Wednesday, August 31, 2005

GameInformer previews the third game!

SPOILERS!
So, yeah well after Emi-Chan got back, you already know what that means. The news will come faster!^^

Anyway, GameInformer have their Fatal Frame 3 site, and there is nothing new, but GameInformer does have a host of downloadable movies of both ingame gameplay and some of the beginning game FMVs. But all of the downloads (4) is in Japanese, so don't think it is in English. Some of the FMVs is in gameplay version.


To download the FMVs, check this site, and the sceens doesn't have subtitles in English.

1 download: Intro. (Cutsceen)
This intro starts with that the rain falls down, and we follow Rei Kurosawa walking slowly and hurt over against her car, where she finds Yuu, her boyfriend, dead.

Then later, we sees Rei on her work. Taking photos of a old mansion, and Miku Hinsaki is helping her. Rei takes a picture of a hallways, where suddenly a shadow is. The shadow is Yuu. Rei follows it, and find herself in a wrong place.

2 download: Nighmare. (GamePlay)
The sceen starts with Rei is running in the mansion, some "snow" is falling down of the skys.
As she runs/walks into the mansion, she sees Yuu and follows him. (This is like FF2: Crimson Butterfly. Mayu are just follow butterflies.)

Next gameplay:
Rei is running around, and suddenly a ghost shows up.
When she starts to run away, she suddenly hear something behind her. A man is running after her with a weapon in he's hand, trying to kill her.


Next gameplay:
Rei sees Yuu again, and he is still walking away from her.

As she follows him, a little girl talks to her. Evil ghost or just a help?
And as she follows Yuu more, our Topless friends shows up.

3 download: Camera Obscura. (Gameplay and cutsceen)
Well, Rei is running around, trying to find Yuu, and trying to find out what there is going on here.
As she sees Yuu over her, she follows him, and suddenly finds a camera: The Camera Obscura.
Now Rei can have to cameras. Her own (working one) and Camera Obscura.

4: download: Ghostbuster: (GamePlay)
Rei is trapped in these nightmares and have to find out again. So she finds a door, which is locked. She needs to go and find something to unlock it. She does and on the way back, a femal ghost trys to kill her.


Double Shot have also make two new buttons!
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Monday, August 29, 2005

Amano's new album cover!



Amano's 4th album cover! Wow, she looks creppy! A Moon Child In The Sky, is the new album name of it!

Here is the track listing for the CD:
1. A MOON CHILD IN THE SKY
2. Devil Flamingo
3. JOKER JOE
4. Idea (A Moon Child mix)
5. Stone
6. Hisui (A Moon Child type)
7. 1/2 -a half-
8. Koe
9. Satou Mizu
10. Parade
11. Hakase to Kujaku
12. Kakan

Yes, Koe is on. So if you haven't got Koe (the theme song for Fatal Frame 3) yet, then you can buy this CD!

Thanks to Miroku-san from BCL's forum and BCL itself.

Also... A WARM welcome to Emi-Chan (Beyond the Camera's Lens), who just got home from her wedding and honeymoon! Welcome home, Emi-Chan, I hope you had a nice wedding!


Not only that, BCL's admin had also birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMI!

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Tecmo News and Pre-Order.



Sorry for the late update.

Again, Tecmo got a really nice Fatal Frame 3 wallpaper! (Thanks to Sae-Yae for telling it.)

Also...Tecmo's English version of their site got this "wallpaper" up.

And I was around some websites today, and I found that you already now can Pre-Order Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented. IN ENGLISH! Take a closer look, and find out more here.

Haha, and I just got a counter up! So I can see who man who vitit the site. Already 10? Hey, I just got it up. Thanks everyone!XD

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

z-o-g pictures of FF3 & GameSpy interview!

This is what I have been looking for! And I have totally forgot about this great site! (Stupid me)

I WARN everyone, because there will be Miku's cat(Yes, not Rei's) will be seen, and also some cool pictures of the game.

SPOILERS! These not not all of them!




To see more:
Sceen gallery
Costume gallery
Ghsot list galery

Totally, and many cookies thanks to Maskrider!!!

And GameSpy has this great interview on their site about Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented! It's from the trailer and interview before I think.

