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Why Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is Secretly Genius

RagnarRox

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Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is a highly overlooked gem and my personal favorite entry in the entire series. In this video I’m going to try to pin down why I believe this one is the secretly genius masterstroke of the PS2-era trilogy and how it manages to lift its predecessors even higher and combine them to an inseparable unity of survival horror games.

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00:00 Introduction
03:00 Sponsor
04:30 Part 1 - Life is a Dream Walking...
10:45 Part 2 - Rei Amakura’s Folkloric Detective Agency
17:35 Part 3 - Real Human Bean and a Real Heroine
22:50 Part 4 - The Consommation of an Inseparable Trinity
34:10 Part 5 - Fatal Frame III is the Silent Hill (4) of Fatal Frames
40:35 Epilogue - ... Death is Coming Home
44:00 Credits

Check out my previous video on the first two Fatal Frame games:

Fatal Frame of (How Folklore Brings Horror to Life)
Fatal Frame or (How Folklore Brings Horror...

Fatal Frame II is an (almost) perfect Horror Game
Fatal Frame II is an (almost) Perfect Horr...

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Writing Credits
Copy-Editing: Matt Cox, Michael Saba

Music Credits
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contains samples from
Fatal Frame I, II & III soundtrack, Silent Hill 2,3,4, Diablo, Creaks, The Void, Pathologic
The Cure - Lullaby
Nine Inch Nails - Tetsuo the Bullet Man Main Theme

20 Comments

@RagnarRoxShow Creator 5 years ago Pinned

Addendum:
1) Since people are asking: I hadn't planned to cover further games in the series, but I'm not saying it couldn't happen. It's a thing I certainly considered, that's not planned at the moment but that I might just get around to one day, we'll see.
2) I am incredibly sorry and embarrassed that I, somehow while making this video got a mnemonic twist in my brain and started referring to the protagonist as Rei Amakura instead of Rei Kurosawa.🙇
This hurts my soul, haha...I totally have been aware that her last name is Kurosawa since I always found it cool that her last name was a nod to Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of Kairo(Pulse) who heavily inspired the series - but somewhere during production I must have had gotten twist in my brain from "Kei Amakura" sounding so similar and neither I nor 2 people copy-editing the script ever once noticed it in the past weeks. Very strange indeed.
I have to take it with a laugh, but it's... painful. My Apologies.🤣

@ProperBird 5 years ago

"You can pet the cat in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented."

@BoarSin 5 years ago

the last thing rei said at the end of the game is so beautiful that even now i still get emotional every time i hear her say it: "i'll go on living, even with the pain"

@skullface435 5 years ago

"It's raining again..."

@no.402 5 years ago

This series is so underrated and needs a return.

@Cirquet 5 years ago

This game really got me. Does anyone remember that part where a pair of legs just randomly appears in the closet in Rei's house? After playing for a while, I saw them out of the corner of my eye, just for a second, then when I looked closer they were gone. Seriously thought I was going insane because why would there be legs there? It makes no sense. I don't think there's been another game that made me question my own sanity like that.

@peejaycruz6898 1 year ago

Since fatal frame 2 remake will be releasing, I hope 3 will have remake too

@ronaldcharan2705 5 years ago

The tormented is very underrated. Scared me more than the first two. Especially the home exploration parts.

@sinmenon4347 5 years ago

Fatal Frame III is my favorite in the series for a number of reasons: its deeply personal journey along with a refined game design and maps already make it a wonderful journey, but as stated it also brings the best aspects of the previous games and elevates them. My first experience with the game was, weirdly enough, enjoyed with friends: I was a FF1 veteran, while my best friend played only FF2, and we decided to play this game during a weekend. Even with company, it was such a haunting, heavy experience. At one point one of our friends decided to turn off the lights to enhance the experience and I had to turn it back on when I noticed my friend with tears of fear in her eyes -- and she had been playing horror games since the release of Resident Evil! This game is truly special.

@moonwolfyowane6183 5 years ago

I find the manor of Sleep to the be the scariest place in the entire Fatal Frame series, due to one simple reason: The manor is in a dream world. Which means that people who have played the game could actually go to the manor of sleep in their own dreams as well. I have a few times and it was down right scary. Basically showing that the devs of Fatal Frame 3 made a world that is not only unforgettable but one that is impactful.

@MsAquamonkey 5 years ago

This game made me cry, and continues to do so. I adore it.

@thes7984 5 years ago

Thank you for adding a time stamp for "sponsor", I hate to sit through two mini videos of 15 seconds just to start the video plus the mid intermissions of the same while you're watching and now the sponsors of the creators on top of that. Now with a time stamp we can just skip that. Thank you

@Chris_MarMar 5 years ago

"You seem to be having a lot of nightmares lately. Are you alright?"

@alaricbullard1507 1 year ago

Always seek the kitty's blessing between trips.

@vabvaab 5 years ago

Favorite of the series for me, too. It just has a depth of character development that's unmatched.

@tyrant-den884 5 years ago

It's kind of weird seeing a Japanese game being so actively and embracing being the third game in a series.

@EMalachi 5 years ago

The most memorable part of this game was at the beginning when my friend and I joked about the boyfriend's name.

"It's you."

"Who?"

"Yuu."

@lesteryaytrippy7282 5 years ago

I wanted the Holly and Snake tattoo as a tattoo back when I played this game but right now I'm still thinking about it. The whole Fatal Frame franchise before 4 was just genius.

@twinblademasta 5 years ago

You never even mentioned how the ending led into the credits with the single most powerful song about the emotional journey of grief i've ever heard so perfectly. Koe is hands down Amano Tsuki's best work

@nyxaria8557 5 years ago

Finally a video dedicated to FF3 as much as I loved FF2, FF3 did not disappoint. They intertwined all the story from the previous games so well. Even if the Manor is your only area (aside the FF1 & 2 Areas) it still feels big and doesn't seem repetitve in quests. The story of being haunted by your dreams is true esp in Asian Culture. Here in the PH, its called "Bangungot", old people will warn those that their loved ones who recently died to not follow them in their dreams or they do not come back. I really loved all the other stories involved in the Manor, lot of fucked up ones like Sacrificial Pillars and Maidens.