Hi guys, ive posted on here in the past but its been a while. Ive been playing FF3 off and on the past three years and am curious what your opinion of the ending is? I ask this because it seems pretty tough to get to that final boss and although its doable im sure, just curious what the majority of you thought. Also as to what a good suggestion to get through to the ending and beat the boss. Ive read some gamefaqs ideas in the past, just wondering if its worth what clearly is a fair bit of work to finish. Ive noticed the game sells for a good price, clearly this is a rare game indeed . Hope everyone is doing well here on the Fatal Frame forums!

Well, there are 2 endings to Fatal Frame III, the second one is only available to obtain once you've gone through the game once already.

*SPOILER WARNING*

So, 1st ending, full cinematic FMV, pretty decent, Rei see's Yuu again. I like it that in the US version Yuu completely takes on Rei's tattoos. (JP version he takes them away, but they don't transfer to his body). It's emotional and sad and great.

The only bad thing about the ending is that it leaves Mio's fate ambigious...and a lot of fatal frame fans still argue if she survived or succumbed to the curse etc. Since she's loved as much (if not more) than Miku, the first ending kinda hurts her character.

I also really would have loved an optional ending where Rei fell pray to the curse. :> Her surviving, when everyone else around her seemed to have a much stronger willpower and desire to live, seemed completely unfair.

Ending 2 - I *REALLY* like this ending because Kei survived. His 'hiding' ability aside, Kei is a really interesting character....and I dislike it that when you play the game the first time he 'dies'. The only nitpick about the second ending, is that Project Zero pulled a 'Fatal Frame Xbox ending' with this ending. The FMV is exactly the same (save for being cut off right before Rei starts to cry)...and the credits run...with photographs of 'what happened afterwards'. It really would have been nice to have a fully rendered FMV. I would have waited several months more for that if needed! :>

It is a 'nice' ending, because the Photos show Kei introducing Mio to Rei & Miku, thus showing she survived and was OK.

So yeah, I don't know...if you're asking 'is it worth it', I definately think it is for a first runthrough...if you're like me and want all the costumes and accessories, then definately play through a couple more times. But, after FF2 with its larger variety of endings, FF3 seemed to cut extremely short in that department. (Even when FF1 did do a photographic ending for the Xbox version of the game, the game already did have two fully rendered completely different endings)

Thanks kindly, Emi for the info! Ive been dabbling with some other ps2 games, currently playing zone of enders 2, but expect to get back to and finish Fatal Frame 3. The Fatal Frame series is one of the few i consider a "first day" purchase so i highly anticipate what they will be doing on the ps3. Eventually i will purchase one if not this year. I expect sometime in the near future as the bluray format becomes basically the format of choice, that for my next gen console gaming, i will go with ps3.

Ack...

you do know the fourth game has already been announced..for the Wii console right? :> Tecmo Japan announced the game at it's Winter Press Conference (in january)

Ah! Oh well guess i wont be playing FF4 then. I guess they gotta go with whatever format they think will do best for their game. Thanks for the feedback Emi!