![]() As is their want, the ghosts love to appear just when you least expect them, and the game borrows every horror movie trick it can think of as candles flicker in a non-existent wind and ghostly hands suddenly grab at you from nowhere.Īlthough there was, bafflingly, never a Pokémon Snap for the Wii U, in this instance Nintendo realised that a game where you walk around with a camera held up in front of your face was too good an opportunity to miss. Using it switches the game to a first person view, but as silly as the concept sounds the practise of slowly sweeping the area for phantoms can be genuinely terrifying. ![]() In lieu of any traditional weapons your only form of defence is a Camera Obscura, a magic camera which can be used to search for and exorcise ghosts. This time the story is based around a fictionalised version of the real-life Suicide Forest, but despite the serious subject matter the plot is very thinly written and the script and voice-acting is nowhere near good enough to compensate. Although the details always vary the games invariably involve two young twins stumbling across a cursed village in rural Japan. Project Zero has always been heavily influenced by the late ’90s Japanese horror scene, in particular The Ring and Ju-On, which means lots of long-haired ghosts and a strong whiff of old hat.
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