits as always, hate the fact that i had to play as choshiro for some chapters.. he was pretty uninteresting but at least his gameplay with the flashlight was cool (and extremely OP)
I love the tsukimori song <3
and i think overall i prefer it over fatal frame 3 simply because i didn't get lost every 2 seconds.
the map is well done, the environments are so cool and i had a fun time. it was a more linear approach but i think it's better than a game being 90% of backtracking

Despite being the weakest entry in the Fatal Frame series, this game still holds up as a solid experience, thanks to the strength of its tried-and-true formula. However, I believe there could have been more effort put into translating the character controls and prompts to better suit the controller scheme. It felt somewhat cumbersome compared to the norm of the game genre and other Fatal Frame titles. Additionally, the abundance of characters negatively impacts the game's pacing, although the new "camera" with one of the characters adds a refreshing twist. It's unfortunate that you challenge the final boss battle with the least satisfying character in terms of gameplay, but the piano element of the battle helps redeem it to some extent.

Beating the game knowing that this is basically Suda giving a present to his wife. Man I wish I have a relationship this good.

Fatal Frame was always about the clashing of tradition with the contemporary world and love. Grasshoper pick this and do the same thing they do with their Kill The Past games but this time they question one thing: the past is what make someone? If in the Silver Case they talk about how past drags someone life and the grow because of that is important, in Fatal Frame 4 we see people without a past, without a person inside then trying to recapture this. And they do this really well.

This is the game with the less amount of ghosts but this creates a sense of familiarly that is great and even helps the atmosphere with bonus of the peacing of the story since this is more a detective horror story than a psychological horror.

My only true problem with the game is more because of the version I played. This is a game clearly made with the entire Wii in mind, the way the levels play, the way you interact with anything and even the controls. So putting the game to work in a normal controller is pretty hard and is not so well done and as result you lost a big part of the fear they wanted do give. I disliked the new main color of the game but is just the same idea (making the game looking like the color that moon and the night in general reflects) so is more nitpick for my side. In general, Fatal Frame just have great games and 4 is no exception.

[Main Story] + [Extras] + [2nd Ending]
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This volume 4 was one of the most anticipated for me to play, since I am a huge fan of this franchise. I saw walkthrough on YouTube but it's not the same thing, for me, I like to feel the emotion, the scares and listen to the game's soundtrack.

Once again the game's lore captivated me, where it shows three points of view as you progress through the game. I saw that they gave a better texture to the ghosts and characters, however I noticed that the textures of the environment and objects were a little lacking since I was waiting for everything to be redesigned. I noticed that sometimes the subtitles when listening to the tapes have a delay and because the game is in Japanese it can be a little confusing.

However, I can't help but thank you for bringing this volume to Europe and I hope that in the future you will also bring the first three volumes to PC.

If you like reading documents that you pick up throughout the game to understand the game's lore, getting scared when exploring in the company of a delightful soundtrack, then this is your horror game.

after my 3 month gaming hiatus, starting off with a fatal frame game i really enjoyed! i think that's because suda51 co-directed the game and you can just feel his influence. i, as a kill the past enjoyer, was really thrilled. and it made me want to play moonlight syndrome.
anyways i enjoyed this entry more than the maiden of black water, i connected with the characters better, i was feeling the atmosphere more and the setting was more to my taste.
the biggest complaint here are the controls and the camera. its too clunky and makes exploring sometimes a chore. also i feel sometimes that there's too much backtracking but maybe that's on me. i loved playing as choshiro the most, i felt he was the smoothest to play with.
the story was also very very good and i hope this will bring us more fatal frame entries!

Another great entry for the FF series featuring an excellent atmosphere, intriguing story, eerie setting, etc with some of the clunkiest controls on earth unfortunately and because of this battle mode can be quite frustrating. The game really has so much going for it but has its mechanical flaws and because of this the game feels like a chore to get through at times. For some reason I actually enjoyed ‘Maiden of Black Water’ a little more than this. Still worth a play though if you’re a fan of the FF series…..