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The game was released on the [[UsefulNotes/Playstation2 [=PS2=]]] in 2005.

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The game was released on the [[UsefulNotes/Playstation2 [[Platform/Playstation2 [=PS2=]]] in 2005.
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* NightmareHands: Yashuu Kuze's ghost form has a mass of arms coming out of her back. Her move consists in commanding the arms to extend and attack the player. At some points during the battle, handprints appear on the Camera Lens in order to block the player from getting a shot of her.
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!! Fatal Frame III contains the following Tropes

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!! Fatal ''Fatal Frame III III'' contains the following Tropes
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Mio from the previous game was also lured into the Manor of Sleep and fell victim the Tattoo Curse, though it her experiences happened offscreen.]]

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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Mio from the previous game was also lured into the Manor of Sleep and fell victim the Tattoo Curse, though it this is only mentioned by her experiences happened offscreen.uncle Kei, not shown onscreen.]]

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* HappyEndingOverride: This game shows the aftermath of what happened to Mio after the events of ''Fatal Frame II''. Mio is left racked with guilt over the death of Mayu, and the police are looking to question her about Mayu's disappearance. Turns out that defeating the final boss and laying a town to rest doesn't mean mental trauma will automatically disappear. When Kei locates Mio in the dream, she's still agonizing over Mayu's death.
* GuideDangIt/LastLousyPoint: Par for the course with these games, there's quite a few hidden ghosts that show up in out-of-the-way locations you have no business being in. Most notable are the little sidequest to open the secret passage on the foyer in Hour IX, and the one to reach the Enclosded Room in Hour XIII.

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* GuideDangIt: Par for the course with these games, there's quite a few hidden ghosts that show up in out-of-the-way locations you have no business being in. Most notable are the little sidequest to open the secret passage on the foyer in Hour IX, and the one to reach the Enclosded Room in Hour XIII.
* HappyEndingOverride: This game shows the aftermath of what happened to Mio after the events of ''Fatal Frame II''. [[spoiler: Mio is left racked with guilt over the death of Mayu, and the police are looking to question her about Mayu's disappearance. Turns out that defeating the final boss and laying a town to rest doesn't mean mental trauma will automatically disappear. When Kei locates Mio in the dream, she's still agonizing over Mayu's death. \n* GuideDangIt/LastLousyPoint: Par for the course with these games, there's quite a few hidden ghosts that show up in out-of-the-way locations you have no business being in. Most notable are the little sidequest to open the secret passage on the foyer in Hour IX, and the one to reach the Enclosded Room in Hour XIII.]]


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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Mio from the previous game was also lured into the Manor of Sleep and fell victim the Tattoo Curse, though it her experiences happened offscreen.]]
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* GuideDangIt/LastLousyPoint: Par for the course with these games, there's quite a few hidden ghosts that show up in out-of-the-way locations you have no business being in. Most notable are the little sidequest to open the secret passage on the foyer in Hour IX, and the one to reach the Enclosded Room in Hour XIII.

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* HappyEndingOverride: This game shows the aftermath of what happened to Mio after the events of ''Fatal Frame II''. Mio is left racked with guilt over the death of Mayu, and the police are looking to question her about Mayu's disappearance. Turns out that defeating the final boss and laying a town to rest doesn't mean mental trauma will automatically disappear. When Kei locates Mio in the dream she's still agonizing over Mayu's death.

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* HappyEndingOverride: This game shows the aftermath of what happened to Mio after the events of ''Fatal Frame II''. Mio is left racked with guilt over the death of Mayu, and the police are looking to question her about Mayu's disappearance. Turns out that defeating the final boss and laying a town to rest doesn't mean mental trauma will automatically disappear. When Kei locates Mio in the dream dream, she's still agonizing over Mayu's death.



* LeakingCanOfEvil: The Rift. When the ritual to seal it away failed, the head of the shrine attempted to seal it into a dream world (the Manor of Sleep) to prevent it from spreading. This still doesn't work, however, as it draws people suffering from SurvivorGuilt into it, allowing it to spread.



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* RunOrDie

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** When The Kusabi appears in the Minakami village section of the game, the player can choose to fight him because he's no longer a OneHitKill as in the previous game, but it's not necessary. There is one short time where the player must run from him, and that's when Kei first meets him because the camera doesn't work on him. But it's sometimes a good idea to defeat The Kusabi, since he tends to spawn in narrow hallways that don't work in the player's favor.

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** When The Kusabi appears in the Minakami village section of the game, the player can choose to fight him because he's no longer a OneHitKill as in the previous game, but it's not necessary. There is one short time where the player must run from him, and that's when Kei first meets him because the camera doesn't work on him. But it's sometimes a good idea to defeat flee from The Kusabi, since he tends to spawn in narrow hallways that don't work in the player's favor.
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** The Stroller Grandma can easily OneHitKill, though she also goes down with a shot or two.

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** The Stroller Grandma can easily OneHitKill, OneHitKill you, though she also goes down with a shot or two.
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* DarkestHour: The beginning of Hour XIII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky rather fittingly]], is when things have started to seriously go downhill for the heroes. [[spoiler: The Tattooed Curse is rapidly spreading, Miku and Kei have been rendered comatose (in a first playthrough, Kei is already ''dead''), and Rei is the only one left who can stop Reika and try to put an end to the sheer suffering everyone has endured.]]