Inada: So, you know Mr. Kikuchi. Here's a new face, Mr. Shibata. He's actually the director of Fatal Frame. We kept him behind the scenes, because he's the one who actually came up with all of the sick ideas. He's the one who actually practices and believes in the spirit world.
GameSpy: I remember, a couple of years ago, you had the Fatal Frame II unveiling event, and Kikuchi-san said there's someone in Japan...
Inada: That's him. [Laughs] The infamous guy.
GameSpy: I was wondering if you could give me a little bit of a background on Fatal Frame III?
Shibata: The main character, Rei, gets into a car accident where she ends up killing her boyfriend. After the accident, she goes to this mansion, a ruined mansion, and starts to interact with the spirit world, and that's how the story starts. You will see a character from Fatal Frame 1, Miki, who joins the adventure. GameSpy: Does this take place a few years after the original Fatal Frame game, timeline-wise?
Kikuchi: Of course, Fatal Frame 1, II, and III are three independent stories, yet at the same time, it is a parallel story. [Fatal Frame III is] set up as a story that takes place roughly two years after Fatal Frame 1's story.
GameSpy: This is the third Fatal Frame game for PS2. Is it tough coming up with new ideas, or do you find that when you finish the previous game you have leftover ideas and you're eager to get to the next game?
Kikuchi: So of course, the underlying concept for Fatal Frame is still there. This version, in particular, has multiple playable characters. That's something we've always wanted to do. The previous version had pretty much stayed in the state of a dream, so to speak. You fought in the state of a nightmare. This game will allow you to go back and forth between the reality and the dream world, or nightmare world, and that's something we've always wanted to do.
GameSpy: Something that you had talked about earlier, Kikuchi-san, is that you don't believe in the occult but Shibata-san does. I was wondering if you could tell me more about that, and if that affects the development going back and forth?
Kikuchi: Absolutely no problem.
Shibata: There's really no problem because if I say "this is good" or "this is interesting" or "this is something that we should do," then Kikuchi can say yes or no -- mostly yes.
Kikuchi: My job is to basically balance out everything that Shibata wants to do. If we did everything that he wants to do, or what he has in his vision, it's not going to fit in our capacity that we're given. My job is to basically find ways to commercialize Shibata's ideas.
GameSpy: Japanese horror movies, starting with The Ring, have become quite popular in America, and it has continued, not fallen off, with recently The Grudge. Are you surprised that there's a staying power for Japanese horror movies in America and how that might be affecting the popularity of your games?
Shibata: The first The Ring became a big hit and I was quite surprised. But then I was pleasantly surprised that American people could understand the concept.
Kikuchi: I, too, feel scared when I watch American-style horror movies, so that basically makes me believe that the feeling of fear is universal, no matter what the style is.
GameSpy: I find it interesting that most horror games seem to come out of Japan, even though Western-developed games have become very popular in this generation. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Fatal Frame are the three best-known horror series. Do you have any insight into why that might be?
Kikuchi: What I think is that in order to make a good horror game, you need to know how to control yourself by not revealing the fear ... you have to fight your temptation to just do something that [puts] everything out there, everything in your face. It's very difficult to resist the temptation to not show anything in a room that has nothing, to try and create a fearful experience. Maybe the American culture and nature is to want to just show it, do it, let it out. Japanese are better at controlling their urges to hold it back and not show anything, everything all at once. Maybe that's why.
Shibata: I believe that the American game developers, they start their project by figuring out the game system. Then you move forward once you figure out what the game system should be. Japanese developers, on the other hand, go in more with the emotional aspect of the game: how gamers will feel when they play this type of game. Consequently the horror genre is a better fit for such an approach for developing a game.
GameSpy: I want to ask Kikuchi-san the same question I did the other day [then in regards to Trapt, this time about Fatal Frame III]. Why is it always a cute female character starring in the game?
Kikuchi: If I answer your question, I'm going to just give you the same answer again, so I'm going to ask Shibata to answer that question.
Shibata: It's quite simple. This is a game that is not violent. You can't muscle your way through. To portray that concept, obviously a female main character is better. We all know that females are a bit more spiritual than men. So it was a very obvious choice to pick a female character to play this role.
GameSpy: There are several playable characters in the new game. I was wondering if you could tell me a little about them, and how you came up with them?
Kikuchi: There are three objectives we had in implementing multiple characters to become playable. For one, we wanted not only to show a strong woman as the main character, but to show how a weaker character could become a playable character in the story. Number two is to show the variation on the playability aspect of different characters. It's always nice to have more variety of playability, and to do that we had to have multiple playable characters. Thirdly, I wanted to portray the characteristics of different playable characters. Some are small characters so they can hide better than others, or they're a little more nimble than the bigger character, or whatever. It was all about letting the players experience more variety of characters.
GameSpy: I'd like to finish with a question that's a bit more general. There's some debate with whether with Xbox 360 coming out this year if Microsoft is pushing the next generation too fast, or whether Sony's approach of holding it out longer is better. I was wondering if you were excited about making next-gen games, or you'd rather continue to make current-gen games longer?
Kikuchi: From a developer's point of view, I always feel the pressure from the big bosses that we need to come up with something that will utilize the new, next-generation system which will appeal to the consumer. It's moving rather rapidly, and sometimes I wish we wouldn't have to be pressured in that way. Of course, as a developer I'm challenged and intrigued with the new generation platforms, and always looking forward to see what we can do with them. From a business standpoint, it would be better if all three console makers would work in unity so that we can provide more ... so that we're not always chasing after something that is new.
Thanks to GameSpy!

