Miku Hinasaki is a young girl with a sixth sense that is quite unusual. Mafuyu, her brother, and Junsei Takamine, her tutor, proceeded to inspect a mansion inhabited in the past by a powerful landowner who had ultimate control over the area. Regrettably, they were never seen again after leaving on their investigation. Miku goes into the mansion searching for her brother with nothing more than an old camera that her late mother had given her before she passed away.
Miku runs into various ghosts and other apparitions of the spirit world when she is inside the mansion. She needs to utilize the enchanted camera to take pictures of the ghosts, which will lock them away for good and allow her to triumph over the spirits threatening her life. Ghosts can take many forms, from intangible pieces of the past buried in the environment to fleeting recollections of the past that surface for a bit of time before fading away to full-body apparitions that will seek to assault and kill Miku.
To use the Camera Obscura to defeat a hostile ghost, the shot must first be “charged” by maintaining the ghost’s position near the center of the screen while it is visible. If Miku fires a shot at the spirit while it is attacking or defenseless, she will extract more energy from it, increasing the total number of spirit points won. After that, issues can be spent to increase her camera’s attributes or give it unique abilities, such as slowing down a ghost or pushing it away. Miku must use Camera Obscura’s ability to expose hints and debunk illusions to solve the riddles hidden throughout the estate.
