

Console versions do get some motion controls, though. All the functionality has been mapped to buttons and it works just fine here. In the Wii U version, you had to use the gamepad to control the rotating camera, so there was a lot to it. Each chapter starts you with a default item set, so the things you collect don’t accrue as you play. Maiden of Black Water has five types of film to collect and buy for the two cameras available in the game, with the weakest being infinite use. Yuri and Miu (and Miku too, but you can’t play as her) have a special ability called “shadow reading” that allows them to see a person’s memories and feelings by touching them, which also comes into play.

This is centered on cameras called camera obscura, which can see things that the naked eye misses. The game is primarily about fighting ghosts by taking pictures of them, which is going to be quite strange if you’re not familiar with previous entries. The game took me 15 hours to play through in total. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water has 14 main chapters, with a prologue and interlude.
