In addition you’ll find blue and red jewels that let you update your camera/torch and your lenses that act as a damage modifier. These act as your currency to buy consumables such as health items, more powerful camera films (in effect ammunition) or schoolgirl outfits. This manifests as people losing their faces, known as ‘blossoming’, which in practice is like when you try to take a picture of a household pet or a small child when you just get a blur instead.Įach validated photograph you take either with the Camera Obscura or the detective’s Spirit Stone Flashlight has a score attributed to it, be it during a ghost battle or revenant/spectre shots. Often mentioned is a phenomena called Moonlight Syndrome, an attempt by the resident scientists to rationalise the ghostly goings on. The collectibles fill out the lore of the storyline quite well, with all manner of medical atrocities and supernatural shenanigans having taken place on Rogetsu Island. There’s probably something in the EULA that stops you from being to crop out the watermark too. Here’s the thing though, for a game that as good as says “g’wan, here’s your new desktop wallpaper,” Koei Tecmo sure do love to watermark every single screenshot you take. The best approach upon reaching a new area if you’re not blessed with a cutscene immediately is to scan the area thoroughly with your camera lens as you’ll often unveil points of interest.Įarly on you’re introduced to snap mode that encourages you to take a multitude of photographs. Once again, these are all tracked and have an associated trophy for being thorough. In addition to the photos, you’ll need to collect all manner of artifacts such as news clippings and audio cassettes amongst other items. There’s also almost eighty haunted dolls who aren’t quite as missable as the ghosts due to their inanimate nature. Often when they manifest you’ll only have a split second to take a shot before they fade away. All are tracked in lists and have associated trophies for snapping the whole set. You’ll face three main flavours of ghost: wraiths who can do you harm, revenants who are shadows of significant or traumatic events and spectres who represent those in the past just going about their business. The rugged detective guy is spared such sketchiness, though his shades you can buy are pretty cool. The female protagonists are all seventeen years old and among the unlockable outfits are schoolgirl outfits. We’re firmly in weeb territory though, there’s no mistaking that fact. This being a Koei Tecmo game, all the characters have that distinct studio look to them and wouldn’t look out of place in one of the Dead Or Alive beat-em-up series nor the Ninja Gaiden games either. The game itself is broken down over twelve distinct chapters, phases of the moon in fact. Though a little like a metroidvania game, some sections remain off limits until later on. You’ll tread the same halls repeatedly, put it that way. All we’re saying is you’ll get very familiar with these locations as you progress through the game. You spend the bulk of your time in Rogetsu Hall, with some time also spent in Haibara Infirmary. You’ll be introduced to the mechanics of the main tool you have for dispatching ghosts, the Camera Obscura. Lunar Eclipse being set on the island of Rogetsu, the site of an initially unknown tragedy. You start the game as one of the four main protagonists, a young lady named Ruka. OK, perhaps that’s something of an oversimplification on our part but that is basically it. That being wandering corridors, encountering ghosts and taking photographs of them and by doing so, dispatching them. The mechanics of the game are fundamentally the same as they’ve ever been. It first came to this reviewer’s attention as the 2002 enhanced release on Xbox of the PS2 original. Yes, that Grasshopper Manufacture with that suda51 bloke in charge.įor those of you new to the series, this also goes by Project Zero in Europe or just plain Zero in Japan. No, in fact Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a remake of the previously Japan-only 2008 Wii release that was originally developed in conjunction with Grasshopper Manufacture. Main PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged aztec camera obscura / fatal frame / Mask of the Lunar Eclipse / now just plain zero / project zero / spirit in the sky / weeb / wiimaster by IanįATAL FRAME : Mask of the Lunar Eclipse had us genuinely excited that we were being blessed by Koei Tecmo with a brand-new instalment, the first since 2014’s Maiden Of Black Water in fact.
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