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented Interview with Keisuke Kikuchi & Makoto Shibata!!!


Yay!!! English version on this one! Yeah, also Miku's voice can be heard.

Keisuke Kikuchi tells a little about Fatal Frame 3, and the diffents about the three games. And really, this interview is really good! And of course this is SPOILERLISH! Because you will seen some new sceens!

Watch it here...

Thanks to Beyond the Camera's Lens for saying it will come soon! (But I found it first, hehe>:))

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Freddie Kruger in FF3 & Reply from John Rogers!!


Made by Rei-Chan. (Me)
SPOILERS!

Thanks to MioKawaii from BCL have been so great to post this sceen!



Rei has lost her boyfriend, sadly... But hey, she is single!



It really looks like Freddie Kruger, but can it be a female or? Find out when you buy the game!



As we know Rei was chosen to be the Babe of the Day at GameSpy, but... because of a shower sceen? O.o



Hmm, yeah. She is naked, but you don't see anything... yet.. Still, this sceen is so freaky that it could be a movie!

Many thanks to MioKawaii for post this up!

And then for the Reply from John Rogers! Many, Many, MANY thanks to Zero Shot for letting me put up this!

Zero Shot had email John Rogers, who is going to making a Fatal Frame Movie, and this is what happened. (This is not news, but at least something!)

Zero Shot wrote: You probably get lots of emails that you have to shift through day after day, but hopefully you'll take sometime to read and (hopefully) reply to this one ^__^;;;

I was just wondering if we'd be recieving any news on the Fatal Frame : The Movie any thime soon. It was claimed that the movie was going into production early 2004, but nothing was heard. Moviesonline also claimed the movie would be coming out in November 2005 (or 2006). Which seems pretty unlikely...
It just seems the movie's just been casually forgotton... Usually no news is good news, and I've sort of been fighting with my self whether to email you or not, incase I get a nasty reply back (laughs nervouisly). I would love to hear anything at all about the movie, or even reassured the movie hasn't been forgotton. I'm very excited to see Fatal Frame on the big screen - I hope it's success :D
Thank you for reading this


From
Kerrianne Harrington


John Rogers wrote back!: Oh no, we were actively moving on to the next step -- but the UNiversal/Dreamworks deal has just slowed things down a bit.
The big issue is that we really want to make it super-creepy, and the recent glut of imported Japanese-horror means we've got to really dig and an make it different.
I assure you, though, several highly-paid humans are indeed working ont he movie.

Thanks,
John


Many thanks to Zero Shot!

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Videogame Babe of the Day: Rei Kurosawa!

This update is FULL OF SPOILERS!




Lots of updates now! Enjoy ;D



IGN has a lot of news on their site!

First some cool new sceenshots! SPOILERS! They are new! Find them here...


Also, GameSpy(who is working with IGN) has named our hero from FF3, Rei Kurosawa, as the Babe of the Day!
Find it Jeff Hall

August 19, 2005 - Tecmo is among the leaders of the pack when it comes to developing game babes. Latest in the line is Rei Kurosawa, making her debut in this third edition of the Fatal Frame series, "The Tormented".
In this spookily-adeventurous 3-quel, the name of the game is (of course) stayin alive!
Life sucks.


