Fatal Frame 5 FAQ

Q: How long is this run?
A: It's usually about 3 and a half hours for me
At the moment there's no glitches found in the game, so there's nothing useful for runs. There is, however, a small trick I do throughout the run to skip sections where the game would require you to take a photo.

Q: What does NG+ entail in this game?
A: NG+ basically means you start the game with all camera upgrades you bought previously. What this lets me do is have a camera with all the upgrades being maxed out. This does a lot more damage than if we were playing on a new game file, and the route stresses shopping way less as the only thing you buy in the pre-chapter shops is 1 piece of Type-90 film, which doesn't even put a dent in your money. The camera's lenses will also have very little to no cooldown. In addition to all of this, I have a function equipped that adds infinite ammo to the regular Camera Obscura and Ren's camera, which drastically speeds up the fights.

Q: With the camera upgrades being maxed out at the start(and being on the easiest difficulty),wouldn't this run be easy?
A: In a way, it is. While you can't one-shot every single ghost in the game, because the Infinite function makes it so that you don't have to worry about ammo consumption, you can spam shots when not doing a Fatal Frame to get rid of ghosts quickly. There's potential to use Type-Zero film to make the fights even faster, but at the moment, it's only useful on the Hisoka fight in Chapter 12, and you can't buy Type-Zero film in the chapter selection screen like you can with the other film types.

Q: What's the WR?
A: It's my current PB of 3:16:31. It's not perfect because of some mistakes I made lategame, but it's pretty close considering how well the fights went.