The latest instalments also have male characters here and there to control and stuff, so does the Spirit Camara spin-off where the protagonist is a manifestation of your own persona; aka yourself, so we can agree that for a niche well known but not as monetary concurrent as other survival horror series Fatal Frame stands for very good reasons and it's story also covers a book, a manga and a film adaptation
Thank you for explaining the story line. I only played games 1-3. Never finished the 1st one. Then when I looked up stuff about the 4th and 5th game, I just got more confused
They look like sisters because Miku didn’t age while she was in the box. Miu’s “father” is never actually revealed or explained but it’s heavily hinted that Miku’s connection with Mafuyu in the afterlife somehow led to her conception.
Miu is a shadowborn. There are memos in the game that explain this and the purpose of ghost marriages. Miku went to the mountain and had a spirit marriage with her brother. She left the mountain. had Miu, abandoned Miu and went back to the mountain to be part of the ritual. Until the woman selected for the ritual dies they remain the same physcial age as when the ritual started.
@@vovazagach1781 Sure, I will try. Heads up, spoilers for game stuff. The info I'm giving is not necessarily going to appear in game order but in a way that builds a foundation. It will also be pretty bare bones. Miku Hinasaki is Miu Hinasaki's mom. Mafuyu Hinasaki (never expressly stated but heavily implicated) is Miu Hinasaki's dad. In this game there is a ritual in the mountain where women are placed into boxes to keep the mountain pure and hold back the "black water". While the maiden lives in the box she will not age and when she dies the body will dissolve. There is another supplemental ritual where a man can come to the mountain and choose to marry one of these maidens. The point of this is to sooth and support the maiden in the box. The ritual's name is ghost marriage. Miku goes to the mountain because she feels her death is near. She performs the rites of ghost marriage. This is the only instance the game gives us of a living female marrying a deceased male in this manner. We are lead to assume Miku knows she will become a maiden at this point. She returns from the mountain and has Miu. Miu is a shadowborn. In the Shadowborn chapter. Yume/ the matchmaker says this directly to Miu. "The person you are seeking... They have taken part in a Ghost Marriage. You should rejoice, young lady. You should fear nothing, child. For you, as a Shadowborn... You too, must fulfill your duty and become a sacred pillar." After this Miu pulls Miku out of a box. There are memos related to this. Here is one of them "Shadowborn A child born from a union between a living person and a ghost. Tales of such children are rare but can be found in many parts of the world. Shadowborn were generally feared and detested as being of the Netherworld, but in some parts people revere them for their strong psychic abilities." In addition to this you can receive two endings for Miu. In one Miku stays and in another Miku disappears. This ending is called Shadowborn. From this we know Miku did not age much due to her being a pillar, she married Mafuyu and from this we can conclude he is Miu's father.
Its interesting that every ritual boils down to local people being unable to purify themselves and cope with their emotions in the proper way according to Shintoism and general mental health care, and putting it on designated victims to just make the people’s problems go away until there’s so much bad vibes built up that if anything goes “wrong” like that victim not being fully on board with taking on that misery, it all unleashes with interest. I’m not sure if its fair to call fighting the final bosses “compassion”, but its definitely breaking those cycles of abuse as all those ghosts finally take their own bad vibes away from the world with them.
Much like the ancients. I wonder how many others have gone down nameless and sacrificed to the Gods. Sadly, it still happens. Much more among the elite, who sacrifice people to the Gods still. I firsthand know of the sacrifices as they are still done in certain countries today where laws are pretty much lax and weak (Africa and Latin America; extreme cults). There is a whole lot of myriad reasons why people to this day are sacrificed or "offered up" its mostly to gain assistance or help. or something like an unknown genetic conditions cause you to be white or you were deemed "special" etc. Modern reason. But back in the past, lets say if a huge calamity befell an ancient civilization (Ancient Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas, the Middle East, well the entire or whole world had things like this going on everywhere. These practices and sacrificial rites of ancient passage were done to like remedy when these individuals had no knowledge of like modern science or technology. Then it was like to appease the gods or curry favor or get a solution, Its bury, slit the throats, or burn, or cut up, violate, throw into a well. or "eat" them before a God. Or gods. Or use the victims body parts as cursed charms or medicine just because these societies had not the knowledge we have today. With all that we have now, who knew what could have happened if early history, for example. Had medicine and technology. Superstition and ignorance wouldn't have impacted society or caused the lose in innocent lives. Just because primitive humans couldn't get shit right, or were downright stupid or ignorant.
context matter :V it had no use to be that deep when you just slip over the fact that supernatural force does exist in fatal frame world meaning the local people not because they unable to purify or cope or whatever you call to try to be deep , IT the supernatural force make them to do it or atleast it benefit the local aswell .
The cruek thing about Fatal Frame II is that Murakami village was going to be glooded, water in shintoism would purify spirits, assuming water can also release spirits, then the twin strangling the other twin was for naught.
I find that even worse because during the third game, if you can find the right documents, you'll get the horrible realization that they were doing the ritual wrong the whole time... by that, I mean both the tattoos and the Priestess we're supposed to be sent to the other side, but by continuing to keep the tattoos in the shrine, all that built up sorrow was a ticking time bomb, so every time they did it wrong the more they were shooting themselves in the foot
i like to think that every village involved in rituals are in places closest to the underworld, and each village is responsible for keeping their areas “pure”. and then when one village fails, the chances of the rest of the rituals to be completed becomes harder
I love how Japan is seemingly this hellscape where the realm of the dead and the living are so close that the people need to perform all sorts of evil rituals to keep "the bad vibes" from the Underworld at bay.
