He told me about the hair on the keyboard on Twitter! I told him I found hair in my futon every night at the dorm I stayed at while in Japan and he responded with that hair story. I don’t really have experiences with ghosts here in America but in Japan it was constant.

There are no more badass things than answering the quaestion "what inspires you to make horror games?" with "I just write what I saw"

Shibata sounds like both a pain to be around but also delightful. Sure the ghost thing would get annoying but he seems like the type of man who's constantly thinking and could probably be someone who can give great advice of you asked him. In a way he reminds me of Hideaki Anno. Both men have made great things. And while Anno wishes to move on from his past works and create new things, Shibata I feel loves writing about ghost and life. They're like two sides of the same coin.

Well, that last bit about the dream he had while they were making FF3's ending explains A Lot about the tone and more thematic focus the series took from there on...

Kikuchi and Shibata are my favorite kind of dynamic: straight laced guy and his weird friend that he has to keep on a child leash.

The real fatal frame were the ghosts we encountered along the way

I love this! It all sounds like they were sleep deprived and unhealthily working 18 hours a day, sleeping under their desks and having too much coffee. They were probably delusional and truly having hallucinations due to lack of sleep and constantly thinking about ghosts xDD Great for the marketing campaign though.

@AmberTurdsShittyBedsheet

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the developer and his team. Some people do see spirits and have experiences with the paranormal. Not everyone has a sixth sense, but it can be put into a perspective such as a game or a movie for others to see what it's like.

@qwmx

Жыл бұрын

I believe that would be it. I hallucinate noise one time when I pushed myself so far and for so long that I heard a whipping sound stay still in one place. It sounded like a ring being thrown, but instead of the sound going further away, it stayed in one place.

@FocusedFighter777

10 ай бұрын

Yeh because this is way too much. Too many instances.

@dra6o0n

9 ай бұрын

From what I know and found out, stuff like angel, god, and spirits seems to 'exist' but in a way that bends human understanding. By that I mean those names are just 'labels' humanity invented and are convenient to use. They are essentially 'entities' that can take on many forms basically, and they exist as forms of energy more so. On stuff like spiritual awakenings that some humans seems to get, and getting 'contact' by angel and supposedly the 'god' itself, it's often in cryptic puzzling forms of visions and emotions or information that pulses through said person. There are even statements that say that when a 'angel' or 'god' communicates with a spiritually awakened person (someone who I think is at their weakest mental state in life), euphoria in the form of 'spiritual orgasm' or a vertigo without the anxiety aspect, is felt running down your spine... As if it can 'trigger' the dopamine in human brains to be released for split seconds? If it comes to negativity, as in saying something which gets a negative reaction from them, you get the feeling of 'dread' and 'fear' running down your spine, with goosebumps. *This kind of hypothesis gives me a bit of dread because this is how you also brainwash individuals to align their thoughts and ideology to what you deem to permit too.* Hypnosis for instance can 'reprogram' a mind to function differently if the mind is malleable (vulnerable) enough. Social media can trigger these positive/negative feelings with the media you see, or the responses you get from other 'humans', whether they be bots or trolls. Now when it comes to ghosts and entities like them, they seem to fall in a similar category in a way, since they embody 'emotions' of a sense, and those same emotions can trigger the 'euphoria' or 'dread' in humans as well, maybe with less 'intelligence' of that sense since they may not communicate properly. I saw a thumbnail of a 'biblogically accurate angel' (KZread) on description in the bible to one, and it was a 3d model of a giant four winged eyeball with 5 eyes, which makes me think that the 'angel and god' entities can basically shape shift, or in essence has no physical bodies, hence they can 'create' the illusion of one in our minds, like schizophrenic patients would see things that is not there. This makes me wonder if these entities are there in the 'open space' but at the same time isn't, because they may be living in our 'mind'? A computer simulation is the best analogy of these things, if you look at the universe and the humanity as part of a 'simulation' of a bigger picture.

@dra6o0n

9 ай бұрын

In a way I wonder about the concept of "existence". When many people buys a false pretense of a ghost that exists in a specific location with a description, the 'power' of all these minds accepting the entity exist, may actually 'create' said entity in said space when they enter the environment that matches what they know. Your brain can be weaponized against you with the power of human imagination. With a big enough lie you can make a ghost become real, or the opposite is true, make a ghost become non-existent by fooling everyone of the opposite pretense. In the past I also questioned about the human mind, everyone can be living their own POV, and everyone else that interacts with them are merely figments of their POV'er mind. Everyone is real, but everyone you interact in your own POV is not real, due to the nature of parallel and multiple universes that can exist all at once. Long story short, this just means that everyone's POV is their own mini-universe. This also leads into the hypothesis of 'fate/destiny' if we could change our future or if it's set in stone and we only 'think' we have that option.

