Thursday, May 15, 2008

My enthusiasm with "Fatal Frame III: The Tormented"

How it started:
Hey! I've been really obsessed with this game in Ps2 called "Fatal Frame III:The Tormented". Well actually, I haven't heard about this "Fatal Frame" before. But I was familiarized with it when we went to the place of our cousins. My male cousins are Ps2 addicts. But there is one of them, who is the most addicted one. We went there but our cousins were not present. They're off the house. Only my grandparents were there. So I, together with my siblings decided to play the Ps2 inside my cousin's room. And then my brother told me that this Ps2 addict cousin of ours, was playing a game called Fatal Frame. I really had no idea about it until my brother told me this, "You have to take pictures of the ghosts to make them disappear."

It truly sounded interesting to my ears. And I told him that I want to play it, so we kept on searching for the CD case of this Fatal Frame from the desk that's full of Ps2 DVD games. Then my brother finally found it. On its case, it read "Fatal Frame II". Then we played it there. I was really really interested about it. Then there were these two little girls, who are sisters, or actually twins namely, Mio and Mayu. I was really nervous that time for I am the one playing it using the controller and more importantly, I had no idea with its controls! Then I was suddenly starting to learn about it, I was at my climax of enjoying until my mother had come to the room and then told us that we gotta go.

On our way back home I can't get that Fatal Frame off of my mind. Then a few days later, we finally decided to buy it. But when we went to the mall, there was no Fatal Frame II. There was a "Fatal Frame III:The Tormented". We had no choice so that's what we bought.

Playing it:
I absolutely felt the excitement when I held the DVD case in my hands. I was looking at the cover with an enormous smile on my face. I finally played it. The same feeling, I was nervous, and scared as well. When I play kinds of game like this... the tension, pressure, the feeling of being terrified, or any kind of anxious and uneasy feeling is always within me! I don't know if it's normal to other people, but I think so. You really get scared if what you play is scary.

~I'd just like to kinda summarize the concept of this video game.~

In this game, the protagonist (I think) is a young lady named Rei Kurosawa. She does photography. She has recently lost her boyfriend, well actually her fiancé named Yuu in a devastating accident. And then in her dreams, she enters an old, spooky house called "Manor of Sleep" . In her first nightmares, there was this tattooed woman and Rei also has the same tattoo. And each day she wakes up the bruise appears to be even much larger all over her body! It was totally wow. I was really enjoying it yet getting even more terrified as the game goes on! Hahahaha. But I was really enjoying it. I was enjoying scaring myself! lol haha.

When she wakes up and gets back to the real world she keeps talking to her friend and kinda like housemate, Miku about the unusual things she's been seeing in her dreams, or more likely, nightmares. And then sometimes they work on the photographs that she has taken with unclear images and then develop it to be clearly seen. Then there are a lot of letters being sent to Yuu by this guy named Kei. He is actually a friend of Yuu. But I think he hasn't heard about what happened to Yuu yet. I think he doesn't know that Yuu's already dead because he keeps on sending files to Yuu. Kei, based on the recent scenes I've already come up with, is a researcher and he's also researching about some of the unusual things that Rei's been dreaming of.

I absolutely think that Rei, Miku, and Kei are the three main charactes of the game. All of them use this very fantastic Camera Obscura to photograph the ghosts. But the main job of this Camera Obscura is to fend off, drive away, and most importantly to fight off ghosts. And it has a sensor bar, which when glows red, it signals that there is a hostile ghost close to you that might attack you. But if it glows blue, it means that it is a non-hostile/friendly ghost nearby, and you can still take a photo of them with your powerful and magical camera! hahaha.

I absolutely know that the three persons have been entering the same dream world.
Rei is the main character that you will mainly use, but there are other times that you'll use Miku and Kei. I've already encountered using Miku, and Kei as well. But I got stuck with using Kei. I don't know why. I'm only in hour 5 and I can't move on. I don't know, I guess I'm having a hardtime using him. I've read on Wikipedia.com that Kei's camera is much weaker than Rei and Miku's, so I guess that's why. But still I will play it!

I only started playing it like 3 days ago. I play it once a day (but I really got no reason of having that schedule). I'm looking forward to finishing it some day! It really feels amazing. I really admire this video game so much. I like everything about it, the concept, the animation, and just everything about it! It's totally exciting! It brings such a very enormous thrill!!! Haha!

Thanks for reading! I appreciate it. God bless.
-Janica

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