Kagami advertises itself as a Japanese horror event in Second Life and I have to say it’s pretty bloody funky, but it’s only here for the month of August. Wait, what is Kagami?
“Hey, you know what? At midnight, put two mirrors facing each other. Then you can see your future spouse in the mirror! “
Everything started from these words from my friend.
Of course I didn’t buy that story, but I thought of giving it a try anyway. I’d waited till midnight…. and well, nothing had happened as I expected.
No special reflection on the mirror.
“It’s silly. I should’ve known that from the beginning… better go to bed now.”
A 15-year-old girl shouldn’t have believed it.
But―, I couldn’t have imagined, what was happening to my old friend Kasumi then.
Ok yes yes yes you do indeed play the role of a 15 year old Japanese schoolgirl but you should be big enough to look beyond that, it’s not as if you actually wear such an avatar …. well I didn’t anyway. One of the first things you’ll notice with Kagami is the impressive use of cut scenes that automatically appear on your screen when you wear the HUD.
This is a point and click adventure in many ways, which is something a platform such as Second Life can very much pull off. Initially you’re going in search of your friend Kasumi, who has disappeared, did she try the two mirror trick?
As I said there’s a lot of point and click, you click objects, NPC’s and items and then your HUD will give you some feedback, the HUD is very important as it helps the game to progress. You will along the way collect items which appear on tabs on your Hud.
Now if you could read the above you’d see that it says “It’s Locked”, trust me on this, therefore there’s a good chance I’m looking for a key.
I have to admit that the design and delivery of this game has quite impressed me, the HUD is free but a word of warning before you teleport there, you need to pretty much remove all your scripts or you’re likely to be kicked out. There’s a free script checker at the entrance and mall point as well as the game manual, which is a pretty important component!
I’d definitely say this worth a look, as I said, it’s only here until the end of August, so if this piques your interest, do pop along.
SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hakoniwa/164/128/23
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