This episode is fucking amazing, 10/10 the part with the Febreeze though 😂😂😭

@AmberTurdsShittyBedsheet

2 жыл бұрын

Spirit: *Groan.* Shibata: *Squirts Febreeze.* No!

Maybe horror games and ghosts stories act as a catalyst for people like me who don't have a sixth sense. Every time i play silent hill or haunting grounds i get this strange feeling of excitement and dread.

@theMoporter

2 жыл бұрын

That's...being scared. Lol

I've been thinking about this especially the horror concept artists who get inspirations not only from the references of real life bodily horror but also asking about 6th sense people about their experiences seeing real ghosts

the broken neck lady scares me

@panchopistolas2593

2 жыл бұрын

I think she is the more scary ghost of the first game. Frequently appearing out of nowhere, sometimes, she even appears really close to Miku and attacks her immediately after that, giving no time to the player to escape.

@docthefaust4519

2 жыл бұрын

" You.................... too...? IT HURTS"

@guitarspud1723

Жыл бұрын

The first time I saw blinded, I was like "&%$#@**,;&%!!! Get me the%$&* outta here!!!"

The editing on this had me crying, I love it. I wonder if the technical/editing issues you had were perhaps caused by.......GHOSTS??? Better spray some Febreze on your computer.

@M.sami12

Жыл бұрын

Honestly this is why FF3 is my favorite. Not only because the gameplay but it had the best story and ending.

"Was almost an hour-long" Damn! I would have enjoyed that! Everyone! Thumb up the video so we can get part 2!

I once saw a green cat jump at me only to vanish and make a strange moaning weow sound. I believe it was my cat that died not long before I had dreams about her. My cats name was Silver and she was a black cat.

I bet the second time that coworker heard the keyboard clickity-clacketing with nobody visable operating it she thought "Yep, perfect time to work from home."

Great vid. I'd watch the hour long director's cut version of this. When I played the first Fatal Frame back in high school, it was the scariest and one of the coolest horror games I'd played. It's really interesting hearing about the experiences and dreams that inspired it!

Me: *gets comfy for some fatal frame spooky ghost stories* Muse: *gets to the part where the devs wanted a cleansing ritual while showing video of a actual shinto cleansing ritual* Me: Me: .... wait I recognize that video! It was so interesting when I first watched it! :D And to those who are interested look up Tokyo Llama here on KZread. It's a channel about a Australian guy and his Japanese wife who bought and have been renovating a abandoned Japanese farm house. The cleansing ritual is its own video.

Are you kidding me? I would totally watch an hour long video essay from you! Also, I don't believe in ghosts but I do certainly believe that our conscious is fourth dimensional or at least quantum in nature which is why we can't find it with known science. So ghosts aren't supernatural but some kind of quantum resonance. Also now you have me wanting to play through FF again!

10:41 OMG, that is from Tokyo Llama's channel, when they did a cermony to appease the spirits of any ancestors that may have been hanging around the abandoned house they bought. He's been renovating for a couple years or so now, and love how it looks! Should totally check it out if you like Japanese culture and renovation work XD

You can tell how much fun this was for Muse to make

Huh, I have a friend who tells me she's been seeing ghosts all her life, and the stuff she describes is pretty much like this dev describes, down to the sighting of ghosts being accompanied by a specific noise.

Im so happy that FF is really coming back on the spectrum!

If owning a copy of Fatal Frame causes hauntings I'm okay with it.

@soccerandtrack10

2 жыл бұрын

What if it's not a haunting but a demon? or an angry type person?

@suzub8963

2 жыл бұрын

I've lived in haunted houses long before I collected and played the first 3 so I already had the party before it was ever brought in 😊

@AmberTurdsShittyBedsheet

2 жыл бұрын

I've had paranormal experiences happen while playing the game or while trying to complete a playthrough. "What a nice game - wait why are my papers moving?"

I think everyone has a few ghosts in their lives we just don't know how to see or interact with them. This video was very uplifting and insightful. Cheers and thankyou so much muse xo

That story should by a comedy horror.

Great work Muse I don’t know how you do it. Very entertaining as always, please keep it up

That was a great introduction muse I wish i could be a youtuber like you xo. Your the best friend and teacher ive ever met and you have helped me in so many ways. Thank you so muse your fan and friend Daniel Meredith

Wait theres a unique sound when around a ghost? Never played Fatal Frame but I was more interested in this sound idea

@MaxKusari

2 жыл бұрын

the sound design in this game is unreached, if you compare it to other horror games. (speaking of the mentioned ghost and horror sounds, not menu stuff)

@Thwompapotamus

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaxKusari that's awesome but I thought they mentioned this was a real life phenomenon also. Maybe I misheard. Still a great mechanic and might sway me to grab one of the games to try it.

