Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is getting a PC remake, bringing its horror photography to Steam

Smile and accidental AIEEEEE, fearfulness fans! Tecmo and Team Ninja are bringing a "remake" of PS2 endurance fearfulness Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly to PC via Steam successful aboriginal 2026. Why americium I brandishing a glyph-covered Canon EOS 90D astatine you, portion singing the Ghostbusters theme? Allow maine to explain: Fatal Frame's signature interaction is that you decision spooks utilizing a magic camera. Naturally, this besides means that you person to look steadily and calmly astatine said spooks portion they shimmer and sway towards you. Catch immoderate of that nonsense successful the remake's announcement trailer.

I've lone ever played 1 Fatal Frame game, 2005's Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, successful which you alternate betwixt a comparatively harmless daytime flat and a imagination manor wherever the monsters are. I'm told that Crimson Butterfly is the champion of the lot. It's the communicative of duplicate sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura, who sojourn a watercourse 1 time to reminisce astir their childhoods earlier the country is submerged by the operation of a dam.

Alas and alack, Mayu spots a bully reddish butterfly that lures her distant to a "village of never-ending night", location to a "forbidden ritual". I had a akin happening hap to maine portion hiking on the Dales Way, once. The butterfly was a deceptively inexpensive Airbnb listing, the colony was Kendal, and the forbidden ritual was all-night karaoke astatine the Olde Fleece Inn.

According to the Steam page, the Crimson Butterfly remake volition beryllium a "complete overhaul", with "richer and much engaging gameplay successful some exploration and combat". In particular, you tin expect a "Holding Hands with Mayu" mechanic that, presumably, lets you clasp hands with Mayu. I truly anticipation there's much to this alleged remake's "richer and much engaging gameplay" than simply letting large characters clasp hands, Tecmo.

I bask the nerdiness of Fatal Frame's photography mechanics. The camera tin beryllium upgraded with antithetic lenses and types of film, and it's not intolerable that you mightiness larn thing astir changeable creation portion you're flashbulbing poltergeists. Given nerves of steel, you mightiness find yourself demanding that the shade spell retired and travel successful again, due to the fact that dang it, this 1 could beryllium worthy of the New Yorker. The shade volition not perceive to you, of course, but don't fto that halt you yelling astatine your TV screen.

Two erstwhile Fatal Frame games person made the leap to PC - Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. Our Mask of the Lunar Eclipse reviewer Kim Armstrong was not keen, commenting of the PC port, "while this unsocial combat whitethorn person carried the game's lifeless communicative backmost successful 2008, this rerelease is thing much than an costly reskin of a relic."

We didn't reappraisal Maiden of Black Water, perchance due to the fact that it was truthful terrifying that Graham (RPS successful peace) refused to delegate it and alternatively threw it into a water 1 acheronian and stormy evening. Or perchance due to the fact that it was truthful boring that Graham (RPS successful peace) refused to delegate it and alternatively threw it into a water 1 acheronian and stormy evening. He's gone now, truthful it's intolerable to accidental for sure.