Project Zero 2: Wii Edition

Project Zero 2: Wii Edition is a survival horror in which the player controls Mio Amakura as she searches for her twin sister Mayu in the haunted Minakami Village. The game is a remake of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (2003). Basic gameplay is carried over from the original. Mio explores Minakami Village, solving puzzles and fighting hostile ghosts to progress through the game.

She can pick up progression items and resources including health restoratives and film types, with the latter of which serving as ammunition for the Fatal Frame series' recurring weapon the Camera Obscura. Using the Camera Obscura when ghosts appear, the game switches to a first-person perspective where Mio must take photos of ghosts to damage them. Greater damage is dealt when a ghost is photographed at chose range, in mid-attack, or when multiple ghosts are caught in the same shot. The Camera Obscura can be upgraded using lenses found during the game, and points earned by both defeating hostile ghosts and taking photographs of non-hostile ghosts which briefly appear.

Siblings Mio and Mayu Amakura visit a woodland soon to be flooded by a dam project; while playing there as children, Mayu fell and permanently injured her leg trying to keep up with a running Mio, leaving their relationship strained. A crimson butterfly leads the twins to Minakami Village, a place said to trap visitors. The two are assaulted by ghosts, including the spirit of Sae Kurosawa who begins influencing Mayu. Years before, Sae and her twin sister Yae were to be sacrifices to pacify a power beneath the village dubbed the "Hellish Abyss"; the ritual involved one twin strangling the other, merging their souls into a crimson butterfly.

Yae fled the village, and when Sae was sacrificed alone the Hellish Abyss consumed the village and Sae returned as a powerful vengeful spirit. Sae now seeks to reenact the ritual through Mio and Mayu.

The original Crimson Butterfly, the second entry in the Fatal Frame series, was released for PlayStation 2 in 2003, and ported the following year to Xbox with added story and gameplay content. Following completion of Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (2008) for the Wii, which saw extensive gameplay and design changes compared to earlier Fatal Frame titles, series creators Makoto Shibata and Keisuke Kikuchi decided to remake one of the earlier games in the style of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. The team also had several leftover ideas that were not implemented into Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, allowing the team to also expand upon and improve their new systems using the remake. Production began in 2010 after the team at Tecmo Koei Games had settled on their production goals.

Shibata and Kikuchi returned respectively as lead director and producer. Nintendo's Toru Osawa and Toshiharu Izuno were respective co-director and co-producer, and co-programmers. Shibata had previously worked with Osawa and Izuno on Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. The team polished and expanded the "Touch System", where players hold a button to pick up items, to make the experience more unsettling.

During its debut week in Japan, Project Zero 2: Wii Edition sold just over 28,000 units, reaching seventh place in game sales charts. The game sold over 46,700 units, becoming the 215th best-selling game in Japan during 2012. The game met with a generally positive reception, with review aggregation website Metacritic giving it a score of 77 out of 100 based on 32 critic reviews.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu generally praised its atmosphere and gameplay, and Eurogamer's Johnny Minkley described the game as a welcome return to an earlier style of survival horror compared to Dead Space and later Resident Evil titles. IGN's Maes Hughes was very positive about the gameplay changes and graphical improvements, lauding it as one of the few Wii remakes that was worth getting over the original release. Tom Sykes of Computer and Video Games lauded the new additions and praised the continued horror elements, but disliked the lack of additional gameplay elements. GameSpot, while noting its linear structure and lack of complex puzzles, praised its use of atmosphere and pacing alongside its combat.