Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Review | It's Finally Real

[@sorrystacy]

i love how you brought up the differences in the soundscape!! I can't believe I missed the creaking door in Ruka's room - I was wondering where that rhythmic sound was coming from as it doesn't appear on the soundtrack version of the song, i adore finding out details like these! another major difference I found was in how they overhauled Sakuya's chase sequence music and made it so much more oppressive and aggressive - it was such an unexpected but welcome change

[@K-popQueenSoo-Ah]

I am surprised you never brought up Dr Aso the most important person in the entire franchise. The power of the Camera Obscura comes from Rogetsu Island! You really should make a video discussing him. He is why you can fight ghosts and he played the most important role here in MOTLE

[@Bobthepetferret]

It simply didn't come up while I was writing the script! But you are right, it might be worth taking a dive into the connections across the games, with Dr Aso being the biggest one. I might have to add it to my ideas list!

[@ElectroNeko_GoldenGlow]

Never knew that this came out, i just bought it i never played fatal frame before so this will be my first game in the series

[@RisuAlto]

I didn't even know this had dropped! I'm so excited to go play it myself.

[@Bobthepetferret]

It's been out for a few weeks! Glad I could help spread the word that it's out!

[@thejustinjustin1233]

Sounds like the perfect game to play on my Lenovo legion go at night with headphones:

[@Oranalysis]

I still haven't gotten around to playing the PS4 version myself even though I've had it on my shelf since release. I'm glad it's a good port/remaster! I loved the Wii version even though I, like you, resorted to emulating it. I used Wii remotes instead of a different controller and it worked *okay*... They never worked during piano sections and would disconnect fairly often but the fact that I came out of the experience thinking the game was my new favourite in the series stands to its quality.

[@PiscesPrincess327]

Apparently the reason why MOTLN never made it overseas is because of all the bugs. Nintendo wanted Tecmo to fix them, Tecmo said no, so Nintendo never released the game worldwide until now. Too bad the Wii was region locked

[@PhilipWester]

It was region-locked but extremely easy to make regionfree through soft-hacking it.

[@lolshtar]

holding the running button for a sec turns the camera to where your character is looking at, thats how l walked most of the time so that was not an issue for me

[@Bobthepetferret]

This is true, but I found it to be mostly an issue in enclosed spaces where running didn't feel like a natural thing to do at that moment

[@annemariegeudeke8378]

I finished the game yesterday, I really enjoyed it, but was surprised how easy the final boss was, I was like wait that's it, it was over in seconds lol. I agree that the story is strongest out of the whole series, and I bought the physical switch version which was really expensive.

[@Bobthepetferret]

Yeah, same! I had more trouble with the fights leading up to her than against her directly

[@ChrisLP25]

15 years, and at least 2 well-known bugs still haven't been fixed, not to mention the new ones, the game uses the same engine as FFV so all of the camera issues from that game, has carried over to this one. You cannot play with mouse and keyboard unless you connect a gamepad via usb, coz for whatever reason, that's the only fix for both FF4 and 5 to prevent fps issues and unresponsive camera movement. An insane amount of tiny bugs also exist, but those are mere nitpicks. The game runs better than the wii version on the emulator for me, so that's a win and overall, it is the best game, that's why I'm sad about the above issues, without those, Mask of the Lunar Eclipse would be perfect!

[@Bobthepetferret]

What were these bugs? I didn't encounter any personally

[@ChrisLP25]

​@@Bobthepetferret I mentioned the most annoying ones, the need to have a usb controller connected even tho I play with mouse and keyboard, which fixes some stuttering and unresponside camera movement, but also takes the controller's button prompts as priority, causing me to unplug it every time there's a puzzle like the paino one where I need to know which keys to press. The other one is in Fatal Frame 5 as well, you cannot face the screen and move the mouse, coz the character will rotate and face forward, that's because The Mouse is a Lie, they don't know how make a proper pc port I guess; this game was originally on the wii, so the flashlight is tied to the right analog stick, which also "kinda" controls the camera, thus causing this annoying problem. The other issues are minor and visual stuff, except the 2 wii bugs that weren't fixed, a doll that can't be photographed without loading a save and a ghost that shows up and makes the room go really loud but nothing happens, they forgot to code the fight or something.

[@Bobthepetferret]

Ah okay, that's fair. Issues specific to the PC port then, and explains why I didn't have issues since I played it on PS5. Still sucks for PC players though

[@LilMousyBianca]

I've been wanting to play this game for SO long, and it was well worth the wait imo! I love the story and characters! The only part I wasn't a fan of doing, was that one fight near the end. It's a GREAT fight, but it's brutal