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 1,491 reviews of which 1,348 were positive and 143 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
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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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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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I'm glad I could finally play this game and on PC too. The PC port was pretty basic but it never crashed for me once which is impressive for Koei. Lots of textures were low resolution and pixelated it would have been nice to have some texture filtering on those. The game runs at 60 FPS while the clothing physics seems to be 30 FPS which looks bad. A few times I had the game softlock after beating the enemies down in the moonlight cave room, after the battle the game wouldn't let me open doors or pickup objects anymore and i had to reload my save and redo the fight. After retrying the glitch wouldn't happen but it happened multiple times on multiple characters too always in that same location. Overall a decent game worth a play and I hope Fatal Frame 1, 2 and 3 get remasters as well.
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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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Developer
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Publisher
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Release
08 Mar 2023
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