I refused to spend that much on a game, but I kept checking back anyway to see when used copies would be posted and if they would sell for a cheaper price. Sadly, unopened copies of the game that were posted on eBay ranged from $80 to $100 in price. I monitored eBay since 2008 to see if and when copies of FF4 would appear.
(Read my review of Crimson Butterfly here.) Thankfully, that game had an English language track and more copies were produced due to its European release, so it wasn't difficult to find, purchase and play. A remake of Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly was released for the Wii in 2012, but that was released in Japan and Europe and not in the United States.
I was excited to hear that this series was finally coming to Nintendo through the Wii-a console that I actually owned-but I was crushed to learn that the release of FF4 was limited to Japan. I had heard about the Fatal Frame series (which is known as Project Zero in Japan) as far back as 2001, but the original trilogy was only released PlayStation 2. I've been keeping an eye on FF4 ever since it was first announced for the Wii back in 2007. If you're an avid survival horror fan who owns a Wii and isn't fluent in Japanese, now is the ideal time to pick up a copy of FF4. Not only was it designed exclusively with Wii's motion controls in mind, but a group of devoted fans got together to release an English subtitle patch for it back in 2010. This post is about my recent effort to purchase one of my many, many white whales: Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, a 2008 Wii game that was only released in Japan.įatal Frame 4 (or FF4) holds a special significance for a numbers of reasons. A true fan occasionally goes above and beyond the routine call of geekdom to locate and acquire rare items, items that either didn't sell well upon their initial release or were sold exclusively in another country.
As I've mentioned before in other posts, being a geeky fan means more than just picking up the latest novel, movie, or collectible from the genre and/or franchise of your preference- anyone can do that.
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