1984 be like "Fatal Frame 2 is better than 3, Fatal frame 2 is better than 3!"
Despite the overall improvements in gameplay and structure from the first two, the one thing I liked the most here was the part where I wasn't capturing the ghosts. Walking around Rei's disheveled home and seeing her commenting on how she can't go to certain areas of the house and do certain things without remembering her dead husband perfectly encapsulates the feeling of grief over the loss of a loved one, which adds to and further fleshes out the themes of greater sacrifices and the supernatural's inability to let go of life introduced in the first two games, this shit most likely hits different when you've had someone close to you dying recently but I can still appreciate what they were going for. Survival horror doesn't get much better than this.
Was going to add half a star to it but it was the longest FF out of the trilogy and it certainly felt like the longest, I could also do without Kei and his garbage ass camera obscura, you know this is a girly girl game for girly girls when the only guy you get to control has the ability to hide from ghosts while the others slow down time and have fully decked out ghostbusting equipment.
Despite the overall improvements in gameplay and structure from the first two, the one thing I liked the most here was the part where I wasn't capturing the ghosts. Walking around Rei's disheveled home and seeing her commenting on how she can't go to certain areas of the house and do certain things without remembering her dead husband perfectly encapsulates the feeling of grief over the loss of a loved one, which adds to and further fleshes out the themes of greater sacrifices and the supernatural's inability to let go of life introduced in the first two games, this shit most likely hits different when you've had someone close to you dying recently but I can still appreciate what they were going for. Survival horror doesn't get much better than this.
Was going to add half a star to it but it was the longest FF out of the trilogy and it certainly felt like the longest, I could also do without Kei and his garbage ass camera obscura, you know this is a girly girl game for girly girls when the only guy you get to control has the ability to hide from ghosts while the others slow down time and have fully decked out ghostbusting equipment.