Finder Love plies the virtual photography trade where Japanese gravure idols pose and preen for the camera. As an up 'n coming photog, players watch as the girls wiggle, roam, and wander around the screen while taking photographs that are suitable for framing. Snapshots worthy of Scavullo open up new scenes with the models where they pose in different scenery and settings. When a photo shoot starts, a faint "camera" overlay is pasted on the screen over the model's actions and pink hearts and camera indicators start moving from the outer edge of the left and right screen towards the center. When the hearts pass the rectangular indicators to the left and right of the spotting reticule, press the L-Trigger and get ready to take a snapshot. When the two camera icons meet, shoot the shot by tapping the R-trigger and the camera's virtual shutter clicks to take in the model's prancing. After each photo shoot, your performance is tallied and the film developed to show the photographs that were taken.
A natural location that's found in all three Finder Love games is the beach where the gals pose in skimpy bikinis. In addition to virtual photography sessions, interactive episodes may be enjoyed where the girls talk to the screen and engage in light hearted situations which require minimal input from the gamer/viewer/voyeur.
In the Risa Kudo version of Finder Love, the model gets into and poses in a wedding dress, applies makeup from a massive kit, chomps on grapes, runs to shore from the sea, bends over and crouches like a hermit crab, and acts out in many other scenarios. While on the beach, Risa also puts a shell up to her ear to listen for the ocean. The mini-games featured in Risa's version of Finder Love include a balancing act game where treasure chests are carried from a starting point to a goal, rock-scissors-paper, and charades where she acts out something and the player has to figure out what she's doing by selecting from three possible choices.