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Action/Adventure/Survival
Horror/Game Console  |
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November
2005 (N. America, Japan) |
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Tecmo
- Developer Publishers
of this game under
title Project Zero 3: The Tormented |
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Third Person (switches to First Person when Camera Obscura is used) "...Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented imparts a whole new age of sheer terror...Rei Kurosawa recently lost her fiancé...in a car accident. As the driver she blames herself...and now confines herself in her apartment, leaving only to work as a freelance photographer. Her assistant, Miku Hinasaki...has taken over everything that has to do with dealing with other people. Their latest assignment is a supposedly haunted mansion where Rei and Miku are to take pictures of anything that could prove interesting. "FF3 is actually a sequel to both FF1 and FF2. It blends the stories of both games along with Japanese folklore...creating a world of total fear and sadness. The story revolves around the urban legend of the Manor of Sleep and the guilt someone feels when they survive an accident that was fatal for their loved ones - the thoughts that torment someone’s mind and soul forever, that they shouldn’t be alive and the guilt that they survived. In the Manor of Sleep you can find your loved ones and tell them how you feel, but they will make you follow them and the pain is so great that you must follow, never to return again. "The ghosts of the lost and the tormented roam the manor, and while some are friendly, most of them are vengeful and mean harm. Their [Rei and company] weapon is a camera, but not just any regular camera. It is the Camera Obscura, a camera created to capture anything that is not of this world. "The level of difficulty varies according to what has been chosen when starting the game...The puzzles are limited to some key finding and a couple of more elaborate locks that proved very easy to work through. To be honest, I would normally feel very disappointed by this lack of puzzles, but the game redeems itself by the depth of its story, its amazingly eerie atmosphere and the fact that it doesn’t raise the amount of action to 'action game levels', which seems to be the latest trend in survival horror. "Fatal Frame 3 is horror at its best, minus any cheap scares. It does an outstanding job of creeping you out while spinning a deep and distressing story that will get under your skin. Fatal Frame 3 is art; a horror masterpiece that redefines survival horror gaming in platinum letters."
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