Fatal Frame

Fatal Frame
Keisuke Kikuchi
Tecmo
Consule: Playstation 2, X-box
Survival/Horror

Fatal Frame is a single player horror game taking place in an abandon Japanese mansion. The game begins as Mafuyu, enters the Himuru Mansion in search of Junsei Takamine, his mentor. Strange things begin happening, which Mafuyu uses his camera to exorcise ghosts. Mafuyu is chased down and the intro chapter ends. A week later Mafuyu's little sister enters the Himuru mansion in search of her brother. Miku explains that ever since she was little her and her brother have been able to see ghosts. She enters the mansions, finds her brothers camera, and begins to learn the terrifying history of the mansion and the family that had lived there.

Fatal Frame is a single player . Players need to exorcise the ghosts from the house, while finding Mafuyu. The player has to explore the mansion, deal with minor ghosts and complete puzzles. Resources include health items and film, film is used to take pictures of the ghosts in order to exorcise them and also to find the answer puzzles. The conflict is between the player and the game. The player is stuck inside of the mansion. The player can either win the game, or die trying. The objective is to rescue Mafuyu and escape the Himuru mansion before Miku dies. Using the camera the player must take pictures of the ghosts depending on how long the player wait and how close they get, the more damage you accomplish. If a ghost touches the character health is lost. Ghosts and Miyu have a total of health, that does not change. Currency is in the form of points received for destroying ghosts, these points are use to upgrade the camera. The inventory is accessible from the paused screen and has no limit to the amount that you can carry. As the challenge increases the power of the player's camera increases also. The character is is primarily controlled by the player. This game is best for explorer type players.