Fatal Frame is Tecmo's take on the survival horror genre. The game doesn't feature zombies, demons, shibito, or even monsters. It's a ghost story, pure and simple. I'm about an hour or so in at this point, and not all that far from where I stopped originally. The problem originally was the combat and the fairness of the picture collecting. The combat was a struggle. Your character's movement was sluggish to the point of being cheap. The ghosts spawning right on top of you in some instances isn't exactly fair either. In the game you collect pictures of ghosts. In some cases you don't get any advanced warning and have mere seconds to react and capture the ghost's image. If you miss them, they're gone. Originally that rather irritated me. At the time I first attempted Fatal Frame, I just didn't have the patience to tolerate and adjust to the game. Things should be better this time around. Especially post Siren. If I can get through Siren, which might be the most frustrating game in the last decade, I should surely be able to get through Fatal Frame.
Next time should be covering combat, such as it is.
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