My favourite video game of all time!
This game is absolutely fantastic, with a wonderful and spooky storyline and a sweet but very slow main character, along with an annoying twin sister who disappears every time you turn the other way. Mio, whom you play as most of the time, walks at the speed of a snail and runs at the speed of an ever-so-slightly motivated snail. Very slow indeed.
Besides her inability to run at a normal pace, Mio is an enjoyable player with a knack for photography. Sometimes. Mayu, her sister, on the other hand, can only limp along, cower when a ghost appears, and disappear every few seconds. [I suppose that's unfair. When she is actually with you (which is a whopping 40% of the time) the ghosts that you are fighting often go for her instead, and as she seems to have a lot more stamina than her sister, it's quite handy for scoring a Fatal Frame.]
The ghosts are terrifying, from the ones that simply stare at you and then vanish, to the ones who attack you.
Personally, I am pretty much useless at capturing the vanishing ghosts, unless they are stationary and linger for more than one second. When fighting ghost however, I am not as bad, though I despise the ones that teleport around because I am stupid and 1. don't switch out of Finder mode, and 2. often forget to use the tell-tale filament to locate them.
The soundtrack is beyond creepy. Let me just say that I cannot play the game at night. Speaking of music and such, the theme song, Chou, by Tsukiko Amano, is absolutely gorgeous and I am quite obsessed with it.
[I am currently trying to think of something wrong with the game. No luck thus far.] Well, it seems this game is flawless, though I am extremely biased by my love for it.
All in all, I think it will be my favourite out of the series, even though I can't say that, really, because I have never played the 1st one, but am planning to get it very soon.