Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly 2003

Is it still worth playing?

Tecmo's 2003 survival horror game for the PlayStation 2, in which the twins Mio and Mayu Amakura visit a valley they played in as children, about to be flooded by a dam. They end up in Minakami Village, a legendary place said to trap people, and are separated while searching for a way out. You explore as Mio from a fixed third person camera, and the view switches to first person when she uses the Camera Obscura, the main weapon. Puzzles are solved by photographing objects. Combat is done by photographing ghosts: waiting for a ghost to attack mid motion allows a high damage shot, a red Shutter Chance is a critical attack, and a Fatal Frame lets shots chain. If either sister takes too much damage, you restart from a save. Waiting for a ghost to come close before you shoot still makes every fight a test of nerve.