Developer : Tecmo Koei Games
Release date : June 29, 2012
Synopsis :
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition, known as Zero ~Shinku no Chou~ (零 〜眞紅の蝶〜, lit. “Zero: Deep Crimson Butterfly”) in Japan, is a survival horror video game developed by Tecmo Koei Games and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It was released in Japan and Australia on June 28, 2012 and in Europe on June 29, 2012. The game is a remake of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2003.
Just like in the original, Project Zero 2: Wii Edition is set in the Minakami (皆神村) 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, Mio and Mayu Amakura, are twin sisters who are visiting their favorite childhood playspot in Minakami, before it is lost in the dam construction. The main antagonist is the vengeful spirit of Sae Kurosawa, the sole Twin Shrine Maiden sacrificed for the failed ritual. She yearns to reunite with her twin sister Yae, whom she mistakes Mio for, and possesses Mayu to try and complete the ritual with her. Other characters include Itsuki Tachibana, a young man who also mistakes Mio for Yae, but instead tries to help her and Mayu escape; and Seijiro Makabe, a folklorist who visited Minakami Village with a Camera Obscura prototype (the same camera Mio uses in the game) and his assistant, Ryozo Munakata. Makabe later became a temporary sacrifice for the Abyss, known as a Kusabi (楔). Although Mio and Mayu’s story takes place after Miku Hinasaki’s, the events of Minakami Village occur before those of the Himuro mansion in the original game.
Source : Wikipedia
