[game] Fatal Frame/Project Zero 3: Nara Black
Weeeeell, I did the other two games and I'm replaying the third now so what the heck. My next chance would probably be next October anyways.
Project Zero 3: The Call of the Tattoo (or Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented) is, obviously, the third game in the Fatal Frame series of survival horror games. As you may or may not know, these games use the old superstition that taking a photograph of someone steals a bit of their soul, and then throws in a bit of stuff about spirit photography. You're basically forced you to roam through haunted Japanese mansions at night armed only with a camera, photographing ghosts. It's extra-scary because the nature of the weapon forces you to stand there as the ghost RUSHES YOU and to wait until the very last second to take a good, clear, centered photograph to do the most damage; wildly shooting away like any other game will just waste film and get you killed.
The third game is the story of Rei Kurosawa, a photographer who lost her fiance Yuu a few months ago in a car accident caused by her own careless driving. Since then she's been sort of living in a daze, unwilling to move on and of course blaming herself like crazy for the accident. She hasn't even told some of her fiance's friends that he's dead, so letters addressed to her fiance still arrive at their house. Luckily for her, she's living in sin with her barely-legal assistant, Miku Hinasaki (the heroine from the first game) who does her laundry and cooks for her and all that, so Rei can afford to spend all day sleeping if she so desires.
However, even emo girls have to work, and Rei accepts a job photographing an old abandoned mansion out in the countryside. She goes to the ruined house during the day, with Miku in tow (which is ususually sensible for these survival-horror types), but while photographing an empty hallway, the flash seems to reveal her fiance standing in the shadows. Whoever it is, he turns around and shuffles around the corner, and she hurries after him. She finds herself in a weird dreamlike world, standing outside a darkened Japanese mansion on a snowy night. She goes inside and hears ghosts whispering; at one point one even attacks her and she has to run like crazy to get away from it, since she has nothing to defend herself with. She sees Yuu's shadow in front of her, leading her to a altar room; she also sees the shadow of a mother and child and a hysterical woman running through the house screaming. As soon as she enters the altar room, she finds herself in a hall with tattered curtains obscuring her view; something is moving towards her through the curtains, but she can't see who or what it is. She catches a glimpse of a half-naked woman with long dark hair and blue tattoos all over her body, and as the ghost lunges towards her she wakes up with a start, and she's back in the abandoned house, staring at the empty hallway. Miku comes to check on her, asks her if she's all right, and looks a bit nervous when Rei says it was nothing.
That night, when Rei sleeps, she dreams that she's standing in the snow outside the mansion again. Inside she finds the hysterical woman huddled in a corner, muttering insanely to herself. Rei tries to talk to her, but the woman starts screaming and looking over Rei's shoulder, where the tattooed miko is coming after them. A matching tattoo is spreading all over the hysterical woman's body, and Rei decides that discretion is the better part of valor and starts running, with the nekkid tattooed miko running right after her, trying to grab her. Rei almost makes it out of the door when the miko's blue corpselike hand just brushes the back of her shoulder. Rei suddenly finds herself on the floor in a white yukata, with the four child mikos holding down her arms and legs. A blue tattoo of snakes and vines is spreading all over her own body, and as it reaches her face, the four mikos drive stakes through her wrists and ankles. Rei wakes up in her room, shrieking and clutching at her shoulder, which looks blue and bruised. Miku comes in to check on her, but the bruise is gone and Rei says she just had a nightmare.
After that night, Rei finds herself sleeping more and more, visiting the mysterious mansion called "The House of Sleep" every time, and when she wakes she feels the invisible tattoo spreading over her entire body...
[ ZIP OF ALL TRACKS (89 MB) ]
01. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes [ lyrics ] [ about the band ]
I will always have a Cure song and a Boards of Canada song on these FF FSTs, it seems. Anyways, this song was too apt to pass up.
02. Mekon - Please Stay (Röyksopp remix) [ lyrics ] [ about the artist ]
Rei is still desperately missing Yuu; she can't even bring herself to enter his room or put away his belongings. Look, honey, it's your own fault for dating a folklorist. They have a shorter lifespan than your average lemming in the Fatal Frame universe.
03. John Vanderslice - They Won't Let Me Run, Pt. 2 [ about the artist ] [ he gives away his music on his website, btw ]
One of the things you'll notice about the protagonists is that their idea of running is "shuffling just barely fast enough to evade the screaming hordes chasing them." Seriously, it's like a catch-that-elevator jog.
04. Death in June - Little Blue Butterfly [ lyrics ] [ about the band ]
People in the real world who dream of the House of Sleep spend more and more time sleeping until they've lapsed into a coma. If the miko touched them, the blue tattoo spreads over their body, and if she catches them in the dream, their sleeping bodies are reduced to a pile of black ashes.
05. Johnny Hollow - Gone [ lyrics ]
Even though Rei knows that those who enter the House of Sleep chasing their dead loved ones never return, she can't stop herself; she has to see Yuu one more time.
06. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones [ lyrics ] [ what?! ]
Your usual pleasant assortment of ghosts live in the House of Sleep, such as the mother and child who accuse you of killing their husband/father, the woman who combed her hair until it ripped out of her head, those dudes chasing you with axes...they're usually all, "MORE PAIN, MORE BLOOD, MORE SACRIFICES!!11"
07. John Vanderslice - Behold a Pale Horse [ what? -- horses? ]
08. Calla - Monument [ lyrics ]
Fatal Frame 3 has three playable characters. One of these is Yuu's friend Kei Amakura, who has been writing Yuu without knowing that the poor sap's dead. (Rei reads these letters, of course.) Kei's twin nieces Mio and Mayu got up to some supernatural shenanigans in Fatal Frame 2, and one died and the other has now sunk into a coma after moping about feeling guilty that her sister died. Kei's investigating his niece's coma, and has begun to dream of the House of Sleep too. Unfortunately for him, he's about as psychic as a brick and has to hide from all the ghosts, and every ghost, including the naked tattooed miko, seems to think that they want to break themselves off a piece of that manbiscuit. BAD TOUCHES! BAD TOUCHES!
09. The Sherbets - Luwanda
10. Kate Bush - Watching You Without Me [ lyrics ]
With both Rei and Miku spending most of their day asleep dreaming of the House of Sleep, their waking hours at home are strange indeed. They wander about in a dazed, almost zombie-like state, fixated on the people they've lost instead of living their own lives.
11. Björk - Desired Constellation [ lyrics ]
12. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Shooting Sun [ lyrics ]
13. Depeche Mode - Damaged People [ lyrics ]
I am totally not insinuating anything about the relationship between Rei and Miku. They're just two good friends who like to snuggle in their nighties. But Miku has made her choice and Rei cannot stop her; Kei arrives at Rei's house in time to see the results.
14. Boards of Canada - The Beach at Redpoint
The tattoo has spread to Rei's neck; when it reaches her face, the tattooed priestess will come for her.
15. Wire - Heartbeat [ lyrics ]
Kei spends a night on Rei's couch and tries in his own dorky way to save the day.
16. Closterkeller - Czas komety (The Reign of the Comet) [ an approximate english translation ]
The final boss battle is so beautiful and dreamlike; it's like fighting underwater against something out of your worst nightmares.
17. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness [ lyrics ]
That girl Rei sure has a way with corpses, doesn't she? Makes me wonder what she does on the weekends.
18. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue [ Postal Service Remix ] [ lyrics ]
So what will Rei do now if she can't use her dead boyfriend as an excuse anymore? Well...she'll probably figure something out.
Comments, complaints, whatever are welcome. That babbling text over the cover comes from here so you might as well c/p something random if you do decide to comment. :D
EDIT 01/29/06: Indiv tracks taken down, but the zip still works!
Project Zero 3: The Call of the Tattoo (or Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented) is, obviously, the third game in the Fatal Frame series of survival horror games. As you may or may not know, these games use the old superstition that taking a photograph of someone steals a bit of their soul, and then throws in a bit of stuff about spirit photography. You're basically forced you to roam through haunted Japanese mansions at night armed only with a camera, photographing ghosts. It's extra-scary because the nature of the weapon forces you to stand there as the ghost RUSHES YOU and to wait until the very last second to take a good, clear, centered photograph to do the most damage; wildly shooting away like any other game will just waste film and get you killed.
The third game is the story of Rei Kurosawa, a photographer who lost her fiance Yuu a few months ago in a car accident caused by her own careless driving. Since then she's been sort of living in a daze, unwilling to move on and of course blaming herself like crazy for the accident. She hasn't even told some of her fiance's friends that he's dead, so letters addressed to her fiance still arrive at their house. Luckily for her, she's living in sin with her barely-legal assistant, Miku Hinasaki (the heroine from the first game) who does her laundry and cooks for her and all that, so Rei can afford to spend all day sleeping if she so desires.
However, even emo girls have to work, and Rei accepts a job photographing an old abandoned mansion out in the countryside. She goes to the ruined house during the day, with Miku in tow (which is ususually sensible for these survival-horror types), but while photographing an empty hallway, the flash seems to reveal her fiance standing in the shadows. Whoever it is, he turns around and shuffles around the corner, and she hurries after him. She finds herself in a weird dreamlike world, standing outside a darkened Japanese mansion on a snowy night. She goes inside and hears ghosts whispering; at one point one even attacks her and she has to run like crazy to get away from it, since she has nothing to defend herself with. She sees Yuu's shadow in front of her, leading her to a altar room; she also sees the shadow of a mother and child and a hysterical woman running through the house screaming. As soon as she enters the altar room, she finds herself in a hall with tattered curtains obscuring her view; something is moving towards her through the curtains, but she can't see who or what it is. She catches a glimpse of a half-naked woman with long dark hair and blue tattoos all over her body, and as the ghost lunges towards her she wakes up with a start, and she's back in the abandoned house, staring at the empty hallway. Miku comes to check on her, asks her if she's all right, and looks a bit nervous when Rei says it was nothing.
