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Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is a horror game for the Nintendo 3DS, a spin-off of the Fatal Frame series.
The game focuses on an object known as the Purple Diary, a book filled with eerie images and words. It is said that some people start seeing words that weren't there before and end up being spirited away, later found dead with their faces cut up.
The game puts the player himself/herself in the role of the protagonist as they attempt to help Maya, a girl said to be cursed by a mysterious woman in black. The built-in camera of 3DS serves as the Camera Obscura which the players will use to exorcise ghosts.
In addition to the game, players receive an actual physical copy of the Purple Diary to be used in Story Mode.
Tropes used in Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir include:
- Artifact of Death: The Purple Diary of Faces. In a very Ringu fashion, if words appear on the first page and you read them, doom befalls you.
- Augmented Reality: Maya is talking to you as you play, and using the 3DS' cameras as the Camera Obscura, the ghosts are invading your personal life and need to be fought.
- Body Horror: Victims of the Purple Diary have their eyes and mouths sewn shut.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The woman in black was brought into existence by Maya writing in the Purple Diary.
- Evil Twin: The woman in black is one of Maya's...sort of.
- Feelies: Packaged with the game is the Purple Diary of Faces, which you need to take photographs of to advance the story.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
- Gaiden Game
- The Player Is the Most Important Resource
- Woman in White: Maya