The whole game itself needs the camera, so yeah, kinda =/ you need to point your camera at certain pages of the book when notified to progress through the story, when fighting against a ghost I had to to spin around since it circles your entire room, but I find that fun lol thing i don't like is still the limitation of the 3ds camera, I wanted to play it at night for the added feel but cuz the camera quality isn't so good its kinda hard to get sufficient lighting, but it works well with natural sunlight