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Maiden of Black Water is set primarily on and adjacent to Mt. There are ghosts, sure, but their presence is grounded in reality – to the credit of the game’s copious lore and restrained storytelling. This is a game in which people lose everything simply because forces beyond their understanding view them as tools that can be manipulated and destroyed. It excels in building dread, creating a sense of bleak and inescapable hopelessness – something that’s deeply relatable to many people.

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Fatal Frame is ostensibly a series about ghosts – something that in of itself I generally don’t’ find overly frightening – but Maiden of Black Water wracked my nerves more than pretty much any other horror game I’ve played. Generally, games that attempt to use copious gore or jump scares, for example, do little to unsettle me and can often be bizarrely comedic. In my experience, horror is one one of the more challenging genres to critique due to the high level of variance in what “scary” means to different people. Fortunately, Maiden of Black Water remains a darkly compelling experience that all horror fans owe it to themselves to experience – even if it feels rougher around the edges than it did originally. But despite possessing a setting and tone that feels special compared to modern day ghost stories, Maiden of Black Water’s deep reliance on the versatility of the Wii U GamePad left me curious to see how it would fair without its second screen. Quickly falling out of the spotlight upon the rapid decline of the Wii U, I was cynical about its prospects of being ported to the Switch and thus was pleasantly surprised to see it announced for current consoles earlier this year.

Perhaps the only thing scarier than Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – the 2014 entry in Koei Tecmo’s long-running series of horror games about photographing ghosts – is how much time it took for this game to come to modern platforms.