In the third person, it’s hard to see where items are when they are revealed as well. In frustration, I often found myself relying on the camera to find items as anywhere the camera is pointed, the torch is too. To reveal the items, the flashlight must be shone on them, like the world’s worst game of hide and seek. As the character gets closer to an item, it will shine bright blue and fade as the character turns or moves away. Not improving backtracking times, doors will sometimes take a good five to ten seconds to open, a holdover from hiding loading screens, which was great at the time, but doesn’t really belong in a game released in 2023.Īnother issue is that items are not immediately visible. This can be annoying when the path opens from being linear as backtracking feels like it takes forever. Character movement is slow and awkward to control at times and running doesn’t increase the speed by much. Exploration is done in third person mode with some fixed camera angles, like the original Resident Evil or Silent Hill. The core gameplay can be split into two main mechanics, exploration and battle. These stories may be separate, but over time, they reveal that they are all interwoven into a tapestry that makes up the Isle’s dark history. As the girls uncover their lost memories, they also start to uncover the Isle’s dark past. Misaki arrives two weeks later, after not hearing from either girl and Choshiro follows Ruka at the insistence of Ruka’s Mother, Sayaka. Madoka accompanies her, but they quickly become separated in the prologue. Misato insists on travelling to the Isle in hopes of avoiding the samefate as Marie and Tomoe. Madoka Tsukimori is available to play during the prologue only, allowing players to get used to the mechanics before being thrown into the story heavy game. Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has three main protagonists, Ruka Minazuki, Misato Aso and Choshiro Kirishima. There are whispers of another ritual, The Rite of Descent, which was rumoured to have been abandoned after a calamity occurred following it. A mysterious illness called Moonlight Syndrome has been linked to the island’s culture, with an emphasis on the ritual Rogetsu Kagura. The only clue is Rogetsu Isle where the residents believe that the sun represents the living and the moon, the afterlife. Time is running out though, as the two other girls, Marie and Tomoe, were both found dead, their hands covering their faces. Three of those girls, Misato, Madoka, and then Ruka, travel to the isle to reclaim the memories they had lost. Rogetsu Isle has been abandoned ever since five girls that went missing there were found deep under the Haibara infirmary. Fortunately, this is not the case for Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (the fourth game in the series) so it’s a great starting point for anyone who has not played the others. While each game tells a standalone story, the Project Zero series has a habit of linking characters from other games together. It originally released in Japan in 2008 but has now been updated and released to western audiences for the first time. Every game has been released in the west bar one: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. Project Zero, or Fatal Frame as it’s called in Northern America, is a series that has been around for about twenty years, spanning five main games and a spin-off.
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