I would be so awesome that if there would be a final installment to the Fatal Frame series, that ALL the rituals in the series are all connected and part of a big calamity.
Fascinating that the events at the Himuro Mansion seem to have started the snowballing of failed rituals… Very interesting Butterfly Effect if so. Pun very much intended lol
Basically from all this summary of the Fatal Frame stories had the characters interconnected in some way to each other. While each event takes place at a different time and location, the characters have either been directly involved in the events themselves or are related to those that were involved either via circumstances or passed down via their ancestary.
Well, it's all kinda weird...Though not directly stated, I always assumed that it was implied that Mio and Mayu were reincarnations of Yae and Sae, not to mention Rei's possible relation to Yae and Sae due to the same name "Kurosawa." So if both are true, then Miku, Mio, and Rei are all connected/related.
Japanese ghost marriages are all about placating the dead's unmarried virgin desires, Miku marries her brother in a ghost marriage...we can all say it's to be with him spiritually, but is it really JUST "spiritual", even after the fatal frame III Aesop?
The Japanese have a kind of weird un-taboo regarding incest, in particular it seems that siblings can sometimes get a "pass." Like, it's not socially allowed for family to be in a relationship that way, but they also fetishize family relationships in their fiction quite a bit. For example: in Western fiction, someone or something being a product of incest usually means an instant "curse" of some kind befalling them. In Japanese fiction, being related to each other and romantically involved (or at least interested) is rarely the sole and direct cause for a cursed area/family/person.
While the fatal frame series is a great horror series i had forgotten how tragic and messed up the stories were. What kind of psycho's go around torturing and sacrificing people? 🤢The scary part was that many of the fatal frame games were based off of actual practiced ancient rituals and recorded events in japans history. Thanks for the vid.
Well, for the first nights of Project Zero 1 I´m with you, but learning that literally hell breaks loose if they don´t perform such rituals, I would rather sacrifice some......one? than living an endless night of suffering, causing more and more deaths/suffering spirits. I´d wished they would´ve let the boys stay with their beloved to ease their endless pain to gate the miasma from the underworld.
Japan really has a weird fixation with highschool being the peek of life. Like in so much of their media, protagonists, male or female, highschool or around highschool age. I mean not entirely surprising i guess since its pretty legend that adulting in japan is being brutalized by work culture.
It's a pity that now such games can no longer be made - because there are so many similar games. Sorry, nostalgia started playing - thanks for the video.
Since the success of the Maiden of Black Water led to a remaster of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse for International release, I'm hopeful that Tecmo will see the potential and remaster the original trilogy, even if it's one game at a time. Project Zero III is the only one I haven't completed (aside from MOTLE, which I'm currently halfway through as of writing this comment).
I wish that they could do like a master version of FF2...like, keep the visuals and graphics overhaul of Deep Crimson Butterfly, simplify and streamline the controls and camera movements of Maiden of Black Water, but then have the option to reuse the voices from the original PS2/Xbox release(nothing against the actual performances of those actresses, I just find the British accents jarring at times.)
This was such an awesome video! I've always been a fan of Fatal Frame, and this was such a great video to reintroduce myself to the lore of the series!! I would greatly appreciate a stand-alone video of the subsequent media associated with Project Zero/Fatal Frame!!
A BIG THANKS to you. This really helps me a lot since I only played FF2: Crimson Butterfly and FF3... 2024 still i dnt have a PS3. But if i bought one. I will play Fatal Frame 4 as the very 1st game I play on PS3 ❤
I would like to add that the Timeline was mistranslated in FF4 in the patch. It is an undisclosed time between 1976 and 1986. There are texture files in game that have dates but us what worked on the patch mistranslated "In the 1980's" as "in 1980"- It never really got fixed anywhere
This was a really great refresher as ive not played FF 1 2 or 3 in a while and im jumping into mask of the lunar eclipse. Thank you for marking the chapters so i can avoid spoilers! Im going to return to this video after finishing ff4 incase i missed some things in the story!
This is an amazing video!!! I remember a bit ago I was looking for a good explanation video of this series and could not find a good one. This is a blessing especially with the recent reboot, thank you!
Can someone explain to me why does Miku enter the marriage with her brother...? Is there a higher reason or just incest? Also, she has a child. Who's the father? Those details kind of bug me because I really liked this character in 1 and 3.
It’s not marriage in the romantic fashion, it’s more of just a way to connect herself with the spirit of her brother, who she loves very much (and is a bit obsessed with being with). The father situation is never explained, but is assumed to be Mafuyu’s spirit. This is never outright confirmed, likely due to the pretty weird implications that would bring up. The key to Miku’s character is that there isn’t any kind of romance or sexual attraction to Mafuyu, she just really loves him and can’t deal with losing him.
@@SuggestiveGaming I always thought of Miu as his last gift to Miku without being biologically involved since you know .. he's dead and all that. Maybe one should take a step back from the whole mother + father = daughter way of thinking in this case and see Miu more as a farewell memento that walks around.
@Suggestive Gaming I thought it was for spirituality reasons too but a marriage historically was either fir asset sharing or love and ghost marriages are conducted between distant relatives or non-relatives (prove me wrong).
