2021 Experience Haunted Locations
Title: Experience Haunted Locations¶
Folklore Type: folkloresque¶
Contents:¶
"AL: Are there any memories that stand out to you from working on the Wii U version of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water? Perhaps surrounding its development, a hurdle that the team overcame, or just an anecdote from working on the project?
Makoto Shibata: For the Wii U version, you could use the controller’s screen and the TV screen, so I had to really think about how to utilize both of these in a horror game. The conclusion I came to was that the TV would be the real world and the controller would be the world you see through the Camera Obscura. This would allow the player to experience haunted locations for themselves. By pointing the camera at the world in the TV, ghosts appear in the picture, and the noises the ghosts make in the TV world can be heard through the controller, as if they were slowly coming toward you."
Context:¶
In this interview excerpt, Shibata discusses using the Nintendo Wii U controller as a physical representation of the Camera Obscura for the player. The Wii U controller is a hand-held device that has a screen set in the middle, similar to hand-held gaming devices like the Nintendo Switch. The player holds up the Wii U controller, like a camera, to take photos of the ghosts in Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water.
This interview was done by Noisy Pixel for the remastered release of the fifth game in the series, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, in 2021. The original 2014/2015 release was a Nintendo Wii U exclusive. The remastered edition, released in 2021, updated the game for modern consoles and the PC.
Source Information¶
Original Source Citation: Kikuchi, Keisuke and Makoto Shibata. "Fatal Frame Interview - Scaring You in Style." By Azario Lopez. Noisy Pixel. October 26, 2021. https://noisypixel.net/fatal-frame-interview-keisuke-kikuchi-makoto-shibata/?expand_article=1.
| Source Type: | interview |
| Source URL: | https://noisypixel.net/fatal-frame-interview-keisuke-kikuchi-makoto-shibata/?expand_article=1 |
| Date Published: | 2021-10-26 |
| Date Collected: | 2023-07-28 |
| Associated File Name: | Shibata-2023-The Real-Life Hauntings that Inspired Fatal Frame.pdf |