But forcing it into another niche as a digital only game is a terrific and terrible idea for the future of the franchise outside of Japan. Yes, Fatal Frame IS a niche game and always has been.
While this assures the company saves a bit of money on the pressing, packaging and shipping front, it also assures that not as many people who may want to can or will play the game in the long run. I’d say the game was probably destined to suffer its digital fate here in America thanks to Nintendo wanting to go retail for as many first party titles as possible, shifting others to eShop downloads. The problem is (as usual)not giving gamers a choice of how they want their scary game exclusive to the console means not as many are going to be buying that scary game exclusive to the console. $49.99 for a ghost of a shell, if you will open your wallet, please. Paying ten bucks for for an invisible game that’s a much larger download comes off as a bizarre novelty of sorts. Their last attempt at a localized FF game was the spin-off Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, a Nintendo 3DS game that felt more like a noble and novel experiment in terror and AR hijinks that came as a full retail package for $39.99 back in 2012. Granted, Nintendo is to be commended to some extent for deigning to get this new FF game out at all. That’s fine and dandy for those who can access that, but once again, gamers who want a legal physical release have to settle for nothing unless they can speak Japanese, own an import Wii U and buy a physical copy from one of the many import shops online.
The game has a “Free to Start” demo that consists of the prologue and first two chapters and if you like what you’ve played, you then pony up $49.99 to download the rest of the game. It’s just that Nintendo of America with Tecmo/Koei have made getting the actual game a bit of a chore unless you have a zippy fast broadband connection and about 10GB of hard drive space on your Wii U or a USB drive attached to the console. So, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water has been out for a little while and I’ve yet to play it.
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