Anyone else thinks that the hellish gate, the abyss and the rift and other similar things are all the same thing? A gateway into the underworld in different locations?
Very surprisingly, a remake of fatal frame 4 has FINALLY been launched with an ENGLISH VERSION~! As of writing this, it was released on the 8th of this month. Worth getting since it did get launched on Steam.
Strange how Fatal Frame is based on an actual location and story. Also, I would love to see you take on the other Fatal Frame that you didn’t cover, and do it as separate video.
That's actually false and is just an international marketing ploy. Altho many elements do have basis on various rumors, urban legends, superstitions, and myths that exists
Why were the Amakura twins look soo similiar to the butterfly twins? Theory:the twins reincarnated but their souls still exist in that village which is why they look awfully the same with the butterfly twins?
Thank you for this! I love it The first game I ever played was the spirit camera one and I never new it was fatal frame till later on when I watched fatal frame 2 gameplay and looked more into these games and lore. The lore facenated me and my favorite game to this day has to be crimson butterfly. All them being related to a ritual is so interesting to me and just the camera gameplay itself is amazing
At some point you think these crazy village folk would convert to another religion, the one they have just causes ghost eruptions all over the place when the rituals inevitably fail.
I still questions about this game, Miu existance and the camera like isn't the camera already broken in Fatal Frame 1? How did it go back again? And Miu's Father (just a guess but I guess the father is Mafuyu?)
I know this is old, but I figured I'd type this out here for future people. There are multiple cameras made by Dr Aso, along with other spirit objects he created like the radio (seen in FF2 and FF4) and the projector (First seen in FF2). -There's one camera in the 1st game, that shatters. (One camera) -Two in the second game. One was taken to the Himuro Mansion (which shattered), we don't know what happened to the second one Mio uses. (Two camera's, one to Himuro and shattered, one lost under the Minakami lake presumably) -The one from the 3rd game was found in the Kuze shrine, and is given to Yuu, but we don't know how it got in the shrine. In the real world, the camera is broken, but Rei's, Miku's, and Kei's pictures in the Manor of Sleep appear inside it to be developed. (One camera, broken) -In FF4, there is a note from Dr. Aso saying that 'He's leaving one (camera) here. He thinks the island will need it' Thats Ruka's camera. Then her friend, Misaki, is a descendant of Dr Aso and has her own. (Two cameras) -In FF5, Hisoka has one that was gifted to her by a customer, and she tells Ren about his, even saying it's damaged and she doubts he'd sell it to her, but she'd like to take a look at it. (Two cameras, one damaged) I don't know anything about the spin off games or movies, so I didn't include those. In the end, there at least 7 known cameras. 2 are broken, 1 is lost under Minakami lake, and 1 is damaged (Ren's), by the end of their games. If any of the cameras, other than Mikus from the first game, cross games, we don't know about it. And yes, Mafuyu is Miu's father. This didn't come as a shock to me, as Miku was shown to be VERY attached to her brother, even in the first game. This is a rather strange trope in Japan that has a sibling idolize/crush on their other sibling. It's almost always the younger crushing on the older. We see this trope even today in shows like SpyxFamily. Children are expected to grow out of this, and those that don't, like in SpyxFamily, are considered weird/creepy with a 'sister/brother complex.' Most media doesn't end with the siblings having a child together, but I guess Fatal Frame got away with it by one of them being dead. I, like most, think it would have been a better story to have Miu be Rei and Yuu's ghost child, but I guess 5 just had to have Miku again. If I'm incorrect about any of this, people are free to correct me. I'm actually a new fan to the series.
Putting this on while doing laundry without any prior knowledge of the series was a trip. a few minutes in I'm just like "yeah, of course child killing ritual #3 failed, the vibes were off, man!"
I would love to see yall do The Suffering series or something weird and off the path similar. The bioshock series would be an easy banger of a video too
Ah so this is the game I have been searching for years. I remember the camera Obscura but I have no remembrance of the title. I only remember that the camera can capture/exorcists ghosts
I used to play FF2 and FF3 a lot and had dreams of being in the mansion. I wanted to be them so badddd lmao. My 13 year old self trying to resonate with their “pain” and become “tormented”
I love every ounce of the story, but specifically as games, I feel like Mask and Maiden were not anywhere NEAR as enjoyable as the first 3. I watched a play thru of 1 and realized how much scarier it is than both of them. XD kind of makes me sad, but at least we’ll always have the first 3 to play.
My ex-wife got me Fatal Frame for X-Mas after seeing a review on X-Play that said it was the scariest game of the year. I was skeptical of their claim and, that night, started playing the game with the lights off. It didn’t take me long to pause the game and turn the lights on! I told my brother about my experience with the game and he laughed at me calling me a “chicken”. He went out and got a copy of the game for himself and called to let me know that he also had to turn the lights on! There are a lot of horror games with gore and jump scares but, for me, nothing beats Fatal Frame.
Ok i gotta ask, what the hell is up with all these ritual?! Like seriously these villagers and priests want to keep back what is basically hell and evil by doing what exactly? All these incredibly fucked up rituals for the sake of "purity". Im sorry but to counter evil dont you usually want to, i dont know, do something good and purifying to counter the corruptuon and evil?! Nope lets go with the option of having twins strangle each other and sucidal girls be ripped apart by machines. Yeah caise that will totally keep evil at bay, by doing something even worse and one upping the forces of evil.
