Fatal Frame 2

by Tecmo

Product Features

• Brand new setting with more wide-open exploration -- more possibilities for fear and terror
• All-new storyline and different game mechanics as you try and capture the ghosts who stalk the forests

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000AI1KK
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,908 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #15 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Action
  • #32 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > All Games

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is a new journey into fear, with the terrifying themes and feel that made the first fatal Frame such a hit! When Mio and her sister Mayu return to their old hometown, they follow a strangely glowing crimson butterfly deep into the forest. There, they discover an abandoned village that hides an ancient, horrifying secret.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Follow the Crimson Butterflies...If You Dare..., December 30, 2003

By 

Shannon (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Frame 2 (Video Game)

I have to say that I'm a huge fan of the survival horror genre. I absolutely love the Resident Evil series. Last year I picked up the first Fatal Frame on a whim and I was thoroughly surprised. Not since Nemesis burst though a door and chased after me had I been so scared. So after numerous sleepless nights (from ghostly nightmares) I finished the first game. Never had I anticipated a sequel to a game like I had for Fatal Frame.

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly starts off simply. Two young twin girls, Mio and Mayu, are talking to each other in the sun. We see flashbacks of a horrible accident that Mio has about the past. Supposedly her sister, Mayu, was chasing after her and fell down a hill, injuring her knee. Mio starts to apologize to Mayu, when all of a sudden she notices Mayu is nowhere in sight. She looks for her and sees she's wandering off into the woods. Mio calls after her, but she doesn't stop, or answer. Mayu keeps walking, and suddenly it's pitchblack. Mio finally catches up to Mayu and they come to a small village. A village that they can't leave. Ever.

Muahahaha!!!

Just joking. Seriously though, this game is super creepy. I can't play it by myself, I find my heart racing and don't want to open another door. Who knows, maybe I'm lame, but ghosts creep me out.

If you're not familiar with the gameplay, your weapon is a "Camera Obscura," which shows things that normally can't be seen with the human eye. This means ghosts and any other kind of unnatural apparition. You then take pictures of these ghosts and it acts as an "exorciser." The storyline is great and full of surprises. The graphics are beautiful and the lighting is amazing. Definitely pick up this game if you love horror movies or survival horror games.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually physically terrifying!!!, June 14, 2004

By 

Review Lover "ReviewLover" (At a place...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Frame 2 (Video Game)

WOW.

That is all.

WOW.

No, seriously, folks, nothing at all could have prepared me for the beauty and artistry and downright good old-fashioned terror that I experienced while playing 'Fatal Frame 2'. It's a magnificent, magnificent game and really deserving of prize place on your games top shelf.

Let's get this straight before we discuss anything else. Nobody, and I mean nobody, does Horror like the Japanese. Ringu. Dark Water. Silent Hill. All Night Long. Forbidden Siren. Sweet Home. The list goes on and on until you're left in your own sitting room, jumping at shadows, shuddering as the hairs move on the back of your neck, and stifling screams at the sound of those tiny finger-cymbals clashing. Theirs is a real mastery of the Genre, and the Americans and Europeans can only pray that some day, our own efforts measure up to scratch - compare "The Blair Witch project" to "Ringu", or the "Alone in the Dark" series of games to "Silent Hill", and I promise you, we'll all be found wanting.

Anyway, getting back to the review at hand. You play the part of Mio, a para-psychic girl who, along with her deeply psychic sister Mayu, get lost and trapped in All God's Village, a deserted town in the middle of a forest, some days before the sinister 'Crimson Butterfly Ritual' is to take place. Mayu, intermittently under the control of the spirits that haunt All God's, disappears, and Mio must find her and stop the mysterious 'Sacrifice' before it's too late.

Firstly, what's new?

Well, as with any competent sequel, there is an overall feel of things being 'tighter' - presentation, graphics, and in-game explanations of things are all much more accessible and beautiful now than they were before - and the game feels a lot more professionally done than the still-excellent original.

Sound is a huge improvement - not even in the Silent Hill series has sound been employed to make such a huge difference in the tension and atmosphere - and the manual is most definitely to be believed when it tells you 'This game is best played through headphones'. Try it in a dark room. Trust me :-)

The controls are excellent, the Camera Obscura (your weapon) is now far less complicated to use and a lot more satisfying to have as your primary weapon. The inclusion of the 'Spirit Radio' may seem a little overdone, but it's a nice touch nevertheless.

What really marks 'Fatal Frame 2' out as a Standard-Bearing game is the sense of real, palpable terror it inspires. The ghosts are horrific in their simplicity and all feels very much like classic Japanese horrors like 'Ringu' and 'Dark Water'. The innocence of the girls and some of the spirits' human personalities is drawn in stark contrast to the violent and shocking methods by which they attack. The game is also full of wonderful aural and visual vignettes, adding more atmosphere than I can say.

An excellent title, current King of Survival Horror (and I've got through 'The Suffering' and 'Siren' in the last two months) and a definite must-have, I can't rave about this game enough.

Get it now.

Wow!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, Great story, November 26, 2004

By 

Justin Lee (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fatal Frame 2 (Video Game)

When I first played the game, I didn't think it was that scary (compared to the first), so I put it away for a while. More recently, after finishing SILENT HILL 4 and got a kick for scary games, I picked up this game again and was determined to finish it.

Many will disagree with me when I say that it's scarier than SILENT HILL. I guess I've always been more spooked by ghosts (you know, things I can imagine running into) instead of abstract cone-headed creatures (although the monsters in SH4 were a lot less abstract, but I digress).

I don't think FATAL FRAME 2 has anything to do with the earlier game as far as plot goes. The only connection is the Camera Obscura. Mio and Mayu are twins that are caught up in an ancient ritual of twin sacrifice that had previously wiped out the village. As you play the game, Mayu (you control Mio) gets possessed by a former spirit (Sae) who tries to lead her towards the upcoming ritual that must be made to restore the village. The story unfolds to explain what really happened to the village.

The plot was great. The only downside is that it uses the same cliche of "demonic ritual", which is so common in games these days (e.g. SIREN, SILENT HILL, FATAL FRAME, etc.) But the game tells a story that actually makes a lot more sense to me than many of the SILENT HILL or SIREN games.

The graphics are good, too. Like with the first one, it gets spookier as you advance. Unexpected things start to happen, and there were moments that sent chills down my back and I had to turn the game off (I was playing alone, in the dark, at night).

I would highly recommend this game. It's really entertaining and really scary.

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