That night, when Rei sleeps, she dreams that she's standing in the snow outside the mansion again. Inside she finds the hysterical woman huddled in a corner, muttering insanely to herself. Rei tries to talk to her, but the woman starts screaming and looking over Rei's shoulder, where the tattooed miko is coming after them. A matching tattoo is spreading all over the hysterical woman's body, and Rei decides that discretion is the better part of valor and starts running, with the nekkid tattooed miko running right after her, trying to grab her. Rei almost makes it out of the door when the miko's blue corpselike hand just brushes the back of her shoulder. Rei suddenly finds herself on the floor in a white yukata, with the four child mikos holding down her arms and legs. A blue tattoo of snakes and vines is spreading all over her own body, and as it reaches her face, the four mikos drive stakes through her wrists and ankles. Rei wakes up in her room, shrieking and clutching at her shoulder, which looks blue and bruised. Miku comes in to check on her, but the bruise is gone and Rei says she just had a nightmare.
After that night, Rei finds herself sleeping more and more, visiting the mysterious mansion called "The House of Sleep" every time, and when she wakes she feels the invisible tattoo spreading over her entire body...
[ ZIP OF ALL TRACKS (89 MB) ]
01. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes [ lyrics ] [ about the band ]
I will always have a Cure song and a Boards of Canada song on these FF FSTs, it seems. Anyways, this song was too apt to pass up.
02. Mekon - Please Stay (Röyksopp remix) [ lyrics ] [ about the artist ]
Rei is still desperately missing Yuu; she can't even bring herself to enter his room or put away his belongings. Look, honey, it's your own fault for dating a folklorist. They have a shorter lifespan than your average lemming in the Fatal Frame universe.
03. John Vanderslice - They Won't Let Me Run, Pt. 2 [ about the artist ] [ he gives away his music on his website, btw ]
One of the things you'll notice about the protagonists is that their idea of running is "shuffling just barely fast enough to evade the screaming hordes chasing them." Seriously, it's like a catch-that-elevator jog.
04. Death in June - Little Blue Butterfly [ lyrics ] [ about the band ]
People in the real world who dream of the House of Sleep spend more and more time sleeping until they've lapsed into a coma. If the miko touched them, the blue tattoo spreads over their body, and if she catches them in the dream, their sleeping bodies are reduced to a pile of black ashes.
05. Johnny Hollow - Gone [ lyrics ]
Even though Rei knows that those who enter the House of Sleep chasing their dead loved ones never return, she can't stop herself; she has to see Yuu one more time.
06. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones [ lyrics ] [ what?! ]
Your usual pleasant assortment of ghosts live in the House of Sleep, such as the mother and child who accuse you of killing their husband/father, the woman who combed her hair until it ripped out of her head, those dudes chasing you with axes...they're usually all, "MORE PAIN, MORE BLOOD, MORE SACRIFICES!!11"
07. John Vanderslice - Behold a Pale Horse [ what? -- horses? ]
08. Calla - Monument [ lyrics ]
Fatal Frame 3 has three playable characters. One of these is Yuu's friend Kei Amakura, who has been writing Yuu without knowing that the poor sap's dead. (Rei reads these letters, of course.) Kei's twin nieces Mio and Mayu got up to some supernatural shenanigans in Fatal Frame 2, and one died and the other has now sunk into a coma after moping about feeling guilty that her sister died. Kei's investigating his niece's coma, and has begun to dream of the House of Sleep too. Unfortunately for him, he's about as psychic as a brick and has to hide from all the ghosts, and every ghost, including the naked tattooed miko, seems to think that they want to break themselves off a piece of that manbiscuit. BAD TOUCHES! BAD TOUCHES!
09. The Sherbets - Luwanda
10. Kate Bush - Watching You Without Me [ lyrics ]
With both Rei and Miku spending most of their day asleep dreaming of the House of Sleep, their waking hours at home are strange indeed. They wander about in a dazed, almost zombie-like state, fixated on the people they've lost instead of living their own lives.
11. Björk - Desired Constellation [ lyrics ]
12. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Shooting Sun [ lyrics ]
13. Depeche Mode - Damaged People [ lyrics ]
I am totally not insinuating anything about the relationship between Rei and Miku. They're just two good friends who like to snuggle in their nighties. But Miku has made her choice and Rei cannot stop her; Kei arrives at Rei's house in time to see the results.
14. Boards of Canada - The Beach at Redpoint
The tattoo has spread to Rei's neck; when it reaches her face, the tattooed priestess will come for her.
15. Wire - Heartbeat [ lyrics ]
Kei spends a night on Rei's couch and tries in his own dorky way to save the day.
16. Closterkeller - Czas komety (The Reign of the Comet) [ an approximate english translation ]
The final boss battle is so beautiful and dreamlike; it's like fighting underwater against something out of your worst nightmares.
17. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness [ lyrics ]
That girl Rei sure has a way with corpses, doesn't she? Makes me wonder what she does on the weekends.
18. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue [ Postal Service Remix ] [ lyrics ]
So what will Rei do now if she can't use her dead boyfriend as an excuse anymore? Well...she'll probably figure something out.
Comments, complaints, whatever are welcome. That babbling text over the cover comes from here so you might as well c/p something random if you do decide to comment. :D
EDIT 01/29/06: Indiv tracks taken down, but the zip still works!