First off, the original game on Playstation 2 is one of my favourite horror games of all time. This remake involves the same disturbing story as the original. You control a pair of twins in Japan that stumble across a creepy village, and the village is full of ghosts. This game has a deep and engrossing story to discover. Gameplay involves exploring the village and battling / taking pictures of ghosts using a "Spirit Camera". Eventually you must find the source of the ghosts and a way to escape the village. The first run through of the game can take around 12-15 hours to complete. However, to achieve all endings and 100% the achievements, it can take up to 40 hours.

Differences in this new remake:
- Third person over the shoulder camera instead of the classic fixed camera perspective.
- Faster gameplay and battles with dodging mechanic.
- New side missions, more story lore and endings.
- Lighter, more detailed environments.

Positives:
- Battling ghosts is as tense as ever. I welcome the new dodge mechanic.
- The graphics are gorgeous. Ghosts look scary. Environments are highly creepy and detailed. Beautiful cinematography throughout. Amazing cutscenes. Grain filter can be turned off and on in the options menu.
- Super creepy disturbing sound effects. Especially the gurgling and moaning noises of the ghosts.
- The story is long, deep, interesting, beautiful, disturbing, it has it all.

Negatives:
- There is a minimap in the top right corner of the screen, and an item selector in the bottom left. These cannot be turned off at all, they are on screen at all times. This breaks immersion and drove me nuts, also considering I was using a brand new OLED monitor and was worried about Burn In.
- The 100% of achievements is an absolute 25 hour insane grind fest, AFTER beating the game 6 times.
Consider this: 264 Specres, 121 Documents, 71 Charms, 47 Hidden Dolls, 16 Convoluted Side Stories, 500+ beads to collect to fully upgrade your camera, it just goes on and on and on...
- Some outfits are insanely priced and useless to achieve. By beating the game 6+ Times you still don't have enough points to buy them. By the time you can afford these outfits you are well over bored of the game. The outfits cost 3 Million Points (!) each.
- The original Playstation 2 game feels darker, more atmospheric, and scarier.

Overall an awesome remake, but try to ignore going for 100% achievements.
For me, going for 100% achievements was actively ruining my love of the game.

Overall: 9/10

I will make this a short review.

I have ADHD aaaaaand depression (my mum died this year), and I really lost the energy for playing games. I just ''enjoyed'' games like Candy Crush lol — something where my brain gets the smallest amount of dopamine. AND I HATED THAT IT WAS LIKE THAT :D

Normally, I love games like Little Nightmares or Layers of Fear, but there was just nooo energy for playing all the new cool games.

But this is the first game in about a year that I genuinely enjoyed playing.

It's horror, but for me it's more like chill horror action, and I LOVE the story and the setting.

Go for it <3 I played for 9.5 hours straight AND I LOVE IT.
(Now I'm literally waiting for it to get dark so I can play until the end.)

When I was really young, like 9 years old, I played Project Zero 1 on the Xbox. But I was a child and I did it behind my dad's back AND I DID NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING. I just ♥♥♥♥ my pants.

And now this game feels like a full-circle moment and brought back that childhood feeling for me.

Thank you!! ❤️

EDIT: i just bought a ps2 and the first game.. holy shi* it was expensive

an absolutely beautiful game ♡ i remember falling in love with deep crimson butterfly when i was young and it makes me so happy to see the game become what it is now. i hope to see the older fatal frame games get a remake as well (ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈ 𐙚)

although the game can be a bit repetitive if you’re grinding out achievements, especially considering some of the achievements are incredibly time-consuming or require very specific steps to unlock . to this day i wish the game was much longer with how amazing the story is ! in my opinion the game is worth its price but you may end up spending a lot more time in new game+ than you do the actual story so it’s something to be conscious about if you care about that sort of thing. 𐙚⋆°.⋆♡