Too many characters with too many similar names. Main reason why I was never able to grasp the full lore of the games as a whole. I kept forgetting who's who. xD
Wow! Thanks for the video. I remember playing Fatal Frame 1 to 3 on PS2 but never played 4 and 5. Good thing KoeiTecmo rereleased Maiden of The Black Water and now Mask of The Lunar Eclipse. If I will rank the games I will choose Crimson Butterfly as the best followed by the first Fatal Frame. 3rd spot will be Maiden Of the Black Water and 4th will be Mask of The Lunar Eclipse. I will put Fatal Frame 3 as last because I don’t really like the story so much for that game.
I think I agree with your ranking, I just might put Fatal Frame 1 over Crimson Butterfly (I only played the Wii remake though, so maybe the original is better)
@@SuggestiveGaming I think I agree with you for making the firsr Fatal Frame as the best but for me they really nailed Crimson Butterfly story and regarding the gameplay it's really make Fatal Frame memorable. Maiden Of the Black Water can be my top 2 if only the story is more scarier but it really has the best gameplay which makes the game more engaging compared to all the entries.
What series would you like to see me cover next? (Preferably something where I can pronounce the names correctly)
The digimon world series
Assassin's creed
nier automata
Armored core
Super mario series
I love how each game contains a female lead! The girls in the series are super brave, and their designs look so cute!
So stunning...
They weren't made to tick a box, unlike modern titles, this was purely organic.@@guitarspud1723
The latest instalments also have male characters here and there to control and stuff, so does the Spirit Camara spin-off where the protagonist is a manifestation of your own persona; aka yourself, so we can agree that for a niche well known but not as monetary concurrent as other survival horror series Fatal Frame stands for very good reasons and it's story also covers a book, a manga and a film adaptation
I’m so glad you did this series:) one of my absolute favourites as a kid!!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you for explaining the story line. I only played games 1-3. Never finished the 1st one. Then when I looked up stuff about the 4th and 5th game, I just got more confused
Edo period Japan: some spooky spiritual stuff happens
The locals: Have you tried killing a young girl about it?
Did Miku meet Mafuyu while she was inflicted with the Sleep Manor's curse? When she tried to follow him down the Tori gates?
I watched the whole thing and I'm still confused. I'll have to watch a few more times I think. Lol.
I thought the thumbnail was the new installment!
My hope!
That's alot of failed rituals LOL. You'd think they would learn from the first 2 😂
They are unrelated. Different place and customs.
Wait, Miu is Miku's daughter? I'm sorry, but they look more like sisters to me. But if they're mother and daughter, then who's the father?
They look like sisters because Miku didn’t age while she was in the box. Miu’s “father” is never actually revealed or explained but it’s heavily hinted that Miku’s connection with Mafuyu in the afterlife somehow led to her conception.
Miu is a shadowborn. There are memos in the game that explain this and the purpose of ghost marriages. Miku went to the mountain and had a spirit marriage with her brother. She left the mountain. had Miu, abandoned Miu and went back to the mountain to be part of the ritual. Until the woman selected for the ritual dies they remain the same physcial age as when the ritual started.
@@Lilnaomi3 I'm confused, can you explain it more?
@@vovazagach1781 Sure, I will try. Heads up, spoilers for game stuff. The info I'm giving is not necessarily going to appear in game order but in a way that builds a foundation. It will also be pretty bare bones.
Miku Hinasaki is Miu Hinasaki's mom. Mafuyu Hinasaki (never expressly stated but heavily implicated) is Miu Hinasaki's dad.
In this game there is a ritual in the mountain where women are placed into boxes to keep the mountain pure and hold back the "black water".
While the maiden lives in the box she will not age and when she dies the body will dissolve.
There is another supplemental ritual where a man can come to the mountain and choose to marry one of these maidens. The point of this is to sooth and support the maiden in the box. The ritual's name is ghost marriage.
Miku goes to the mountain because she feels her death is near. She performs the rites of ghost marriage. This is the only instance the game gives us of a living female marrying a deceased male in this manner. We are lead to assume Miku knows she will become a maiden at this point.
She returns from the mountain and has Miu. Miu is a shadowborn. In the Shadowborn chapter. Yume/ the matchmaker says this directly to Miu. "The person you are seeking... They have taken part in a Ghost Marriage. You should rejoice, young lady. You should fear nothing, child. For you, as a Shadowborn... You too, must fulfill your duty and become a sacred pillar." After this Miu pulls Miku out of a box.
There are memos related to this. Here is one of them
"Shadowborn
A child born from a union between a living person and a ghost. Tales of such children are rare but can be found in many parts of the world.
Shadowborn were generally feared and detested as being of the Netherworld, but in some parts people revere them for their strong psychic abilities."
In addition to this you can receive two endings for Miu. In one Miku stays and in another Miku disappears. This ending is called Shadowborn.
From this we know Miku did not age much due to her being a pillar, she married Mafuyu and from this we can conclude he is Miu's father.
@Phoebe Buffet Just wait until you find out about Geroge Foreman's kids.
the incest marriage is wack
Its interesting that every ritual boils down to local people being unable to purify themselves and cope with their emotions in the proper way according to Shintoism and general mental health care, and putting it on designated victims to just make the people’s problems go away until there’s so much bad vibes built up that if anything goes “wrong” like that victim not being fully on board with taking on that misery, it all unleashes with interest. I’m not sure if its fair to call fighting the final bosses “compassion”, but its definitely breaking those cycles of abuse as all those ghosts finally take their own bad vibes away from the world with them.
