{"id":23304,"date":"2023-05-05T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23304"},"modified":"2023-04-29T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T00:53:00","slug":"fatal-frame-mask-of-the-lunar-eclipse-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/fatal-frame-mask-of-the-lunar-eclipse-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>All right folks, I\u2019m about to reveal one of my guilty pleasures.\u00a0 I like ghost shows.\u00a0 You know those shows on the Discovery Channel where investigators or \u2018ghost hunters\u2019 will explore haunted places to try and find proof of ghosts?\u00a0 Yeah I know those shows are dumb and probably are over exaggerated and maybe even faked at times.\u00a0 But I still like \u2018em anyway!\u00a0 I just think ghosts are cool.\u00a0 But there\u2019s not a whole lot of horror themed video games where you fight ghosts.\u00a0 It\u2019s usually zombies or something else.\u00a0 But even though I usually like happy, colorful, kid friendly games, I do have a passing interest in the Fatal Frame series, where you use a special camera to fight ghosts by taking pictures of them.\u00a0 This series of games goes all the way back to the PS2 and I\u2019ve played pretty much all of them.\u00a0 The latest one, Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, just came out and it\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

In Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, five girls were raised on an island, but now four of the five ladies has either gone missing or passed away mysteriously.\u00a0 As the last member of the group, you must go to the island and find out why this is happening.\u00a0 You have no memory of being on this island as a child, but the island is home to many mysterious rituals involving masks and the moon.\u00a0 And lots of mass deaths, too.\u00a0 Shortly after arriving, you find a special camera you can use to take pictures of attacking ghosts to fend them off.\u00a0 Now you must explore spooky locations, defeat the ghosts, and solve the mystery!<\/p>\n

In the missions, when you come across a ghost, you can pull out your camera and take pictures of it, which will damage it.\u00a0 If you can shoot multiple ghosts in one shot, or take a picture of one right before it attacks, you\u2019ll do extra damage.\u00a0 You can equip different kinds of film and lenses for various effects.\u00a0 Explore the locations to find hidden healing items and film, as well as notes to enhance the story.\u00a0 Sometimes you must use your camera in other ways besides fighting ghosts.\u00a0 You might need to take a picture of something to uncover it, or find a certain area to take a picture of, which will reveal the way elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I\u2019d have to say this is one of the weaker entries in the series.\u00a0 As in the other games, your character moves WAY too slow.\u00a0 There is a \u2018run\u2019 button, but it just looks like your character just picks up her feet a little higher, but doesn\u2019t move much faster.\u00a0 It\u2019s like these ghost hunters took some valium before going out.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t help that the ghosts can zip around and attack before you can even react, making this one of the hardest games in the series.\u00a0 Because of that, I couldn\u2019t get very far.\u00a0 I do like that there are lanterns in the middle of missions where you can save, though.\u00a0 Because these games are steeped in Japanese folklore, the themes may not feel as scary to Western gamers.\u00a0 I\u2019d say just stick with the previous game in the series: Maiden of Black Water<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s practically the same kind of game, just more playable.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Gore, Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, and Mild Language.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised this one got away with the T rating since most of the other ones were rated M.\u00a0 The story and ghosts are still bloody and gory and can latch onto you to drain your energy.\u00a0 Some of the female characters wear slightly impractical clothes for ghost hunting, but this is Tecmo, makers of the Dead or Alive series, so there you go.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice too much bad language, though.\u00a0 Because of the subject matter and high difficulty, I\u2019d say this is still best for older gamers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right folks, I\u2019m about to reveal one of my guilty pleasures.\u00a0 I like ghost shows.\u00a0 You know those shows on the Discovery Channel where investigators or \u2018ghost hunters\u2019 will explore haunted places to try and find proof of ghosts?\u00a0 Yeah I know those shows are dumb and probably are over exaggerated and maybe even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23370,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions\/23370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}