Mini Review: Ghosts from the past come back to haunt you...
Like i seem to mention a lot this first game has a good foundation that is eclipsed by the sequel. The main positive point about this game is that using the camera to catch ghosts is still quite fun and really creepy at the same time. I would even say that I was unnerved more than the sequel thanks to really good ghost design near the start of the game. Other than that the rest of the game doesn't quite feel right.
First up the difficulty is kind of unbalanced since most of the areas make it impossible to dodge a ghost. Plus some types of ghosts just seem to appear within attack range without much warning which is annoying since it usual only takes 3 hits till a game over. Yet other parts of the game seem super easy and the final boss was a joke compared to the night one boss. Since the entire game is within one house this game also has a issue with backtracking although it doesn't happen to often and they open up new areas each night. Plus the story they tell about what happened in the mansion wasn't really that interesting. I would mainly recommend this game to anyone that likes to play every game in a franchise but otherwise this one is worth skipping since the sequel is a better game overall.