At least it does in the Fatal world. In this game, it gets even suckier when our cute protagonist finds herself moving between crappy real life and the crappier nightmare-world. Which isn't to say this is a crappy game, however.
This is horror, and every good horror title needs to have some depressing environments with which to thoroughly spook you.


Not to be deterred by game babes' status as imaginary (i.e. not real), we still can't help wondering about the answers to some of our common questions.
Like for example: relationship status. Well, seeing as Rei's adventure is kicked off by her finding picture of her dead boyfriend in a haunted mansion,
we'll take it she's single. Yay!


Let's imagine we were Rei, and had a camera obscura of our own. Well, being hot, we'd probably spend countless hours using it on ourself, hiding it in discreet places in the bathroom, and spend time soaping ourselves up in the haunted shower.

But there's no time for that. We'd need it for our own safety, as it's our only defense against the forces of darkness. And speaking of the forces of darkness, even some of the ghosts in Fatal seem like they could have once been hot.


Is this where we get into a clinical discussion of necrophelia? Nah, we'll spare you from it this time.We'll instead tell you that Rei's constantly tortured by nightmares, where she realizes that the ghosts are real, and won't leave her alone. Neither will we. She's also got this snake tatoo that becomes increasingly prominent as time goes on through the game. What's the secret of the tatoo? Well buy the game, kill the lights, and find out!

Thanks and full credit to Zero Shot for point this out to BCL and Double Shot!

And one of our affiliates, Another Angel's Thanatos, has found this tips article! It's a little bit info about Fatal Frame: The Tormented. But it looks great! Thanks for this!



- Sources: Fatal Frame sites: Zero Shot & Another Angel's Thanatos. Games sites: IGN & GameSpy.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Miku fanart/fanwallpaper!

Trout, one of the BCL's members, have done a very VERY great Miku Hinasaki wallpaper.
I have to say, that I haven't seen so beautiful a drawing before! Thanks for letting me put it up, Trout! ^_^





Also... If she is watching the site sometimes... I wish you much luck on the wedding, Emi-Chan!

There will come something up here, when you comes back from the wedding. ^_^ Have some nice days, and please... be careful to both of you!

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Sceenshots from the first FF3 ending!

SPOILERS! Don't watch these pictures! It's one of the ending! Thankyou!

All of these pictures is taken by me, and thanks to BCL's member MioKawaii for posting it.
Enjoy! ^_^ And if you wanna use some of these, please email me or leave a comment with your name and site. Thankyou. Rei-Chan.















































































Saturday, August 13, 2005

Project-Zero All Staff



DIRECTOR
Makoto Shibata

PROJECT MANAGER
Kohei Shibata

MAIN PROGRAMMER
Kenichi Asami

CHIEF CG DESIGNER
Hirotugu Takao

CHIEF MOVIE CREATOR
Daisuke inari

PROGRAMMER
Katsuyuki Okura
Jin Serizawa
Makoto isizuka
Yuichiro Watanabe

PLANNER
Takahito Ebato
Tsuyoshi Iuchi
Takeshi Suzuki
Kazuhiro Yamaguchi

SCENARIO WRITER
Makoto Shibata
Tsuyoshi Iuchi

EVENT DATA EDITOR
Masaaki Nagaura
Tomoya ichikawa
Takeki Kaifuku

STAGE MODELLER
Ryosei Mlucky
Rie Iizima
Moriyasu Kokubu
Keiko Kuriki
Ryo Tanioka
Takatoshi Kobari
Ayako Hasegawa
Akiko Akahori

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Gyota Hiromi

GHOST DESIGNER
Hiroyuki Yazaki

CHARACTER MODELLER
Hiroyuki Yazaki
Gyota Hiromi

MOTION MANAGER
Yoshikatsu Yoshizawa

MOTION DIRECTOR
Masaki Koshikawa

MOTION DESIGNER
Takehiko Kanaoka
Daimon Kazuaki
Syuichi Okada

FACIAL ANIMATOR
Daimon Kazuaki

MOVIE CREATOR
Yuichi Uchida

CHIEF 2D DESIGNER
Akira Nishimura

2D DESIGNER
Keiko Kuriki
Hiroki Watanabe
Masaru Ueda

SOUND DESIGNER
Atsuo Saitou

COMPOSER
Ayako Toyoda

MA ENGINEER
Shigekiyo Okuda

TECHNICAL DESIGNER
Hirota Takayuki

MOTION ACTOR(IN GAME)
Aya Fujiki
Yuki Ide

ART WORK
Kiyotaka Sugiyama

SALES
Toru Akutsu
Juntaro Kono
Jun Aragaki

PUBLICITY
Satoshi Kanno
Eriko Tsuchihara
Takayuki Kikuchi

INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
Isamu Fukada
Mitsuru Tsutsumi
Keiko Kawashima
Miho Sano
Mie Takahashi

