Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water Reviews
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water isn't the best game in the series, much less made for the new generation, but it's a step forward in hopes that a new version of the classic will come out to non-Nintendo consoles. If you've never played a title in the series, you might like it, but I recommend waiting for a good sale to buy it. If you're a fan, it's best to keep the good memories from the past and avoid it for now.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
...a thrilling, quite pleasurable experience that, while the answers may not always be satisfying, will leave you guessing until its conclusion. I can only hope this remaster is the start of a new turn for the series. Flaws and all, the Project Zero franchise is more than worthy of another shot in the spooky spotlight.
Ultimately Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water ends up being a boring slog more often than a tense horror experience. The remaster will likely be welcomed by fans of the series, especially those that never had a Wii U to check out the original. However, any future Fatal Frame titles will have to evolve to feel at home in modern times.
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Maiden of Black Water is still a great survival horror game, but its PC port is a mess and it doesn't look very good.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
An unasked for remaster of a tedious, badly written survival horror that is even less effective now than it was seven years ago.
Fatal Frame is one of those series I've heard about on the wind that always sounded interesting, but I've never had the opportunity to check out...
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Blackwater is a disappointing horror venture. It gets the creepy, Silent Hill-type atmosphere just right but drops the ball in so many other key areas. The story and characters are vapid, the movement controls are as stiff as Harry Potter’s broomstick and the general gameplay loses its lustre well before the credits roll.
While there are several better titles in the Fatal Frame series, Maiden of Black Water has aged surprisingly well and can still deliver those scares and great fun.
If you love horror, especially of the supernatural variety, you owe Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water the chance to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck
Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water is a truly wonderful horror game, and it’s a delight to see it finally available to a broader audience. Here’s hoping it does as well as it deserves this time around — perhaps well enough that we see at the very least a remaster of the earlier games in the series, and maybe even a new one sometime soon.
Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water is a fine introduction to a series most will have passed by over the years, though doesn't quite land the Fatal Frame it could have. It's still a worthy addition to any horror fan's collection and it's great to see the series being more available than ever.
Project Zero Maiden of Black Water suffers from the problems derived from an adaptation that has forced the elimination of the characteristics that made it unique, but, despite this, any lover of classic-flavored horror has a winning bet here.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
We take a look at the newly remastered version of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, now available on all consoles and PC.
Fatal Frame Maiden of the Black Water in 2021 is just a port of the 2015's game, with nothing more than a few outfits and a Photo Mode. If you want some scary experience before Halloween, or are a fan of the franchise, you'll get exactly what you are looking for, with the same camera issues and a few technical hippcups.
Review in French | Read full review
Koei Tecmo with Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water, fixes the bare minimum to please the fans, giving us a game far too backward and slow to take root on a new audience.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is still an intruguing survival horror experience with creepy atmosphere and engaging story, but younger audiences may not like its old-style controls and slow pace.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water is the weakest main installment of the series and an average survival horror, although the unique combat system and climate can tempt many fans of the genre.
Review in Polish | Read full review
It may not be the most compatible game to navigate, but Maiden of Black Water’s sound design, lore, and general aesthetic brings the horror of Japan’s real-life Aokigahara forest to life and will at least leave you churning with insomnia this Halloween.
Ultimately, the revival of Maiden of Black Water on modern hardware is a welcome operation but that is partly a wasted opportunity. The remaster will allow fans of the genre to rediscover an interesting experiment among survival horror, but a greater care would have made the last episode of Project Zero usable by a much wider audience.
Review in Italian | Read full review