![]() Maiden of Black Water has no cut scene to give you even a vague impression of what the story is, unlike games one through three. Unlike the PS2 trilogy, the two Nintendo entries haven’t given you back story before launching you into the game. And it’s a videogame that hopes its gimmicks make you stay, not its story. Is that my anti-Nintendo bias showing again? Oh well, it is what it is. To my credit as a usually rapt videogamer, I did try to get into it! The universe was just against this from the start. I was either scrolling through Tumblr, annoying my cat, or playing a little Happy Home Designer on the side while Maiden of Black Water dredged on. Listen, I’m not going to lie, I was only half into this game the whole time I played it. ![]() Because why not?! She’s also apparently the shadowy offspring of an incestuous union between Miku (yup, the same Miku from both the first and third games) and her dead brother Mafuyu. Oh, and a teenage girl who is on showcase in a wet, white top. ![]() Why else would there be ghosts everywhere? You wander the forest surrounding the mountain as an author (?) and a paranormal investigator (?) that also runs an antique shop (?). So let’s just get this shit show on the road. I’ve been done since about part way through my critical play through of The Tormented. Done are the days of snappy introductions. So let’s get this over with because I am fresh off of playing this and I am not in my happy place. Fatal Frame 5: Maiden of Black Water has been available to North America as a Nintendo eShop game for about fifteen weeks, which makes this less of a retrospective on the game and more of a really harsh review as I compare it to the Fatal Frame games of the past. ![]()
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