IMAGE SONG
Tsukiko Amano
(PONY CANYON)

VOICE ADTOR
Junko Minagawa
Lika Wakusawa
Yusei Oda
Takaya Kuroda
Kinryu Arimoto
Nana Yamaguchi
Kaho Kohda
Miyu Tsuzurahara

OPENING & PROMOTION MOVIE PART DIRECTOR
Jun Asakawa
Polygon Pictures Inc.

PRODUCER
Hideyuki Saito

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Akiko Isobe

LEAD SEQUENCE
Satoshi Oyamada

MOTION CAPTURE
LinksDigiWorks Inc.

MOCAP PRODUCER
Kazuhisa Nishimura

MOTION ACTOR
Aya Fujiki
Aiko Hibi

SOUND EFFECTS
Media Entertainment Co.

MIXER
Masayuki Yamamoto

SOUND DESIGNER
Satoru Yamauchi
Takashi Uno

TECHNICAL COOPERATION
MAVERICK Inc.

SPECIAL THANKS
Masato Miura
Yoshimitsu Fujisawa
Hitoshi Nunokawa
Naoki Koizumi
Hirotomo Tokura
Atsushi Sugita
Zin Hasegawa
Fumihiro Ikegami
Kazuhiro Syouji

MIYAZAKI HIROSHI
Hiroshi Adachi
Tomoaki Inoue
Atsushi Oota
Yutaro Takahashi
Yasuhiro Nakamoto
Hiroyuki Nishi
Hideaki Fukai

PRODUCER
Keisuke Kikuti

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
MAX NAKA

TECMO

Friday, August 12, 2005

Tecmo update!



Again, Tecmo have got a great new wallpaper of Rei Kurosawa and two blue dark hands behind her!

Also BCL have got the translation of Kikuchi-san's Zero 3 interview! Check it out!

Thursday, August 11, 2005

More FF3 game-play info!






Miyu, J.Saviour, Ri Hoshino, Yume no Horousha, Lesley, Eiko, Andmebrick and Pupu have updated this GREAT GREAT info to BCL.

Okay, this is VERY spoilerlish! There is two pictures of Rei Kurosawa in a diffent costume, with cat ears.

The pictures will come soon. But now when we are talking about FF3(I do all timeXD) Miyu Tachibana have say yes to I could put more info up. Thankyou so much!

New names for ghost:

1)Topless woman--Reika

2)Topless woman's lover--Kaname

3)Kaname's father--Akito

4)Kaname's mother--Kuse Kyouka:She's the hostile ghost "flying woman" in the kimono room with a koto, a dressing table, and scary locks of hair on the wall. When she is defeated, she will cry "Akito-sama" before vanishing. Also the ghost Kei has to fight to get the key to the box.

5)The Kuse family(owner of the house of sleep)

6)Kaname's sister:Amane(probably):She is one of the four girls with hammers and nails. Kei found her sitting in the corner of a room, crying for her brother, just before the place where he jumps across the rooftop after Kaname's shadow. I think she is murdered by the other three girls in the basement before the way to the ceremony site, perhaps to prevent her from helping Kaname. (You will see her body on the floor, surrounding by the three girls, when you first reach this point.) There are blood stains and three or four nails stuck out of the floor where she used to be. (evil little girls.-.-lll)

7)Woman in hospital--Takigawa Yoshino:She's the sole survivor in a plane crash. Her parents and boyfriend/husband(?) are killed so she feels guilty for being alive, and thus is drawn into the House of Sleep.

8)A mother's ghost--Makie

9)A girl ghost--Kozue: Makie and Kozue are missing people in some old news clips. Apparently they are searching for their husband/father. Kozue also feels sorry that she is the cause of him missing, and she writes this in a note found in the game, apologizing to her mother. More will be told as to what this is all about.

If you will read more on the endings, then visit this site. (BCL)

Costumes:
Rei: a total of 4
-Black kimono with pink and blue flowers. The flowers on her kimono are irises.