@stormtrooper2425

Жыл бұрын

Same. I wanna know more about this sound

@mirandagoldstine8548

Жыл бұрын

@@stormtrooper2425 Me too. I never heard of ghosts having a unique sound and I have heard my fair share of EVPs.

That was so interesting! It gives another replay of the series a whole new dimension. I cant help but think about every sound and ghost and how real they were in his life. So damn interesting. Thank you for being literally the best content creator for education and interest in survival horror history!

Great video man!

So happy to see another Fatal Frame video! ❤️ Your research goes unmatched, as always. You should be paid to do this sort of thing, and if you are, GOOD!!

Thank you for this great video of one of my favorite game franchises. Just got my physical copy of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, and this video sure got me hyped to play it now.

I'm a writer, and fatal frame lore has helped me inspires me, I seen alot of similarities in these ghost, and my dreams and writing experiences again before I knew about fatal frame. We need to swap stories, this man,and I have alot of stories in common. Also how do I contact this man,like oh my goodness, his work inspires me, however I had strange dreams, before I knew anything about the fatal frame series.

Hey! You've included a clip from Tokyo Llama purifying his house! Cool.

Wow makes me want to play the games

Truly a dedicated director everyone should aspire to. Shibata just freaking the shit out of his entire team with ghost pranks and ghost rumor mongering to get everyone in the right spirit

@stormtrooper2425

Жыл бұрын

Right? Those were my thoughts!

I now see why there ain't no Fatal Frames. The developers are getting haunted every game.

9:20 "if there's a ghost here i'd rather be it's a pretty one" "female ghost is favorite of shibata" bro down bad lmao

Best. Febreeze. Advert. Ever.

So basically he had sleep paralysis when he was a kid lol. Grey figure , played dead aka couldn't move. Sleep paryalsis, very common

@guitarspud1723

Жыл бұрын

Very common in demonic strongholds.

@stormtrooper2425

Жыл бұрын

@@guitarspud1723 demons have nothing to do with it. Look up the science behind sleep paralysis on KZread. Its really not that deep

Man pisses me off devs don't make games like fatal frame anymore. I guess after 3 it just didn't catch on with the masses. I know 2 and 2 we're instant hits. Imagine a virtual reality version of the series

@stormtrooper2425

Жыл бұрын

Their all slowly being remade on switch tho and its causinng the audience to expand so maybe more new games in future?

I suddenly remembered (thanks to your anecdote on Suda here) that Suda51 saying NO to working on Fatal Frame 4 because the director could see ghosts, and he didn't wanna go near that. How real this reason is, who knows.

Please, make a channel telling ghost stories! I was having goosebumps while I was watching this video.

About the Febreeze supposedly keeping ghosts away... Is it possible that Sage or something similar is an ingredient in Febreeze? Or if it isn't, maybe the combination of chemicals in Febreeze makes it similar to Sage?...

@witheringpages

Жыл бұрын

don't know but, modern witchcraft says that you can cleanse with almost anything, even with music or yelling for example. sage isn't the only thing especially since types of sage are closeted in some cultures. example smudging is a closeted practice of indigenous and native people.

That was very intriguing, thanks for sharing these stories!

I already have seen a little info about this topic on Internet, but this video is more complete and entertaining than the previous random scraps of data that I have found by myself. Although, as a skeptic, I think that the stories were made for some "advertising purpose" and nothing more. Also, the "Air Wick" part or whatever is called that product, is just pure comedy material.

@thegamingmuse

2 жыл бұрын

Personally, I think it is likely part advertising - I'm sure if someone hire up heard this stuff was 'happening' they'd capitalize on it - but I could also imagine how working on this kind of project could get you worked up, and so many of the stories happen when these people are alone in the middle of the night at work, seems like the prime situation to get yourself worked up over nothing. But who the heck knows what's happening with Shibata, the man's life is a mystery.

@panchopistolas2593

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegamingmuse Maybe, that is how he motivates his team to be able to create that excellent horror games that the Fatal Frame titles are... or maybe he really goes around with a spray hunting ghost like in the old MacVenture game: Uninvited ;)

I have quickly become such a huge fan of your essays. Thank you!

love your stories mate, really nice. Never played fatal frame i'm such a clown. Maiden in Black Water is getting remade for ps5 though so I'll check it out when it lands in 2 days.

