

Rin makes her way to the hospital and discovers accounts of a child named Reiko Asagiri who was admitted to the hospital after falling sick. After investigating, Rin is attacked by the ghost of Shin, who, apparently died in the Mnemonic Abyss. Rin tells Chiyo to wait as she hears a cell phone ring. Rin meets Chiyo, an elderly lady who was exploring the internet and who heard rumors about the Black Page and decided to investigate the website. The house that Rin awakens in is the same one that Shin found himself in at the beginning of the game. Rin discovers a business card in a box scattered with doll parts, and transports to a house. In the next scenario, Rin wakes up in an internet cafe and stumbles upon news of a man who died, apparently, from playing games too long at the computer without rest. She then makes her way to the locked room she peeped through earlier, and is forced to call a phone number in order to escape three ghosts of high school girls who have died mysteriously, apparently from visiting the Black Page earlier. Rin stumbles upon Shin who, after Rin tells what Makoto said, calls a phone number and transports (apparently to the one story house at the beginning of the game). Makoto leaves, attempting to search for the ghost of his dead colleague, who stumbled upon the Black Page and died mysteriously. Makoto also reveals that you can call other people's cell phones as a way of 'transporting', but, strangely enough, you cannot call your own cell phone. Rin then encounters a journalist named Makoto, who explains that the reality that they are in is the Mnemonic Abyss, an alternate reality between the worlds of the living and the dead. The girls then disappear, and then Rin is attacked by a the ghost of the girl seeking her phone.Įscaping to the first floor, Rin investigates and discovers that all of the exits to the building lead into blackness. Rin eventually peeks into a room and discovers three students looking at a magazine with a glowing blue orb on the other side of the room. She finds a phone (the ringtone played is an adaptation of Canon in D) and receives a grisly stalker-like call from a young girl, threatening to come back to find her phone.

Rin wakes up in the music room of her school, questioning how she ended up there. It should be noted that this takes place after Shin meets Rin at the school. It is unknown what happens to him after this. After escaping and opening the locked door, the apparition of a girl in a pink hospital gown holding a cat-like stuffed animal attacks Shin. Finding a cell phone, he is attacked by a ghost after attempting to open a door. Shin wakes up in a one-store house, which eventually runs out of electricity. Rin Kagura answers her phone, and the image of a ghost-like girl is shown watching from behind her. Suddenly, a new member logs on, and all of the members receive a phone call in a montage. Numerous people, including Rin Kagura, are on 'The Black Page', a website rumored to allow the use of visiting the dead, which also contains a counter table reporting, supposedly, the number of people who have died visiting the website. Calling's gameplay is well received because of the easy interactiveness and ease of use. When opening doors or drawers, the Wii Remote is pointed and used to drag the certain object open. Shaking the Wii Remote helps shake them off if you miss pressing the A button while it is flashing.Įxploration in the game is one of the main concepts, opening and unlocking doors to receive keys and other objects used to further the game. When exploring the game, it is required to run into ghosts, or the main enemies, of the game. In early builds of the game, the game was shown to be in a first person mode and on-rails, using a different style of menus and the flashlight. The game features a red dot to point at certain objects and at the screen, allowing the player to move and turn around without using any buttons on the Wii's controllers. The game runs in a first person mode, using a flashlight (or candle, in some cases) to explore areas of the game. Calling was Hudson's first attempt at a survival horror game, and is received greatly among players. A demo was available, but is no longer issued. The game was officially revealed in Famitsu in July 2009. Hudson Soft reported that the footage was stolen from a PR company's servers. The game was originally unveiled when gameplay footaged was leaked on the internet in September 2008.
