Fatal Frame/Project Zero: The Complete Timeline (What You Need to Know!)

What series would you like to see me cover next? (Preferably something where I can pronounce the names correctly)

I love how each game contains a female lead! The girls in the series are super brave, and their designs look so cute!

Its interesting that every ritual boils down to local people being unable to purify themselves and cope with their emotions in the proper way according to Shintoism and general mental health care, and putting it on designated victims to just make the people’s problems go away until there’s so much bad vibes built up that if anything goes “wrong” like that victim not being fully on board with taking on that misery, it all unleashes with interest. I’m not sure if its fair to call fighting the final bosses “compassion”, but its definitely breaking those cycles of abuse as all those ghosts finally take their own bad vibes away from the world with them.

I love how Japan is seemingly this hellscape where the realm of the dead and the living are so close that the people need to perform all sorts of evil rituals to keep "the bad vibes" from the Underworld at bay.

In terms of world lore, anyone find it odd that in a relatively short time, so many of these rituals which connect to the underworld suddenly fail?

Anywhere in Japan during the Meiji Era: “sir, there’s an anthropologist named Professor Aso here to visit our village.” “F**k”

Basically from all this summary of the Fatal Frame stories had the characters interconnected in some way to each other. While each event takes place at a different time and location, the characters have either been directly involved in the events themselves or are related to those that were involved either via circumstances or passed down via their ancestary.

I would be so awesome that if there would be a final installment to the Fatal Frame series, that ALL the rituals in the series are all connected and part of a big calamity.

Villagers in FF 1, 2, 3 : tried to close the gate between the dead and the living Villagers in FF 4 : say sike

I’m so glad you did this series:) one of my absolute favourites as a kid!!

Japanese ghost marriages are all about placating the dead's unmarried virgin desires, Miku marries her brother in a ghost marriage...we can all say it's to be with him spiritually, but is it really JUST "spiritual", even after the fatal frame III Aesop?

Fatal Frame is one of my favorite series in gaming. I tend to always forget how sad the story (and full of murder and dumb decisions) the game is.

What I wouldn't give to bring back Fatal Frame... love the video, I love seeing people cover this series

Fascinating that the events at the Himuro Mansion seem to have started the snowballing of failed rituals… Very interesting Butterfly Effect if so. Pun very much intended lol

Never realized how connected these games were. SWEET

Japan really has a weird fixation with highschool being the peek of life. Like in so much of their media, protagonists, male or female, highschool or around highschool age. I mean not entirely surprising i guess since its pretty legend that adulting in japan is being brutalized by work culture.

Since the success of the Maiden of Black Water led to a remaster of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse for International release, I'm hopeful that Tecmo will see the potential and remaster the original trilogy, even if it's one game at a time. Project Zero III is the only one I haven't completed (aside from MOTLE, which I'm currently halfway through as of writing this comment).

It's sad that Mayu and Mio only appeared and mentioned once

It's a pity that now such games can no longer be made - because there are so many similar games. Sorry, nostalgia started playing - thanks for the video.

Was really looking forward to this one. Glad there are resources to help with translations.