Objectively speaking, this is an absolute step up from 1 in scope, themes, visuals, and soundtrack. But Jesus the gameplay, what did they do to you?
Instead of the focus system from the first it has this weird risk vs reward system where you need to stay closer to the enemy to get the Fatal Frame ™ (get it?) but it's more like jank vs reward given how there were plenty of times where the ghost was in the frame but it didn't registered arbitrarily, which is not a problem since they spam you with healing items and film to the point where it's impossible to die until the late game where they start spamming enemies and the instakilling Sae to balance out the difficulty spike.
You really feel the padded out game time since there are only so many times they can write "And then Mio and Mayu got separated again" without it feeling contrived. Aside from that the ending is the most rawest moment in horror and you should check it out just for that alone.
Instead of the focus system from the first it has this weird risk vs reward system where you need to stay closer to the enemy to get the Fatal Frame ™ (get it?) but it's more like jank vs reward given how there were plenty of times where the ghost was in the frame but it didn't registered arbitrarily, which is not a problem since they spam you with healing items and film to the point where it's impossible to die until the late game where they start spamming enemies and the instakilling Sae to balance out the difficulty spike.
You really feel the padded out game time since there are only so many times they can write "And then Mio and Mayu got separated again" without it feeling contrived. Aside from that the ending is the most rawest moment in horror and you should check it out just for that alone.