Style: Video game music, dark ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: Watching an apparition get closer and closer and closer through a lens only to try and ward them off at the exact last moment... do I fail or succeed?
Thoughts: The Camera Obscura, a lens into another world. A camera that lets you see into the spirit world, a world where the denizens do not take kindly to those who still have life. A place where only those who have the means to survive can extend their life. This is the world of Fatal Frame.
The concept of the game is simple: survive. You only have a few meager items, the first and foremost being the camera. The spirits are warded away as it takes pictures, but it takes a while to reload the film, and there is limited amounts. Do you run or do you try and ward off the spirits for good? These are the choices that the player must face at any moment.
As the spirits get closer the music begins to build. The murmurs grow and the noise mounts to a near incomprehensible cacophony of sounds and voices. Voices asking for forgivness, seeking refuge, anger, danger... anything that comes to mind can be the subject of these wandering spirits.
While there is not much to the individual "songs" in the world of Fatal Frame, the atmosphere that they create is outright hellish. This is not the kind of album you put on to relax to, this is something you put on to create an instant aura of fear. Not light listening in the slightest.
Written September 16th 2024
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