## Description
An idol group known as Otomegumi (乙女組) is staying at the western-style
boarding house in a spa resort in Izu (伊豆), Japan. You, Takeshi Gouda (郷田 武史),
as a professional photographer came, along with your team which includes
Ryouichi Akada (赤田 良一), your editor, and Takuya Sasaki (佐々木 拓也), your young
assistant, to make a photo album of that very idol group. As you arrive at the
boarding house you meet with Otomegumi idol group consisting of Rei, Maki, and
Shouko, as well as with some other suspicious looking characters on the
premise. Due to a sudden storm, you decide to wait it out and use that
opportunity to get to know everyone a little better. But the evening doesn’t
go as well as expected and some unpleasant words are exchanged with Seiji
Tashiro (田代 成治), an idol group manager. Ryouichi had to step in a couple of
time to prevent things from escalating, but by the time everyone went to bed
it all seemed to have quiet down.
Next morning, you, the idol group, Ryouichi, Takuya, and Chieko Naemura (苗村
千恵子) who is a stylist for Otomegumi idol group all went to hot springs for
some photo session. The photos are going fine and things were about to wrap up
when the distressing rumor about someone being dead back at the boarding house
have reached you. You all pack your things and head back to the boarding
house. There, you find the owners of the boarding house, Kyousuke Nakagawa (中川
京介) and his wife Reiko Nakagawa (中川 麗子), standing in front of a room of none
other than Seiji Tashiro who was a troublemaker since the moment you met him.
At closer inspection you soon realize it’s a murder as he appears to have been
stabbed with a knife. But who would have a reason to kill him? Suspects…
motives… opportunities… anyone could be the killers, and to top it all,
you cannot call the police as phone line appears to be dead. With the killer
among you, what was to be a nice relaxing vacation is turning into a murder
mystery that is far from being over.
The game plays like a straight visual novel consisting of text over current
background which is comprised on many photo stills to match the dialogue and
emotion of the scene in question. Occasionally the player is presented with
dialogue choices which may affect the current situation but there is no real
branching in the main story, just different reactions by the people addressing
you. Voice-acting is almost non-present and appears only in key dialogues
between the player and the idols, and usually for no more than a single short
sentence. In photo session player can take a limited number of photos but does
not control camera movement, instead, camera moves up and down once and the
player has the chance to take a photo or keep the movie to use on the next
pose. Limited bonus contained in a package is an envelope containing an actual
photo from one of the photo sessions in the game.
Hankou Shashin: Shibarareta Shoujo-tachi no Mita Mono ha?