It’s the latter that generate the best scares: these spectres have a nasty habit of popping up when you least expect, especially when you think you’re safe.

CREATURES CRAWL IN SEARCH OF BLOODįatal Frame‘s most frightening aspect is the ghosts – the aggressive ones, with the health metres that must be whittled down via photography, but also the random ones. As far as I can tell, this is one of the first video game series to more or less age in real time. The legacy of that original Fatal Frame looms large over this one, not only through its at-times convoluted lore, but in the way its twenty-years-later plot mirrors the actual timespan since Fatal Frame debuted. Characters include Yuri Kozukata, a local occultist who vibes “good witch” Ren Hojo, an investigator hired to look into a missing person case and Miu Hinasaki, a young woman who shares a last name with the protagonist of the first game. Things here don’t just go bump in the night they ooze, and shriek, and claw at you through the walls. Like its predecessors, Black Water puts players in the shoes of a rotating cast of characters exploring a forgotten, Very Haunted, Japanese village.

It’s still a heck of a lot scarier than most modern horror games – I’m looking at you, Resident Evil – but it’s no longer that game with the bloody handprints that spooked my sister all those years ago. By turns too generous with items – when you can survive almost anything, the survival part of “survival horror” goes out the window – and too linear – when you know exactly where you’re going, the tension dries up – it’s nevertheless a unique, Ringu-influenced horror experience that’s worth checking out. THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS CLOSE AT HANDįatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – technically, Fatal Frame 5, though the fourth entry never saw Western release – is probably the least scary Fatal Frame to date. It has one great central gimmick – a first-person “camera obscura” which is your only means of defence – and its arrival on next-gen systems is nothing short of a Halloween miracle. If you’ve ever waded into Fatal Frame‘s murky, quasi-black-and-white waters, you’ll understand the sheer terror of its crumbling Japanese environs, creepy dolls, and unpredictable ghosts. Long a cult classic, it also enjoys the distinct reputation, for those who’ve played it, of being the single scariest “survival horror” series of all time. The Fatal Frame (also known as Project Zero) series has for too long been the overlooked kid sibling to the Resident Evils and Silent Hills of the world. FATAL FRAME Maiden of Black Water Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

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