This is a Japanese alternate costume… I get so tired of this it makes me want to start poking eyes out, and slashing guts, and kicking throats! The problem with this story line is not the content but the way it’s presented and I’ll prove it with the three biggies of videogame design: characters, themes, and technical presentation. If there’s one thing this series excels at, it’s screwing up sacrifices and making your heart bleed for young love. It could have been a great story too since we’re back to ritualistic murder that goes wrong because of a central love story. So given that this is how the story starts, there’s nothing that grabbed me and made me curious as to what was going to happen next. It also gives you a quick rundown of the controls, but mostly it’s tits because everyone is wearing white and everyone is soaking wet. A terrifying start, right? Then there’s a brief cut scene that shows tits.
Instead it opens with a text dump which I guess gives you what you need to know but my eyes are terrible and I couldn’t be bothered to squint to read the screen. 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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