Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir - Nintendo 3DS

There are three game modes to play in Spirit Camera, two of them using the Diary of Faces, the augmented reality booklet included with the game. In Haunted Visions you don't need the Diary of faces, and you have three mini-games to play. Spirit Check lets you take photos of people to see if they are haunted and what's haunting them. Spirit Challenge turns your face or other people's faces into attacking spirits. Spirit Photography lets you snap random pictures of your surroundings to see what kind paranormal activity appears. Cursed Pages requires the booklet to be played, and consists of four of mini-games that interact with the pages of the diary to reveal hidden images and exorcise ghosts. The story mode takes you to an old house where many spirits are trapped. As you investigate the diary and snap photos of the pages, you will reveal ghostly images that you must then "fight" by taking photos of.   The game doesn't seem to register the AR book pages very well in artificial lighting. Sometimes, the light would reflect off the pages and the camera wouldn't register the Diary then. Further annoyance came from repeatedly having to set the 3DS down on a flat surface in order to recalibrate the gyroscopic sensor. It kept breaking the pace of the already brief story, which lasts at the most 3 to 4 hours. Annoyances and technical difficulties aside, I still enjoyed my experience with it, but I found myself favoring the mini-games over the actual story, particularly Spirit Photography just to see what would appear.