I love this take, I am a big fan of the first 3 games but I didn't know much about Shintoism. Thanks for sharing!
Much like the ancients. I wonder how many others have gone down nameless and sacrificed to the Gods. Sadly, it still happens. Much more among the elite, who sacrifice people to the Gods still. I firsthand know of the sacrifices as they are still done in certain countries today where laws are pretty much lax and weak (Africa and Latin America; extreme cults). There is a whole lot of myriad reasons why people to this day are sacrificed or "offered up" its mostly to gain assistance or help. or something like an unknown genetic conditions cause you to be white or you were deemed "special" etc. Modern reason. But back in the past, lets say if a huge calamity befell an ancient civilization (Ancient Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas, the Middle East, well the entire or whole world had things like this going on everywhere. These practices and sacrificial rites of ancient passage were done to like remedy when these individuals had no knowledge of like modern science or technology. Then it was like to appease the gods or curry favor or get a solution, Its bury, slit the throats, or burn, or cut up, violate, throw into a well. or "eat" them before a God. Or gods. Or use the victims body parts as cursed charms or medicine just because these societies had not the knowledge we have today. With all that we have now, who knew what could have happened if early history, for example. Had medicine and technology. Superstition and ignorance wouldn't have impacted society or caused the lose in innocent lives. Just because primitive humans couldn't get shit right, or were downright stupid or ignorant.
context matter :V it had no use to be that deep when you just slip over the fact that supernatural force does exist in fatal frame world meaning the local people not because they unable to purify or cope or whatever you call to try to be deep , IT the supernatural force make them to do it or atleast it benefit the local aswell .
The cruek thing about Fatal Frame II is that Murakami village was going to be glooded, water in shintoism would purify spirits, assuming water can also release spirits, then the twin strangling the other twin was for naught.
I find that even worse because during the third game, if you can find the right documents, you'll get the horrible realization that they were doing the ritual wrong the whole time... by that, I mean both the tattoos and the Priestess we're supposed to be sent to the other side, but by continuing to keep the tattoos in the shrine, all that built up sorrow was a ticking time bomb, so every time they did it wrong the more they were shooting themselves in the foot
In terms of world lore, anyone find it odd that in a relatively short time, so many of these rituals which connect to the underworld suddenly fail?
i think the calamity had definitely something to do with it
It DOES very much feel like some type of cascade failure
People got less spiritual over time.
i like to think that every village involved in rituals are in places closest to the underworld, and each village is responsible for keeping their areas “pure”. and then when one village fails, the chances of the rest of the rituals to be completed becomes harder
@@draochvar9646 I guess you could call it a resonance cascade
Anywhere in Japan during the Meiji Era: “sir, there’s an anthropologist named Professor Aso here to visit our village.” “F**k”
Silent hill series. Id love to see a full explanation of this freaky series
"Aso? More like "Ah, so I see you bring trouble everywhere you go"..."
lmaoooo
Oh you mean Dr Kunihiko PhD , yeah he and his damn cameras bring trouble wherever he goes, that's why Kirie but him and end at Himuro Manor
I love how Japan is seemingly this hellscape where the realm of the dead and the living are so close that the people need to perform all sorts of evil rituals to keep "the bad vibes" from the Underworld at bay.
Villagers in FF 1, 2, 3 : tried to close the gate between the dead and the living
Villagers in FF 4 : say sike
I would be so awesome that if there would be a final installment to the Fatal Frame series, that ALL the rituals in the series are all connected and part of a big calamity.
Damn that's such an awesome idea, honestly I got the feeling Fatal Frame 2 hinted at a story like this. Hope they do it
It would be cool if they touched on the spirit stones and what went into making the obscura as well.
Fascinating that the events at the Himuro Mansion seem to have started the snowballing of failed rituals… Very interesting Butterfly Effect if so. Pun very much intended lol
Basically from all this summary of the Fatal Frame stories had the characters interconnected in some way to each other. While each event takes place at a different time and location, the characters have either been directly involved in the events themselves or are related to those that were involved either via circumstances or passed down via their ancestary.
Sounds like the Grudge, everything is connected but in obscure ways
@@danielpeckham5520 you mean in an obscura way lol
Well, it's all kinda weird...Though not directly stated, I always assumed that it was implied that Mio and Mayu were reincarnations of Yae and Sae, not to mention Rei's possible relation to Yae and Sae due to the same name "Kurosawa." So if both are true, then Miku, Mio, and Rei are all connected/related.
Japanese ghost marriages are all about placating the dead's unmarried virgin desires, Miku marries her brother in a ghost marriage...we can all say it's to be with him spiritually, but is it really JUST "spiritual", even after the fatal frame III Aesop?
The Japanese have a kind of weird un-taboo regarding incest, in particular it seems that siblings can sometimes get a "pass." Like, it's not socially allowed for family to be in a relationship that way, but they also fetishize family relationships in their fiction quite a bit. For example: in Western fiction, someone or something being a product of incest usually means an instant "curse" of some kind befalling them. In Japanese fiction, being related to each other and romantically involved (or at least interested) is rarely the sole and direct cause for a cursed area/family/person.
What I wouldn't give to bring back Fatal Frame... love the video, I love seeing people cover this series
Fatal Frame is one of my favorite series in gaming.
