Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Review (PS5) | Push Square

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Here at Push Square it's site policy that we don't believe in the supernatural. Vampires, werewolves, and Frankensteins? Poppycock, hogwash, and flannel, we say. Having never believed in ghosts we've never considered what we'd do should we ever come face to face with one. We can plan for World War 3 or Covid 2 or bumping into someone we don't want to stop and talk to in Tesco. If a ghost popped up and started getting shirty we would probably end up running, hoping that we could get away while the spirit was busy murdering someone else.

Ghosts are the big bad in Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, a remaster of the fourth game in the long-running survival horror franchise, originally released exclusively on Wii, and exclusively in Japan. This is the first chance for Western Fatal Frame fans to play the game on a real console and in shiny HD, and it's about a bunch of people who all come face to face with ghosts and opt to fight, not run. And it's a good job, too, because they're the slowest runners we've ever seen.

For the uninitiated, the game is set on an island in Southern Japan, where a decade prior a handful of young girls went missing. Eventually they were discovered, alive and kinda-well by a dutiful detective, and in the subsequent years two of those girls have died under mysterious circumstances. Now in the present day two more of the girls are going back to the island to do some amateur investigation but they really haven't thought any of this through.

One of the girls is apparently so confident that she'll have the whole thing wrapped up by tea time that she's turned up to the investigation wearing a mini-skirt and high heels, presumably so they can stop for celebration cocktails on the way home. Now, we're