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I love this game as a horror gaming entrepreneur. It has so many things in it that the subsequent games do not have. (It's similar to how Silent Hill 1 is so different than every other SH.) The next part of this will be a bit spoilerific so, read it at your own caution.
This game came about when they were still testing ideas. Being that they were "testing" some of these ideas weren't implemented in later games, for a variety of reasons. One of the major things I really liked about the first game was the inclusion of non-human ghosts. (Yokai may be a better term for them.) They had spirits such as the "ghost with long hair" who was a demon from hell, or the floating mist who lost form because it traveled through time too much. Then even had monk ghosts who were able to use magic on you. This made sense as the main plot is the gate of hell being open and causing the calamity. (I might be using the wrong term and that was used in II, I can't remember. But you know what I mean.)
Why can't the later games have this? They seem to lack it and just reuse the scare tactics of these games. Using the same human ghost figures to scare you gets old after awhile. Why not all those anthropomorphic weird spirits you can't identify making a come back in later games? I miss them.
They also reuse the same base system of the story from this game which is more than a little annoying. (It's alright in II, but after that it gets predictable and annoying.) I like Rei in III, the characters are nice but the story is so convoluted it's hard to follow. This formula started in this game. However, this game had a lot of things to help you understand it. So did II when it followed suit. When III tried to tie together all 3 games it made the story a literal mess.
The biggest complaint is the "power walking" that the game calls "running". It's worse on male characters who seem to be slower. Look, if I were in a haunted mansion I'd run my butt off away from evil spirits! Don't think this aspect of the game changes when you get into later titles either, because it doesn't. They never fix it.
Another issue is the first game is so hard. Especially meeting the monk ghosts. My advice to rectify some of the hard ghosts such as the Himuro family master is to max out your main camera equipment such as lenses and power, and wait to actually get the cool moves such as paralyze or slow. This sounds like it won't work and I didn't believe it either. I read a guide and tested it. I beat the Himuro family master with ease. The extras of the camera are not worth it until the entire thing is updated.
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