Unfortunately, these few variations don’t mix up the rest of the experience at all. On rare occasions, the game places you in a unique situation where you have to time photos in different ways, which helps a bit. Equally so, the amount of time you use the camera throughout the 12-hour romp proves too repetitive to feel fresh and gratifying the entire time.
Lining up five or more focal points feels so gratifying because enemies naturally move around so much. The more focal points you align in your shot, the more damage you inflict on the in-frame targets. Unlike objects, enemies release spirits as you take pictures, and each one acts as another focal point for your picture. Each target, whether it be a ghost or object, has a lock-on point you can focus on by pressing L2. Honestly, though, with the amount of healing items your characters have on hand, you’ll rarely be in any real danger in Maiden of Black Water.Most of the time the camera is your only line of defense against hostile spirits. To be effective at combat, all you need to master is your timing with dodges (pressing X right before an attack) and keeping a reasonable distance from the ghosts between lining up good shots. The reality is if these characters could move at a brisk pace, it’d make dealing with the ghosts even more trivial than it already is. Funny enough, that’s pretty much the only semblance of challenge the game has going for it. However, the character movement is still painfully slow and incredibly clunky in tighter interior areas. It can still be unwieldy at times, but thankfully, you can also use analog controls if you prefer that. On the DualSense controller with gyro controls, it works well enough. Admittedly, it’s a brilliant shooting system that seemed perfect for the Wii U GamePad.
Once again, you deal with ghoulish spirits by getting them in the frame, letting them get dangerously close, and dishing out big damage with fatal frames.
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