I tend to always forget how sad the story (and full of murder and dumb decisions) the game is.
"Gives birth to her daughter, who is born half living, half death"
I'm sorry what? I need more on that. How? Just how?
ghost marriage and stuff happened..
Never forget how horrofying af dat miku married to her brother in ff5
While the fatal frame series is a great horror series i had forgotten how tragic and messed up the stories were. What kind of psycho's go around torturing and sacrificing people? 🤢The scary part was that many of the fatal frame games were based off of actual practiced ancient rituals and recorded events in japans history. Thanks for the vid.
Humans have the animal agriculture industry. We’ve normalized practices like that to other living/feeling beings who don’t deserve it 🤷🏾♂️
Well, for the first nights of Project Zero 1 I´m with you, but learning that literally hell breaks loose if they don´t perform such rituals, I would rather sacrifice some......one? than living an endless night of suffering, causing more and more deaths/suffering spirits. I´d wished they would´ve let the boys stay with their beloved to ease their endless pain to gate the miasma from the underworld.
People still torture and sacrifice people. Happens on the world news every day.
Am I hearing this right that miku was impregnated by the ghost of her brother?
It's sad that Mayu and Mio only appeared and mentioned once
Japan really has a weird fixation with highschool being the peek of life. Like in so much of their media, protagonists, male or female, highschool or around highschool age.
I mean not entirely surprising i guess since its pretty legend that adulting in japan is being brutalized by work culture.
The Fatal Frame movie sucked hard. You also butchered all the Japanese pronunciations.
Come on, you want him to research the phonetics for each Japanese word in his script? Be real and don't nitpick.
Never realized how connected these games were. SWEET
It's a pity that now such games can no longer be made - because there are so many similar games. Sorry, nostalgia started playing - thanks for the video.
Yep..games nowadays are piece of crap
Where?
@@nifftbatuff676 Lang ooga booga 🗿
What? Where's do you see Japanese traditional haunted house games? Very little.
@@zZiL341yRj736 The grudge, faith series, shadow corridor are all very scary.
Since the success of the Maiden of Black Water led to a remaster of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse for International release, I'm hopeful that Tecmo will see the potential and remaster the original trilogy, even if it's one game at a time. Project Zero III is the only one I haven't completed (aside from MOTLE, which I'm currently halfway through as of writing this comment).
I wish that they could do like a master version of FF2...like, keep the visuals and graphics overhaul of Deep Crimson Butterfly, simplify and streamline the controls and camera movements of Maiden of Black Water, but then have the option to reuse the voices from the original PS2/Xbox release(nothing against the actual performances of those actresses, I just find the British accents jarring at times.)
Mann i really love the story!
This was such an awesome video! I've always been a fan of Fatal Frame, and this was such a great video to reintroduce myself to the lore of the series!! I would greatly appreciate a stand-alone video of the subsequent media associated with Project Zero/Fatal Frame!!
A BIG THANKS to you.
This really helps me a lot since I only played FF2: Crimson Butterfly and FF3... 2024 still i dnt have a PS3.
But if i bought one. I will play Fatal Frame 4 as the very 1st game I play on PS3 ❤
Was really looking forward to this one. Glad there are resources to help with translations.
The only names I remember in this series are Mio and Mayu... Imagine hearing the names being called thousand times throughout the game
I would like to add that the Timeline was mistranslated in FF4 in the patch. It is an undisclosed time between 1976 and 1986. There are texture files in game that have dates but us what worked on the patch mistranslated "In the 1980's" as "in 1980"- It never really got fixed anywhere
That’s why I just said “around this time” as opposed to giving an actual date. Luckily it doesn’t really matter where it actually sits
Oh wow! All this time we've been putting it as the first in the timeline, but it could be concurrent with FF1!
I reaise it seems kunihiko asou is the cause for all these incidents lol
Yeah, trouble follows that dude everywhere
Can you explain how exactly Miku get pregnant, and who's father of the Miyu?
i think… its her.. brother…. 😭😭
@@deftmoon I think so to, but exactly she got pregnant?
@@vovazagach1781 either they did the deed when she saw him or it just happened to manifest in her😭
This was a really great refresher as ive not played FF 1 2 or 3 in a while and im jumping into mask of the lunar eclipse. Thank you for marking the chapters so i can avoid spoilers! Im going to return to this video after finishing ff4 incase i missed some things in the story!
a goddamn spiderweb I need a drawing board to connect everything holyhell
watched this during playing games, only with 1 ear. All ive got was: everyone strangled everyone to death and then turned to an devil ghost.
This is an amazing video!!! I remember a bit ago I was looking for a good explanation video of this series and could not find a good one. This is a blessing especially with the recent reboot, thank you!
23:28-23:52 I'm sorry Miku went where and WHAT HAPPENED?!
YEAH WHAT DID HE GET HER PREGNANT HOW IS HER DAUGHTER HALF DEAD BAHAH
Can someone explain to me why does Miku enter the marriage with her brother...? Is there a higher reason or just incest?
Also, she has a child. Who's the father? Those details kind of bug me because I really liked this character in 1 and 3.
It’s not marriage in the romantic fashion, it’s more of just a way to connect herself with the spirit of her brother, who she loves very much (and is a bit obsessed with being with).
The father situation is never explained, but is assumed to be Mafuyu’s spirit. This is never outright confirmed, likely due to the pretty weird implications that would bring up.
