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[[File:Fatal_Frame_Coverart_5380.png|frame|"Fear that spreads..."]]
Known as
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 [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:
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The fourth game features an abandoned regular hospital ''and'' an abandoned sanitarium - two for the price of one!
* [[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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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: There's an in-universe example that appears to apply to Ayako:
{{quote|'''Sakuya''' That child goes around with an air of evil and fear around her, but I know she is really very gentle and vulnerable.}}
* [[Always Night]]: Games 1, 2, and 4.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: A Camera Obscura was created before film and has never used it. It's just a large box (that can be handheld) that reflects light and needs to be traced in order to capture an image. What they probably mean is a View Camera.
** But it [[Rule of Cool|doesn't sound as cool]].
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* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}: In the fourth game, it's implied through several [[Apocalyptic Log]] that {{spoiler|Ayako is Sakuya and You's child}}.
* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]: All throughout the second game.
* [[Butterfly of Transformation]]: The All God's Village has a zillion butterflies everywhere. Since the motif is based on the twins and referring to death and rebirth: {{spoiler|The souls of the sacrificed twins ''literally'' becomes butterflies. When Mayu is released from her "cocoon" of her body by Mio's red, wing-shaped handprints which are left on her throat.}}
* [[The Cameo]]: The Xbox version of the first game has the creator and co-creator of the series themselves as spirits in the game. The second game includes costumes based on the ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' and ''[[Deception]]'' series. The fourth game, being co-developed by Nintendo, has costumes based on [[Metroid|Zero Suit Samus]] and [[Super Mario Bros.|Luigi]].
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Yae Munakata, a hostile ghost from the first game who had committed suicide, was given a much more important role in the sequel. She turns out to be {{spoiler|Yae Kurosawa, Sae's twin sister}}.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: In the second game, one type of ghost is a woman with long, face-covering black hair that slowly emerges from a box. She's a clear [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Ring]],'' and that goes double for when you see her emerge from a well to attack you, just like Sadako.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Special mention goes out to the child version of Kirie in the first game {{spoiler|despite not being a hostile ghost}}, the Kiryu Twins in the second game, the Handmaidens in the third game, and Ayako in the fourth game.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: Par for the course in the second game. There is also some in the fourth.
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* [[Easy Amnesia]]: All over the place in the fourth game. Justified as amnesia is a symptom of Getsuyuu Syndrome, an illness central to the game's plot.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In order to get the good endings, you must beat the games on higher difficulties.
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Choushiro's mullet in the fourth game.
* [[Electromagnetic Ghosts]]
* [[Emergency Weapon]]: Starting with the second game, Type-07 film. It's extremely weak, but it's the only film of which there's always an infinite supply, and it will get the job done when you've used up all of your ''good'' film.
* [[Enemy
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Ayako in the fourth game - very cute, cruel and insane.
** The Shrine Maidens ({{spoiler|except Amane}}) from the third game count as well.
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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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* [[Girly Run]]: Naturally.
* [[Guilt Based Gaming]]:
** The entire second game which [[Escort Mission|gives you a twin sister to protect]], making it ''constantly'' clear that [[It's Up to You|she needs you to protect her because she's weaker and less brave]]. And of course, she can be a bit of a hassle because she has an injured knee, and hence she's notably slower than you, but when you know {{spoiler|it's ''your'' (or well, Mio's) fault that her knee is like that}}, one really doesn't feel like having the right to blame her.
:To top it off, {{spoiler|you can decide to abandon her in the end and earn the worst ending for doing so. ([[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|One that doesn't even allow you a New Game Plus, but only gives you a horrible]] [[Game Over|"Game Over" screen]] and ''that's it!'')}}
* [[Haunted House|Haunted Mansion, Haunted Manor, Haunted Village and Haunted Island.]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Mio}} in the second game's [[Bittersweet Ending]].
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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.
*
* [[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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*** Kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me...
** 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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* [[Nightmare Face]]: Blooming in the fourth game.
* [[No Canon for the Wicked]]: Inverted hard. It seems to be a trend in the series that the [[Golden Ending|good endings]] are never canon, while as the [[Downer Ending|bad endings]] are.
* [[No Export for You]]: The fourth game. However, there is now a [[Fan Translation]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140924055434/http://www.fatalframe4.net/ patch]. It's even getting dubbing!
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: The third game's evil mansion is actually a ''dream'' mansion, and other characters connected to the first two games begin to dream of levels from those games, which show up in the dream manor.
* [[Not So Weak]]: Every playable character.
* [[Notice This]]: Objects appear merely as shimmering dots of light and must be picked up to learn what they are, unless said object is being shown in a cutscene.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: The fourth game is notable for not only having a game-breaking glitch, but a ghost list that's impossible to complete without hacking it.
* [[
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Kaname's Echo Stone Earrings.
* [[Pater Familicide]]
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* [[Smashing Survival]]: The Confirm button for the second game (X on [[PlayStation 2]] and A on Xbox), R1 for the third, and waggling the Wii-mote for the fourth when a ghost gets far too close for comfort, so as long the Evade function is equipped. The first game? Better hope your reflexes and timing is good.
* [[Spooky Photographs]]
* [[Stringy
* {{spoiler|[[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]}}: See the third game.
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: ''Tons'' of this in the third game, and practically the whole basis of it.
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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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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Mayu in spades. In general, all the other games always have the protagonists going through hell for someone else.
* [[Video Game Remake]]: The second game [https://web.archive.org/web/20140613234128/http://www.aeropause.com/2010/09/fatal-frame-2-remake-coming-to-wii-just-probably-not-your-wii/ appears to be getting a Wii remake]!
* [[Virgin Sacrifice]]: Along with some other disturbing requisites to go with the "sacrifice" part. [[You Do NOT Want to Know|Don't even ask what the back-up plans are]].
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|You Haibara}}. He was genuinely trying to cure his sister's illness, but the experiments he conducted on his other patients were unethical and resulted in multiple deaths.
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