Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water is a game that is actually 6-7 hours but since you spend so much time moving slowly and watching characters slowly take their time to pick up stuff and open doors and getting grabbed by ghost hands(which gets old very fast) and the needing to pick the item up again, the game is much longer as a result.
Before you think about bashing the Dead Space games for their waypoint systems, just remember Maiden of Dark Water's straight up lies to you, is confusing to follow and then the game randomly decides you don't need it anymore and then decides to give it back to you.
The combat is decent but it's nothing special overall, and it's like Resident Evil 4 where the action parts instead of being a pace breaker, now plays a huge part of the game. Where RE4 always knew when to break up the pace until the Island section and throws something new at the player, this game often just consist of the same combat encounters of, see ghost pop up, then wait for a Fatal Frame shot or Shutter, then ghost runs away, then he reappears, after wait for a Fatal Frame or Shutter, maybe get hit on occasion and heal yourself using the clunky menu controls of putting away the camera then opening the menu to get the item, rinse and repeat.
To add to all of this, the slow movement and watching animations play out you then have to occasionally fight respawning enemies and the fights can take awhile padding out the game even more.
The game also feels weird with the whole being able to buy items while also having items being pointed out to you while on the beaten path and the whole stealth game arrow system telling you where exactly they are.
I can see why many are lukewarm on this, I get some enjoyment with the ghost fighting but the game feels way too padded for even that to be consistently enjoyable. I think this was supposed to a more "casual" take on the series but even as that, the game is way too confused about the whole thing to the point where newcomers and causal fans(I guess I am the latter) won't find much to enjoy
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