The key to Miku’s character is that there isn’t any kind of romance or sexual attraction to Mafuyu, she just really loves him and can’t deal with losing him.
@@SuggestiveGaming I always thought of Miu as his last gift to Miku without being biologically involved since you know .. he's dead and all that. Maybe one should take a step back from the whole mother + father = daughter way of thinking in this case and see Miu more as a farewell memento that walks around.
@Suggestive Gaming I thought it was for spirituality reasons too but a marriage historically was either fir asset sharing or love and ghost marriages are conducted between distant relatives or non-relatives (prove me wrong).
Anyone else thinks that the hellish gate, the abyss and the rift and other similar things are all the same thing? A gateway into the underworld in different locations?
Yes. That's exactly what it is. Japan has areas they call 'hell gates' all around the country. You can visit some of them as tourists spots.
It's crazy they are all interlinked like this and all seem to have hellgates at them or some darkness in the village
According to one of the comments, In Fatal Frame 2, the game was hinting at all the events being interlinked.
Very surprisingly, a remake of fatal frame 4 has FINALLY been launched with an ENGLISH VERSION~! As of writing this, it was released on the 8th of this month. Worth getting since it did get launched on Steam.
I play ff4 mask of lunar eclipse on ps4 .... i love it!!!
So many different portals between the realms of the living and the dead. The veil must be made of Swiss cheese.
We don't get enough traditional Japanese haunted village horror games.
I wish you elaborated more. The information was too condensed that only those who understood already can follow the narration
This is great! As a teen I played a fatal frame demo on my wiiu and it was waaaay too scary lol I could never beat it!
Strange how Fatal Frame is based on an actual location and story. Also, I would love to see you take on the other Fatal Frame that you didn’t cover, and do it as separate video.
That's actually false and is just an international marketing ploy. Altho many elements do have basis on various rumors, urban legends, superstitions, and myths that exists
Why were the Amakura twins look soo similiar to the butterfly twins?
Theory:the twins reincarnated but their souls still exist in that village which is why they look awfully the same with the butterfly twins?
Thank you for this! I love it
The first game I ever played was the spirit camera one and I never new it was fatal frame till later on when I watched fatal frame 2 gameplay and looked more into these games and lore. The lore facenated me and my favorite game to this day has to be crimson butterfly. All them being related to a ritual is so interesting to me and just the camera gameplay itself is amazing
Fatal frame 3 was monumental horror game for me. I printed the whole walkthrough to defeat the game. Crazy
At some point you think these crazy village folk would convert to another religion, the one they have just causes ghost eruptions all over the place when the rituals inevitably fail.
2 spooky 2 play. thanks 4 summary
Absolutely love this series, glad you did this cause I totally forgot about the overall story
I love these series. But I probably wouldn't play it, cause I'm a giant wuss.
maybe the villages should just be better people or sacrifice animals so this doesnt keep happening! just a thought guys
Honestly, what's stopping creators from making an AMV for this series with the song being Queen of Mean ?
Be the change you want to see in the world
All these complex and murderous Shinto rituals to seal gateways to the underworld and all Izanagi needed was a boulder.
Woah, this game is tragedy galore.
Would love for you to cover the other fatal frame spin offs as well.. this is well made!
I still questions about this game, Miu existance and the camera like isn't the camera already broken in Fatal Frame 1? How did it go back again? And Miu's Father (just a guess but I guess the father is Mafuyu?)
yes.. big possibly Mafuyu is Miu's father
Yes,miku and mafuyi married through the ghost marriage,and cause incest
I know this is old, but I figured I'd type this out here for future people.
There are multiple cameras made by Dr Aso, along with other spirit objects he created like the radio (seen in FF2 and FF4) and the projector (First seen in FF2).
-There's one camera in the 1st game, that shatters. (One camera)
-Two in the second game. One was taken to the Himuro Mansion (which shattered), we don't know what happened to the second one Mio uses. (Two camera's, one to Himuro and shattered, one lost under the Minakami lake presumably)
-The one from the 3rd game was found in the Kuze shrine, and is given to Yuu, but we don't know how it got in the shrine. In the real world, the camera is broken, but Rei's, Miku's, and Kei's pictures in the Manor of Sleep appear inside it to be developed. (One camera, broken)
-In FF4, there is a note from Dr. Aso saying that 'He's leaving one (camera) here. He thinks the island will need it' Thats Ruka's camera. Then her friend, Misaki, is a descendant of Dr Aso and has her own. (Two cameras)
-In FF5, Hisoka has one that was gifted to her by a customer, and she tells Ren about his, even saying it's damaged and she doubts he'd sell it to her, but she'd like to take a look at it. (Two cameras, one damaged)
I don't know anything about the spin off games or movies, so I didn't include those.
In the end, there at least 7 known cameras. 2 are broken, 1 is lost under Minakami lake, and 1 is damaged (Ren's), by the end of their games. If any of the cameras, other than Mikus from the first game, cross games, we don't know about it.
And yes, Mafuyu is Miu's father. This didn't come as a shock to me, as Miku was shown to be VERY attached to her brother, even in the first game. This is a rather strange trope in Japan that has a sibling idolize/crush on their other sibling. It's almost always the younger crushing on the older. We see this trope even today in shows like SpyxFamily. Children are expected to grow out of this, and those that don't, like in SpyxFamily, are considered weird/creepy with a 'sister/brother complex.' Most media doesn't end with the siblings having a child together, but I guess Fatal Frame got away with it by one of them being dead. I, like most, think it would have been a better story to have Miu be Rei and Yuu's ghost child, but I guess 5 just had to have Miku again.