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* DarkestHour: The beginning of Hour XIII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky rather fittingly]], is when things have started to seriously go downhill for the heroes. [[spoiler: The Tattooed Curse is rapidly spreading, starts spreading into its final stages, rendering Miku and Kei have been rendered comatose (in a first playthrough, Kei is already ''dead''), and the curse outright ''kills'' Kei), leaving Rei is as the only one left who can stop Reika and try to put an end to the sheer suffering everyone has endured.]]
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* CastingGag: Rei Kurosawa and Rei Kuze may serve as the game's protagonist and antagonist respectively, and their full names also start with the same letters. However, they are completely different characters. Despite of this fact, both also share the same voice actors Junko Minagawa (Japanese) and Kimberly Brooks (English).
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* IdiotBall: The protagonists know that something otherworldly and lethal is going on, and that they have a genuine piece of anti-ghost technology in the house, that they even know how to use, not one of them thinks of trying to fix the Camera Obscura in Yuu's room in an attempt to resist or even cure the Tattoo Curse.
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* DarkestHour: The beginning of Hour XIII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky rather fittingly]], is when things have started to seriously go downhill for the heroes. The Tattooed Curse is rapidly spreading, Miku and Kei have been rendered comatose (in a first playthrough, Kei is outright ''dead''), and Rei is the only one left who can stop Reika and try to put an end to the sheer suffering everyone has endured.

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* DarkestHour: The beginning of Hour XIII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky rather fittingly]], is when things have started to seriously go downhill for the heroes. [[spoiler: The Tattooed Curse is rapidly spreading, Miku and Kei have been rendered comatose (in a first playthrough, Kei is outright already ''dead''), and Rei is the only one left who can stop Reika and try to put an end to the sheer suffering everyone has endured.]]
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* DarkestHour: The beginning of Hour XIII, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky rather fittingly]], is when things have started to seriously go downhill for the heroes. The Tattooed Curse is rapidly spreading, Miku and Kei have been rendered comatose (in a first playthrough, Kei is outright ''dead''), and Rei is the only one left who can stop Reika and try to put an end to the sheer suffering everyone has endured.

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* BoringButPractical: Miku's Camera Obscura only has the Sacred Stone and Double as combat functions. This doesn't stop her from potentially being ''the'' strongest character in the game.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: To obtain the Good Ending of the game, the player must manage to find a certain item on a consecutive playthrough, with very little in-game hints that this item is even available to obtain.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: To obtain the Good Ending of the game, the player must manage to find a certain item on a [[NewGamePlus consecutive playthrough, playthrough]], with very little in-game hints that this item is even available to obtain.



* GenderRestrictedAbility: Women like Rei and Miku have a stronger sixth sense, meaning they can inflict more damage with the Camera Obscura. And men like Kei are the only ones that have the physical strength to push [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence a dresser]] out of the way.

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* GenderRestrictedAbility: Women like Rei and Miku have a stronger sixth sense, meaning they can inflict more damage with the Camera Obscura. And men like Kei are the only ones that have the physical strength to push [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence a dresser]] dresser or a bookshelf]] out of the way.



* HopeSpot: Near the end of the game, Kei arrives and tells Rei that he's found a way to stop the Tattoo Curse for good. [[spoiler:He plans to enter the Chamber of Thorns and stake Reika to the ground. Unfortunately, when he enters the chamber and sees that she's already staked, he realizes his research and attempt were futile.]]

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* HopeSpot: Near the end of the game, Kei arrives and tells Rei that he's found a way to stop the Tattoo Curse for good. [[spoiler:He plans to enter the Chamber of Thorns and stake Reika to the ground. Unfortunately, when he enters the chamber and sees that she's already staked, he realizes his research and attempt were futile.]] If this is the first playthrough, Kei is ''doomed.'']]



** [[BittersweetEnding Normal Ending]]: Complete the game on any difficulty. [[spoiler:Rei sends Reika and Kaname onward, and she meets Yuu at the Abyss. He takes on her tattoo and tells her to keep on living. Rei and Miku awaken from their nightmares and are free from the curse, but Kei remains dead and it's implied that Mio has also died from the Tattoo Curse.]]
** [[GoldenEnding Alternate Ending]]: Only available on New Game Plus. Complete the game on any difficulty, but the player must have found the Echo Stone Earring while playing as Kei. The events of the ending are the same, except [[spoiler:that Kei never died when Reika confronted him in the Chamber of Thorns. He survives and awakens, with the credits showing that Mio has also survived]]. According to official reading material, this is the canon ending and makes this one of the rare games that end on a happy note.

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** [[BittersweetEnding Normal Ending]]: Complete the game on any difficulty. [[spoiler:Rei sends Reika and Kaname onward, and she meets Yuu at the Abyss. He takes on her tattoo and tells her to keep on living. Rei and Miku awaken from their nightmares and are free from the curse, but Kei remains is dead and it's implied that Mio has also died from the Tattoo Tattooed Curse.]]
** [[GoldenEnding Alternate Ending]]: Only available on New Game Plus. Complete the game on any difficulty, but the player must have found the Echo Stone Earring while playing as Kei. The events of the ending are the same, except [[spoiler:that Kei never died when Reika confronted him in the Chamber of Thorns. He survives and awakens, with the credits showing that Mio has also survived]].survived and gets to meet Rei and Miku]]. According to official reading material, this is the canon ending and makes this one of the rare games that end on a happy note.



* ShootTheBuilder: The Carpenters were turned into Sacrificial Pillars after completing work on the Kuze shrine.

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* ShootTheBuilder: The Carpenters were turned into Sacrificial Pillars after completing work on the Kuze shrine. [[spoiler: Six of them were not willing to and had to be chased down and killed.]]
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* SchmuckBait: The Hair Brushing Woman can be seen as a silhouette behind a partition wall. Taking a picture of her causes her to spawn practically in front of Kei, and she needs to be defeated.

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* SchmuckBait: The Kyouka Kuze, also known as the Hair Brushing Woman Woman, can be seen as a silhouette behind a partition wall. Taking a picture of her causes her to spawn practically in front of Kei, and she needs to be defeated.

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