What’s your history with the series (how did you get into them?)
I recently got all the endings in FF2R (would have been nice to have the platinum/100%, but the grind seemed a little much) and was thinking back to how I first got into playing the series.
It must have been around early/mid 2006 for me, I sat next to a guy in high school history class and I noticed he kept coming to school tired. Yawning, dozing off, etc.
After like the second day of this, I asked him what was up. He said he had been playing a super scary horror game series and literally couldn’t sleep at night thanks to the games. If he did fall asleep, he would have horrible nightmares and he seemed paranoid he was being haunted IRL.
Naturally I had to ask what games, and he told me he had been playing the Fatal Frame series. I had heard of them before, mostly through the hype around 2 being called the scariest game of all time. I hadn’t touched it due to being honestly a bit intimidated of horror games up to that point, but now I was a little older and after hearing this guy’s story, I had to play them.
So that same day I went to GameStop and found used Xbox Director’s Cut copies of 1 and 2 and bought them. I was able to play them on my Xbox 360 that had just come out, so that was kinda cool.
I updated my classmate about my playthroughs over the next couple weeks and gave my impressions about the various ghosts and characters. I didn’t find the games sleep-depriving scary, but they were creepy and I loved the lore.
After that, I played more of the games in the series over the years and loved them. Despite trading a bunch of my older games in, I’ve still held on to those Xbox copies of 1 and 2 for over 20 years (glad I did as they seem worth close to $100 US each now).
I since lost contact with that classmate, but I actually have him on my PSN friends list to this day. He has had like one sign-in over the past decade that I’ve seen, but I I thought it would have been cool if I saw him pop up playing FF2R.
Anyway sorry for the likely overly long-winded post, but I wanted to hear other players’ stories of getting into the series. How did you find out about it? First game you tried and impressions at the time?