Phew. I was hoping we would hear from Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water this week, and like the angry tooth Golem that lives under your bed, its presence at E3 went largely unnoticed.
A couple months back we were given the dance-worthy news that the latest installment in the series had been freed from the shackles of its Japan exclusivity, and would be arriving in North America and Europe sometime this year. That nebulous release window has since been narrowed down to a more manageable fall 2015 release.
I hate to encumber genuinely great news with negativity, but I do hope Nintendo does a better job of getting the word out about this game in the future. Fatal Frame has been as dead as an already deceased spirit might be after it’s been killed again by the Camera Obscura, at least as a majority of the people who reside outside Japan are concerned.
Fatal Frame deserves to be treated like an established survival horror franchise that spent much of its impressive 14-year run earning its place as one of gaming’s all-time scariest series by producing genre classics like Crimson Butterfly. That kind of legacy is worth carving out a few minutes to let the world know it’s coming, even if it’s only coming to the Wii U.