If I'm incorrect about any of this, people are free to correct me. I'm actually a new fan to the series.
Putting this on while doing laundry without any prior knowledge of the series was a trip. a few minutes in I'm just like "yeah, of course child killing ritual #3 failed, the vibes were off, man!"
This was a great watch! Thank you very much. Please do the supplementary titles in the near future.
I would love to see yall do The Suffering series or something weird and off the path similar. The bioshock series would be an easy banger of a video too
This was the best explanation of the Fatal Frame series I have ever seen.
I don't use twitter anymore so I'll say this here, keep up the good work. 👍
i wish the fatal frame first trilogy also make its way to the nintendo switch
I still want Fatal Frame 6 to be realiase.
Really hope the characters could be male as well as the antagonist,they should be hot neither cute
@@hazeeqrazak l want see male carácter too and this time more carisma
Excuse me but after reuniting with her ghost brother she then becomes pregnant? What do they mean by this :(
Oh you poor soul. I was shocked too but Japan has it's fixation with incest in their stories.
Ah so this is the game I have been searching for years. I remember the camera Obscura but I have no remembrance of the title. I only remember that the camera can capture/exorcists ghosts
I used to play FF2 and FF3 a lot and had dreams of being in the mansion. I wanted to be them so badddd lmao. My 13 year old self trying to resonate with their “pain” and become “tormented”
Been waiting on a Recap by you guys for so long!! Thank you!
Thank you for the refresher. I really do hope that Fatal Frame I, II and III get a port, remake/remaster on the Switch as well.
In conclusion..
uhm
don't do sacrifice?
Jeez, lots of hellmouths in Japan ay
I pray they release the original trilogy as a remaster and also a bundle 🙏
yooooo thanks for letting me know fatal frame 4 got remastered and an english translation!!
Seems like a perfect series to go VR.
Oh wow this is amazing! Thank you for creating this vid. Fatal Frame is 💖
What is it with this series and terrible rituals LOL
I hope they remake the first Trilogy for modern PC and Concoles.
I thought the 4th game was a prequel to the others.
I love every ounce of the story, but specifically as games, I feel like Mask and Maiden were not anywhere NEAR as enjoyable as the first 3.
I watched a play thru of 1 and realized how much scarier it is than both of them. XD kind of makes me sad, but at least we’ll always have the first 3 to play.
I'm sorry that I'm doing this, but also I'm not.
MIIIOOOOOOOOO!
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Markiplier - 2015
My ex-wife got me Fatal Frame for X-Mas after seeing a review on X-Play that said it was the scariest game of the year. I was skeptical of their claim and, that night, started playing the game with the lights off. It didn’t take me long to pause the game and turn the lights on!
I told my brother about my experience with the game and he laughed at me calling me a “chicken”. He went out and got a copy of the game for himself and called to let me know that he also had to turn the lights on!
There are a lot of horror games with gore and jump scares but, for me, nothing beats Fatal Frame.
Ok i gotta ask, what the hell is up with all these ritual?! Like seriously these villagers and priests want to keep back what is basically hell and evil by doing what exactly? All these incredibly fucked up rituals for the sake of "purity". Im sorry but to counter evil dont you usually want to, i dont know, do something good and purifying to counter the corruptuon and evil?! Nope lets go with the option of having twins strangle each other and sucidal girls be ripped apart by machines. Yeah caise that will totally keep evil at bay, by doing something even worse and one upping the forces of evil.
Too many characters with too many similar names. Main reason why I was never able to grasp the full lore of the games as a whole. I kept forgetting who's who. xD
PS2 nostalgia
I remember I downloaded the ending ost
What a memories
The game is very terrifying, but meanwhile, the character designs are so cute and beautiful. I CAN NOT 😭
I love fatal frame n crimson butterfly for ps2 , I wonder how much people playing these games in pure darkness ? No lights on at all mmm...
If isolated for 3669 days, but it happens every 10 years... then at some point, there's going to be 2 girls in isolation at the same time?
Nice I saw this gameplay but I couldn't understand so thank you
doesn´t seem to have ANY gameplay, just cutscenes. Not a game for me :)
How did the sacrifice meet a traveler if she’s supposed to be kept away for over 3000 days prior to the ritual?
Wow! Thanks for the video. I remember playing Fatal Frame 1 to 3 on PS2 but never played 4 and 5. Good thing KoeiTecmo rereleased Maiden of The Black Water and now Mask of The Lunar Eclipse.
If I will rank the games I will choose Crimson Butterfly as the best followed by the first Fatal Frame. 3rd spot will be Maiden Of the Black Water and 4th will be Mask of The Lunar Eclipse. I will put Fatal Frame 3 as last because I don’t really like the story so much for that game.
I think I agree with your ranking, I just might put Fatal Frame 1 over Crimson Butterfly (I only played the Wii remake though, so maybe the original is better)
@@SuggestiveGaming I think I agree with you for making the firsr Fatal Frame as the best but for me they really nailed Crimson Butterfly story and regarding the gameplay it's really make Fatal Frame memorable.
Maiden Of the Black Water can be my top 2 if only the story is more scarier but it really has the best gameplay which makes the game more engaging compared to all the entries.