Seven Mysterious Mansions: Shivery Smile (Reina Route #1) [English Translated] [Dreamcast 2000]
1For a more puzzle based experience, the game does make it so. The laser pen is by far the strongest weapon in the game so of course the puzzle based character gets a one-shot weapon for most of the game, minus some certain bosses and strongest enemies.
Seeing things from Reina's POV does answer so unanswered questions, such as how Ricky got a piece of her candy along with some Meta Water lore which is only ever mentioned in very, very brief in Kei's route.
The computer serves more use in Reina's route as you can't progress without using it to obtain mission critical items. Otherwise, the puzzles are relatively easy to follow and I didn't have to use any, 1, guide to look up the solutions.
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Taken from the Wikipedia page:
Nanatsu no Hikan: Senritsu no Bishō (Japanese: 七つの秘館 戦慄の微笑, lit. "Seven Mysterious Mansions: Shivery Smile") is a survival horror video game developed and published by Koei for the Sega Dreamcast. It was released on January 20, 2000, in Japan. Plans for a western release were planned but later cancelled. The game is a sequel to the 1996 Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn game Nanatsu no Hikan.
The player can control one of two characters: Kei and Reina. The game can be played in either first person, third person, or fixed camera angle (e.g. Resident Evil) views. Kei's levels are more action based, while Reina's are more adventure-based.
There is also a unique multiplayer cooperative mode where one player controls Kei and the other Reina (a feature not seen in survival horror games until the 2005 game ObsCure) This mode is different from the single-player mode, as it is much shorter and objectives, monsters, and events are all altered.
Friends Kei and Reina land on a mysterious island and search for their friend Ernest. But along the way, they encounter many different monsters in the different mansions they discover. It's up to them to defeat these foes, find their friend, and understand the mysteries of the island.