Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (3DS)

[Yoshi]

It's kind of the perfect idea: match the Fatal Frame series, in which characters see and fight ghosts through a camera lens, with AR tech like that in the 3DS. And, if early reports out of the latest Famitsu are accurate, we'll soon get the opportunity to see if that idea is executed perfectly.

Called "Spirit Diary," the game interacts with an included "AR Notebook" whose functions are curently unknown. In the game, you and a young girl investigate the cursed book. Other modes include AR minigames and a battle mode in which players fight using "spirit pictures" of themselves.

It is currently unknown whether this game will be published by Tecmo, who handled most previous Fatal Frames, or Nintendo, who published the Wii Fatal Frame -- and then neglected to release it outside of Japan.

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[bVork]

Can't possibly be any worse than the Wii game.

[Yoshi]

That game is a mark in the pro column for region locking.

[YellerDog]

That AR stuff kind of sucks...

[bVork]

That game is a mark in the pro column for region locking.

Nah, I think the opposite is true. If it was easy to import and play, there wouldn't have been psychopathic manchildren raging about Japan getting a new game in one of the best survival horror franchises out there. Since they would have been able to play it easily and realize that it's awful. It's the same thing that happened to Radiant Silvergun. RSG is by no means a bad game, but I think that its reputation as the best shmup ever is perpetuated in part by the difficulty of tracking down a copy. Lack of wide availability seems to incubate hype.

[Korly]

I really like Fatal Frame. I would like a 360 version.

[Yoshi]

Yes, put it on the platform that is the absolute worst fit.

[Korly]

How is 360 the worst fit for a horror game?

[Yoshi]

Because it has no pointer controls for a game about aiming a camera. The fact that it's the weakest non-Wii is just icing on the turd.

[Korly]

So even though the first 3 Fatal Frame games were on systems without pointer controls, and they were the awesome ones, you now think that a 360 version is a poor fit because somehow motion controls are better?

Are you planning on playing Ghost Recon with Kinect also?