Mitewa Ikenai: creepy photography both in and about the game
by JC Fletcher 
{ May 13th 2008 at 11:45AM }
Famitsu has posted some new screens of Mitewa Ikenai (Don't Look), the horror game about investigating photographs to look for ghosts. They look really weird, basically -- due in part to the mosaic blur on everyone's face, and due in part to the, uh, creepy ghost stuff happening in the photos.While you can search for supernatural events in the game's photos, you'll have very little trouble identifying super-skeezy events in the rest of the Famitsu article's pictures. Somehow -- perhaps because of the photography theme -- it made sense for Dimple to promote this game by having former AV idol Nana Natsume come to the Famitsu offices and take pictures in which the magazine's editors pretend to sexually harass her. The video at the end, of Natsume praying at a shrine, is clean.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ May 13th 2008 12:59PM
We need more photography games, especially horror photography since Fatal Frame 1-3 have been gouged to oblivion on ebay. Because of this, it's too bad that this has virtually zero chance of ever making it out of Japan.
I also continue to foolishly hope for a DS or Wii sequel to Pokemon Snap.
Frastoglegnia @ May 14th 2008 6:15AM
The photos could be far more eerie -- what's the devs' excuse? Even turn-of-the-century spirit photography is scarier, with its obvious double exposures. You want indistinct subliminal details with a threatening or suicidal tone -- not hard to do, with photoshop and a Lovecraftian imagination.
I doubt this is remotely in the same league with the Fatal Frame series, which my girlfriend loves but can't even watch *me* play: "I don't like things coming at me!" Whenever I pull out II or III (haven't replayed I out of compassion), she shields her eyes the entire time.
The stitched eye reminds me of Dario Argento's Opera, though, which is is a tad more promising. (The Argento effect worked for Clock Tower: The First Fear.)