There was one experience I had that I've never forgotten. One day when I was a kid, I walked into our bathroom to see a black cat made of static sitting in the middle of the floor. It looked up at me and it's eyes were perfectly gold. It wasn't aggressive and it seemed like it was interested in me, but I freaked out and hit the light switch. When the light turned on it was nowhere to be found. I never saw it again after that.

@RenegadeShepard69

2 жыл бұрын

What's up with all these people in the comments here seeing cats? Of all apparitions I can remember none were a cutey cat, :((. Thanks for sharing, I was just messing around btw.

@mirandagoldstine8548

Жыл бұрын

Maybe that cat was your spirit guide. Or perhaps a beloved pet of your family. Did anyone in your family own a cat? Sorry if this is late but your comment intrigues me. Sometimes a person will catch a glimpse of their spirit guide in this dimension.

This video is so amazing!!!!

Their relationship seems so much like Conan O'Brian and Jordan Schlansky lol

The Stroller Grandma is the one ghost I hate to fight in the 3rd game as the space you need to fight her is just too Tight and she is VERY powerful! I have played all 3 games along with the 5th game and soon I'm about to play the 4th game

Please do more!!

‪The story about the bathroom mirror breaking reminds me of a moment in SH1. When you walk into a bathroom (in the hospital?) you hear a very loud shattering sound but there was nothing there.‬ Wonder if that came from someone’s own experience?

Absolutely fascinating, thank you for making these! ☺

And yet none of this stuff was ever captured on camera. All of these consistent and reliable experiences, and yet no one ever thought to bring cameras.

That thumbnail is hilarious

poor Shibata, he just wants a long black haired in a tattered white dress ghost girlfriend like all of us

Ok but I swear I've seen the "feet" in that cutscenes so clearly the bug wasn't completely removed... That or my games possessed lmao

“But what if we make the ghosts sexy?” “No, they have to be scary.” “Dang it!”

I was still living in Japan when I played the first game. The game was so fucking scary to me, I never finished it.

I love that game so much, fatal frame & Dreadout,, ☺️😆

I really want to meet this man

makoto’s solution for repelling ghosts KILL ME protective wards, sigils and charms? NO crystals? NO candles? NO incense? NO rosemary? juniper or lavender? NO fabreeze? yes!

Hi great video as always! Can I request you to make a video about the otherworld(s)? I'm really curious to see how you analyze the difference between the otherworld in games especially between SH1 and SH2

Yeah.... well When you are working on a horror game 60+ hours a week and being sleep deprived your mind tends to play ticks on you

I love these videos. So informative and fascinating. Great job!

a channel dedicated to THE BEST GAMES YOOOOO LETS GO

He sounds like quite the "story teller" . By that I mean a liar.

@BullyPop

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I’m thinking. It feels like a lot of fabricated hype for the video game. If he is experiencing these things, I honestly wonder if he has some sort of disorder, if these are actual experiences he’s had. The Febreze situation especially feels like a “rationalization” moment to me.

@BullyPop

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, it could be a combination of both. Most of these stories he tells could be him trying to rationalize things he’s experiencing.

@impalabeeper

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it looks like just a marketing gimmick from FF creator. It's kinda like the same as the Castlevania developer who puts the persona of a mysterious vampire to promote the game.

@BullyPop

2 жыл бұрын

@@impalabeeper Honestly tho

@semekiizuio

2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe they were all dreams.

i love this video 😂 makoto sounds like such a fun person to be around!

I saw the cat!!!

I hope shabata got more dreams so he can create more ff games

What the heck is in Febreeze that chases out ghosts?

I haven't finished the third game because once while playing it I kept hearing knocks on my room's window, which I thought was my sister bugging me to ask for something so I ignored her... Then I heard knocks on my door... I got so pissed off and paused the game to see what she wanted, there was nobody outside and to my surprise the whole house was empty... This was almost 20 years ago and I'm yet to play it again... Maybe I need to in order to lift some curse or something.

fascinating. i was just curious about this series. after playing i like it a lot and interesting the makers had such experiences. i think i play this games a bit more from now on

the only thing that bothers me with the newest Fatal Frame games is that the characters look too beautiful and perfect like a cute model. Is too distracting imo, even the female ghosts look strangely pretty. I'm suposed to be scared, not to fawn over a waifu ghost. The original trilogy was perfect.

