Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (2008)

Grasshopper Manufacture

Wii

4.06 from 83 ratings

297 members have it in their collection · 7 playing now · 142 backlogged · 152 wish listed

How long? Main story 16h · with extras 66h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

Ten years ago, a suspected serial killer has kidnapped five girls from a sanatorium located on Rogetsu Island in Japan. The detective Choshiro Kirishima eventually succeeded in pursuing the criminal and rescuing the girls. However, several years later, two of the girls died under mysterious circumstances. The three remaining girls - Ruka, Misaki, and Madoka - decide to return to … Read more
Ten years ago, a suspected serial killer has kidnapped five girls from a sanatorium located on Rogetsu Island in Japan. The detective Choshiro Kirishima eventually succeeded in pursuing the criminal and rescuing the girls. However, several years later, two of the girls died under mysterious circumstances. The three remaining girls - Ruka, Misaki, and Madoka - decide to return to the island to find out more about the kidnapping and retrieve their lost memories. Ruka's mother pleads Choshiro to follow them. One by one, the heroes venture into the dark haunted house... Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen is an installment in the Fatal Frame (Project Zero) series. The player switches between the four main protagonists as dictated by the story. As in the previous games, the characters use a camera to fend off hostile spirits. A new weapon is the Spirit Flashlight, a kind of torch that possesses the power to exorcise spirits with moonlight. Not all the spirits are hostile; the player is expected to differentiate between them, and also capture pictures with the camera to gather clues and advance in the game. Spirit Crystals can be collected and use to upgrade the camera and the flashlight. Healing items and films can be purchased in special shop-like locations. Read less
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Details

Developers
Grasshopper Manufacture
Publishers
Nintendo
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Horror, Survival
Series
Fatal Frame
Event
2022.09.13 - Nintendo Direct
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jul 31, 2008 (Japan) Wii

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Rating distribution

5 stars
34
4 stars
25
3 stars
18
2 stars
4
1 star
1
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danksocks

Status danksocks Oct 14, 2024

I just started this tonight. Settled on getting this over Maiden of the Black Water based on reviews. I really like the atmosphere this game creates right out of the gate. I'm like 30 minutes in and have managed to miss every single specter that's shown up. Is this normal for a first-timer or am I just exceptionally bad? Not …

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I just started this tonight. Settled on getting this over Maiden of the Black Water based on reviews. I really like the atmosphere this game creates right out of the gate. I'm like 30 minutes in and have managed to miss every single specter that's shown up. Is this normal for a first-timer or am I just exceptionally bad? Not used to the controls at all but feel like I'll get better.

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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Jul 21, 2024

Have you ever encountered a boss fight so terrible it completely kills yoir enjoyment of a game? This one has one of those.

So Fatal Frame 4 has a lot of jank. Visual, control, mechanics... Tons of jank. This is fine in a slow-paced horror game where you can time your shots. This is NOT okay in a boss fight …

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Have you ever encountered a boss fight so terrible it completely kills yoir enjoyment of a game? This one has one of those.

So Fatal Frame 4 has a lot of jank. Visual, control, mechanics... Tons of jank. This is fine in a slow-paced horror game where you can time your shots. This is NOT okay in a boss fight that requires laser reflexes, and can take off half your health in a single hit, (all your health on Hard), and can teleport, and has a shitload of health, and moves so fast hits don't register... And all takes place in a super narrow corridor, where he can just appear out of the wall and gank you.

The movement controls in this gane are TERRIBLE. Your move speed is glacial, and they couldn't decide if they wanted tank controls or 3D controls, so they made a terrible hybrid. Camera control is okay, but the PS5 controller's gyro is fucking shit and will occasionally launch your reticule into the ceiling for no reason. It's also a total diceroll whether or not the indicators on your camera are accurate or not. It can tell you you're locked on and the ahot is in focus, but then the shot just... Doesn't land. Why? Who knows!

This one boss fight is so terrible it may actually end my playthrough. Fatal Frame 2 did this same shit too, but at least that one saved the shitty broken boss fight for the final boss. Did no one play test this????

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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Jul 14, 2024

Having played Fatal Frames 1 and 2 (not 3, though I do own that on PSN), I think I can confidently say this is the best one in the series for me thus far. I'm very pleasantly surprised. Definitely going to be finishing and reviewing this one.

Kinda took a while to grab me, but we got:

  • Multiple characters switching …
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Having played Fatal Frames 1 and 2 (not 3, though I do own that on PSN), I think I can confidently say this is the best one in the series for me thus far. I'm very pleasantly surprised. Definitely going to be finishing and reviewing this one.

Kinda took a while to grab me, but we got:

  • Multiple characters switching locations and perspectives.
  • A Meiji era (late 1800s-early 1900s) setting instead of the usual ancient settings.
  • Really badly mapped Wii controls on modern consoles that somehow still work well enough.
  • Heavy yuri overtones.
  • Detective stuff.
  • Killing ghosts with a magic flashlight.
  • Completely sporadic upscaling (or lack thereof) of assets and textures.

It's really got it all! Loving it so far, I can see why the average is so high in Grouvee.

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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Jul 10, 2024

I started this one around 5 before getting distracted with food, dating site messages and other stuff.

I think it's funny how the girl runs like she really has to pee.

Etrail

Status Etrail Jul 21, 2023

Ordered some Japanese takeout and am ready for some gaming tonight! Time to explore some spooky corridors, nyan!

Nyan