The code name for it was Project Zero, and upon its release in 2001 the game was officially named Zero in Japan, with North America getting a more creative title Fatal Frame (which both makes sense in the context of the game and sounds badass), while in Europe they just went with the initial code name. Fueled by his passion towards the supernatural, Shibata led the development of this title, with the focus for the team being to make the most terrifying game possible. Upon finishing his latest game, Tecmo’s Deception: Invitation to Darkness, Makoto Shibata proposed an idea for a game about ghosts, and the project was greenlit. It all started about two decades ago with Tecmo’s introduction to the PlayStation 2 hardware. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that.īut first, let’s do a quick recap of the franchise’s origins. You navigate your surroundings in third person, search for key items, solve minor puzzles, uncover grizzly mysteries of the place, and of course, fight ghosts with the power of a cursed camera. Each game typically puts you into the shoes of characters gifted with the sixth sense and tasks you with exploring a series of haunted locations – abandoned mansions, shrines, cemeteries, forests, and so on. As of now, the IP consists of five main installments, one remaster, and one spin-off, and also extends beyond video games with novels, manga, and even a full-length live-action film. To this day, these two people stand as the driving force behind Fatal Frame, as they’ve worked on every mainline game in the series. It was created by Makoto Shibata, a horror enthusiast who, prior to Fatal Frame, worked on the Tecmo’s Deception series, and his colleague Keisuke Kikuchi who took on the duties of the producer of the franchise. Here is how you get into Fatal Frame.Īlso known as Project Zero in PAL territories, Fatal Frame is a series of Japanese horror games developed by the company we now know as Koei Tecmo. As a huge fan of it I think it deserves more recognition, and in this article I will lay down everything you need to know about it: how many games there are there, which systems you can play them on, and loads of other important info that will help enhance your ghostbusting experience. Well, if you’re one of those people, you’re in luck – because I’m here to sort it all out for you when it comes to this great series.
I feel like Fatal Frame is the kind of series that most people have heard about in their life at some point but all they really know about it is that it was on the PS2 and it may or may not have ghosts and cameras in it somewhere, and that’s the extent of their knowledge of it.
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