@MaxKusari

2 жыл бұрын

to be fair, they always looked like that... it was just because of technical limitation, that the first ones didn't appear like this. 😅

@_saiyuno

2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a personal problem more than anything

@mosswine5417

21 күн бұрын

Yeah the 5th game had too much sexualization like other tecmo games like DOA 😅

Omg this video is a treasure. I never heard about these creepy stories before. Now the games will be 10× scarier when i play them🥶

I blame Ka'Coochie. Every bit of it... ALL. Ka'COOCHIE'S. FAULT....

Is the interviews with the game's director still online? I would love to hear more from him. I love the series. And stories like these make me love it even more!

i'm not try to be a rude but seriously, some ghost should tell Shibata and Kikuchi that 4,5 have bad gameplay and some really terrible bad design decision. And that next time Kikuchi should let Shibata's scaryness go full potential, think about what they could have done with new XBOX and PS5 hardware not just some Nintendo Switch

This story reminds me of how for years in my city people were complaining about headaches and weirdness in the courthouse here that they thought it was haunted. It only turned out recently that it was poorly built and chock full of black mold

I love the buddy comedy tv show pitch but we have to have that white face from the peeking door incident as the plucky ghost side kick. We’ll get twice as many “stop it”’s from Kikuchi (Kukuchi?) sorry if I got that wrong.

Truth or not, I'm sure those stories helped mantain the creepy mood in the office. Sounds awsome!

I...guess it's time to start Fatal Frame

I will be honest, I was so scared of the first couple games, everytime a ghost popped up it freaked me out. By the fifth game, the maiden of black water. The ghosts were an annoyance 😂 I guess I used to love it more when you're told a ghost story. IE, you're told about a specific room where a certain victim died in, whether they jumped or hanged themselves and that if you were to enter that room you'd still hear the screams of them as they fall, or the legs dangling. You can't just keep throwing the same ghosts wandering about everywhere and expect me to be scared. Half of the fifth game, the photos I took was, ghost walking this way, ghost walking that way. Ghost looks under a table. Like... really?

These videos are so good

I have some ghost experiences too and I like going ghost hunting and talking to ghost and whenever I do go ghost hunting then the ghosts always want to be around me like they must like me or something because I talk to them but I do like talking to ghost and their are ghost everywhere you just have to know where they are and what areas they like to hang around I used to be scared of ghost but where I live is kinda haunted and I got used to ghosts after awhile

This was incredible. 😧😧😧

I can't say if ghosts are real or not, but I grew up in a house built in the 1940s, and I uh, had experiences I can't explain to this day including things like windows opening themselves so, can confirm Weird Stuff Happens :D

What do you think about Kuon?

@thegamingmuse

Жыл бұрын

a fantastic game

Fatal frame was amazing, as was forbidden siren. Obscure was brilliant aswell

I am a ghost, because I lived only when I played Fatal Frame

@stormtrooper2425

Жыл бұрын

Thats deep bro

I remember the jump scares from one haha but I loved the story nonetheless it really felt real and how sometimes you are called or lead to certain place in certain times. Anyways shibata is really fun and chill and the lady in the end on her last day theres a shadow there well toodles xD

is that Mo Dao Zu Shi behind you?

@thegamingmuse

2 жыл бұрын

yes, yes it is! :D

The Fabreeze makes sense now 😆

Make me want to play the game

The end sounds like syncranysity,did he know about it before he found it?

This video should be on a paranormal channel.

My issue with these experiences is that they’re very indicative of mental or physical health issues. I’ve hallucinated terrifying ghastly things before due to high stress with my OCD, a disorder that has a relation to schizophrenia. Also my mother and sister are the only people I know to have supernatural experiences, one has epilepsy and the other who most likely has it is too scared to get tested. Epilepsy messes with the brain in such a way that most people misread their medical symptoms as having a sixth sense and being ‘in tune’. You can have epilepsy for years, even decades without experiencing a seizure, but there are an abundance of other symptoms that people overlook. I love a good ghost story but I don’t believe in any of them. I hope that the devs stay in good health and that I’m wrong.

I do love hearing people's stories of haunted experiences... As fun of these stories are I imagine a lot of it is bullshit they made up. That's a lot of experiences to happen to such a small group of people. Lol I love the Fatal Frame series, its super cool and has so much atmosphere. Hope we get a 6th game sometime. Though I really wished they would make the horror more subtle and scary... If they toned down the camera combo system it could help, it really kills the scariness of them when they are constantly in your face and your just waiting for the right moment to blow them up and do the most damage possible. Also seriously need to tone down hornyness of the ghosts... In replying Fatal frame 5 with the latest rerelease I kinda forgot how overly sexy so many of the ghosts are.. some ghosts you fight in that game feels more like your fighting a huge pair of boobs. Lol it's pretty excessive.