FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Japanese survival horror game "FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse" is back with better graphics.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a horror, adventure and female protagonist game
developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
Released on March 08th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 1,503 reviews of which 1,359 were positive and 144 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam with a 30% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10, Windows® 11 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5 4460 or over
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon R7 370 or over, 1280x720
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Sound Card: 16 bit stereo, 48kHz WAVE file can be played
- Additional Notes: The estimated performance is 720P/30-60FPS. Framerate may drop during scenes with heavy load. Note: If you are using Windows® 11, make sure you meet the system requirements for this game and the operating system. The minimum memory requirement is 6GB RAM.
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I have been playing horror games for 30+ years and the Fatal Frame series is near and dear to my heart. The first 3 instalments I have beaten and mastered probably over 20 times each and I consider them to be among the most genuinely scary games ever made. This game release is a remaster of the 4th instalment, which was originally released on the Nintendo Wii in 2008, and only in Japan. I was really excited to play this game now that it was finally released in North America, so I took my time with it. It took me 11 hours to explore and beat the game for my first playthrough. *Playing with an XBOX Controller is highly recommended. + The story here is well written, original, and beautifully told. There are approximately 5 -8 characters in this game that if you allow yourself to deep dive into the game's notes and cutscenes, you will be rewarded with a very robust story with heartfelt meaningful characters. + Despite being a remaster of an old Nintendo WII game, the graphics are great. This is due primarily because there is a dirty film filter over everything to give a dirty grunge look to the whole game. This is a great art style that adds to the eerieness and spookiness of the whole experience. Some of these filters even make certain creepy cutscenes feel photorealistic, and that you are watching some ancient abandoned cursed film footage long and forgotten. + The music and sound effects are spectacular. From the moans and groans of the ghosts, to rooms with "death rattle" noises, eerie enchanted organ music, all of it was amazing. The final walk up to the last boss of the game has some of the most beautiful music I have heard in a long time, perfectly haunting and mesmerizing. + If you play this game in the dark with headphones I guarantee you will get creeped out with goosebumps several times. +/- There is a ginormous amount of unlockables and things to collect in this game, to a fault. Upgrading the camera and finding / unlocking parts is always fun, however to 100% complete all of the achievements in this game is a true test of patience in monotony. You have to beat the game fully 3 times on different difficulties, collect 100's of notes, capture 100's of ghosts, (some only appearing for literally a split second in a 10 hour playthrough), capture random "blossomed" ghosts, and beat a bunch of hard challenges. I'm guessing it would take around 40 hours to 100% this game and 30 of those hours would be extremely tedious doing the same thing over and over again. - Your character walks too slow and the "Run" button is laughable. - In this game you have to move your flashlight around rooms to discover sparkles before you are able to pick items up. Since this game was designed first for the Nintendo WII, this process is a bit annoying on the computer. At times you will be waving your flashlight on a desk for 2 whole minutes trying to aim it correctly for an item to appear. - It doesn't happen too often, but some tight hallway ghost fights are super annoying. The ghosts can appear out of the walls right next to you. The game is definitely on the easy though, once you upgrade your camera you can kill most ghosts in 2-3 hits. Remember to lock on with LT ! If you have patience, there is a big, mature, slow burn of a game here with a mountain of stuff to unpack. Overall: 8.5 / 10
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good (I think this old 2008 game Remaster is well optimized, why do many people say it's bad? i have I5 11400H, RTX 3050) ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good (sounds a bit jarring when encountering wraiths) ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable (~13GB) ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life - Story Spoiler Alert 2h playing: The story is about 5 girls who were kidnapped by a maiden called Vessel and performed a ritual at the Kagura festival held at the Lunar Eclipse shrine on Rogetsu Isle. 2 out of 5 were killed. The remaining 3, Hisaki, Ruka and Madoka, escaped and then they decided to go back to find the clues and memories of that time... . - I’m a hardcore fan of the Fatal Frame series, and I’m very familiar with its style of storytelling. You really need to read the documents carefully to grasp the plot. I know that most gamers usually prefer story explanations through dialogue rather than reading documents, and this is also the main reason why this game isn’t highly rated and has a more niche player base. Compared to the previous series I’ve played, I’d only rate this one as decent at best. ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Review later ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short (12 Phase => 13h) ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale >50% ☑ If it's on sale <=50% (Because the original price of this game is not high, in my opinion a 20-30% discount is already very good) ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ☐ 2077 1.0 ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Fatal Frame/Project Zero is a series I hold near and dear to my heart, so when I heard about the remasters coming, I became hopeful for the series. It's a series so criminally overlooked that I'm genuinely annoyed. These horror games are on the level of the better Silent Hill outings, hell, I'd say they are better than some of the best Resident Evil games. Combat is very unique and is only imitated in few indie games which do so as a homage to Fatal Frame. In any case, before the remaster, Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was never released outside of Japan and was limited to the Wii. At best you could get the Japanese version and then patch it with a fan translation. The fact that it was finally unleashed upon the world, on all platforms, brings nothing but joy to me. It's a great game, but was very buggy (including game breaking freezes, part of the content not being unlockable, etc.) and had absolutely dreadful performance. In one fight you had as many frames as the number of enemies you were fighting. That is 6. So how is this remaster better than the 2008 original? [*]Bugs are all fixed, performance is flawless, though graphical options are sparse. [*]All assets were moved to a new engine. The main advantage is gorgeous lighting which was fairly flat in the 2008 original. While environmental textures appear to have been untouched, character textures have obviously been upgraded. Ghosts and particle effects look beautiful, as they were transferred from FF5. All pre-rendered cutscenes were remade from scratch. [*]Autosaving when near a Save Point was added, very clever. You can still manually save if you wish. [*]Ghost hands, a fairly goofy but minor mechanic, are now dodge-able like in FF5, great change. [*]Other quality of life changes like nearly all cutscenes being skippable, a Hozuki Doll (collectible) checklist in-game, being able to buy unlockables without going to the main menu, the Ghost List being conveniently categorized, or a new Save Point right before the final boss. That last one is probably the best one. [*]Translation is much better than the fan one, no offense to fans who worked really hard on it, but the official one is much easier to follow and retains some of the deliberate oddities present in the Japanese localization. What wasn't improved? [*]The comically slow running speed is still in. Characters are not running. They're shuffling forward. This was always a meme in this series, but Fatal Frame 4 is the worst in this regard. [*]The crappy "shaking enemy off" mechanic is still here, though it was improved. Instead of flailing your arms with a WiiMote like a dumb*ss, you rotate both analog sticks. [*]For some reason the kanjis on lenses weren't translated. The lenses are small and you can't fit an entire word, but localizers of the first 3 games found a simple solution: abbreviations, e.g. Stop is ST, Pierce is PI, Zero is ZE, and so on. No idea why they haven't done this in MotLE, but at least they are color coded, so the confusion is minimal. All of those are minor. The only major gripe I have is that this game REALLY REALLY REALLY should be played with a controller. Forget about keyboard and mouse. Real exorcists use a gamepad. The remaster was obviously made with love and care. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is also a fantastic entry point to the series, as it has no story links to other games, and it's the easiest one. My second favorite after FF3 which is still a PS2 exclusive. Hopefully, not for long.
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Amazing game. The technical aspects of this game function as intended as far as I can see. And they did improve things from their previous Project Zero Maiden of Black Water PC port so much that I feel comfortable recommending this title. Keyboard and mouse support isn't perfect but it's at acceptable level with everything working and being fairly logical from the get-go. It still emulates Xbox one controller but it isn't disturbingly noticeable even if I'd prefer it not doing that. You can remap the keyboard and mouse buttons as you wish and it's possible to map two keys for one action which is great. I'll write more later.
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One of my favorite games! As someone who just unlocked all achievements, I have some tips: ♡ Enjoy your first play through without worrying too much about missing certain collectibles!! ♡ You can't 100% the game in one play through, it is recommended to save the collectibles for your second run on a harder difficulty using New Game+ (same save file and you get to keep your items from your first run). ♡ Finding everything is extremely hard without a detailed guide. So don't worry if you didn't come across everything right away. ♡ There is no chapter select, so make sure to save often in case you for example miss a ghost photo. PROs: + Atmospheric + Good Graphics + Lots of stuff to collect (photos, files, ghosts, outfits... etc.) + Good Story CONs: - Nightmare Mode is too easy if you have upgraded your Camera & Lenses - Higher difficulties can easily be cheesed by stocking up on film and herbal meds from Easy Mode - Easy to mess up your run by missing something and unable to go back without replaying if you don't have a save file to go back to. Overall it gets a 8/10 from me. You can play even if you haven't played any other Fatal Frame games! ♡
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FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is currently available at a 30% discount. You can purchase it for 34.99€ on Steam.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse received 1,359 positive votes out of a total of 1,503 achieving a rating of 8.60.
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FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is playable and fully supported on Windows.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is not playable on MacOS.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is not playable on Linux.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. Explore additional content available for FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse on Steam.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse does not support Steam Remote Play.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
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KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Release
08 Mar 2023
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