I started Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in my homie's Wii, and I wanted to continue with the PC port. It's the same game but it has a very drastic difference in lighting engine (I think it uses FF5's port as a basis?). So it looks a bit different (left: original, right PC port). - ThreadSky

chatomaltes.bsky.social • 14 days ago

I started Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in my homie's Wii, and I wanted to continue with the PC port. It's the same game but it has a very drastic difference in lighting engine (I think it uses FF5's port as a basis?).

So it looks a bit different (left: original, right PC port).

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chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

I think the inner workings of the lighting are better and more natural, but it has two issues:
1) the brightness
2) the blue tint

Additionally I would say the bloom is another issue but for reasons I'll get to later, I'm gonna ignore it for now.

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

Even with the brightness slider turned all the way down, I don't think it looks as dark and hostile as the original. One of those instances where looking prettier isn't ideal.

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

To keep things simple, and for my sanity, I came pretty close with the Colorgrading.fx ReShade to what the game looked like originally.

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

So here are the results. (Left: original, right: 2023+ReShade). You can fine tune it further but one thing that seems consistent is that desaturating the game and applying a little sepia grading to counter the blue tint, works pretty well. 👍

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's not gonna be 1:1 because, again, the lighting engine just works differently. But it is noticeably closer and spookier, and that's what matters :D

Too bad it also affects the menus, but until someone more apt than me finds a better solution, I think I'm good.

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ok, now for the endgame: remember when I said bloom was kind of a problem?

You can remove both it and the blue fog that the game adds with this mod. But let's say improvements aren't as clear-cut. https://www.nexusmods.com/fatalframemaskofthelunareclipse/mods/9?tab=description

lilinyx.bsky.social•14 days ago

Never played a Fatal Frame game...would you recommend the series to someone who's played other survival horror games?

chatomaltes.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is my first one, so I can't say. But I'm enjoying it a lot so far!

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