u/buols

I finally beat Fatal Frame 2 remake on Nightmare Mode... No camera upgrades, no charms, no special shots/filters to deal damage, and no shop items

I'll upload the Head Priest fight instead of Kusabi because I'll be honest: Kusabi was VERY easy relative to the other bosses in this challenge run. I have no idea why. The guy didn't go berserk once in my successful attempt but to be fair you CAN interrupt Kusabi if you get the good RNG (where the berserk has a wind-up instead of it being instant).

The head priest is easily the HARDEST boss of this run. Since I can't use special shots, if I let the priest go up the ceiling then I'm basically screwed since I have to use the blue filter to reach him. This entire fight hinged on me having enough type-61's and type-90's to immediately hit him with if he tries flying up. This also helps with preventing the other priests from appearing in phase 2.

This entire fight required a lot of execution. Phase 1 was fine enough. The priests are VERY annoying so it took time to figure out how to get around the arena and chip away at all of them with type-07 since I needed to save my heavy hitters for phase 2. Once the head priest is alone, he's free.

I'll reserve the Kusabi fight for the full video of the run (when I upload it)

u/buols — 12 days ago

Chitose boss fight in Fatal Frame 2 Remake on nightmare mode with no camera upgrades nor charms (and I also avoided buying anything from the shop in-game).... It was painful

Edit: Forgot to mention no using filters to deal damage either

I finally made it to chapter 7 in this game. I had a run like this initially but I was ONLY using Type-07 but the Kiryu twins boss fight (at the end of Chapter 6) was sort of my breaking point lmao.

Anyway, I've been playing in a way in which I've been trying my HARDEST to conserve my more powerful films. Unfortunately, there were certain fights that forced me to use my films (notably the twins). Although at this point in the game, the bright side is I think I only have to be truly worried about 2 or 3 boss fights that might last more than 10 or 20 minutes (The annoying leading priest, Kusabi and Sae if I even bother with her). Running away or through enemies helps a lot in making this challenge run more tolerable. So yeah hopefully I can finish this one

u/buols — 2 months ago