FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO 零
Tier list?
Best versions?
Shit list?
I've played 1,3,4 and Wiimake. I've played Wiimake multiple times. I've played 4 twice now. The rest once. I've never beaten the game beyond Normal, maybe Hard on Wiimake. Beaten the Wii ones on native then emulator.
Having just beaten 4 again, honestly the Wii games are dogshit. I knew this much already as the same pains come up everytime I tell myself I'm going to play through them to get all the endings and shit. They're great for extras, lots of pretty costumes with fuckable TecmoKoei characters to keep things fresh, more recent visuals.
However, everything about the gameplay is about wasting your time and not much else. Picking up everything up is a minigame, load times are now awful, running speed is awful (only reason I rebeat Wii games on emulator is cause they have movement speed increase to 6x at button press). Particularly in games where exploring all past areas after every chapter is key to finding everything on offer. It's torture. Cannot see all around character at all times. 4 is super casual because you can buy a million health boosts and powerful film with the points you get. Aiming is now done automatically and just waiting for the right moment. Aiming up and down at points is done by tilting the wiimote which is fucking awful. Long ass areas to run through just to find the right event trigger.
I fired up the first game on PCSX2 just for curiousity and holy fuck it's so much better. Even in the first few minutes you can get stuff done by just doing it, where as the new ones are deteremined to consume as much time as possible. Thanks RE4.
They also have classic RE controls and full retard controls in the older games, where as the Wii games are RE4 style only.
Worth noting the first game is 60fps and looks so pleasing on the eyes. Watching some Xbox gameplay via youtube it looks to be the best version, even rivalling PCSX2. I'm interested to know if the 2nd game on Xbox is 60fps as well but I suspect that's a no. 3rd game is PS2 only so 30fps only like 2nd game.
I knew the older games were much better, but I was more inclined towards higher polygon waifus, but now I feel it needs to be said that people should stay the fuck away from the wii games at all costs.
I used to think 2 was the best one (just from playing the wiimake), but thinking back 3 years to when I first did a single playthrough of the 4 games, I would dare to suggest 1 and 3 are the best. For me, 2 has too much running around between the locations, where as 1 and 3 are more compact. 3's twist actually seems interesting in hindsight for the multi-character approach for the first time in the series changing your approach, though I do remember the time-limit portion of the game being ballbreaking when trying to find what you're looking for.
3 does have the story piece in between chapters which could be a hassle if I went for multiple difficulties in succession, but I would prefer it compared to 2's running simulator all the time.
So all this interest came about out of nowhere, apart from I've bought a Wii U again because I sperged out on an eBay auction and I'm on the fence about whether to splash on the physical version of Project Zero V. I've hard some bad things, but I'm sure it's worth one playthrough? The running speed looks improved, Wii U gamepad might actually be really good for the game. Not sure about door loading times. Funny enough I flipped two copies of the limited release for a profit at release so I deserve to pay $100 for a copy. Shame about the bikinis but it will do for now until a few years and Wii U emulator with modded ISO etc. Dunno how CFW Wii U is and whether they already have it all fixed already, but I want this Wii U for playing online and I'm not sure what FW it's on.
