Spirit Camera
| Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir | |
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| Developer(s) | Tecmo Koei |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Composer(s) | Ayako Toyoda |
| Series | Fatal Frame |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
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| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 57/100 |
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (心霊カメラ 〜憑いてる手帳〜 Shinrei Camera ~Tsuiteru Techou~?, Spirit Camera: The Possessed Notebook) is a spin-off game in the Fatal Frame series, co-developed by Tecmo Koei and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. The game comes with an "AR notebook", the titular Diary of Faces, which the player uses in conjunction with the game. It was released in Japan on January 12, 2012; in North America on April 13, 2012; and in Europe on June 29, 2012.
Spirit Camera utilizes the capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS, which acts as the game's Camera Obscura, the signature "weapon" of the Fatal Frame series. The game uses the gyro sensors and 3D cameras to create a "visceral" gaming experience.
In the game's story and most minigame modes, ghosts will appear in the player's environment, and will try to attack them. The player must use the Camera Obscura's abilities to damage and defeat these spirits by photographing them with the L and R buttons. The player must also turn in all directions, as spirits hit by the camera will vanish and reappear beside or behind the player a few seconds later. Spirit Power, used for extra damage, can be charged by keeping the spirit within the camera reticle to charge the meter. The default Zero Lens is the only lens in the game that charges Spirit Power; all other lenses (mainly used for investigation) do not have this ability, though they can still be used in battle. Regardless of lenses, players can still halt a spirit's attack by shooting when the camera reticle turns red.
The game has three different modes. The main story mode, during which the plot progresses. The player finds the Diary of Faces and allows Maya to escape from it. In this mode, the player must use the 3DS cameras, serving as the Camera Obscura, to find hints within the diary and battle ghosts in the real world environment around them. In Haunted Visions, the player completes three challenges. In Cursed Pages, the player plays four minigames.
The game is set in the player's reality; as well as inside an old, Japanese-styled house where many human spirits are trapped. The key object of the game is the cursed Diary of Faces (called the Purple Diary (紫の日記 Murasaki no Nikki?) in the Japanese version), which acts as the gateway between the player's world and the Old House. The diary acts as an "AR notebook", used with the 3DS to generally progress the storyline. The player encounters several ghosts throughout the game. One of them is Maya, a girl with no memory of herself except her name, and who accompanies the player throughout the game. Hostile ghosts include: Kaito Hasebe, a man trapped by the Diary, now driven insane; Koji, also known as "the Masked Boy", who challenges the player to a "game" of hide-and-seek; and the "Woman in Black", the primary antagonist of the game.
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