-Red kimono(patterns unsure of now)
















-A working lady outfit(details will be added later)















-Gothic lolita dress with a apron(maid version). And is similar to Alice in Wonderland's dress with velvet rims and shorter length.















When there comes more(Maybe of Miku and Kei.) then I'm sure it will be post here. On that note: You can see the cats ears all the time on Rei, but that is NOT. It's only a accessories. ^_^

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Also, Beyond the Camera's Lens have got two new scans! A EGM scan and a OPM!
You can find them on BCL front site, just look down.^_^

And to them who ask me information about how to find things in FF1 and FF2, I don't want to telling that. If you need help with the game, please visit a site. And if you need cheats, then go to a cheat site. I don't post those information, because this is a update site/blog, not a helper site. It's not to be mean, but I love to help, but really, I don't post those information.

Thankyou,
Rei-Chan.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Sooo lucky!!!

I had a big problem before. I had forgot my password to this and becuse of some weird error, I couldn't find it.
Anyway, not much news yet. But here is some of the Koe sceens, there will come more on later!

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(Sorry about the messed up. It's this blog who does it!)

All credit goes to BCL! Note: This it NOT all the sceens from the movie. Take a better look on BCL's link here.... (I hope it's okay I link to your sceenshot site, Emi-Chan.^_^)

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Site update

We have got a new afilliate! Please, visit this very great site!



As well have I made two new buttons to link back to my site.

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Also, the sceens of Koe will maybe be here tomorrow.

(And from tomorrow on there will be late news, because of work, school and many more. I will update the site when I have the time, so this is my last day. And for them who email me to send Koe: I don't send Koe to everyone. I only send it to them I know and them who IS Fatal Frame fan.
Thank you,
Rei-Chan.)

Monday, August 08, 2005

A little update

This wallpaper have been told, but to showed!

Feel free to save it on your own computer, and don't take this link.















Also BCL have got great updates! Check a look, everyone! Remember: BCL and Double Shot will have spoilers from now on! Any new updates is spoilerlish, and will spoil a lot! So don't email me anymore about this, Thankyou.

And the link section is also updated here. Check out the links, you won't get nothing! :) I still need a little more links around the Project Zero/Fatal Frame world, but I promise that they will come up!

And BCL have been nice to let me use some sceenshot from Amano Tsukiko's KOE and two scans of the great singer!!^_^ Thank you so much, Emi-Chan!
The sceens will come up as soon as they can. :)



Here is the b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l scans!



Thank you, Emi-Chan!! They are so great!

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Fatal Frame 3, storyline and much much more!



Only spoilers will be in this text! Do NOT read if you don't want to spoil the game!

One of Beyond the Camera's Lens members, Tachibana Miyu, have been very nice to point out Fatal Frame 3's storyline, endings and much more!

ENDINGS:

Ending 1:

-Kei dies, and turns into ash.(Those who are covered by tattoos turn into ash)
-Rei will wake up, startled and checking whether are the tattoos still there and cried.
A strange thing is that they didn't say what happened to Miku.. oh yes, she was surrounded by ghosts when you enter her room after waking up.

Ending 2:

-All 3 of them lived and mio too!
-After defeating topless woman, the bodies of both herself and her boyfriend lies there. She is staring at the corpse of her boyfriend, eyes opened and Rei closes it for her.
-You will then keep walking till you reach a door which reveals a ocean, which in Japanese tradition, is called "常夜海", and something like "三途之川". which means the netherworld. The sky there is dark and gloomy, without anyone there. You'll see paper boats floating around but it seems to be stopped in the travel of time.
-A sound then came from the back. A wooden boat behind you. -You will then go back to topless woman and her boyfriend's bodies and put them in the boat. Pushing the boat away, like sending them to the world of the dead.
-You will then see many human shadows appearing at the end of the sea and together with the paper boats, moved towards the ocean.
-Each boat represents one dead person. The shadows move with their own little paper boats. -Then you'll see someone familiar. Who is Yu!
-Rei chases after him, begging him not to leave her and take her away as well. -But he didn't seem to hear at first. Rei then bends down crying and he appears in front of you. -By then, the tattoos would have almost overcomed every part of your body.
-Then they have a conversation:

Rei: "Yu..Yu...don't leave me again......I want go with you this time.........I want you to be with me all the time.........because of you, I have learnt many things and also because of you, I managed to survive until now........I am sorry....really sorry.........I want to go with you this time."

Yu: "Thank you........I am really glad to hear this...but....I have to go already........if you are dead, I will be very sad........I will always live in your heart when you are alive..............so....so.......I hope u can continue to live(or survive)......."

And he hugged her. By then, he took away all the tattoos on her body.
-After he disappears, Rei wakes up in peace.(That sounded strange but its important because sadly, she always wakes up in fear, pain or in a state of shock.O__o)
-In the running clips/staff introduce, the little images behind shows Miku and Rei sitting together at the beach (seems to be having a talk), Rei and Kei sitting together at a bank of river, Rei teaching Miku how to develop films and Kei introducing Mio to Miku and Rei.

Other things:

-The first ending of ff2 is used to continue ff3.
-The reason why Kei appeared is because Mio fainted and never woke up(Mio is from Fatal Frame 2:Crimson Butterfly).
-Mio has the tattoo too in the game.
-The tattoo's meaning is endless missing (missing someone).
-In other words: Rei is in the dreamland because she misses Yu, Miku because of her brother and Mio, Mayu. As for Kei, it seems like its unknown.
-Kei resembles the topless woman's boyfriend. (Now we know why she always pesters him.
-Miku fainted(she was chasing after Mafuyu (Yes, Mafuyu is back too.)
-Topless woman's name: 久室 零華 (I don't know how to convert it..and I'm pretty sure her name was revealed in other threads..^ ^)
-You CANNOT get ending 2 just by playing hard/nightmare, you must at least complete the game once. And on the second round, you have to defeat a female ghost using Kei.
After defeating her, go to her room after getting a key to a box(?) and you'll find an accessory belonging to the topless woman.That will prevent you from being killed by her.
-And the woman in the hospital is NOT Mio. She was the only survivor in a plane crach and entered the dreamworld. She is also the first person to be reduced to ask in front of you.
-Seems like the Shop is back for you to buy new clothings, accessories, movies and posters!
-It seems like the mansion is more confusing right now but the puzzles are easy.
-The black cat belongs to Miku!
-The little girls are not the mikos, they are just a part of the holding the ritual by hammering nails into the shrine maiden's body. They can be a real pain, when you fight them.
So the picture where Rei was surrounded by them, means it is battle time! (Seen from a FF3 trailer)

Camera:

-All 3 of them hold different ones but they look about the same
-Many new abilities eg: something about using all the blue balls in one shot?
All will be ruduced when you use a skill. (at the bottom left hand corner) -->"無'' is the ability...NEVER RUN OUT OF FILMS!
It is also good because you ONLY get 2 zero films in the game and less than 10 films for type 90. -->"祭" is the ability that when you take up your camera, it is automatically charged, so you can deal more damagde.
-Sadly, the 2 abilities above can only be obtained in a hard way. Like "無'' can only be obtained after finishing nightmare.


Costumes:

Rei: A total of 4
-Black kimono with pink flowers,maybe sakura
-Red kimono(patterns unsure of now)
-A working lady outfit(details will be added later)
-unknown yet!

Miku: A total of 4

-Blue kimono(patterns unsure)
-kimono(colour and patterns unsure)
-Gothic Lolita(details unsure, but it is described as the normal GL you see on street or anime)
-unknown yet!

Kei: A total of 2
-Pure dark blue Kimono
-brown kimono

Accessories:

Rei: A total of 4
-Cat ears(black at the back and white in front)
-yellow flower on her head
-unknown
-unknown

Miku: A total of 4
-Cat ears
-Hairband(looks something like that)
-unknown
-unknown

Kei: A total of 2
-light brown rope around his head
-unknown

Cat:
-crimson butterfly clip near either its left or right ear
-a piece of silk
-like material around its neck(colour unknown)

Spirits:
-There are a total of 217 spirits for you to capture in order to complete your spirit list!


