Dark Return
Similar to Blooming in Fatal Frame 4, ghosts in Deep Crimson Butterfly may enter a "berserk mode" when defeated, allowing them to use new attacks, move faster, and increase the chances of a one hit kill. Though there are scripted DRs throughout the game, they are mostly triggered at random. Photographing a spirit during these periods changes their portrait on the Spirit List to include the purple mist associated with Dark Returns.
Significant Dark Returns
- Woman in a Box (Chapter 5)
- Miyako Sudo (Chapter 5)
- Masumi Makimura (Chapter 5)
- Yoshitatsu Kiryu (Chapter 6)
- Akane Kiryu (Chapter 6)
- Chitose Tachibana (Chapter 7)
- Girl Playing Tag (Chapter 8)
- Broken Neck Woman (Chapter 8)
- Ryokan Kurosawa (Chapter 9)
- Sae Kurosawa (Chapter 0)