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Last year, Nintendo published the frightening Wii-exclusive action title, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, in Japan. Since then, fans have waited for the company's U.S. subsidiary to announce a stateside release of the game, which was developed by Tecmo and Grasshopper Manufacture.

And waited. And waited some more.

In early April, MTV had the chance to speak with NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime about the subject and the executive shot down hopes for a local debut of Fatal Frame, saying: "We are not the publisher of that title in the Americas."

Buh? Nintendo published the title in Japan so it was thought that the company would do the same for the game in America. Apparently not. Which publishers does that leave open to do it? The only other possibility is Tecmo, which had up until Mask of the Lunar Eclipse published all Fatal Frame games. So we contacted the third-party in hopes that it might shed some light on the subject and simultaneously offer stateside Wii owners a hopeful solution to the calamity.

No such luck.

A Tecmo spokesperson gave IGN the following statement:

"Nintendo holds the publishing rights to 'Fatal Frame Wii,' which was developed by Tecmo LTD. and Grasshopper Manufacture and released in Japan on July 31, 2008. Nintendo of America has since then decided not to publish the title in North America – consequently, the title will not be released in this territory. As the owner of the IP, Tecmo feels very unfortunate that the fans of the series in North America will not have a chance to play the game, but respects the final decision made by Nintendo of America."

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Read this from Siliconera, Remaster coming:

Last year, the Fatal Frame series had its 20th anniversary. We had numerous considerations on what we could do to all the fans who have supported us up until then. As a result, we released a remaster of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water.

After some time passed from the release, it gathered much attention from everyone, and we received various kinds of opinions. We actually feel glad that people around the world hope to see a sequel and [other] series titles get released.

There are also people who started playing Fatal Frame with Maiden of Black Water, so we have the desire to convey more of the appeals from Japanese-style horror games. We decided to remaster and release Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, which was also requested a lot. It will take a bit more time until release, but we are currently developing it, so please wait until the release.
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Trailer is up:
 
Producer posted this:
 
They tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618900680353415168

Translated by Siliconera:

The Twitter account for the Fatal Frame series released the “Which Ghost Was The Scariest” poll results. Ghosts from the entire series were eligible in the poll. Although the poll results show the top ten, two ghosts got the same amount of votes and tied for ninth place.

Here are the results of the scariest ghost poll for Fatal Frame:

  1. Crawling Woman (Fatal Frame III)
  2. Tall Woman (Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water)
  3. Bloody Kimono – Sae Kurosawa (Fatal Frame II)
  4. Fallen Woman (Fatal Frame II)
  5. Woman in Black – Kageri Sendou (Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse)
  6. Blind Demon (Fatal Frame)
  7. Broken Neck Woman (Fatal Frame II)
  8. Broken Neck Woman (Fatal Frame)
  9. Tattooed Priestess – Reika Kuze (Fatal Frame III)
  10. Fuyuhi With Cut Throat (Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water)
 
I'm a big fan of the Fatal Frame series, it's great and I love the fact they're on nintendo consoles. Project Zero 2 for the Wii is amazing :)
 
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