But having opted to play this title for the first time on my PC using PCSX2, I thought it was worth writing a little bit about the game, how it behaved in emulation (since emulators in general can be hit or miss), while providing a few choice screens of its beauty.
Best of all, it doesn’t require a Wii! So we elitist hardcore gamers can keep our guilty secret gaming habits in the closet ).Īnyway, back to the present: If I had simply played “Fatal Frame 3” on my PS2, I probably would not bother writing about it, only because the game garnered pretty rave reviews ‘round the net upon its release, and many of those reviews are easily accessible still (and more coherent than this by far). Just put the nunchuck down, sir! Now, back away! That’s right, just back slowly away from that used Wiimote you bought even though you don’t own the console! (More on this forthcoming in a future post, but a little spoiler: Using Dolphin, the Wii emulator, to play high-rez Wii games on your PC with the nunchuck and motion-sensing Wiimote works like a charm. Stop the presses! Jeez, the least I can do is play these damn games in some semblance of order. I never played “Fatal Frame 3,” sitting over there on the shelf, lonely, abandoned. (Yeah, that console I promised myself I’d never stoop to owning.) Then, having learned from this same reader that a PC-based Wii emulator (called Dolphin) existed (just like PCSX2 plays PS2 games on the PC), before I knew it, I had a copy of “Fatal Frame 4” (and the fan-made English patch) in my sweaty little nunchuck-grasping hands, ready to kill some ghosts. My impetus for doing so was only because I recently learned-from a subscriber to this very blog, mind you-that a fourth game in the series had been released in 2009, but only in Japan…and only for the Wii.
Though I am a fan of the stylish and suspenseful “Fatal Frame” series of games, the third installment sat on my shelf for an embarrassing amount of time (3 years) before I ripped the iso image from it and loaded it into PCSX2 a few weeks ago. Your eyes may not bleed, but they won’t cry either.
(Note: Killer video card and blazing CPU required). Wanna take an already beautiful game (in 2005 terms) and make it even beautiful-er? (That’s a word I know it is.) Well then, dig out your dusty copy of PS2’s “Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented” and play it at three times its native resolution on PCSX2, the PS2 emulator for PC. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.