Fatal Frame Team Working on 3DS Spinoff
Take your "spirit photo" in AR-heavy title.
The staff behind Fatal Frame is working on a Fatal Frame spinoff of sorts for 3DS, Famitsu reveals this week. The new game is titled Shinrei Shashin, or "Spirit Photo."
With a name like that, you might suspect that the game makes heavy use of the 3DS camera. This is the case -- except you're apparently taking pictures of ghosts.
The game comes bundled with an item called "AR Notebook." Based off the summary at Famitsu's report at the Sinobi blog, it's not clear what this item is exactly, but it is used heavily in the game.
Famitsu lists the following modes of play:
•AR Story: Zero: Purple Diary
Working with a girl whom you brought out into the real world, you attempt to solve the mystery behind the cursed Purple Diary, represented by the AR Notebook item. ("Zero" is the Japanese name for the Fatal Frame series.)
•Horror Notebook
A collection of mini games that use the AR Notebook item
•Ghost Camera
A free photo mode where you take your "spirit picture" and pit it against other spirits (the faces of other people).
Famitsu lists the release time frame for Shinrei Shashin as TBA. Sinobi did not provide the game's publisher.
[3DS] Fatal Frame Spirit CameraShinrei Shashin - spinoff di Fatal Frame
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Inviato 31 August 2011 - 01:45 AM
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Inviato 01 September 2011 - 12:21 AM
Keisuke Kikuchi, producer and chief mind behind the Fatal Frame series of Japanese-style horror adventures, is back with a new project. Titled Shinrei Camera, the game -- a co-production involving both Nintendo and Kikuchi's studio at Tecmo -- will use the Nintendo 3DS's augmented-reality abilities to enhance the horror experience.
The 3DS title will come backed with an "AR notebook," a book which seems normal and harmless enough to the naked eye. Point your 3DS's camera at it in-game, though, and it'll reveal all sorts of things lurking in the pages -- hidden messages, clues to your past, even a hungry demon or two.
"I wasn't all that interested in AR to start with," Kikuchi told Famitsu magazine in this week's issue, "but as I explored the possibilities, I really started to get into it. I thought we could really do something with it if we combined our traditional strengths in horror and adventure with the AR technology. It was a big challenge, but we went through with it, and the result is this style of horror that does away with the boundaries between the natural and the supernatural."
Shinrei Camera will feature three game modes: a story-driven adventure set in the same world as the rest of the Fatal Frame series; a minigame collection that uses the AR notebook; and a "ghost camera" mode that allows you to snap supernatural pictures of yourself and your friends. "One big theme during development was how to incorporate AR into an adventure game," Kikuchi explained. "I think we succeeded in achieving that, because the story uses AR consistently right up to the ending. Compared to previous Fatal Frame titles, though, there isn't as much actual time spent with the game itself -- that's because you'll also be spending time turning pages on the AR notebook and looking around in real life instead of moving your character around within the game."
The title, which is being published by Nintendo in Japan, has no release date yet.
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Inviato 03 September 2011 - 06:34 PM
Sicuro che sarà uno stupido mini-gioco e non un survival horror come gli altri. Come rovinare una saga bella come quella di fatal frame.
Non è un mini-gioco, è un titolo che propone tre offerte di cui la prima sarà probabilmente la più corposa:
in cui dovremo collaborare una ragazza per risolvere il mistero dietro il Diario Porpora, presente fisicamente nella confezione.
Useremo le fotocamere del 3DS in un'avventura basata sull'AR.
E' uno spin off, possono pure permettersi di spaziare un po' nel genere, poi vedremo se sarà valido o meno.
Parlarne male sin da ora non ha molto senso, così come sostenere che la saga è rovinata... mica Link's Crossbow Training ha rovinato quella di Zelda.
A me suscita interesse perchè vengono usate le fotocamere del 3DS per dare il via ad un gioco basato sull'AR, un fattore di novità da non sottovalutare, così come la presenza del diario con gli indizi nascosti.
Poi tieni conto che gli sviluppatori restano quelli di Fatal Frame e la caretteristiche distintive della saga basate sulla tensione tipiche della saga dovrebbero essere le stesse.
Se poi sarà valido o meno lo valuteremo al tempo giusto, bollarlo sin da ora come stupido minigioco non ha invece molto senso.
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Inviato 03 September 2011 - 06:44 PM
Un titolo che si basa soprattutto sull'uso di una fotocamera, se sfrutta l'AR e il 3D (bello l'artwork della mano che esce ), direi che aggiunge qualcosa di interessante alla saga.
Temo però che sia un titolo che rimarrà confinato al suolo nipponico.
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Inviato 03 September 2011 - 07:00 PM
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