Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is a portable spinoff of Tecmo Koei's popular survival horror series Fatal Frame. Spirit Camera uses the Nintendo 3DS's augmented reality features to create a survival horror game like no other. Spirit Camera comes packaged with a notebook known as the Diary of Faces. Players use the notebook in junction with the 3DS camera, which serves as the in-game item known as the Camera Obscura. Spirit Camera has three main modes that use the 3DS camera and the Diary of Faces in different ways. The first mode is the Story Mode, which has the players exploring the interactive pages of the Diary of Faces finding hints and fighting spirits transposed on the environment around them. Your main goal in Story Mode is to fight off the Woman in Black and other spirits before they steal your face. The second mode is Haunted Visions. Haunted Visions contains three different camera challenges that test your skills with the camera. The third and final mode is Cursed Pages. Cursed Pages has you participating in four minigames that use characters and settings from the main mode such as a game of hide-and-seek with a ghost you meet in the Story Mode.
The 3DS's augmented reality features have more or less been used as a gimmick up to this point in the handheld's life. So it is refreshing to see a game finally come out that utilizes this unique feature of the 3DS. While I personally am not that excited to pick up Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir as I am not a huge fan of survival horror games outside Resident Evil, I can see other gamers looking for a good scare gravitating to this game.
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