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[[File:Fatal_Frame_Coverart_5380.png|frame|"Fear that spreads..."]]
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The ''Fatal Frame'' series explores territory that not many other survival horror games have: ghosts. Furthermore, [[Improbable Weapon User|the protagonist of each game]] (usually female with a few exceptions) combats them using a [[Magical Camera|special camera known as]] the "Camera Obscura". By taking photos using special film, the protagonist can exorcise the ghosts before they can harm her (via touch). The tension increases from the fact that in order to deal [[Critical Hit|maximum damage]] to a ghost, you have to let it get as close as possible to you before taking the photo.▼
▲Known as "Zero" in Japan and "Project Zero" in Europe, ''Fatal Frame'' is a survival horror franchise consisting of four games, three of which are available outside Japan (though the fourth is now playable in English thanks to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140924055434/http://www.fatalframe4.net/ Translation Patch]). The first game is notable for being one of the few survival horror games rated below M for Mature. It's rated Teen for "Blood and Gore, Violence" (most likely because you don't actively cause it).
The first game is notable for being one of the few survival horror games rated below M for Mature. It's rated Teen for "Blood and Gore, Violence" (most likely because you don't actively cause it).
▲The Fatal Frame series explores territory that not many other survival horror games have: ghosts. Furthermore, the protagonist of each game (usually female with a few exceptions) combats them using a [[Magical Camera|special camera known as]] the "Camera Obscura". By taking photos using special film, the protagonist can exorcise the ghosts before they can harm her (via touch). The tension increases from the fact that in order to deal [[Critical Hit|maximum damage]] to a ghost, you have to let it get as close as possible to you before taking the photo.
'''Games in this series include:'''
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* ''Fatal Frame III: The Tormented''
* ''Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse'' (co-developed by [[Suda 51|Grasshopper Manufacture]])
* ''Fatal Frame V: Deep Crimson Butterfly'' (a remake of ''Crimson Butterfly'' developed for the Wii)
* ''[[Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir]]'' (Spin-off Game)
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* [[Action Survivor]]: All the playable protagonists.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Of pretty much all Japanese horror and then turned [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[A Friend in Need]]: At the end of the first game, Mafuyu {{spoiler|decides to stay with Kirie at the Hell Gate rather than escape Himuro Mansion}}.▼
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]/[[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the third game, according to some writings, death is for breaking the Kuze Code.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Zero 3 Comic Anthology, considered canon. It has the backstory of some patients, some priestesses, and the twins that help Kei out in the game.
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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Many ghosts in the series are only given descriptive titles ('Sunken Woman', 'Man in Dark', etc.) as opposed to real names.
* [[Eye Scream]]:
** The Demon Tag segment of the first game is named after a fictitious ritual that took place in the troubled past of the [[Haunted Castle|Himuro Mansion]], the game's setting. It's an ''extremely'' unpleasant affair involving {{spoiler|'''''
** The Mourners in the second game have their eyes sewn shut.
** The Engravers who were supposed to gouge their own eyes out.
* [[The Faceless]]: Any of the ghosts that bloom in the fourth game become this, especially Sakuya.▼
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: While the games do have [[Multiple Endings]], including happy ones, the canonical endings are [[Downer Ending|the bad/sad ones]].
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: This is what happens to {{spoiler|Kirie and Mafuyu}} in the first game's canon ending. They're going to spend the ''rest of eternity'' at the Hell Gate deep underground, with {{spoiler|Kirie}} making sure that the gate stays closed and {{spoiler|Mafuyu}} staying with her so that she won't have to suffer all alone.
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* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: With the sole exception of the male playable character from the fourth game, the protagonists' only weapon against the ghosts is a camera.
* [[Flashback Echo]]: Most of the non-hostile ghosts are these: a brief image of a person walking through an area, repeating something that happened to them in life.
▲* [[A Friend in Need]]: At the end of the first game, Mafuyu {{spoiler|decides to stay with Kirie at the Hell Gate rather than escape Himuro Mansion}}.
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: The lead ghost in the third game is topless, but covered in blue tattoos and out of focus, so it's not exactly naughty to catch a glimpse of her. It is, however, terrifying.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: ''Real: Another Edition'', a [[No Export for You|Japanese-only]] cell phone spin-off that utilized the phone's camera to capture ghosts overlaid on the real world.
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* [[Human Sacrifice]]: The first three games have a similar cause for their calamity: some girl (or woman) was to be sacrificed to keep the local mouth to hell sealed, but something went wrong and the sacrifice actually busted it wide open, killing everyone and turning them to ghosts. The third game takes place in a "dream manor" that has locations from the first two games connected to it (mostly because of dream logic), and further implies that there's some deeper connection between all three events.
** The fourth game also had a [[Human Sacrifice]], {{spoiler|though [[Deconstructed Trope|nobody was supposed to die]].}}
* [[I See Dead People]]: According to the game, only people with the Sixth Sense can see the ghosts.▼
* [[Implacable Man]]: Kirie in the first game, the Kusabi and Sae in the second, Reika in the third, and Sakuya in the fourth are to be encountered several times, but they are undefeatable until the final confrontation.
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* [[Incest Subtext]]: Oh dear lord, so ''very'' much...
* [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]]: The ''Kagome Kagome'', used for their equivalent of tag by Japanese children, foreshadows the [[Eye Scream|horrific discoveries]] that Miku makes in the Demon Tag segment of the first game.
▲* [[I See Dead People]]: According to the game, only people with the Sixth Sense can see the ghosts.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Rei was at the wheel during the car accident where Yuu died, and she blames herself for his death.
* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]
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** 3 - Yoshino Takegawa's [[Survivor Guilt|mumbling when you first meet her.]]
** 4 - "It hurts!!!So much fun!!/It hurts the fun much hurts/The surgery is fun It hurts/I the surgery fun/fun nn it hurts ss/hate fun nnn/hurts ss/ssss..."
* [[The Magic Goes Away]]: Apparently ''attempted'' to be played straight, as in the end of the first game, {{spoiler|Miku claims she no longer can see ghosts}}. But in the third game, {{spoiler|she seems to have her [[I See Dead People|sixth sense]] [[Not Quite Back to Normal|back]]}}. Probably because the producers didn't think the game would end up being successful enough to make a sequel.▼
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]
* [[Miko]]: The inspiration for the various Shrine Maidens of the game.
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** The English cast for the third game is the most obvious example.
* [[That One Case]]: Choushiro is determined to find Haibara and bring him to justice ({{spoiler|which costs him his life}}).
▲* [[The Faceless]]: Any of the ghosts that bloom in the fourth game become this, especially Sakuya.
▲* [[The Magic Goes Away]]: Apparently ''attempted'' to be played straight, as in the end of the first game, {{spoiler|Miku claims she no longer can see ghosts}}. But in the third game, {{spoiler|she seems to have her [[I See Dead People|sixth sense]] [[Not Quite Back to Normal|back]]}}. Probably because the producers didn't think the game would end up being successful enough to make a sequel.
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Mio and Mayu, Yae and Sae, Itsuki and Mutsuki, Akane and Azami, Kageri and Kaoru... The only twins this trope ''doesn't'' apply to are Tsuzuri and Musubi, who are only given names in the manga anthology.
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: {{spoiler|Mio's utterly horrified reaction to strangling Mayu to complete the ritual}}.
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