Why the comeback of past characters/crismon butterfly?
Miku:
-I'm sure most of you know by now.. but she came to work under Rei, a photographer, as her assistant.
Mafuyu:
-The Mafuyu you see in the dream is NOT real. Because the mansion draws people who misses someone too much, miku imagined seeing her brother.
Mio:
-Fainting and leading to coma, she never woke up. Her uncle, Kei, being worried, went to Rei and only to find out that Mio did not wake up is because she herself was trapped in the dream.
Crimson Butterfly: -unknown yet

Storyline:
Firstly, this mansion(house of dream?) belongs to the 『久世』family. There is this shrine behind the mansion that belongs to them, built for the purpose of conducting rituals. It is to take away the pain and sorrow of the tattoo on the shrin maiden, which is very painful. After that, she will be placed at 終ノ淵 to guard the 常夜海 as to save the people of world. Men cannot enter this shrine. But there can be exceptions. When the family needs someone to continue their family line, they'll bring a man, who is a total stranger and bring him there. When he fulfils his job getting the selcted woman pregnant, he will be chased away. 秋人, is the one be brought to this place and he fall in love with 久世鏡華, thus having a child named 秋人 要. 秋人 being his family name. However, it is not acceptable to have a boy, thus the family decided to kill him. But his mother helped him to escape to a village. Later on, she had a girl named 雨音.(She is one of the little girls carrying hammer and nails) 秋人 要 fell in love with 雪代零華,who was one of the four little girls. Because 雪代零華 is an outsider.....her village was destroyed by unknown reason, so she was adopt by 久世, therefore changing her name to 久世零華. 久世零華 loved 秋人 要 but she intended to forget about him after agreeing to be the shrine maiden for the tattoo ritual. But unfortunately,秋人 要 chase her till終ノ淵 and was killed right in front of her. But to become a shrine maiden, she had to absorb the pain and sorrow from the world but because of her sudden pain and sorrow due to the death of her boyfriend, the ritual was reversed and it burst out.(something like the hellish abyss erupting in All God's Village) and ever since then, anyone who suffers from missing someone who is dead, will be attracted to the dream. But also, they must have the guilt and feeling responsible for the person their missing's death. (Eg:Miku thinks she caused her brother's death because she couldn't save him. Rei thinks she is responsible for Yuu's death. Mio thinks she is responsible for Mayu's death.)

Rituals:

1. 紫魂の儀----Use fresh blood to mix with the blood of the dead to make a type of ''ink'' to be used in the tattoo ritual. Oh yes, in the game, you'd be able to see the word "柊" in many files. It means pain in the game but from an ancient tale, it means snake or some kind of plant.(Is unsure but just some extra info for others who are interested.=)) After 柊 withers, it will flow to 涯の流水, which either means a river, valley or the other name of 常夜海. where the ending is held.

2. 刺魂の儀----The ink is used to carve 柊 on the shrine maiden, who had to guard the 常夜海.

3.咎打ち----The little girls(the little mikos whom we presume to be) are called 鎮女. It is a type of rank and their job is to hammer nails through the shrine maiden's body. And at the same time, having to sing a children song to allow her to rest in peace. The nails they carry, are a type of special wooden nail. They use it to hammer through the shrine maiden's hands and feet, sealing their sorrow.

4. 見切り----(I'll try to update more on this later)

5.戒の儀----(I'll try to update more on this later)
Thanks to Miyu & her friend for this great update!

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Also, BCL will have updates tonight. Please, check it out! And Zero Shot was really nice to make a banner. Thank you so much! It rocks!!!

And there will be ALOT of spoilers and updates now, because Zero 3 is out in Japan.

- Sources( Tachibana Miyu & Zero Shot)

Friday, August 05, 2005

Fatal Frame/ Project Zero 4?! Is it true or?

(Thanks to Zero Shot for point this out!)

The journalist who wrote this article, conserning Fatal Frame continuing on the next generation of game consoles may be mistaken.
"I said this in GameFAQs as well, but don't get too excited folks. The journalist got his facts wrong. Kikuchi-shi did not say that they were working on the next Fatal Frame game, but said that if they were to develop on a different hardware, including the possibility of the next generation consoles, he would like to add something new. This was in regards to the question whether they were going to port FF3 to the Xbox like the previous two games, which Kikuchi-shi answered that they had no plans to do that yet."

So this is NOT sure at all. Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented is just come out in Japan, and there will be more and more updates now!

And Zero Shot have also set up the LYRICS TRANSLATION OF KOE!!!


Tecmo updates!

Tecmo has a new Rei Kurosawa wallpaper up! Check it out!

GameSpot updates!

Three movies (this mean SPOILERS, everyone!) are now able to be watch.
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3


Please, save this on your own server!

- sources (Zero Shot & GameSpot)