Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

Crimson Butterfly is the second installment in the Fatal Frame series, although not a direct sequel to the first title, Fatal Frame. The story follows twin sisters Mio and Mayu as they explore an abandoned…

87 27 November 2003

What Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is an adventure game developed by Tecmo and released in 2003. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fatal Frame II is set in the fictional Minakami region of Japan. While a dam is being planned for construction in a forest at this location in the game's present, the site is also home to Minakami Village (lit. "All God's Village"), a "[l]ost" settlement where the majority of the game takes place. The player learns that Minakami Village was host to the "Crimson Sacrifice Ritual", the failure of which caused the settlement to vanish—thus earning it the name "The Lost Village". In the game's present, there is an urban legend about the Lost Village, where people who become lost in the Minakami forest will become trapped forever in the village. The protagonists of Fatal Frame II are Mio and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 62 votes.

What it launched against

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly launched on 27 November 2003, within three weeks of Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer