Fatal Frame is an adventure developed by Tecmo, released 13 December 2001 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.
What Fatal Frame is
Fatal Frame is an adventure game developed by Tecmo and released in 2001. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in 1986. The story begin with an aspiring folklorist, Mafuyu Hinasaki decides one night to investigate the Himuro Mansion, a place that is said to be haunted, in search of renown folklorist Junsei Takamine. He brings with him a special hand-me-down, a special camera that has the power to "expose things the normal eyes can't see". Mafuyu enters the mansion and encounters its only inhabitants, ghosts of the people who were killed there. After fending off a violent ghost and seeing the power of the camera for himself, Mafuyu decides to continue his search. On his way, however, a dark presence surrounds him, and Mafuyu's fate is unknown. Two weeks later, Mafuyu's sister, Miku, arrives…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Fatal Frame holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 69 votes.
What it launched against
Fatal Frame launched on 13 December 2001, within three weeks of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams and Ikaruga. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Fatal Frame yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Characters
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Dlc
Quick answers
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