It actually turns Maiden of Black Water into a more traditional Fatal Frame game, which has mixed results. All the same, a good effort has been made to hide the game’s origins and make it playable without the need for a second screen. The key change to the original version of the game was in how it incorporated the Wii U’s tablet screen, and that’s of course now, not the case. Explore haunted locales and vanquish ghosts with the use of a magic camera. Maiden of Black Water utilizes the standard box of Fatal Frame tricks. So perhaps time and refinements to the game will shed new light on it. Does this snapshot of the Fatal Frame series’ recent past look sharp or has it faded?Īfter spending seven years confined to the Wii U, Maiden of Black Water remains the swansong entry in the underappreciated Japanese horror game series, and it wasn’t seen as a particularly triumphant finale either. The Camera Obscura returns with an upgrade thanks to a multi-platform remaster of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water.
