Haunted House Horror: Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association Review

The Japanese independent game studio Loxarc developed and released, and the surveillance horror game “Japan Stigmatized Property” (JSP) made using real accident objects is confirmed to be launched on Steam and mobile platforms (iOS/Android) on August 15, and simultaneously released a trailer video to show the abnormal phenomena of 13 haunted houses.

“Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association” was first exposed in February this year. The development team has simulated the game background. In addition to setting up the official website of the “Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association, a general social legal person”, the establishment of JSP was set in April 2013. So far, there have been 489 monitors, monitoring more than 27,000 objects, and activities in 47 prefectures within 24 hours.

With the process of urbanization in recent years, “invisible risks” in the living environment have become increasingly a social problem. We are committed to achieving a safe and comfortable living environment for the people through scientific methods of accident object investigation, surveillance and countermeasures.

In addition, the Loxarc team promoted the game in the form of “vaccine recruitment” and invited Nagasaki Shuangse voice actor Kohika to introduce the game to Mika in the form of the “Summer National Unified Accident Object Identification Test” to help everyone learn the details of JSP.

According to the introduction, the “Accident Object Identifier” is a professional who specializes in solving various difficult and complicated diseases related to haunted houses. He is responsible for handling real estate disputes involved in accident objects and dealing with supernatural events in accident objects, and assumes the important role of “protecting the sound spiritual environment” in various ways.

The “Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association” stage sets accident objects that are real in Japan. Players will transform into the monitors of the “Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association” and are responsible for observing the scene through the surveillance camera installed in various parts of the house during the working hours from 0:00 to 5:00 a.m., and immediately reward any “abnormality”.

If there are too many false reports, the task will directly lead to the failure of the task; on the contrary, as long as you can safely hold on until dawn, you can complete the monitoring task.

“Abnormal events” in the game will appear randomly, covering furniture movements, objects disappearing or appearing out of thin air, invasion of figures or spirits, lighting failures and floating light balls, blood on the walls, picture information, and more unimaginable strange phenomena.

Some anomalies can only be seen through night vision cameras, while others can only be detected in normal photography modes, which makes players have to constantly switch perspectives and stay focused.

JSP employees are divided into “on-site investigators” who earn 2,970 yen (about NT$600) in a timely manner. Only those who seem to be brave can be competent, but the monthly salary of the full staff is 444,000 yen (more than NT$90,000), and night shift allowance and dangers are added, and special protection and research equipment support are provided, which are quite attractive.

Players will be responsible for monitoring four accident objects at the same time, and can choose two different difficulty challenges: “Standard Task” or “Special Task”.

The official specifically stated that players are welcome to broadcast their duty process live or publicly broadcast it to experience this strange and tense atmosphere with the audience.

“Japan Accident Object Monitoring Association” will be launched simultaneously on PC (Steam), iOS and Android (Undetermined) platforms on August 15.